New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-06-12
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The chief detective of the Santa Fe rail
road has arrested John W. Hilman, the
alleged murderer of Fred Walters, in Bar
bour county, Kansas.
The body of Neil Johnston, the supposed
River, in the Rainy river district of Manitoba
has been found suspended to a tree near
Fort Francis. He had evidently committed
suicide
j ohn Peterson, ofSauk Centre, was brought
to st. Cloud to answer to an Indictment for
assault with intent to kill. The prisoner fir
ed three shots at q neghbor against whom
was long standing feud, stopping only when
his ammunition was exhausted.
John McGoldick young Winnipegger who
has been on a protracted spree, poured some
laudanum into glass of brandy this even
ing and swallowed it, with the remark to his
companions, "Boys, this is my last drink
When I'm dead you'll find letter in my
pocket A physician was called and an emetic
administered in time to save the young
mans life The letter was addressed to his
father, and said: "Lou and Mary have driv-
en- me to this. am now in liquor, but
know what Pm doing and want to die"
The girls he mentions are not known.
The police claim to have an important
clew to the murderers of DR.. Cronin They
have found the expressman who hauled the
murderer's goods from the building at lit
Clark street to the Carlson cottage. Accord
ing to the expressman the fellows belong in
Chicago, and he has seen both of them fire.
quently since he hauled their goods The
expressman's description of one of the men
tallies closely with that of Simons, who
bought the furniture from Revcll & Co., ana
of Williams, who rented the cottage from
the Carlsons. The police believe the two
men are still in town, and they are relying
on the expressman to find them.
j. 81. Benjamin, editor of the Deland (Flori-
da) News, shot and Instantly killed Capt. J..
W. Douglas at New Smyrna Douglas is a
prominent citizen of Dayton, and we'll
known Democratic politician The shooting
was the result of an old feud kept up by Ben
jamin in the columns of his newspaper. Doug
las assaulted Benjamin., knocking him off the
pier into the marsh and jumping on him,
choking him and holding his head under wa
ter. Benjamin managed to get hold of his re-
volver, and placing it against Douglas body
fired. The ball entered his heart and Doug
las died almost instantly. There is much
excitement.
All the evidence in the Cronin inquest on
the 4th was directed toward establishing the
fact that the deceased was firmly impressed
with the idea that his life was endangered
through the Vaccinations of a. Sullivan
Maurice Morris, a member OF the Clan-na-
Gael said that at the last convention he had
heard several delegates say that Cornin and
DIR. McCahey of Philadelphia oughtto be got.
ten rid of. Cronin told him that he believed
Mcclellan, the Philadelphian, had come to
Chicago at the instgation of Alex Sullivan
to kill him. Joseph d. Byrne senior guardi-
an of Camp 266 swore that on the day be-
fore the physician disappeared Cronin had
told him that he was badly broken up and
discouraged and that he believed he would
give up and let those rascals Alexander Sui
liz an and Recorder of Police Michael Boland
of Kansas City complete their murderous
designs and kill him.
Daniel Erickson charged with attempted
assault on Maggie McClsmont, at Anoka,
Mimi, entered plea of not guilty,
and was bound over to the Septem Der term
OF court in $4,000 bonds. The little girl
first took the stand and identified Erickson
Lewis Harmon and Lon Little, Jr.. both
swore it was the same man they saw who
tried to assault Maggie. They summoned
Mr.. Cutter, the delivery man, who did not