New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-08
SINS AND SINNERS.

Charles McElvaine tho convicted muir der
or of Christian Luca, the Brooklyn grocer.
has been sentenced to death By electricity
during the week OF Nov. II.
At Lafayette, La. Sheriff Broussard cap
tured, after most desperate struggle, a
bold and successful counterGeiter of United
States silver. The prisoner gave his name
as D. S. Campbell. alias Owen Dolly.
Ernest Humphreys the negro who shot
and killed Dizzy Miller, another negro, at
Princeton, KY, vas taken from the jail at
that place by mob and hanged. Miller was
the second man that Humphreys had killed.
Charles A. Benson, who is wanted in
Leavenworth. Kan, for completely in the
murder OF Mrs. Mettiman, has been arrested
at Camden, N. j. Mrs Mcttiman's body was
cut to pieces with an ak and thrown into the
river.
Christian Biere, now in Jail at Little Falls,
Mimi, on the charge of numbering his four
teen-year-old daughter, cut his throat with a
pocket knife. making q gash tw o inches long,
from which he lost two quarts of blood. and
was found in tainting condition t is
thought he will recover.
Ludwig Jeneke, a farmer living on the out
skirts of Madison, Wis, committed suicide
He was an old, decrepit man of sixty years,
and yet with his overcoat on and rope in
hand he elm bed the trunk of a large, straight
tree to the first branch. sixteen feet from the
ground. to which he fastened the rope, the
other end being around his neck, and leaped
off. The job was done up in tho finest style
of the art.
Ten masked men overpowered the jailer, at
Bakersfield, Cal. locked the sheriff in his no m
and took from the Jail James Harrington, a
pettifogging lawyer whose principal business
was the promotion of hand contests an d
thereby causing trouble among settlers an
who was under arrest Tor perjury. He was
given coat OF tar and feathers and set at
liberty in q nude condition. He was shot,
but was not seriously wounded Harrington
has been heard from at Tulare City.
Jonathan Starnes,. aged fourteen, was con-
victed at Macon, Mo-. OF manslaughter in
the third degree, and Was sentenced to two
years confinement in the reform school, The
killing Of Frank Archer, aged twelve years,
~ school companion. The boys were engaged
iu a quarrel, and both drew their knives
Starnes struck the first blow, and his kni e
pierced Archer's heart killing Ihe latter in
| stantly.
Homesteaders coming in for supplies from
Der twood, on the Northwestern road, thirty
miles vest of Florence Wis, report q battle
between men in the employ of the Metropoli
tan Lumber company and homesteaders at
that point, in which two or three horses be-
| longing to the lumber company were shot
| dead Serious trouble is expected ii the lum-
Der men keep on logging on land claimed BY
the homesteaders. Public sympathy is with
the homesteaders.
Two men. ]. Lasley, a notary public, and
H. D. sapp were shot and killed. The kill
| ing ofMr. Lasley was this result OF an al
tercation between him and J. T. Garner,
WHO is n desperate, especially when filled
with whisky. After Garner had killed Las
ley, he fed TO his room, from which place he
| exchanged q score or more shots with Ms.
Carson and other friends of Lasley, during
which time Sapp was killed. Garner was
nearly Iynched.
In the circuit court at Deadwood, s. D.,
John NJ Wood, who was being tried for the
murder of John Mcleod, a ranchman near
Whitewood, pleaded guilty to the charge
of granddaughter, and was sentenced to four
years in the state prison. Wood ia said to
Ihave killed McLeod out of jealousy towards
his wife, and burned up his body in the build
ing in which tho murder was committed in
April. 1889. This was the third trial, the
jury having disagreed in both previous trials.
1t was generally regarded az cold blooded
murder, and Wood il conceded to have tax.
en- the wisest course.