The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-29
WAYS OF THE WICKED.

Three attempts have been made in two
weeks to assassinate T. NJ. Todd, Chicago
real estate dealer, by some one unknown.
Ben X. Pullen, Jr., was arrested in Fort
Worth, Tex, recently. He was formerly
city register at Memphis, and is defaulter
to the amount of $1,000.
George Harris of Newberne, ILL.,, persists
in fasting with suicidal intent. Twenty-six
days have passed since the last morsel of
food passed his lips, but he is still alive.
1t is now stated that an additional short
age of $4,000 has been discovered in the
trust funds held by Attorney John G. Hall
of San Francisco.
Patrick Forrestal, until last Octobera
trusted clerk of Simpson New York pawn
broker, is under arrest for theft of s., 600
worth of diamonds from his employer.
David Skiwinski, New York Salesman,
was engaged to a Huntingdon, Pa, girl.
She wrote him breaking the engagement,
and he went to her town and hanged him
self
Supreme Treasurer Krause of the Michi-
gan Patrons of Industry, is 81 400 short in
his accounts. He admits the fact, and says
that he used the money in establishing the
organ of the order.
James A. Woods, the attendant at the
Eastern Indiana hospital for the insane,
charged with kicking IT, Blount, patient,
to death, has been sentenced to twenty one
years in the penitentiary.
Bob Ford the slayer Of Jesse James, and
J. B. Harder, a saloonkeeper, quarreled in
Walsenburg, Colo, over game Of cards and
engaged in shooting match. Both were
wounded, but not seriously.
The dead body of Mollie Woods, who
bore an unsavory reputation, was found at
Galena, Kan, with two bullet holes en-
tlrely through her head. No clue to the
murderer.
At Rochester, N. Y, John Miller aged
fifty-four years, upon being reproached for
drunkenness by his eighteen-y ear-old son,
stabbed him four times and fatally. The
son is dead, the father arrested.
Stephen +. Sherman, of the late firm of
Sherman Bros. & Co., who was convicted OF
grand larceny in connection with grain
transactions, has been sentenced at Buffalo,
N. T., to five years in prison.
United States Marshal Fry Of Clark, S. D.,
arrested two young bloods by the name Of
Walter Sage and Calvin Simmons, for SELL
ing liquor without government license A
deputy marshal is still in Clark, s. D.. ex-
pecting to make other arrests soon.
During the trial Of an opium smuggler
at Seattle, Wash, Collector of Customs
Bradshaw testified that during his entire
term not single can of prepared opium
had been entered for duty at the custom
house.
Sixty italian laborers on the Baltimore g.
Ohio near Minatour, Pa, struck against
reduction in wages. About half of the
gang wanted to continue work, but the
strikers attacked them in body and drove
them, off. The ringleaders in the riot have
been arrested.
1t has developed that S. J. Mings, expires
ident of the National Bank of Galesyille.
Texas was short in his accounts several
thousand dollars. The failure of the Okla
for large sum, and since then Mings has
disappeared and cannot be found. What
the Galesville bank will lose cannot now be
ascertained.
1t is stated in New York that Count
George Szirmoy Of Austro-Hungary has
been in that city three weeks hunting vair-
ly for his seventeen year-old daughter who
was stolen from convent abroad by for
| mer mistress of the count, who thus sought
revenge. Traces of the young countess have
been found in the low dens of Thompson
street, where it is believed her abductor
placed her, but the girl cannot be found.
| The train on the Rio Grande railroad, be-
tween Brownville, and Point Isabel was
wrecked and robbed by fifteen masked men.
They placed distractions on the track de-
rallied the train, held up the passengers, and
got away with about $4,000 in Mexican
money which was en- route for shipment at
Brazos by the steamboat Morgan to New
| Orleans.
The noted clerical, Able Laponniere, of
the Church of st. Sulprice. France, has
been arrested on the charge of embezzle-
ment and infanticide. The niece of the alb
be's cure was accused Of completely in the