Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-05-04
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Crimes, Criminals and Casualties


Postmaster Ventine, of Sandusky,
Ohio has been arrested for robbing the mails.
The President has directed that San.
| ders, the murderer at Fort Smith lately re-
spited, be hanged on the I'd of June.
Count Won Arnim has been sentenced
to dismissal from the public service and to
pay costs Of proceedings. Cheap enough.
The Benders are again before the
public. This time two women, supposed to
! be the mother and her daughter Kate, have
been arrested at Laramie City, Wyoming.
A family from Pennsylvania, named
Baker, was recently murdered by Indians
about one hundred miles from Custer City.
children were found. - =
Judge j. E. Carson, of Crab Orchard.
KY, was lately murdered by man named
John Smith. Three sons OF the Judge At
tempted to lynch the murderer, but failed to
accomplish their purpose.
Mckee, the leader of the St. Louis
whisky ring, has been sentenced to two years
in Jail and to pay fine $4,000. stay of
proceedings was granted to give him time for
ment portion Of the sentence.
John Greble of Peoria, ILL.,, shot John
Lockwood, river rough, blowing the top OF
his head entirely off, Lockwood, in an al
tercation with Mrs. Greble, beat her severely
about the head, and received the above de-
scribed punishment from the husband
Westervelt, the man who is in pris-
on for completely in the Charlie Ross abduc-
tion, has been interviewed by the wife Of one
Of the dead abductors, and entreated to tell
all he knows. He earnestly declared that he
knew nothing to lead to the boys where
abouts.
Prof. Parker, of the Iowa State Uni
versity met with terrible afliction, last
week. While out rowing with his son
daughter and niece, his boat overturned and
his two children were drowned. The boy
was aged Is and the girl l3. The father ex-
erted himself to the utmost to save the chill
dren, but the current was so strong he was
unable to do 50.
A short time since James Wilkinson
was arrested Tor embezzelment in New Or
leans. He was visited, while confined in the
indianapolis jail, by man named J. K. Phelps,
who was arrested as an accomplice. Both
men were stripped and searched, and the sum
Of g., 600 found in Wilkinson's stocking,
which is SO far held without an owner. Phelps
was released on writ of habeas corpus.
A terrible theater casualty occurred in
Rouen, France, on the Goth. A fire broke ont
in the theater Des Arts while the actors were
dressing, and only seventy-ive persons were
in the building. All avenues Of exit were
soon cut off by the fire, and many perish
ed in the flames. Four soldiers were killed
and fifteen wounded in endeavoring to save
lives.
A sickening crime has been unearth-
ed in the town Of Forest, Ohio. A father and
son and daughter were working in cornfeld,
when the father became enraged at the lad
and telld him to the ground with hand
spike, after which he pounded him until life
was extinct. The brute then threatened the
little girl with = like tate if she exposed him,
after which he buried the body The child
told the story, a few days thereafter, and the
poor boys body was unearthed and the in
human father arrested.