New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-04-16
SINFUL SETTINGS.

Theodore Wilcox, superintendent of the
Brooklyn hospital, has been sentenced tofour
years mprisonmentfo for swindling the county
by charging for the care ofmy thical patients.
John Gregory, miner near Wilkesbarre,
Pa., while on his deathbed confessed to-
numbering q miner named Keatlng twenty
years ago and implicated man still living
there
1t is rumored that the defalcation of w. S.
Darling, partner in the dry goods firm of
John r. Plummer of New York, will amount
to several hundred thousand dollars Darl-
ing is in Canada.
Richard Davis, who together with his young
er brother, George. was sentenced to death
for the murder of their ia ther, was hanged at
Crewe, Eng. George Davis was respited by
the home secretary a few days.
The hotel room of the American consul at
Plauen was entered night or two ago by bur-
glars and q jewel casket valued at $4,000
was stolen. The casket has since been found,
but the contents had been distracted.
While two Italians were settling q quarrel
with fists on the West Shore railroad track
at Newburg, N. Y a train struck them, kill
ing one instantly and fatally injuring the
other.
John B. Porter, bookkeeper for Hall &
Willis, wholesale hardware merchants of
Kansas City, is defaulter OF between 81
900 and $1O, 900, and has lett tor parts I'M
known.
John Sloan, the laborer who was stabbed
at a party in New York by John and Corne-
Illus Curtin 1.-TWO brothers). has died. John
Lawton, his son-in law. Mary Driscoll and
Mrs. Sloan, who were also stabbed in the
fight, are recovering.
At Chambers station, near Mount Sterling,
KY, Will Barnes and Kelly Day were killed
by Albin Barnes and George Stephens Tho
Barnes were cousins and the shooting grew
out Of an old feud. Day was by-stander
without any share in the quarrel. Albin
Barnes is thought to be fatally wounded.
Peter Weishaupt, aged 33 years, was found
hanging from tree at Leedale, Pa. When
discovered lie was extinct Some time ago
he joined the Economics, and from that
time has been Respondent because according
to the laws Of the society he could not marry
This preyed upon his mind until he became
temporarily insane.
Clarence P. Wikoff, an employe Of the whole
sale drug firm Of Fuller & Fuller Of Chicago
has been arrested, charged with having
systematically robbed the firm ofover 81 900
worth of druggists sundries. He has dis
posed of his stealings to retailers Wikoff
in order to dispose Of the property stolen
outside OF the store. passed as Chauncy j.
Thomas, going into business under that
name as q manufacturers agent.
George Nicholson Of Omaha threatened his
son-in-law, John Burbanks, with an ak, and
a.terward chased his daughter with pitch
fork, she escaping by good luck. Nicholson
was arrested, but released on bail. Next
night he met his daughter on the street and
the quarrel was renewed. Mrs. Burbank g
drew O rev olYer, shot her father in the Leg
and thigh, and as he fell attempted to blow
his brains out, but was disarmed. She is I'M
der arrest. Nicholson is an old man and
will probably die.
e. Tweeton, cashier Of the Fosston,
Mimi, National bank, has abscounded with
IS, 900 OF the banks funds and is undoubted-
II safe in British territory. He has been
traced as far as Fargo, and the fact learned
thot he there bought a ticket for Victoria. A
singular entry in Tweeton's books attracted
the attention of the bank officials and, learn
ing of the investigation that was to follow,
he decamped at once. His sureties are quite
wealthy and the bank will lose nothing
Della Scott, waiter in the Dew Drop Con-
cert Hall, suicided at Butte, Mont, by taking
heavy dose of morphine. She had been
drinking heavily for two or three days and
was respondent. She sent messenger boy
for the morphine and took it unnoticed by
her husband. About one, o clock she retired
to bed, and next morning when Scott woke
up he found mis- wife dead in bed beside him
She was 81 years OF age and handsome She
had been in Butte several months and had
previously worked in Salt Lake City and San
Francisco
A big land swindle is being worked in
Kansas. Men claiming TO own large tracts
of Texas lands have been operating in that
state for the purpose OF trading them for
Kansas real estate. They have been doing
big business with bogus deeds and alb
stracts. selling lands which they do not own
The officials Of Preside county, Tex, have
written to Topeka parties that hundreds of
these fraudulent deeds are in circulation. SeY-
sral parties here have been yictimized.
Falkton, s.. D., vas thrownInto whirl OF
excitement BIZ the arrival of "a young farmer
living fifteen miles Westnamed Freeman, with
the report that he had discovered the body
of Eekhart, the reported would he murderer
/ of his :amiiy in an unused well on Freeman s.