New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-03-05
SINFUL STRINGS.

SINFUL SETTINGS.
at Wheeling, w. Va, William See killed
Thomas Thornton by a blow with his fist.
The Mariposa stage, :near MERGED, Cal, was
held up by two highwaymen. The mails and
the Wells Fargo express box were taken.
Henry Llewellyn, living near Columbus,
Ind, mortally wounded his mother because
she refused to deed him the farm upon which
they both lived.
Dick Halves, who Will be hanged at Bifn-
Ingham, Ala, has made third confession,
saying that he alone is guilty of the murder
OF his wife and two children.
Broker Pell, under Indictment for his con-
nection with the wrecking of the Lenox Hill
bank, New York, surrenderd by one of his
bondsmen, and is once more locked up.
Bob Pope, a white man of bad character
and his son, eleven years. were shot dead
while riding from Cummings mill to their
nome in Hampton county, S. c. The MUIR
derer is supposed to be white man.
Herr thinner, editor of a newspaper pub
iished in Breslau, has been sentenced to i'm
pTlsonment for two years for an insulting
reference to Emperor William in commenting
on his majesty's labor rescripts.
Charles j. Stephens, a letter distributor in
the Chicago postoffice, was arrested for rob-
blng the mails. About twenty letters and
registered packages were found in his room.
He confessed.
Walter c. Howes of De Witt, Iowa, in fit
OF dependency shot himself through the head,
dying few hours later. His wife had refused
TO live with him on account of his dissipated
habits. Both were highly connected
Thomas H. McKinnon, a prominent busi.
ness man of Atlanta. Ga, has disappeared.
AND is short several thousand dollars in his
accounts. It il said that McKinnon left with
q woman with whom he has been intimate.
leaving his wife and family behind.
The dead body OF William Schumacher was
found in a shanty in Zollers' Grove. A re-
volver was found lying at his side, and there
was ugly bullet wound in his right temple.
The death was the result of suicide He was
formerly tax collector and became short in
his accounts about $500.
Andrew Torgerson, a farmer living in High
Forest, Mimi, committed suicide in jail by
hanging with handkerchief He came to
Rochester and about dark started for home,
but having a little too much alcoholic slim
ulnnt on board he fell off his wagon and
Marshal Kalb locked him up for the night.
LIZ 'SebSCS q htuOW anu BLK OI SEVEN cuJlQrel,
In 1886 an attempt was made to murder
Mayor Oscar of Racine, Wis, by placing q
bomb in front of his residence which he was
likely to drive over on his return home late
at night John Jambor was convicted of the
crime on circumstantial evidence and SEN
fenced to ten years imprisonment. An APP
peal was taken to the supreme court, which
affirmed the decision of the lower court
A horrible torture was inflicted on two
horses belonging to William Rosenthal a
Hebrew citizen of Winnipeg. The animals
tongues We're cut out with knife and they
were suffering terribly, being unable to eat or
drink The tongue of one horse was severed
close to the roots, while the other had about
six incnes cut of. Another Jew named Ber-
ger has been arrested charged with commit
ting the crime.
E. 9. Brooks and F. w. Grimmett young
EnGlishmen who have been "doing" Winni-
peg for the last six months; presented check
for $3.50 at AlloWay & Champion s bank and
secured the cash. Next day they took the
rival DIT Grand Forks They were brought
back to Winnipeg by Chief Of Police Hennes-
sey of Grand Forks. They both claim tn
have wealthy relatives in England mo, n
is said, will square the matter with the bank.
William seeley Hopkins .Sas hanged .sS
Baltimore for the u.fder of his wife and
mother-in-l law. Len the drop fell Tie rope
broke and the condemned man was again
fastened ups The drop fell successfully the
second time. In 1887 Hopkins married Mag
, gle Wigamen. For year they lived happily,
but Hopkins became leaiets and finally left
his wife. who returned to her home Sunday
Sept. %, 1889, he went to the Wigamen
house and deliberately shot both his wife and
| her mother dead.
| The Misses Carney, two of the three young
lady students of the normal school of Wis
ronsin who have been missing for the past
week, arrived at Oshkosh accom- panid by
their father. They, with Miss Byron, the
| third missing young lady, walked across the
lake, a distance of fourteen miles, to their
| homesin Calumet. Miss Byron, is at home
Misses Carney say they did not disclose their
purpose, because they feared that they would
net he permitted to carry it out.
Thomas Jandra shot Christina Washa
I.at Montgomery, Mimi. because she would
mot marry him, it is supposed. The murder
Ter then fred shot at John Mack, the bal
lpassing through Macek's right Lang. Then
Jandra turned the pistol and shot himself
twice through the heart, dying by the side o
about Eve miles south of the village, at tht
home of the girls mother. A physician hal
extracted the bullet from the lung of Johr
Mack and he will probably live.
Mark A. Barren Chicago gambler, wa.
/ shot and dangerously wounded by Charles
4 Hatfield, of Henderson, KY, on an Iror
| Mountain train, near Dexter, No., BareI
and a companion, George Jones, also of Chi
|scago, had Icngaged5ip game Of poker with
Hatfield and astIaveling man named Keller
4 1t was.as skin, game. and Hatfield looked
/ like farmer, but evidently was not caught
the idea after losing about 500, and started
1 Tor Barren With IN uglY looking revolver III