New Ulm weekly review., 1890-04-23
SINFUL SETTINGS.

John K. Owens, cashier and bookkeeper FOR
che wholesale hardware firm of Gibbs & Co.,
San Francisco, has disappeared, ,sand it is
stated there has been found a shortage in his
accounts of $4,000 or over.
L. Godkin, the managing editor of the
New York Evening Post, has been arrested
on warrant charging him with criminal
libel on the complaint of Peter MITCHELL q
lawyer. Godkin was released on BAIL
Albert L. Leopold Buonapart claiming to
be descendent of the great Corsican and
hailing from Philadelphia, witho ut provoca-
ton shot'a policeman at Montreal and was
arrested. The police man will recover.
c. c. Smith is reported to be 81, 800 short
in his accounts as treasurer in the town of
Lyndon, Wis. Smith was reelected at the
late spring election, and the shortage was
made public when he was unable to secure
new bondsmen.
Capt. j ohm Richardson and his wife were
murdered atstheir residence eight miles from
Madisonville, Texas Robbery is believed to
have been the motive. The supposition is
that they were murdered by strangers who
had accepted their hospitality for the night
Harriet Williams, n colored woman living
near Asheville. n c.. was found upon the floor
Of her house unconscious, with ten horrible
wounds npon her person. She died in about
two hours afterward. Robbery is supposed
to be the murderer's object.
Dispatches rom Agent Upshur at Tongue
river Mont, reports the Northern Cheyenne
Indians congregating and threatening lie
and property in that vicinity. Troops, he
telegraphs, areneeded quick. The dispatches
were forwarded to the war department.,
withna request to forward troops at once.
Near jackson, Miss, the stable of Jerry
Bass, colored, was set on fire by unknown
parties, and when Bass and his son Charles
came out TO distinguish the fiames they were
fired on in the darkness The boy was killed
and Bass badly wounded Their dwelling
house was then burned.
The wife of Andrew Schuster, farmer
living ten miles northwest OF Mitchell, s. D.,
was TO und dead in Firestee creek She is
supposed to have snicided by drowning, al
though known dome site trouble and the fact
that Schuster's wife was missing eight days
before he notified the neighhors naturally
provokes suspicion.
Susie Philips, daughter of Rev. Austin
Philips of Rockwell City Iowa. eloped with
Harry Tucker, her fathers hired man, and
the couple were married in Fort Dodge
Tucker had not money enough to pay the
JuSUlce WHO married Cnem anO Cne TWO dollar
fee was reduced TIL 81. so, every cent the bride
groom possessed. The elopers are now
staying with friends, hoping that the stern
parents will relent and send them money
enough to get home.
Thomas Kerins an ex-councilman and a
saloonkeeper, of Brazil, Ind. has been arrest
ed charged with embezzlement. He was sec
retary, treasurer and president of a lodge OF
Catholic Knights of America. Considerable
forward them to the grand lodge. The lodge
kerins kept to himself, though he continued
deprive property holders of several thousand
Two of a gang o. four masked Kuklux, who
visited the residence of an old man named
Holland at Doniphun, Mo-, for the purpose
OF whipping him, were killed by Ealland' Z
fourteen year-old son. Ed Gillian, ] r, one
of those killed was the son OF q prominent
and we'll do farmer The other. Alex Gate
wood, bore an unenviable reputation. They
knocked the old man down and were kicking
him, when the boy opened fire on them with
a double -barrelled sh otgun. killing Gillum.
Gatewood attemp pied to shoot TIE boy, but
his gun missed fire, and the lad EN- ptied
the contents his second barrel into Gate
woods breast.
William Delap, of Burlington, Iowa, has
been arrested Tor bigamy and is now in jail.
He married his first wife number of years