Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-21
LATEST sY MAIL.

Brown was stolen from the NJ. E. church,
Kalamazoo, Mich, on Monday evening
while service was going on. No arrests
have been made yet.
Mrs. Mary Greenway was to day arrested
on complaint of her husband, for adultery
with Jim Elliott. Elliott is bad citizen,
who has been in state prison once. Mrs
Greenway had some trouble before her mar.
riage.
Sheriff Carnes went to Blisfeld Monday
evening and arrested Arthur Smith, aged Is
charged with having raped Elizabeth Starks,
aged 8, who had been left at home with two
other little ones, while her parents attended
prayer.meeting.
At three o'clock on last Monday, two
countrymen, Mueller and Monarch, living
near San Antonia, Tex, quarreled about
the lines defining their property. Monarch
walked home, returned with a shotgun,
and blew half of Mueller's head away. The
assassin is in Jail.
Upon arrival of the Southern Minnesota
train, in La Crosse, Wis, Monday night,
James White was arrested on telegram
charging him with the robbery of II. A.
Jones, Of $4,000 in cash and bonds, at Wy
koa, Mimi, on Thursday last.
Isaac Eirod was arrested in Urbana, ILL.,,
on Monday by Deputy Sheriff Cannon.
Eirod is chat9sd with an attempt,to produce
an abortion on the person Of Miss Lucy
Clements, who was sedueed by him under
promise Of marriage, and has already been
The chain-gang, of Janesville, Wis, while
at work on the street last Monday, obtained
some whisky BY the aid of outsiders. and
becoming gloriously drunk, refused to work.
They we're secured with considerable diff
Guilty by the sheriff and police. There are
now forty-three tramps and other hard
characters in the county Jail.
! Judd c. Colby, of Graud Rapids,
Michigan, took some supper and
drinks on Saturday night, and showed
his money in q saloon. He was subse-
quently tracked, chloroiormed. robbed, and
thrown on the track of the grand Rapids
and Indiana Railroad, to secure his death
but was rescued by policeman. There il
no clue to the perpetrators of the crime.
Mauy complaint have been made recently
that the inmates of the Flatbush Insane asy.
lum N. Y, are brutally treated by theil
keepers. The last instance is said to be the
case Of Francis Mulligan an inofensive old
gentleman afflicted with softening of the
, brain. He was taken to the asylum las
week, and when his daughter called mex
day she was shocked to find her father with
len face. An official investigation showed
ed to bathe in cold water, whereupon til.
: ". The fellow was discharged, and tn
- | s<v nofSoo I'D
|, that such abuses in future would brig tn
= penalty Of discharge upon the offending EN-
). ploye.
G The coroners inquest over the body o
!. Nancy Ryan, the Tomah woman who va
a outraged and murdered on Wednesda,,
night, at Sparta, Wis, closed on Saturda..
!. night at Tomsh, the verdict being this
!, Mrs. Ryan came to her death at the hand
: : Of Fred Berg. The details Of the fiepdisl
, transaction are almost beyond belief Ber
> says that after leaving the McGarvey hous
: on that night, he carried Mrs. Ryan, VIII
e was in drunken stupor, toward her hom
and behind neighboripg barn, where b
l. repeatedly endeavored to ravish her. No
q succeeding to his satisfaction, he seized
e pitchfork which lay near at hand, ard re
e peatedly thrust the handle into her to tt
l. epth Of about ten inches. Death imme
g diately ensued from excessive hemorrhage
n After she was dead be dragged her hom
snd laid the body on the doorstep. where
J. was shortly afterward discovered.
1t Rine, the Murphy Wave" reformer va
= arraigued before the police magistrate 9
e S,ratford, Ont, ON last Monday fer indeceu
l. assault, The complainant, Eliza Gibli1
i. Is years of age, said Rine called her to hi
e room asking her for pin. He was dresse
it at the time. On her handing the pin
o him, he pulled her into the bed room an
she was fine stout girl aad very like h
wife. He then put his arms around he
!. squeezed her breasts and kissed her. Sh
= struggled and escaped, but be caught he
h again. and took improper liberties with be
j. Mr. Hurst, the gentleman st whose hous
= Rine Was stopping, said the girl told hi,
;. Of Rine's conduct the moment she saw hin
's He apske TO Rine, Who confessed that b
had taken improper liberties with her, b.
said % no actual sin bad bsen committed
- he would try 10 square The case With ic
ter Of cou,si,ion, and . present 70 the girl
A. father Of ESQ Rine was committed e
y Trial q the spring assines, hail In es-0(
y being sccersed.