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THE WICKED WORLD. Transgressions Both Great and Small-A Record of the Various Crimes of the Wayward Ones of the World. A BROKEN BANK. NEW YORK, January 5.-A prominent stockholder of the Grocers' Bank said "For a own satisfied to-day: in my long mind time that I have the affairs been of the bank were arranged very loosely, and on two or three occasions I tried to bring this matter before the stockholders, but upon every occasion deputies from who were managing the affairs and the have ing all men been proceedings present looking succeeded towards in avert- an 1 was to into some ago, this matter on for investigation. bank I knew go liquidation anxious had been time have going the for sometime and the longer the wind up was deferred the worse it would be for the stockholders and depositors.' was said this afternoon by H gentleman to whom all the facts of the case are known, that on December 23d about $18,000 or $19,000 in drafts drawn in favor of J. Lloyd Haigh were presented at the Mar ket National Bank for discount. They were drawn on various houses in Chicago and other western cities. The bank here to the upon and were the drafts, as drafts not telegraphed to receive were drawn, firms they whom instructed were White the not Later in the day Bank had J. was good. said by forgeries. the Grocers' Lloyd Haigh Receiver been arrested ruined this afternoon on a charge of forgery GAVE HIMSELF UP. POTTSVILLE, January 5.-Edward Curtley, Mollie Maguire of Columbia county, charged with the murder of John Gunon 26, 1876, ning July surrendered returned to to Centra- the lia yesterday and au and was committed to to turn thorities ley is expected States in the jail. evidence Cur and the of in ol the many Centralia murders expose and committed participants scene of Mollie the vicinity Maguires tragedies number during the reign of the At Curley's hearing yesterday, Michael Brogan, who recently married a daughter of Gunning's, attempted to shoot him. The town is verp much agitated. SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS. RICHMOND, VA., January 5.-Investiga tion into the accounts of N. T. Talisferro, agent of to a the retiring penitentiary, general brought and storekeeper light short of to the shortage, says age knowledges $15,000 $20,000. securities. but Talisferro He it says will acbe made good by his he does not know how to account for it except from the fact that he was engaged in the commission business 88 well AS be ing agent of the penitentiary, and that the affairs of both concerns became mixed. He claims to have outstanding accounts sufficient to cover the deficiency. NEGRO LYNCHED. RICHMOND, VA., January Information has been received here from Amherst Court House of the lynching of a negro named Columbus Miles, near there on The sheriff of Amherat county the negro on a white lady, was on the with the prisoner outraging Saturday. had way to arrested jail and the charge when the he of was overtaken by an armed body of forty citizens, who took the negro away from the sheriff and hanged him to a tree. ESCAPE OF PRISONERS. COLUMBUS, O., January 5.-The prisoners confined in the Franklin county jail made a break for liberty at 5 o'clock this evenafter the new and nine door. James ing, sumed just charge, escaped Sheriff Herrell, through had alias as for nurder in deJ. W. Dodge, for in gree, the Kerr, entrance and indicted the cutting missing. the with first tent to wound, are among SENTENCED FOR ENBEZZLEMENT CHICAGO, January 5.-Judge Blodgett. of the United States Court, to-day senten ced John W. Gregg to one year's imprisonment in jail and a tine of $1,218 for em bezzlement in the post office. William Spaulding, custom house clerk, was also sentenced to pay a fine of $1,648 for embezzlement. EMBEZZLING BANK OFFICIAL H. Rich ards, cashier of the Commercial National Bauk, which failed December 13, 1878, was arrested this afternoon, charged with emthe funds of the in to bezzling perjury swearing bank; reports also He to gave with the Comptroller of the Currency. bail. KILLED WHILE RESISTING ARREST MEMPHIS, January Alash William 1, colored, the notorious desperado who served two terms in the penitentiary, was Ht Brownsville, arrest on a charge killed resisting to-day Tenn., of the burglary. officers while Williams fired three times at before they shot him. KILLED FOR TEN CENTS LOUISVILLE, January 5.-Three negroes, Jim Ellis and in East End quarrelled Jack Bainley, to-night Jack over Harper, killing ten cents, which resulted in Ellis Bainley by shooting Ellis is in jail. CHICAGO