New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-11-12
SINS AND SINNERS.

A young woman throws two little girls off
ahigh bridge at Akron, N. Y, killing one and
breaking the arms and legs of the other.
The murderess vainly attempts suicide.
A sad suicide is reported from the home Of
George Nelson, farmer living four miles
west of Lyons, Iowa. His wife aged fifty,
in q fit of momentary insanity, hanged her.
self and was dead when discovered.
Herman Heller, German farmer, took
paris green while at his sons residence at
Wausau, Wis, He died before medical aid
could be obtained. Heller was sixty years
old and owned u large farm. Drink was the
cause of the suicide.
In Twiggs county, Ca, young lady was
assaulted by negro named Owen J ones. A
privilege was allowed him, and that was to
select the limb of the tree from which he was
to be hanged. His body was left hanging
for twenty.four hours 1t was then cut down
and now lies in a fence corner.
Mike Lynch, the base ball player, accident.
ally stabbed William Fitzner at Spokane
Falls. Lynch was showing a dirk knife that
he had just sharpened. and tits said that
while Lynch wac fourishing the weapon
Fitzner stumbled forward and fell upon the
blade. 1t entered the abdomen on the lett
side and he died in half an hour. Lynch is
in jail.
Delasee, the Indian charged with murd er.
two white men near Ravalli in Septem ber
1887, was found guilty of murder in the
first degree at Missoula Mont He is the
fourth Indian found guilty of murder in
Missoula this year, and the third the pas
week. Pierre Paul, the last of the noted GU t.
laws recently captured, will be placed on tri-
al for murder.
At Columbus, Ga, Will Wallace, a notori-
Gus Desperate from Harris county, got into
difficulty with Coon Harramore and Frank
Huckabee in a private house, which will
probably result in two deaths. Hucka bee
cut Harramore in the abdomen, inficting a
frightful wound, and Wallace shot Huckabee
three times through the body. Harlan ore
and Huckabee are not expected to live.
Wallace was arrested.
Thomas Churchill. eighty five years old,
lived with his vii in his own house at
Schuylersvlle, N. Y. Early in the m orning
Michael Aenshaw and Patrick Hughes raped
at the door and demanded admittance which
was refused. The old couple tried to hold
the door, but the men smashed it in. AS
the two entered the house, the old man stab
ed each of them with bayonet, badly
wounding them. The men then fired three
shots, killing Churchill instantly, The men
were arrested, one being taken to Jail and
the other to the hospital. A man named
Donnelly has also been arrested on suspicion.
Henshaw has been a cowboy and only re-
Gently returned from the West.
A lone highwayman held up and robbed
four men near Texarkana Texas. Two men
named Markham took two bales of cotton
to New Boston, where they sold them. On
the way back they were confronted on the
road by the robber, dressed as a tramp, who
emphasized his demand for their money and
watches by thrusting c; revolver in the face
of one of the men. After his demands We're
acceded to the man compelled one of the
men to dismount and jumping upon the
horse rode away. Shortly afterward Hon
w. Hudgins and Rollins Rogers came along
and to them the Markhams related their ex.
perience. The story was received with laugh
! ter, the attorneys saying that the bravery
of twofmen who allowed one man to rot
them might be questioned. Two hundred
yards tnrther on the two attorneys were
stopped by the same man. and the experience
of the Markhams was repeated and con
siderable sum Of money ard their watches
were secured. Hudgins hired a horse from a
livery and set out after the m an