New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-12-10
WAYS OFTHE WICKED.

Martin D. Loppy Of New York has been
convicted of killing his wife Esther on July.
4 last, and sentenced to death by electricity
within the week beginning Jan. 3.
The United States grand jury at Detroit.
Mich, has indicted large mum Der of deputy
county clerks for issuing fraudulent natural
lzation papers before the last ele elton.
In an alteration at Jackson, Miss, T. A.
Her, jeweler was shot and MORALLY wound
ed by DR.. W. D. Todd. The; diffic ulty was
about woman. Todd was sent to prison.
In Chicago Rose Martell, a French wo man..
shot and mortally wounded an unknown
man who had entered her house and demand
ed something to eat.
Joseph B. Abbott, confidential clerk for
Sage & Co.. lum Der dealers of Albany, N. Y,
has committed suicide by taking poison. He
was an $4,000 defaulter. FL.
In st. Louis George Scheid shot his wife in
into his forehead. His wound is fatal but
his wife will live. -
Elmer 6. Melray, partner in the firm of
Mass, and in Boston, has been missing for
several days He is a defaulter to an
amount not known.
Rev. Brown, in charge of the Episcopal
church at Middletown, n S., assaulted G. H.
King, divinity student, on a train because
King sat on his hat. Kings nose was brok-
en- and both of his eyes were blackened.
Brown will be reported to the bishop.
At Jersey City, N. j., John Whalen, Joseph
G. Murain, David Gordon and Martin J..
White who were convicted of ballot box
stufing, have been sentenced to one year
and six months hard labor in the state
prison.
In Columbus, Ohio, Ellis Miller was exc
Gu ted in the penitentiary annex He had
shot and killed bis sister-in-law, Mrs Emm a
johnson, because she could not tell him the
whereabouts of his wife who had left him on
account of cruelty.
In Jackson, Miss, the supreme court rem
dered it's decision in the case of w. T.. Hem
ingway, the detauting state treasu rer. The
lower courts decision was affirmed and
Hemingway is now in the custody of the
sheriff under sentence OF five years in the
penitentiary.
For number of months past there have
been several jail deliveries which have puz-
zed the authorities. A 14-year old peniten-
tiary convict made his escape, but was after
wards recaptured, The criminal made the
startling statement that the turnkey, named
Triptup, had released him for a money con-
sideration An investigation proved that
Triptup had beea guilty of all the other es-
capes- He was at once put under arrest.
The safe in the Northern Pacific railway
station at Clitherall, Mimi, on the Black
Hills branch was robbed of $3.50, 5000 of
which belonged to the Northern Pacific
Elevator company The thief is supposed to
be a young man named Nichols. about
twenty-five years OF age, who was formerly
a station agent at Cromwell, MINI. His LEFT
arm is off about the elbow. He came to
Clitheran to visit, and the regular agent got
him to supply while he went away on some
business.
At Ogden, Utah, John Kelly has been SEN
fenced to lie imprisonment for murder
committed twenty-six years ago. Early in
1865 Kelly was one of sheriff's posse who
ran down q bold horse-thief named Dart,
who was shot dead for resisting arrest
Friends of Dart have had the case revived
on a charge of murder, and when Kelly 70 und
that warrant had been issued for his arrest
he surrendered himself to the authorities
with the above result. The other mem beers
of the posse are dead or have left the coun
try.
Robert Carr was taken out Of the city cal
aboose at Nevada, Mo-, by four masked
men and carried to the outskirts of The
Town, Wnere ne was mOSU OuCrageOuSly
whipped with hickory withes, over one hun.
dred blows being laid across his naked back
and shoulders When released he was Gov
cred with blood, and innumerable wetl
showed the severity of his punishment
Carr was incarcerated for wife. beating. an6
the vigilantes said they whipped him tol
this, and also for being Pinkerton detec
tive and correspondent of a Kansas City
paper.
At Seattle officers seized valise contain
ing quantity of valuable silks and embroi
deries, which was claimed by a woman Civ
ing the name of Mrs. Abdenour, and who
said the goods came from New York, wher,
the duty had been paid. and that she unG
her husband had a store in New York and
| had intended to open one in Tacoma. but
that her husbands sickness prevented theil
doing SO. She claimed to be missionary
| and said that she had visited Mrs. President