New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-04-02
SINFUL STRINGS.

John b. Atkinson, New York lawyer,
was murdered without provoc alton by
man who was assisting in moving safe into
Atkinson's Office
The coroner's jury in the case of William
TurnbuI, who was shot and killed in New
York by James E. Hyde, brought in YER
dict of justifiable homicide s.
At Palimma, Crete, priest was dragged
from his pulpit and paraded through the
street amid the jeers of the mob. Sixty-four
OF the villagers are starving in prison.
Rev. Preston c. CLANCY, while preaching
near Mobile, Ala, was arrested for robbing
the mails at buttons, Ala, Ave years ago.
He confessed
James s. Hyde, New York ticket specu-
lator, shot and fatally wounded another
ticket speculator named Stambull during a
quarrel. Hyde was arrested.
Cecil NJ English, a discharged street car
conductor, shot and killed James A. Ftzger-
aid, street car conductor, at St. Louis.
Trouble over English's wife.
Special guards were issued for ,Birchall,
confined in the Woodstock (Ont.) jail on the
charge of murder. They will keep constant
watch over him. b.
Rev. D. w. Helmick, who killed Ed Palmer
at Nicola, Iowa, on the night ofAug IS, 1889,
has been acquitted. The defense was justif-
able homicide. -
In st. Mary's Catholic church, Poughkeep.
sic, N. Y, in a row over his right to occupy
pew, George Hughes was numerically
pounded -
John A. Davis, the efaulting city treas.
urer OF Rochester, N. Y, who embezzled 500
600 of the city s money, pleaded guilty to
the charge OF grand larceny in the first degree
and was sentenced to FIVE years in prison.
There is an agitation among the students
PetrofIskoie near Moscow, similar to that in
connection with the St. Petersburg move
ment. In fight with gendarmes 200 of the
students were arrested.
j. Bartlett Cook, who styled himself presi-
dent of the American Development company
has disappeared, and it is alleged that SO, 800
confded to him by his EN- ployes and others
went with him.
In the trial OF j. Sherman Caswell, in Mont
pelier, Vt, charged with the murder Of George
j. Gould last September, the murdered mans
widow swore she had lived with Casswell as
his wife for nineteen years.
The jury in the case of F. Sherman, former
manager of the associated elevators at
Buffalo, N, y, charged with grand larceny in
steeling $3.50 bushels of wheel, has brought
IL a VeIu!S0 " &uuVy. a mOtiOu lot new
trial will be made.
A sensation was created in railroad circles
at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, by the announcement
that Ed Meacham, a well known passenger
engineer of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and
Northern road, had committed suicide by
taking poison at Estherville His wife il dy-
ing in New Mexico, and he is said to be 6nan-
cially embarrassed, which is probably the cause
of the suicide.
Peter Dahl, who was found guilty of man
slaughter in the circuit court at Wausau,
Wiz, March II, was sentenced to Is months
struck Ernest Feranthal in drunken row,
knocking him from wagon. The team ran
away, dragging Feranthal threee miles.
When found he was dead. August Feberger
was sentenced to serve two years in Wan
| pun for horse stealing.
A singularly atrocious murder was com
| mitted at Somerville, Tenn, the victim being
Mrs. Sallie Hobson, colored and the murder
| or her eleven-year-old boy. Her husband
| had been absent and returning terrible
| sight met his eyes. On one side OF the door
| lay the decapitated remains of his wife, and
several feat away the head. stick of wood,
on which her neck had been placed when the
cutting was done, showed three distinct cuts
Of an AZ. The boy was found playing with
the other children, his clothing saturated
with blood. He at first claimed that the blood
came from chicken which he had killed, but
at the coroner inquest admitted he had
committed the crime. He eaid his mother
laid her head down on the block and told him
if he did not cut her head off she would kill
him. The boy story is not believed, and he
was placed in Jail pending further investiga.
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