New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-15
SINFUL SETTINGS.

At Cohoes N. Y, Cere1as Villa, an axe
maker, shot and fatally wounded his wife
while walking along the street. She had re-
fused to live with him. a.>.
William w. Wilson, a prominent and pros
porous citizen of Spottsylvania county. Va,
and for many years justice of the peace COM
mlted suicide by shooting himselfin the heart
He was sixty-tve years Of age.
A. p. Scovile, a nephew of Guiteau, the
assassin OF President Garfield, has dissap
peared from Chicago and is thought to have
taken over $4,000 belonging to building
society, of which he was the secretary.
Miss Alice Jackm an, the young heiress Of St.
Louis who was abducted few weeks ago,
but who was subsequently recovered by her
guardian, Dr.. John G. Taylor, has been again
abducted in much the same manner as on the
first occasion.
William Proctor, Springfield, ILL.,, insur-
ance agent was arrested at Bloomington
Iii. He made love to q widow eighty years
old, and secured some valuable notes and
some money. He has wife and family at
Springfield.
Stetson Leach of Denver, general manager
of the River and Rail Electric company, has
been arrested, charged by Secretary Reed, of
the company. with forgery and the appro.
priation of IS, 900 of the concerns funds to
his own use.
Alice Jackman of st. Louis, the fourteen
year-old heiress, who figured in two sensa-
tional abduction cases and who claimed to
have been abducted by three men, has con-
fessed that her story was untrue and made
out OF whole cloth.
Isaac Schilansky, an aged Polish Hebrew,
was murdered in New York by Frank Borhu
and several other italian tenants of the
house, who knocked the old man down and
r beat and kicked him until he was insensible.
He died while being taken to hospital.
In the town of Leon N. Y, live John E.
Ward and Miss Georgia Seeley. They were
in love with each other, but Georgia's pa
rents were not in love with John. They kept
the twain apart as much as possible. One
day the young man secured writ
requiring the parents to show cause why they
should not release their daughter from the
restraints they had placed upon her. While
the hearing was in progress the two managed
to slip out of court unobserved, and were
quickly made one The legal proceedings
were abruptly terminated.
whiskey riot occurred at Elkadori Iowa.
A search has been m ade under the prohibit
ton law, and the officers were about leaving
town when they were fred upon by crowd
of drunken hoodlums, who had followed them
with a wagon. Several shots were returned
by the constable, but as far as known no one
was injured. The instigators of the riot
urged that any penalty inflicted by the court
upon the rioters where personal violence was
done by them will be pardoned by the gov
ernor, Mr.. Boies, when he assumes the duties
of the Office.
Nathan Faster, the former negro coachman
of Miss Fanny Keener, of Jacksonville Ill
a white girl, returned from Iowa, and finding
her with young man named Bancroft, drew
revolver and opened fire, first on Bancroft
who was twice wounded, and then on Miss
Keener, who promptly returned the fire. both
being wounded. Miss Keener, it is thought
fatally. Miss Keener's brother and q coloreo
boy dubbed Faster until he was dlsarmed
The affairs of Miss Keener and Faster have
long been the talk of the town, and she sent
him large amount of valuable property
while he was in Iowa.
James Luyton, a brick mason from Barry
ILL.,, last August married the fifteen year-old
daughter of Mrs. Cohorn. and after brie
bridal tour returned to Liberty, Wis, il
search OF work, stopping at the house of hit
brother-in.law, Robert Cohorn. There tn.
bride met ex-County Attorney Sheets. Al
attachment sprang up between them, an6
Luyton was induced to go to California
where mason's wages were represented to b,
much higher than they are here. During
her husbands absence Mrs. Luyton accom-
panied Sheets to Kansas City and lived ther,
with HIM as his vie. Luyton returned un
expectedly few days ago, and learning o
his wife's infidelity. determined TO have re
yenge upon her betrayor He went to Sheets
Office and shot him dead. He gave himsel
up.
The coroner's inquest in the Knifin muir
der case has begun at Trenton N. ]. DR.
Shannon. DR.. Knifin's partner. and Gus Reed
testified to the appearance OF the rooms and
the position of Miss Purcell and Mrs. Knifin't