The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04
SINFUL STRINGS.

c. Miller, farmer living near Button,
Ohio, was robbed by masked highw ayman
of $3.50.
Abraham Marks, a New York tailor who
slept i'll his store, saw man crawling through
the window and shot him dead. The man
was a tramp thief
William Rose, convicted on his third trial
of murder in Redwood county. Mimi, and
sentenced to be hanged, is granted another
trial.
w. c. Croniston, q tinware peddler, was
shot through window near Willard Station,
Neb., and inst antly killed. Antonio Frank,
an Italian is under arrest on suspicion.
John H. Atkinson, a New York lawyer,
was murdered without provoca ton by a
man who was assisting in moving a safe into
Atkinson's Office.
The coroner's jury in the case of William
Turnbull, who was shot and killed in New
York by James E. Hyde, brought in YER
dict Of justifable homicide.
At Palimma Crete, priest was dragged
from his pulpit and paraded through the
street amid the jeers of the mob. Sixty -four
OF the villagers are starving in prison.
Rev. Preston C. CLANCY, while preaching
near Mobile, Ala, was arrested for robbing
the mails at buttons, Ala, five years ago.
He confessed.
At Bangor, Me-, David L. Stain and Oliver
Cromwell, convicted of the murder of John
Wilson Barron, the cashier of the Dexter Saw
ings bank, have been sentenced to state prison
for life at hard labor.
Mrs. Bella Hatch has been lodged in jail at
Tow anda, Pa, charged with the murder off,
W. Wilcox. warrant has also been issued
for tho 0rrosf IF John Mann ho 10 euppoco,4
to be hewaccomplice.
John A. Davis, the defaulting city treas.
urer of Rochester, N. Y, who embezzled $50.
900 Of the city's money, pleaded guilty to
the charge OF grand larceny in the first degree
and was sentenced to five years in prison.
A young woman was found dead in St. Az.
mes cemetery, Utica N. Y. note was found
by her side stating that she had worked un.
til tired out, and that she had brother in
Berlin, Wis. Her name is supposed to be
Mary L. Eaglesfeld.
j. Bartlett Cook, who styled himself presi.
dent of the American Development company
and occupied extensive quarters in New York
has disappeared, and it is alleged that So. 300
confsded to him by his employees and Others
went with him.
In the trial Of j. Sherman Caswell, in Mont
pelier, Vt, charged with the murder of George
d. OOuIu JdSt september, the murdered man {
widow swore she had lived with Casswell Of
his wifs for nineteen years.
The jury in the case OF F. Sherman, forme,
manager of the associated elevators al
Buffalo, N, T., charged with grand larceny in
steeling $3.50 bushels of wheel, has brought
in a verdict OF guilty. A motion for new
trial will be made.
A sensation was created in railroad circles
at Cedar Rapids Iowa, by the announcement
that Ed Meacham, we'll known passenger
engineer of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and
Northern road, had committed suicide by
taking poison at Estherville. His wife is dy
ing in New Mexico, and he is said to be finan
cially embarrassed, which is probably the caus.
OF the suicide.
A man who committed suicide at ST. Peters
burg left letter in which he confessed that
he had been engaged in a conspiracy against
the lire Of the car. The letter said that tn,
writer and his fellow conspirators had draw
ballots to decide who should take the czar'l
life. and the lot had fallen to the writer, who
rather than commit the deed. had determin
ed to take his own life The letter also gi7e,
the names OF the writer's accomplices, seve-a
Of whom have been arrested