New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-17
The Ways of the Wicked:

Farmer" McClaughrey, the Doodle COM
missioner Of Cook county, Illinois, was for
mally released from custody at the peniten-
tiary at Joliet.
Four train robbers were brought to Salt
Lake City in charge of four officers from Ari-
iona, having been captured in southern
Utah, heavily armed. The officers had q
chase of 300 miles over rivers, mountains
and plains, ending in pitched battle They
forced the robbers to abandon their horses
and scatter in the brush, where it took two
days search to secure them. The party left
for Denver after six hours rest.
Two strangers visited Daniel Keller's
place at Shamokin, Pa, and after a pro-
posal to purchase his farm engaged the old
farmer in a game ofcards Keller becamein-
terested and procured $4,7OO, which he had
put up as stakes. The money was seized by
the strangers, and Keller was covered with
revolver while they moved off. Both es-
capped. One OF the men represented himself
as the son of J. B. Packer of Sunbury, an
old friend of Keler's.
Mrs. Annie NJ Parks, an inspectress on
Surveyor Beauties force at New York. seized
from Mrs. Davis, a passenger on the steamer
Adriatic from Liverpool, about three pounds
of wooden yarn, which she had quilted into
one of her petticoats, thirteen yards of dress
goods sewed into another, about twenty
yards of fannels, which had been wrapped
around her little daughter. Mrs Davis is a
resident of Minnesota, and confessed to hav-
ing struggled goods in this manner before
4 A fatal shooting ARRAY occurred at Flat
Head lake, Montana, the result of land
dispute. Hawkes. and Forth, two settlers,
claimed some ground. Forth occupied the
land and was ordered off by Hawkes. He
refused to go unless by legal process The
parties met and had a dispute about the
matter when Hawkes. began firing at Forth,
hitting him in the hand and body and in the
back as he was trying to escape The wounds
proved fatal. Hawkes. was ARRESTED.
zee Sing wealthy Chinese merchant of
Denver, was arrested at Chicago and left for
Denver with the officers The charge against
him is that he eloped with Wong Toy, the
wife of Chin Poo, another prominent China.
man OF Denver, and that he took with him
$500 of China Poo's cash, likewise zee
Sing denies the theft of the m oney, but ad
mits that Wong Toy loves him better than
she does her husband. zee Sing, it is under.
stood, is an exiled mandarin. His manner
| and appearance certainly indicate that he is
above the ordinary Celestial.
The residence of Robert McRane an aged
farmer living a few miles from East Liverpool
o, was visited by two masked men. They at
tempted to chlorof orm theinmates, but were
not successful They knocked three small
children almost senseless, and locked them
in a small room. and asked Mr.. McBane to
give up all his money, saying they knew he
| received several thousand dollars Saturday
| for some territory he disposed OF. On being
old he had not received any money, they
struck him with a fire shovel, cutting an
ugly cash and knocking him senseless
Ella C. White is music teacher in Elmira,
N. T., who has succeeded in borrowing
amounts estimated from $4,000 to $15,.
! 900 from various Elmira citizens She Dor.
rowed money in several cases from trends
/ by representing she could iDvestit profitably;
! in other cases by Offering notes signed, some
| by fictitious names and others signed by
herself and endorsed by her father, whom
she said was wealthy. Her father is 8 super.
anuated employe of the. Erie shops at Susque.
hanna, Pa, and has transferred his proper
| ty, amounting to $780, She was arrest
ed atSusquehanna on four warrants, charg.
ing her with forgery