New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-04-30
SINFUL SETTINGS.

Ex-Mayor Cu]ley of Fitchburg, Mass, com
nitted suicide by drowning. His mind was
affected.
William E. Purdy has been convicted at
Chicago, of numbering Samuel Reininger last
September and sentenced to be hanged.
The trial of jeremiah O'Donovan Rosa
and his printer. Wilbur II. Hendrickson, for
criminal libel, has commenced in New York
Nathan DOLL German shoemaker of Chi
cago, is under arrest for nearly beating bis
eleven-yearold boy to death.
Charles Jackson, New York compositor,
murdered Mamie Murphy, twenty years old,
in notorious saloon. Jackson cut the WON
ans throat, causing death in half an hour.
Miss Lena Woodruff from Appleton, Wis,
lost all her money, amounting to $500, while
on the way to Chicago, where she was going
to buy stock OF millinery to start storein
Appleton: She was cared for by the police.
Dr.. A. J. Reid ofDavenport, Iown, has been
indicted by the grand jury for murder in the
second degree. He is charged with perform
ing an operation upon young woman, from
the effects OF which she died.
Three convicts attempted to escape from a
stockade at Palarn, Ark, and two of them,
Dan Sneed and Tom Oxford, both desperate
The third escaped.
Sim Garrett and Jerry Leel, who were in
Jail at st. Augustine, Tex, on o charge OF at
tempting to poison Col. John Fl. Brooks and
family, were taken from the jail and lynched.
Convenient hooks in front of butcher shop
were converted into an impromptu gallows
Five sisters named Demovieroff committed
suicide at Moscow, Russian. The cause ofthe
deed was their fear of being arrested as Mini
lists. A short time before taking their lives
they burned all of their papers, presumably
with the object of shielding others.
J. Y. Hildreth and Tony Cooper, Arkansas
farmers while rebuilding fence fell out about
the ownership of some rails and knives were
resOrted to. Cooper was stabbed to death
on the spot and Hildreth received fatal
wounds.
William Lord, who for seven years had
been confidential bookkeepers for Flesh &
Nook, painters, St. Louis, has stolen, since
1883, in the most mysterious manner, S15,-
523, and has been arrested. Horse racing
the cause.
Joseph Anderson of Minneapolis and
George r. Blu chan of Pittsburg, exchange
shots in the former city, and the former is
MORALLY wounded. The trouble arose from
Mrs. Anderson being found in Buchan's com.
pany.
A New York female reporter who set out
to investigate the practices of divorce detec
tiyes found that there is class of women
who find regular employment in helping wives
to secure divorces. These women can be hir
to entrap men into situations furnishing real
or apparent grounds for divorce.
Aspecial from Catletrsburg, KY, reports
the killing in West Virginia near Pigeon
creek ofsmith Baisden, John Baisden and
William Baisden, three brothers, noted des
peradoes. James Brewer. deputy sheriff, and
posse attempted to arrest them, were fired
upon, battle ensued and The desperadoes
were killed or mortally wounded and cap
tured.
There was aserious riot among the citizens
of Mccormick, S. c. A Mr.. Sturkey reported
Druggist Calhoun for selling whisky on Sun.
day. Druggist Calhoun shot the officer who
was sent % arrest him. Other citizens then
took hand and general fight ensued. in
which several persons are said to have been
shot. T. B. Calhoun is the only man known
to have been fatally shot. Several arrests
have been made.