New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-05-07
SINFUL SETTINGS

SINFUL SETTINGS.
james Palmer was hanged at Concord, N.
A., for the murder OF Henry Whitehouse a
fellow workman. May u, 1888.
William Niemer was killed in Cincinnati by
Joseph Smith. a laudryman, by blow of the
latter's fist.
Charles 3. Wright, who last August killed
Sheriff Marshal and Deputy Thurber, has
been sentenced at Benzonia, Mich, to i'm
prisonment for life.
Mrs Sarah Habbs, Ga years of age, had
both legs cut off by switch engine at Of
tumwa and died. Her son it ia thought has
become insane on account of the fatality.
AtLima, Ohio, Willis Osman and Edward
standish quarreled over agirl. Osman stab.
bed Standish eight times with knife and he
will probably die.
Henry e. Raymond, o highly respected citi-
zen of Sing Sing, N. Y, was arrested for big.
amy He was granted permission to go into
an adjoining room, where he fatally shot
himself.
Charles Dietrich, son of Louis Dietrich,
wealthy and prominent citizen of Milwaukee
county. blew off the top of his head with a
double barreled shotgun. Temporary insan-
ity.
Charles V. Henckle, formerly Chicago man
ager OF the Globe Light and Heat company,
who has been wanted for some time on charges
of embezzling sever al thousand dollars of the
funds OF that company, has been arrested in
New York.
Moses Harmon, publisher of the Valley
Falls (Kan.) Luciler, convicted in the dis
trict court for printing obscene matter in his
paper and sending it through the mails, has
been sentenced to five years in the penitenti-
airy.
Greenleaf, the notorious Seminole outlaw
who has eluded all efforts to arrest him for
the past eighteen years, has been jailed ut
Fort Smith, Ark. He has three cases Of MUIR
der pending against him, and has killed four
OF his own tribe since.
Z Frederick Schmidt, of Menomonie, died of
injuries inflicted by two tramps who set upon
him in his saloon and brutally beat and
kicked him. One of his legs was broken and
the bones terribly splintered. The assaiants
are-in Jail. Schmidt owned the Menomonie
Opera House and was leading citizen.
Evidence is accumulating to show that the
destruction of the farm house of B. NJ Sem
pie, near Yankton, which resulted in the
death of Alex Isley, was the work Of an in
cendiary, and that mistake was made in
| firing this house, it being the intention to
burn another place instead. Jealousy and
crime
John Montgomery and Henry Cosgrove
were arrested at Fort Dodge, Iowa, charged
with conspiracy to ruin the business of a
horseman named o. b. Post by ':doping''
colts sired by his thoroughbred stallion. The
two men arrested are horse doctors and also
own a rival stallion. 1t is charged that they
are trying to increase their breeding business
by causing the death of colts sired by the
other horse.
The wealthiest convict who ever wore
stripes at Joliet, ILL.,, was discharged from
the Joliet prison and left at once for New York
to sail for Switzerland. He carried a roll of
bills amounting to S / 900 after giving away
several hundred dollars to convict associates.
He has recently fallen heir to over half a
million dollars in Switzerland. The officials
admit that he was sent up from Rock Island
for one year for forgery, but there is mystery
surrounding his record.
John L. Norris of Fannin county, Texas,
while travelling in Greer county, killed his
two companions-:W. E. Roberts and John
Mows-while all were in camp. The shots
were fred from q six-shooter, both parties
| being shot through the head from sbehind as
they slept. Morris buried the bodies in
sand bank and tried to make his escape out
ofthe county, but was arrested shortly after
he had concealed the bodies.
Michael 81. Kitson, retired railroad man
Of Burlington, To-, put strychnine in the
sugar bowl at the Barrett restaurant and
literally dosed his coffee with the same He
died. In the meantime what was left Of the
coffee was thrown out, and the dog licked it
up and expired. Then Ben Barrett, the pro-
prietor, sat down to supper, supplied his
coffee with the doctored sugar, and has ouly
been saved from death by the hard work OF
physicians. Kitson was led TO self-destruc-
ton by dependency produced by drink.
Kemmler, the man. who is condemned to
die by electricity at Auburn, N. T., shows no
signs of weakening; in truth he seems to note
all proceedings and final arrangements with
an air OF abandon that shows him to be
man of almost iron nerve. He does not al.
low himself tocontemplate his fate, but busies
himselfi in whistling, singing, writing his au-
tograph and listening to his keeper read from
the Bible, or some popular periodical. He
takes part in religious services daily and
manispsts a fervor that is surprising to oth-
srs who participate.
Jake Alderman thief with national
reputation, Was shot and killed in the police
court at Memphis BY his vie. He had been
away from his wife and returned Monday