New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-03
The Ways of the Wicked,

Word was received that Constable Manta-
que was killed at Milmore Colorado by
three cowboys whom he attempted to arrest
for disturbing the quiet of the town. The
cowboys belong near Barela, and were
drunk when the shooting occurred. Sheriff
Burns at once organized posse and started
after the murdere rs, who had skipped out.
John R. West, aged fifty, and his son, aged
eighteen, living on Stone Coal creek in Lewis
county, w. Va, were brutally murdered on
Dec. %. 1875. Richard Dowell was convict
ed of the murder and sentenced to be hang
ed but escaped Oct. 8, 1876. His has been
captured by the chiefs of police of Grand
Forks, Oak, who telegraphs that Dowell will
be turned over to the authorities of West
Virginia as soon as the reward of $500 offer
ed thirteen years ago is paid over.
Four Americans from Ell Paso shot and
killed two American policemen in Juarez,
Mex. The Americans were in Juarez raising.
considerable disturbance by firing off their
pistols and overturning apple and meat
stands when the police attempted to arrest
them. One of the Americans opened fire on
the officers, shooting one DEAD, A second
shot brought down the second policeman
fatally wounded. The American rowdies
then made a break for the river, closely pur-
sued by Mexican soldiers Three OF them
jumped into the Rio Grande aid SWAN
across while the fourth crossed on the bridge
and was fred at three times by the Mexican
guards Fully 200 Mexicans came over to
Ell Paso to demand the arrest of the guilty
persons. s
/. A Notwithstanding. well dressed man, ar-
parently about fifty years of age. went to
the Hotel Parle, at ST. Louis accompanied
by a good-looking, neatly-dressed woman,
registered as S. M. Waite and wife of Florida,
and the couple were assigned a room. Dur
ing the night Waite drank good deal OF
beer and had supper served in his room.
Next morning the woman left the hotel and
did not return. Later w ate was found in a
dying condition with a boJtle of morphine
near him. The morphine was put up by
Bowers & Weightnha Of Philadelphia. Soon
after being taken to the city hospital Waite
ious woman, and the body of S. NJ. Waite OF
Florida lies on a slab in the morgue, uni
IDENTIFIED.
| At Blocton a small mining village on the
Birmingham Alabama, railroad, B. M Huey,
Jr., the Southern express agent, received a
package containing S I, 900 tobe used by the
Coahoba Coal Mining company in paying off
| the employees. 1t being too late for delivery
Soon afterward he was started by voice
from, behind exclaiming, "Hold up your
hand" The e1pressman turned to behold
two men with blackened faces presenting re-
volvers at him. Mr.. Huey grabbed his re-
voiver near by, and the shots from the fore
most revolver and his own we're simultane-
Gus. Huey staggered back and the robbers
fed. The firing brought citizens OF the vii
lage to the depot. Not fifty miles; from the
depot the dead body of one Of the would-be
robbers was found. He was large white
man, roughly dressed, wearing two coats,
and there was nothing about his person to
establish indentity. Huey will probably re.
cover.
/ The body of the man who registered at
| the Hotel Pearle at ST. Louis as S. NJ. Waite,
of Florida, and took poison to climax a
spree, was identified as that of Samuel NJ.
| Woolsey, a married man, whose home,
where his wife and two adult daughters live,
was at 2139 Caroline street, st. Louis He
was member of Dr. Adams church, and
] stood high. in religious circles. He was at
/ one time, long time ago, addicted to the
use OF morphine then whenever he drank