New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-05-28
SINFUL STRINGS.


Michael Connors, a ]aboring man, was
shot and instantly killed in a disordery
house in Chicago by Henry Martin, negro.
Charles Kent, once state senator from
Nevada county, CAL, committed suicide by
jumping into the bay at San Francisco.
It is reported that Patrick Hyne, who
served two terms as national treasurer of
the Ancient Order o. Hibernians, has con
fcssed to de:alcation of 800.
Henry Winklebleck, heavy lumber dealer
OF Logansport, Ind, is missing. He has been
financially involved for some time and it is
alleged that he has absconded.
Ex-Ald. James Barker of New York, the
late Tammany Hall leader in the Thirteenth
assem- bly, district, who was recently convicted
OF assault, has been sentenced to i'm prison
ment in the penitentiary for four months.
At Hagen, Westphalia, widower named
Schultz deliberately drowned his two little
children in the river Volme and committed
suicide by jumping into the stream when they
had disappeared.
BY lucky discovery at the Ohio state
prison the escape Of five desperate convicts
from that institution was prevented Just as
it was about to be accomplished. They had
dug tunnel under the walls.
Lawyer Clinton G. Reynolds died in New
York from pistol shot wound which he re-
ceived in his Office on Wall street short
time ago at the hands of Alphonse J. Steph-
ami.
Havana police auth critics report that
they have arrested Eyraud, the murderer of
Gouffe, whose dead body was recently found
lying IN ditch in the vicinity OF Lyons,
France
A shortage of betwe SIT, 900 and $780,
600 in the accounts of City Treasurer Peake
of Kansas City was discovered, and he was
suspended from Office pending an official in
vestigation.
Joseph Butcher and Frank Perkins broth
ers-in-law, quarreled over mortgage on
some property near Mount Vernon Ohio.
Perkins struck Butcher with CLUB, crushing
his skull and eau sing instant death.
c. j. Wells, said to be the young man who
in March. 1889, robbed President Moffatt in
his office at the First National Bank of Den
yer o, $21, 900, is said to be under arrest at
Clayton, Mo-. for horse stealing He ac-
knowledges his guilt.
+ Arthur Newton, the London solicitor who
pleaded guilty to the charge OF conniving to
defeat justice by assisting certain persons
charged with completely in the Cleveland
street scandal to escape, was sentenced to
i'm prjsonment for six weeks.
j. 81. Tourtelotte, the clerk of the Shawnee
county, Wis, court, was convicted in the
United States court of having defrauded the
government out of a pension. He was SEN
fenced to two years imprisonment in state
prison and to pay fine of 81, 500.
Count Montercole, in Jail at Philadelphia
since April - on the charge Of libel in dis
tributing defamatory circulars concerning
his wife, Virginia Knox OF Pittsburg pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to six months i'm
pris onment.
Bob Crawford, a white convict from Pratt
mine. ear Birmingham, Me-, laid down a
stick of dynamite, lit a use and shouted
good bye to a dozen convicts who were
watching him. About half a bushel of his
rem aims have been found. He had just been
reca ptured after escaping.
The body of Anlang Christensen. single
woman OF about forty years of age living
near Erskine, Mimi. was found in the brush
near her home with her clothing nearly all
torn from her. The cause of her death is not
definitely known, but it is supposed that she
became crazed by an overdose of alcohol and
wandered away and died in that condition.
Sat Posner. of Deadwood, was arrested on
q charge ofrobbing the mails Posner has
for the past two years been employed as a
railway uStli Ger n anu ABOUT a. mOnGQ ago
resigned. His resignation was not accepted,
however, and he was asked to make one more
run and was caught in the act by govern,
ment detectives and arrested
Theodore Neubaner, of Madison. Wis, q
itteen-y ear-old boy for whom the police have
been looking for several days for the the.t of
s37 from his brother, was seen on
the street. A policeman was about to arrest
him. when he drew a revolver, blew out his
brains and fell dead ut the feet his would
be captor.
Frank Manning and James Tye enlisted
men at Fortress Monroe. Va. had difficulty
at Mill Creek, and on their return to the fort
while Tye was sitting in his room preparing
for target practice, Manning eamc to his
door, rife in hand, and shot him through
the head, causing instant death.
Ludie DanieIson, aged twelve. and Alex
Anderson. aged thirteen, have been arrested
at Manchester. n a., on complaint of the
mother of Charles Il. Howe, q delicate ten