New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-02

Cora Otto, 2 young lady twenty years old,
went to her bed room at Sioux City one
night without light She had notfully dis
robed when she was clutched by man who
held revolver to her head Her screams
awoke the family, and the man made his es-
cape, leaving the girl whom he had dubbed
with revolver. unconscious and badly
bruised. The man was recognized as Frank
Dewey, a painter who boarded with the lady's
mother, and whose attentions she had re-
pulsed. Dewey cannot be ound by the police,
but Mrs. Otto received q threatening letter
from him commanding her to discontinue
criminal prosecution.
Charles Diebold of Pittsburg Pa, and his
vie have not been living together for some
time. Early one morning Diebold went to
his home and asked for some clothing. A
quarrel ensued and Diebold struck his wife
two murderous blows on the head with q
hatchet He hurled her supposed lifeless
body into another room, kissed his two
children and went to the home of his mother
on another street. Here he locked himself in
room and slashed his wrists and throat
with razor, infict1ng Injuries from which he
died a few minutes later Mrs Diebold is
terribly cut. but will probably recover.
The United States Judge at Madison, Wis,
ruled that in certain contingencies the post
master general has the right to fix the sala-
ry OF third-class postmaste Postmaster
General Dickinson did this in the case of A.
T. Parmenter. for seventeen years post
master at Middleton, making the order ex-
tend back over his entire time of service, and
thus when Parmenter retired from Office
three years ago it was held that he owed the
government nearly 81 1000 in fees which he
mad retained as compensation. Under to-
days decision this must be returned to I'm
Gle Sam. Parmenter will also be prosecuted
criminally.
The trial OF Her bert F. Beecher, charged
with larceny, ended at Seattle, Wash. in the
United States district court. The defendant
is a son of the late Henry Ward Beecher. and
was appointed collector of customs for the
Puget sound district in 1885 by President
Cleveland. In April, 1889, the grand jury in
Port Townsend returned true bill against
Beecher charging him with larceny ola vol
ume of Records OF oneys received from all
sources, !" rcom1nitted when he was collector.
When the evidence was all in Judge Hartford
Instructed the jury to render q verdict OF not
guilty, which was done. The charge against
Beecher was dismissed.
Marshal Andrew Dillon of Haughville Ind,
was shot and mortaliy wounded The negroes
had big dance and were all drunk. One OF
them named Peter Carpenter got into row
with Patrick Horn, an lrishman, and Horn
was cut with a razor This victory made
the negroes hilarious, and they started out
to take the town. Marshal Andrew Dillon
was called, and in company with Andy Moore
attempted to quell the disturbance They
placed one man and woman under arrestand
started with them to the station, when they
were attacked by the whole mob, the mem
bers brandishing knives and razors. They
soon began firing their rev divers, and about
thirteen shots in all were fred, one of them
taking effect in the marshals back on the
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iuches from the back bone passing through
his body and lodging just under the skin of
his abdomen 1t passed throuh the spleen
and intestines and is necessarily fatal: