People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

The jury in the United States court at Auburn, N. Y., found Mrs Mary T. McMillen, alias Mrs. Mack, guilty of counterfeiting postage stamps. She was sentenced to a year and a half in the penitentiary. Atchison, Kan., is being flooded with $1 bills raised to $lO. The specimens are almost perfect, and the bills have been successfully passed both there and at Leavenwoth. John West, of Ottumwa, lowa, fearing he would not recover from typhoid fever, shot himself. His wife, who was convalescing from typhoid, is likely so die from the shock. Thomas Dempsey, who drove his hack iu front of a train at Maniotwoc, Wis., causing the death of Andrew Weblin, has been held for trial in bonds of SSOO. A negro supposed to be Moses Sheeny, aged twenty-eight, of Chicago, was shot and killed in Philadelphia by Officers Whalen and Brown, of the Reading Railroad. He was one of a gang of vagrants who had interfered with railroad laborers. When the officers tried to disperse tbem the tramps set upon them with stones and they shot them in self-defence. The government has just collected $277.63 from the bondsmen of J. W. Thompson, postmaster at Meadville, Miss., in 187 u, and who was short in his accounts. Charles Hurd, a negro who murdered Jasper D. Kelly, white, at Wartburg, Tenn., was hanged by a mob.

Frank C. Huffman, the train robber, who was killed in Hickory county, Missouri, by Sheriff James K. Moore, was one of the most notorious bandits that ever operated in central Missouri, The supreme court of Minnesota has confirmed the death sentence of Harry Hayward for the murder of Catherine Ging. He will likely be executed Dec. 6. During a saloon brawl at Prairieburg, lowa, Gus Trainer struck a farmer named Turner over the head with a billy. The skull was fractured and Turner cannot live, Calvin Rains, of Anna, 111,, has been indicted for the murder of J. B. Coulter, the aged farmer with whom Ralnß and his wife were living. Humphrey and Miller, the Union college students, were given a hearing on a charge of burglary and both pleaded not guilty. They were held to the grand jury. It Is estimated that they have taken property worth $5,000. Thirty-two buildings In the town of Purcell, O. T„ were destroyed by fire Tuesday. Two storekeepers were arrested In the act of, pouring oil on their goods to spread,the flames, and with difficulty were saved from lynching. The loss Is $160,000.,, Four boys derailed an express train on the New York Central line a few miles west of Rome Tuesday. Two men we» killed, four seriously Injured and the train completely demolished. The boys were arrested and the jail In which they were confined at Rome was surrounded by a mob-who threatened them with lynching.