New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-09
Petty Cr1m1nalities.

burglars entered the residence OF Jacob f.
Worfel in Millersville, carried a safe weighing
over thousand pounds to the rear yard
and blew it open with dynamite, securing
over six hundred dollars.
A farmer named Weymouth, living in Tren-
ton township, across the river from Red
Wing, Mimi, has eloped with the wife of a
neigh bor leaving behind his own wife and
one child The eloping couple went to ST..
Paul, and have not been heard from since
Capt. A. E Bauer, drafting clerk in the
secretary ofstates Office at Madison, Wis
ommitted suicide by shooting himself in the
head. He has been for some time past fail
ing mentally and has lately been given to
frequent spells of dependency, Capt. Bauer
was sixty years Of age and has lived in Madi-
son since 1876.
Mr.. Andrew Squires, the Cleveland lawyer
who went to London to secure $3.50, 900
which Thomas Axworthy, Cleveland's de-
taultlng treasurer had deposited in a bank
there, returned with the money Axworthy
is now on the ocean en- route to Canada
where he will remain until he can enter the
United States without fear OF arrest.
Louis A. Horner, a city salesman in the
employ of Henry Horner 6 Co., wholesale
grocers, of Chicago is an embezzler of the
firms money to the extent of $2O,OOO and
it is believed he has fed to Canada Alder
man Horner, one of the mem berg of the firm
where he hopes to intercept the fugitive
salesman.
John Morisoner, proprietor of the only
saloon at Rawson, Ohio, has been repeatedly
warned by White Caps to close but paid no
attention to the threats. One night party
OF men disguised as White Caps visited him
and after demolishing the saloon whipped
him until he begged for mercy and swore he
would never go into the saloon business
again.
Michael Crow, a plasterer, was stabbed in
the left breast during an alteration with his
brother-in-law in New York and died soon
alter. crows assailant escaped at the time
but vas subsequently, arrested This is the
first :murder OF the new year. and the crimi-
nal stands a good chance of being the first to
suffer death by electricity.
A man whose identity it was impossible to
discover, committed suicide in a room in the
Girard House at Philadelphia, by shooting
himselfin the month. Before killing himself
the man destroyed everything about his per-
son likely to establish his identity, even
scratching tie name g. the the maker off pair
of spectacle cases he carried.
Is Thomas German. alias John Ross, eighteen
years old, the selfconfessed train robber and
highwayman, who assault ted and robbed two
women in New York and who afterwards
shot at a detective who went to arrest him.
was arraigned in court and held for trial.
German stated that he was implicated in q
train robbery at Oshkosh and that he stole
four gold watches in Philadelphia in one
week. s#5
Mrs. Harriet Burrow, Of Philadelphia,
who is charged with the murder of her hus-
band. William Burrow, by disemboweling
him with a razor in August last, prefers
the gallows to the insane asylum. She
claims that she is not insane, and has re-
voked the authority of Mrs Carrie B. Kill
gore to act as her attorney on the ground
that she would present no defense except
| the plea of insanity.
Thomas Hayman of Dayton, KY, after
midnight was watching for chicken thieves,
| who had been troubling him Seeing man
on the premises acting suspiciously he fred
and the man fell, and died in few hours.
| He was a neighbor, William Murdoch Be
| fore he died, Murdoch declared that he was
on his own premises when he was shot Hay
men is travelling salesman for a ST. Louis
| drug house. He has been arrested.
Hronek, the anarchist convicted ofconspir-
| ing to assassinate with dynamite Inspector
Bonfield and Judges Gary and Grinneli, was
refused new trial at Chicago. The prisoner
did not avail himself of the privilege of max
| ing a speech from the dock. No change could
\ be noticed in Hronek' S usual impressive man
ner when Judge Collins pronounced the SEN
| tence, twelve years in the penitentiary. "A
stay OF sixty days was granted to allow the
| fling of bill of exceptions.
Susan Schroop, the daughter of Jacob
!! Schroop, the murderer of Antoine Schilling,
visited the central station at Philadelphia,
/ where she made statement under oath, inn
phcating both her father and stepmother.
She stated that a few weeks ago the step.
mother begged and coaxed her to place
poison i'll Schilling's coffee, but she refused to
do SO, and Mrs. Scroop became very angry
1 with her. After the statement was made
4 Scroop denied that there was any truth in it,
and called upon the daughter to also deny it,
/ but she refused to do So
William Clark, a saloonkeeper of Shelton
w. e., was fatally stabbed by a woman nam
ed Lou Belma or e French Lou She arrived
| at Shelton on the steamer Clara Brown from
Olympia Immediately on her arrival, in
| company with a man named Kelly, she went
to Clarke saloon and passing through it en-
!! tered barber shop which is the same build
i ing. She either sent for Clark or he came in
to the chop where she was in company with
4 Kelly. In a few moments cries for help at
tracted a crowd of men, who found Clark
bleeding profusely from wound in the left
breast inflicted by the woman who was ar
/ reSta 49, 49,