River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-10-08
THE NEWS RECORD.
A CAREFULLY PREPARED SUMMARY
OF CURRENT EVENTS.
Condensed From Daily kilograms and from
The Newspapers.
CnImES AND CRIMINALS.

CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
The defalcation Of MIR. Wagner, treas
urer OF Lyon county, Iowa, is over So, OOO but
the county is believed to b. well secured
The Indians in western Nebraska are
becoming daily more and more troublesome,
and hardly week passes that does not record
murder or cattle stealing by them,
Charles Madden, youth of 20, lately
discharged trom Sing Sing, has been sent back
to prison from New York for twenty years, for
robbing and threatening to kill his mother.
Troops have been sent out from Fort
Randall to watch the Sioux in Keho Park and
Running Water valleys, who are excited to ie-
yer heat 10y the Black Hills business, and are
disposed to go ON the war path.
Eighteen hundred horses have been
stolen from tn Indian reservation near Fort
Hill by whites One party OF Texans got away
with 400. The government is bound 10y
treaty to pay the Indians for these stolen
horses.
About sixty Indians ON the 22d ult
corralled Phillips hay camp on the south side
of the Platte, midway between Forts Fetter-
man and Laramie one Of the hay cutters
was wounded and thirty head Of cattle and
four horses killed on drove away.
Quintus Shuler, Of Trenton, N. D.,
partner OF the widely know 'Jerusalemn or J.
R Freese in banking, has disappeared with q
young vidow, leaving his wife and child and
several too conhding friends.
Col. Yates and command in pursuit Of
the Indians who murdered Wright near Bis.
marck Thursday the 23i ult., has returned TO
Fort Lincoln, having abandoned all hope O
reaching the Indians after the return Of the
agent.
The wife Of +. Dunsmore Of Weather
field, Vt, poisoned herself and three children
on the aftenoos OF the 27th, during The al-
sence Of her husband The youngcs, chlId, s
years old, died, out it is thought the others
will recover.
Mary Grub, the daughter Of well
known farmer near Wilmington, Del, was
found in the Christiana river on the o3d,
drowned, with her feet tied together # is
thought she Was outraged and then tied and
thrown into the river
William n. Collins. express messenger
at Fort Wayne, Ind, has been arrested lor
purlommg money from packages. lie did not
break the seals Of the packages, but run pen
Gil or pen in the envelope, and turning it,
caught one or two bills, and winding them
around the pencil, drew them out
An incendiary fire at Quincy, H.. Sun
day night, the 18th, destroyed property 10 the
value Of s75, 900 and one human lite, that Of
man named Ben. Butler Butler leaves a wife
and two children in leavenworth. Kansas D.
D. Merriam, the principal loser, ,ders a reward
Of $1,000 fol the arrest Of the iucendiary.
A number Of Pittsburg boys discovered
in a sewer, on the 29th ut., laIge lot OF val
liable goods, such as watches, diamonds and
art Giles 0f the precous metals js soai- Th..
goods We're stolen rom a pawn shop IN that
city, 70 which the boys returned them, laying
claim to the $4,000 reward that had been offer
ed tor their recovery.
druggist at Burlington, Iowa. on the
26th, made the mistake of putting up morphine
instead Of hydrate of chloral, which he discoy-
cred soon afer and ran to the house for which
twas intended, but too late The child for
whom the prescription was made had taken
one dose and died within fifteen minutes after
The coroner's jury accused the druggist, who
II named Frltts, oil criminal negligence.
telegram from San Diego, California,
says serious trouble is feared with the pola In
dians IA the mountains in the northeast por-
ton OF that country. They number between
800 and 100 able bodied men, and owing To
the rcmoteness OF their looality--about eight,
miles inland-and the spaneness Of white set.
Elements, grave difficulty seems Imminent
Governor Pacheco and General Schoneld have
been tclcgraphed Tor arms aud troops
John Magill Of Oshkosh. Wis. wa.
murdered " the night Of the 30th ult, in
front of his own house by Henry Roman
They had gone out from the house few mo
ments before talking about a proposed trad,
and apparently having good undcrstandm.
with each other The murderer, after KILN.
Magill, came iutoth house, crazy with rage
aud attempted to kin AIRS MagiIl, bat She rs
caped from him Roman fed from the city