New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-02-19
SINFUL SETTINGS.

Suits have been entered in Chicago by the
county ofCook against all the sboodlers''
returned, escaped or compromised, for $780,
900, IN trespass
Harry Lebos dissolute character of Read
ing, Pa. shot and fatally wounded his wife,
Daniel Fisher, Mrs. Lehos' father, died of
heart disease Immediately after the shoot
ing. Lebos escaped.
W. p. Belden was robably fatally stabbed
by his brother-in-law, j. 81. Wing, in Chicago.
The street was filled with people on their way
to the theatcr, and the bloody act they wit
messed caused several ladies to faint.
brakeman on the Northern Central LETT a
switch open atMarsh's Run, near Harrisburg,
Pa, and passenger train crashed into a
freight. Arthur Emerton of Baltimore was
the only one killed.
The general store of Harding & Wolsey at
Vincent, Iowa, was entered by burglars and
several hundred dollars in silk goods and
groceries stolen. The village is sparsey set
tied, and the thieves evidently carried off
their booty in a large wagon.
Charles Miller, son of prominent farmer.
was arrested for murder at Lebanon, Ind
The victim of the alleged murderer was Geo.
Purdy, who was shot in October, 1888
Purdy was killed for shouting for one Of the
presidential candidates.
A. Barenther, a member Of the firm of
Hume & Barenther, attorneys at law of
o ,en Wis, aas ahseen1ea with rom,
wv OF O.. wy belonging to the clients of the
firm. HIS tamily received word from Toronto.
Ont, stating Barenther had arrived safely IN
the queens dominion.
A burglar entered Che house of Ransom
Floyd, a wealthy farmer aged seventy three
years, near Westport,N. T., and struck the old
man with a club, knocking him senseless and
numbering his wife Thehouse was ransack ed,
but nothing was taken, as the burglar was
evidently frightened by his awful deed There
were two certified checks, amounting to So
275, and $275 in money left untouched in a
bureau drawer
During recess in the trial of William
Mayne, on the trial of assault to murder
Bertha johnson, at San Diego CAL, the pro-
! scouting Witness shot Mayne three times,
/ taking effect in the head. neck and shoulder,
! inflicting probably fatal wounds. Mayne
was sitting in q chair in the court room when
the woman passed back him. turned quick
| ly, drew revolver from under her handker-
chief and fired. She was arrested.
Dr. Marvin Fosdick was sitting by a table
at his home in Pawpaw, when some unknown
person fired both barrels of a double barreled
shotgun through the window, the charge
l.
He still lives and may recover. The affair
1 is surrounded in mysteries and no clue has
yet been discovered to the perpetrator of the
outrage.
Thomas Kane was hanged in the jail yard
4 at Toronto, Can, for the murder of his wife
in November last. He met his fate resolute
". The murder for which Kane suffered thu
i death penalty was of the most atrocious
: character. He and his wife had been drin ins
md u,ya Hn att cye6h nr aft
pummeling her body in a shocking manner
knocked her brains out with a fat iron
The murderer was a plasterer.
The Cincinnati Cremation society has dis
charged its superintendent, Valentine Hei
man, and he has been put under bond by {
magistrate to answer to the charge of CRANE
larceny. The articles stolen were collins.
the crematory, the bodies are removed from
the casket, and it has been the uuderstandin.
: that the caskets were broken up and burned
Recently it has been discovered that, instea,
: of burning them the thrifty superintendent
, | has sold them, sometimes as low as 81 each
: to thrifty village un dertakers.
A man was found hanging to a tree in th
f woods about two miles from the county liz
in st Louis county, MINI. About all that coui
: be learned the man was jpparently abou
forty-fve years DID, With Abig black beart
> The upper part OF the face had turned blacl
t giving the idea that the body had been hang
ing some time. From appearances it
: believed that the man committed suicid
\ Nobody is missing from Northern Pacif
junction and no further details can be secu
s ed.
q Postofice inspectors at Chicago have a
rested D. o. Gallear, j. 0. McFadden, {
e. McFadden, G. e. McFadden, Jr., and A,
4 ME Burns, who are charged with carrying Q
3 several schemes for defrauding inn ocentcou
ny Thov h YES n al H<yHd
which they operated. They received ares