New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-01-21
WlCkEDNESSES,

It has been decided not to prosecute
Wood, who forged the signatures attached
to the alleged Ohio ballot box contract.
At Wilmington, Del, W. v. Harper,
agent of the National Life Insurance Com
pany of Vermont, is under bonds for the
embezzlement of Sc, 900.
Dougherty, who once pestered Mary
Anderson and VIII last fall shot DR.. Lloyd
in Flatbush asylum, Long Island, was con-
victed in New York of murder in the Sec
ond degree. =
At Greensburg, Pa, Col. J. W. Moore,
the millionaire coal and coke operator was
almost fatally stabbed with butcher knife
in the hands of his son, Bert. The cause is
unknown.
Charles Thieke and wife, an aged German
couple, were found dead in their room in
New York, having taken poison. They
left letter saying that they wanted to
die together. -
Police Officer William Smith, of New
York has been arrested on charge of
numbering his wife. During family dis
turbance Jan. 2, Smith beat his wife so
brutally that she died.
The first arrest under the new lottery law
was made in Chicago. G.. S. Gould, alias L.
G. Loring, was arrested and held in bonds
of $1,000 to the grand jury. He has been
acting as the Chicago agent of the Louisiana
State lottery. 49, r. 8
John Cronin, aged fourteen, of San
Francisco is under arrest in Chicago, having
setfire two years ago to st. Vincent's orphan
asylum at San Rafael, near San Francisco.
Three lives were lost by the fire. Cronin
has confessed.
=: George Estes and Fannie Hogan were
married at a country church in Marion
county, Ala. Just as the ceremony was
concluded shot was fired through a win
dow, and the bride fell dead A discarded
lover is suspected.
Inst. Louis Frank f. Mitchell, we'll
known gambler about town, shot and killed
Dollie Mayo, woman with whom he had
been living, and then committed suicide
The woman refused to longer live with
Mitchell, and they quarreled, with the above
result.
At Pittsburg Rev. J. T. Riley, the Meth
odist Episcopal minister, has been found
guilty by ,asohurch committee Of impru-
dence and administered conduct The
charges We're preferred by W. T. Minnick,
who alleged that Rev. Mr.. Riley alienated
the affections of his wife. 4
George M. Bartholomew, formerly presi-
dent of the Charter Oak Life Insurance
company, who has been in Canada for
several years, returned to Hartford, Conn,
pleaded guilty to enlhezzling $4,000, and
was taken to the penitentiaW for years
sentence. He is seventy years old.
3 w. E. Kidd, editor Of the Aberdeen Re
publican, was arrested on charge of libel,
.James Holborn Of Hecia sw earring out the
Warrant. Kidd was talento Haela, S. D..
to plead. Holborn is money leaner and
Kidd wrote him up, intimating, it is
charged, that he was perfect Shyloek.
Ia Neadyilie Pa, Delameter & Co. (in-
clnding George w. Delamater, late Repub-
lican candidate for governor1. bankers, who
assigned recently, were summoned before
an alderman charged with the embezzke-
ment of $3.50, 600 Of the county funds They
were held to the February term Of court in
$40. Goo bonds each.
a man and woman arrived ct San Fran
cisco and registered at the Cosmopo litan
otel as Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis, FL Paso, Tex.