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# Crimes and Criminals. The Iowa supreme court confirms the sen- tence of Chester Turney, the young burglar, who must remain in the penitentiary. This is one of the most noted criminal cases the state ever had. Jamee D. Fish, the ex-president of the Ma- rine Bank, of New York City, who was con- victed of misapplying the funds of the bank and causing its failure, will be released from prison. The old man will not leave the pris- on broken in health. He is quite spry and his face indicates that his health is tolerably good. Franz Burginger, an old resident of Brown county, Minn., and former proprietor of the Sleepy Eye brewery, committed suicide by taking strychnine. Mr. Burginger died be- fore medical aid could be summoned. No cause is assigned. He seemed to be in good spirits. It is rumored that he was in finan- cial straits. The deceased was a member of the Odd Fellows and United Workmen and carried a policy of $2,000 in each. Within the past ten days Judge Woods, of the federal court at Indianapolis, has re- ceived a number of threatening letters from all parts of the state, some signed "Regula- tors" and some "White Caps," and all de- mands that he change his recent rulings in the election law violation cases. One writer threatened to bring 500 regulators to the city if his commands were not obeyed. It was couced in the most brutal terms. There was quite a twitter among the fash- ionable congregation of St. Paul's church in Milwaukee when it became known that a daughter of Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson had eloped from her father's home at Jack- son, Miss., with W. T. Howe, a well known young Chicago lawyer, and that the young couple had attended the morning service at St. Paul's, where the brother of the bride, Rev. Harry Thompson of Kenosha, occupied the pulpit in the absence of the rector, Mr. Lester, Miss Thompson and Mr. Howe left Jackson, Miss., on Friday evening 3d inst., and were married at Cairo, Ills., Saturday. John Boatman of New Madrid, forty-five miles below Cairo, 111., borrowed a skiff Thurs- day of Corber brothers. The latter, thinking that Boatman would steal their property, foliowed him and shot him dead. The Cor- bers were arrested by the sheriff and a posse of citizens from Tiptonville, Ky., and placed in the jail there. The news caused great ex- citement and it was determined to lynch the prisoners. A strong guard was placed about the jail. When it became known that Boatman's wi'e had died from the shock oc- cassioned by her husband's murder the in- dignant mob could be restrained no longer. They rushed upon the jail, gained possession of the prisoners and strung them up on two trees within a hundred yards of the prison. At a point in Montana, five miles west of Stanford, in Fergus county, some highway- men held up the stage of the Great Falls and Billings line, and demanded the treasure box. The driver saw that resistance was useless, and threw it out. The robbers then disap- peared, without molesting the passengers. The stage proceeded on its journey, and met, about five miles from the scene of the rob- bery, the eastward bound coach, and report- ed the robbery. The robbers were evidently alarmed by the approach of this stage, which they could see a long way off on the hill, for they threw away the treasure box, which was picked up by the eastbound coach. The scene of the robbery is known as Sur- prise creek.
