New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-09-11
The World OF Criminals.

A mob of armed white men surrounded the
Jail at Columbia, Mo-, overpowered the sher-
if and took from his cell George Bush, ne
gro seventeen years old, charged with out
raging a little white girl of five years, and
hanged him.
For the last fifteen months Rudolph
Schnaubelt, the Chicago anarchist, who is
supposed to have thrown the fatal bomb in
the Haymarket riot, has been living in Lon
don under the protection of an archst named
Penkert. The utmost secrecy has been OBJ
served with regard to Schnaubelt's presence
in London, but recently his identity was dis.
covered and his patron changed his quarters.
It is now learned that Schnaubelt has fed
the city, fearing that he would be arrested
and extradited to Chicago. It is thought
that he has gone to Copenhagen.
A series of incendiary fires recently have
occasioned great uneasiness at Butte, M. T.
Nearly every block has it's private Waterman.
The fire bugs latest exploit was to set fire to
the Stevens mine hoist on the western edge
of town. 1t has been unused for months and
has been occupied as a storage warehouse
with SO, 800 worth of furniture stored in it,
which was insured for $4,000. The alarm
was given, and in less than an hour it burned
W LIE SIOuuu Liz uOlSU ana machinery
were valued at $4,000, and is a total loss.
There is.no clew to the perpetrators.
Twenty negroes, and possibly more, who
were working on q cotton plantation nov
rest beneath the sod in Leflore county, Miss.
riddled with bullets. They were killed for re-
sisting arrest. The leaders of the insurrec-
ton. George Allen and Oliver Cromwell, have
both escaped, though it is thought that AL
len was captured. Cromwell was caught in
jackson, but for some reason was turned
loose. The negroes arein a frightful state of
fear, and two have gone crazy over the ex-
element. The negroes have threatened to
burn every house in Lefore county, and
every house is being. closely guarded. More
than Thousand laborers have quit the
fields, and the cotton and corn needs gather
ing badly.
A delegation of citizens called on Gov Cor
don of Georgia, and asked him to take action
concerning the whipping of a lot of negroes
by unknown white men at East Point, near
Atlanta. 1t was the outgrowth of
the lynching of negro boy for rape
The negroes held mass meeting,
anG the citizens, becoming scared, sent tor
the police from Atlanta. The presence of the
officers prevented further trouble, but after
NiIcy u<d &OuC q lOU VI Willie ultu Woub 10 ull-
ferent camps and whipped the negroes-four-
teen in all. The governor has offered re-
ward of 300 for any person convicted of
having taken part in the affair.
Miss Anna B. Sueetser of Marion, Ind.
eloped with and married Field w. sWazey, q
young attorney. The bride is nineteen years
old, handsome and accomplished, and is the
daughter OF d. B. Sweetser, banker and
one OF the wealthiest men in the country and
former member of the Democratic state
central committee. Mr.. Sweetser was bitter
II opposed to the match and had forbidden
the young man to enter his house. One
morning the young folks went to the Metho-
dist parsonage and were married by Rev. NJ.
sSwadeveriust in time to catch the Panhandle
train to Chicago. The young lady's father,
when he heard the news. was beside himself
with rage. He declares that his daughter
shall never enter his door. He has disowned
her. and swears that he will disinherit her
Both families are of the highest social and
commercial prominence.