New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-11-19
SINS AND SINNERS

University students at Ann Arbor, Mich,
engaged in general row, resulting i'll the
arrest of six of their number. No one suf-
fered severe injury.
Serious election disorders have occurred il,
Rosario, Argentine Republic. Before order
was restored, several persons we're killed and
number wounded.
DR.. j. c. MCPHERSON of L yons N. Y, one
of the best know physicians in that section
of the state, was assaulted in Chicago by two
footpads. His condition is serious.
At New Orleans the SAFE of B. A. Meyer
was blown open and robbed of 81, 1000 in
cash and $50, 900 in bonds, notes, mortga-
ges and other valuable documents No clue.
DR.. B. Gorham, a retired physician Of Lex
ington, Ky, was murdered by his negro
farm hand, William Wilson, who will be
lynched if caught.
Officer O'Malley of Chicago was brutally
beaten by two negroes whom he tried to ar
rest for robbing an old man, His condition
is serious. The negroes were arrested.
DR.. W. D. Howell of Bonneville, KY, who
was shot by Granville Simmo nds, desper-
ate moonshiner of Middleboro, has died.
The murderer was captured and confessed.
There ore fears oflynching.
At San Antonio, Tex, James A. Layton,
aged eighty-one years, hal been remanded
to Jail in default Of bail for counterfeiting
Layton is an historical chara cter, and, per
haps, the Oldest countereiter in America,
Ernest Forbes, the colored youth who is
under arrest on charge of assaulting Ber-
tina Phipps, aged fifteen, at Annapolis, Md,
has been secretly removed to Baltimore,
where he will be sale from lynchers and Sc
cure from release.
At Macon, Ga, two of the five men VIII
were arrested on the charge of numbering j.
c. Forsythe, the representative of Norman
W. Dodge of New York. have confessed. A
negro named Richard Lowry was hired to
do the deed.
M. W. Kerncy deputy postmaster at sib-
ley, Iowa, has been arrested charged with be-
ing de:aulter to the extent of $500. He is
under bonds to appear before the United
States court. The trouble is said to be at
tributed to the deputy's tondness for cards.
At Duncanville, Pa, the dead body of
Charles Suder, q travelling sewing machine
agent, was found lying in small stream.
There were seven stabs in his throat. any one
of which would have caused death. No clue
to his murderers.
Three burglars. raided the town of Wyom-
ing, Jones county, Iowa. They blu glarized
nearly every store in the town and also Wis
tied several farm houses, from one of which
$500 was taken. They were arrested, but
escaped from the marshal, and it is believed
went to Dubuque. 4 ....
The schooner Eastern Queen, of Glouces-
ter, N. S., which has been for several days Mt
Souris, Prince Edward Island, loading DO
tatoes, was seized on the charge of violating
the customs act. The offense is alleged to
have been committed last year when the YES
sci was under different captain and owned
by another man.
Noveto Griego was executed in the state
penitentiary at Canon City, Col, for the
murder Of W. c. Underwood at Trinid ad last
June The execution was the frsG one to
take place under the law requiring the
death sentence to be carried out within the
walls of the, prison and prohibiting the
press from publishing the account.
Joe Jackson, one Of the Rube Burro VS.
gang confined in the penitentiary at J ack
son, Miss, for some time, waiting trial fol-
train robbery, committed suicide by Jump
ing from the third floor of the corridor ofthe
court house to the ground, O distance Of six.
ty feet. His neck was broken by the fall
Jackson was trying to escape and was dis
covered by the sheriff.
Peter Gustarson, a single man aged about
thirty five years, who had been in the EN-.
ploy of Peter Beck at Lake City. Mimi, fo1
some time committed suicide by blowing
his brains out with a shotgun. He was an
industrious man, but much addicted to
drinking, and alcoholism was probably the
cause of his rash act, no other being known
He had no relatives in this part of the
country.
At Cllrenceville, Quebec, a man named
Fournival, who for some time has been in
sane, but who was not supposed to be dan
gerously SO, rushed into the house where his
wife was at work, seized razor and drew it
across her throat, inhicting terrible wound
from which the woman died. After commit.
ting the crime Fournival fled and has not
been captured. 1t is thought that he has
committed suicide in the woods
What is supposed to be q fiendish muir.
der was committed on Washington street
bridge, Spokane Falls. Inmates of a house
Mt the end of the bridge were startled by
cries of "Murder helpl' and rushing to the
windows saw three men in q desperate strug.
gle on the bridge. moment later they
heard a splash in the river and then two men