Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-09-05
THE WORLDS DOINGs.


At Princeton, KY, August 26th two
criminals, while on trial for stealing, attempt
ed to escape, and both were shot ana instant s.
~ killed. - s
Michael Farrell and Francis Conways
living in St. GATHERINGS, Canada, Quarreled,
when the former shot the latter dead withsaS
shot gun.
DR.. Warmer Of Cambridge, lsanti
county Mimi, August 26th, in a: drunken
spree shot, A. J. Conger, hotel keeper, inlet
ing serious and it is feared fatal wounds.
: A man named jackson shot and killed.
his wife, from whom he had been separated
for sometime, at lower Boulder valley, Mon
tana, on the Goth inst, after which he blew his
own brains out.
Two burglaries were perpctrated IN
st. Paul the other night, and small amount
of property taken The police secured the
burglars, and found portion Of the property
on their persons.
Z Adeline Gray, aged Is was shot and
fatally wounded By VIM. Baker, rejected
| sutton, while walking on the street of San
Francisco, CAL, on the 26th inst. Baker ap-
preached without speaking, placed pistol
| to her back, and fired.
In New Orleans, Chas. Curtiss hot and
| mortally wounded Ed. Burgen, and then shot
and killed himself. Curtis one hour before
the shooting had been struck by burger.
Robt. Palmer, a sailor on the monitor Canon
icus, sleeping on deck, rolled overheard and
drowned.
Peter Deuel., tramp from Clinton
county, New York, who married country
| girl barely II years old near Madison, Wis
1 consin, last fall and who it is proved had
I wife and several children in New York, has
| been sentenced by Judge Braley to three
years in the State pcnitentiary for bigamy.
Oliver Peltier recently shot Thomas
Kelley, as he was crossing the bridge at st
Paul, the bail entering the feshy part of the
thigh, took downward course lodging neal
the knee. Cause, previous alteration
provoked by Peltier, in which he was knocked
down by Kelley. The shooting bully was ar
rested.
A beastful beast, Thomas N. Boyd BY
name, the perpetrator of numerous rapes, at
tempted to outrage young woman at Morris
Hill, Ind. He was put in Jail at Versailles
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night, surrounded the Jail, broke into Boyd''
cell, shot him dead, and returned, no one
4 knowing who they were, or whence they
came.
Thomas ard Louisa Bigelow, who
described themselves as Americans have beer
sarrested in London charged with robbing the
financial department of the receiver genera
at Toronto on the 18th of July last of $4,000 il
money and some Canadian bonds. The &C
cused declared their innocence-Thomas
Bigelow alleging that 81, 500 worth of bonds
| in his possession were bought at Chicago or
the 23d of June.
|! Chas: W. Wood, aged 30, claiming tt
be son of the president Of the Chicago boar6
of police, and James D. Smith, aged 10, O.
Chicago, have been arrested in Buffalo, N. Y.
! for attempted blackmail on two Buffalo young
men found in the questionable company O
two Chicago girls, claimed by Wood as hi
sister and cousin. Pistols were freely dis
played and $1,000 demanded as satisfaction
money. The prisoners partly. acknowledged
the crime.
Concordia is town of about 81, SOC
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ington & St. Louis railroad, thirty miles from
sedalia. The principal banking business Of
all that part of Lafayette county is done by
the Concorda Savings Bank, of which J. H
Leohenfer is President, and A. Ticken, cash
ier. On the Goth, three men entered the bank
One of them asked tho cashier, who was alone
in the bank, to change $40 bill. While he
was changing the bill another. man jumped
over the counter, caught the cashier by the
arm and placed one hand over his mouth
They then took what money was in sight, and
putting pistol to the cashiers head, told him
to open the safe He did so under fear of his
life and the robbers took all the paper money
IN the safe, between 5000 and $4,000, refus
ing 10 take silver, Of which there was between
81, 600 and $4,000 in the bank. During the
robbery a gentleman named Sodemar was
near the bank and a robber who was guarding
the door, called upon him to advance, instead
of which he turned and ran. The robbel
fired second shot at Sodemar, but missed
him. They then mounted their horses and
galloped off in a southerly direction. The
whole robbery occupied about 10 minutee
They were all mounted on good horses, new.
shod. Citizens arc III hot pursuit.