The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-15
WICKEDNESSES.

John Thrella, the Hungarian arrested on
suspicion of the murder of the Curley family
at Wilkes barre, Pa, has been discharged.
In Carbonate, Colo, John Morris and
Frank Chatham engaged in O shooting at
fray over some land. 1t is thought both will
die.
Over twenty Hungarians have been ar
rested for participating in the bloody riot
near Pittsburg lew days ago, and the rest
are leaving.
Mrs. Peters and her daughter were murder
ed, robbed and burned to death in Cordele,
ia. The robbers we're seen running away
from the house. .'
W. D. Schroeder, an employe of the United
States Express company, has been found
dead, with bullet hole in his forehead, in a
deserted barn in Peoria, III. Probably MUIR
der.
In Newburyport, Mass, Edgar Beckman,
aged twenty-four, returned to his home
drunk: His wife, in anger. killed'him with
one thrust OF carving knife. She was ar
rested.
William D. Hughes and William Buttner
the bogus divorce lawyers ofNew York, have
been indicted by the grand jury. Hughes is
indicted for forgery and Buttner for forgery
At Pueblo, Colo, a negro named Billy
Davis shot his foster mother, Carrie Ormsby,
and his foster brother, Jimmy Arnold. The
murdered woman had given some property
to daughter, and this is supposed to have
made Davis jealous.
The investigation into the failure OF S. A.
kean & Co. continues at Chicago. s. II. Kean
was We held to the grand jury by Justice
Hamburger in the sum of $4,000 on the
charge Of enlightenment. He furnished
bonds and was liberated.
A warrant has been issued against Thomas
y. Ring, the St. Louis manager of the Ar.
mour-Cudahy Packing Company. The war
rant charges Ring with the embezzlement of
$4,000 belonging to the company, whose
headquarters are at Omaha.
A tragedy. the result of an old grudge. has
occurred at bonneville, Ala. Frank Hixson
and John Ross met and began firing at
each other. Then Dan Ross came to his
brothers assistance. The battle ended in
the death OF John Ross and tho woundiug
dangerously of his brother
David Montgomery, farmer, shot and
mortally wounded Oscar E. Trask, O promi-
nent logger. Montgomery is q peaceable.
respectable citizen and has the sympathy of
the whole community. Trask has a bad rec
ord Several days before he assaulted Mont
SomeI! WIN shngshot, but the latter beat
him of with stones. The men met about a
mile from town with the stated results.
montgomery gave himself up.
A letter from Pine Ridge agency details
hitherto unknown facts concerning the
death of Capt. Wallace at Wounded Knee.
Alter the fight. the latter states Capt. Wal.
lace was found at the entrance of an Indian
lodge with five dead warriors lying near him.
each Indian corpse showing bullet wound.
rive OF the chambers in the captains re.
vo!ver were found empty, and from the DO
sltlon in which the bodies lay it is presumed
that Wallace killed the five Indians before he
was overcome,
In 1886 Elder J. M. Clark, colored, pastor
OF the Baptist church in Dayton, and Carrie
Moss, now his wife, murdered Clark's first
wife ut Yellow Springs, Ohio, but, as the
husband was minister, no suspicion was
aroused. The woman Moss was then livino
IN criminal intimacy with one Taylor, white,
and the latter's daughter Efie assisted in
the murder. The girl became intimate with
one Dr. Steinbcrger, and committed suicide
after telling the story OF the Clark. Moss
crime Clark and his present wife were ar.
rested. =
Two masked men opened the door, OF the
ticket Office at the depot in Joplin. NO., and,
presenting two pistols each, ordered NJ. J.
Conley, the night clerk, to throw up his
hands. Conley was alone in the station and
obeyed the order He was next told to opeu
the safe and money drawer, which he did.
Conley was then told to throw up his hande
and turn his face to the wall. He obeyed
One OF them kept him covered while the
other robbed the till and the safe, securing
about $3.50. They also took 81 from Con.
ley. just as the men were leaving the Office
George Lewis, ono OF the assistants. opened
the door. He was ordered to come forward