New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29
SINS AND SINNERS,

Mcdaniel, the Ark ansas train robber. has
been condemned to tho penitentiary for life.
At Providence, r. l., Jerome Sweet was
found guilty of murder of his wife by saturat-
ing her body with kerosene and firing it, and
has been sentenced to prison for lie.
An unknown man assassinated Tom Mar.
shall Vogelsong at Falmouth, KY. A. Richie
and Oscar Downward have been arrested and
may be lynched
Numerous member of the Corndodger
club, an organization of youthful thieves
and burglars operating in Texas cities, have
been arrested.
At Montreal, Que, William Proulx. from
Denver, Colo, has been arrested on the
strength Of q telegram asking that he be
held on the charge of embezzling $500.
Near Port Huron, Mich. n man ms AIMED
Pellet stabbed and probably fat ally wound
ed James O'Hare, wealthy farm err. aud his
wife. Robbery was the motive. Pelett has
not yet been captured,
The Toronto Globe publishes letter from
Birchall, who now claims that he and Ben
well had concocted a plan to swindle Ben.
wells father out o. $500, which they ere to
divide, and also that PelIv was to be victim
lied. Their trip to Woodstock was to
further their schemes, but he denies all knowl-
euSe VI DeuWellS uuFueF.
John Hope. who was implicated in the rob-
berry of the Manhattan Savings bank, with
his father, Jimmie Hope, the famous bank
rObber, was liberated from Sing Sing prison
upon q pardon from Gov. Hill. Hope re-
ceived sentence o. twenty years by Judge
Cowing in July, 1879. He served nine years
eight months and twenty days.
The jury in the Novak murder case at
T-l:o
the first degree, with the death penalty.
Several months ago Joseph Novak quarrel
ed with a fellow workman named Sokzloski.
That night he went to Sokzloski's house
and fred load of shot through a window,
with the intention Of killing his enemy The
charge instead struck and killed Sokzloski's
fifteen. year-old daughter.
Miss Flora Tyler of Butler ILL.,, walked in.
to the room Of Eugene f. Mease, at Chicago,
and. after securing u ring and photograph.
placed n revolver over Mease's heart and
fired. Mease turned slightly aud the bullet
| entered his let shoulder. The wound is not
atal. Miss Tyler was Immediately arrested
Mease had been engaged to Miss Tyler, but
had broken off the engagement, and a few
days ago married Miss Jessie Raymond,
who was present during the shooting. The
shooting was or revenge.
Last summer William Filinger and his
wife, who lives three miles from Perry, Mich,
attended series OF revival meetings and be.
came religion-mad. in a mild way. With
them lived Fillinger's mother. who has long
been physically rail. 1t worried FilIinger
and his vie that the elder woman was I'M
baptized, and SO they decided that the nee
essary religious rite should be performed, a i
though. the poor woman was confined to
her bed unable to rise. Taking water to
her room. they began the ceremony by dash
ing water in her face, and continued it until
ron, rom shock and exhaustion their vi ctim died
Fillnger and his wife were arrested and
taken to Jail.
John Dixon, a prosperous Iarmer of Al
isgheny county, N. c., discovered that an in
timnte relation was existing between his vie
and Marshall Halsey. and he promptly shot
and killed Halsey. Charles Haisey, brother