Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-15
rHE WORLDS DOINGs.
ORIMES AND CRIMINALS.


HI. B. Robinson, well known stock
broker of Philadelphia, Pa, committed suicide
August 10th.
A So quarrel ut Fortress Monroe, Va,
between two brothers, resulted in one of them
stabbing the other to the heart.
A negro burglar was fatally shot at
Memphis, Ten. Tuesday night. August 9th
by officer Rodgers. Served him right.
At Mount Vernon. o., August 10th, a
young man while carelessly handling load
ed pistol accidently, and fatally shot himself.
The president of the New York Teu-
tonic savings bank, is under arrest for false
swearing in regard to the affairs of the bank
In quarrel in Cincinnati, August, G.,
James Mcdonald, variety theatre actor
stabbed John Shay, manager of Hencks opera
house, probably fatally.
A Paris dispatch says Lewis Baker, who
shot Bill Poole, in New Pork, In 1855, died re-
Gently in that city. Baker lived in Paris un-
der the assumed name of jackson. .t,lif
An application has been presented to
the board of pardon, of Pennsylvania, for q
commutatlon of the death sentence of Blosius
Pistorious, ex- Catholic priest, to imprison-
ment for life.
At Greenville, s. c., August Sth, 23s
Illicit distillers, pleaded guilty in the United
States Court, with the understanding that
judgement will be suspended and they nc
more violate the law.
The Pennsylvania Board of Pardon
have refused to recommend the pardon of O
T. Builar, ex-member of the legislature, who
is serving out q sentence of Imprisonment fol
emoezzling building association funds.
August 10th, in Williamson county
Tenn, white and prominent Republican
shot and killed Essex Cook, colored, the latter
having threatened the life of the former OF
account of alleged intimacy with Cooks
wife.
A Boise City dispatch reports the
murder by Indians, of George Miller heavy
stock raiser, Joseph Miller, wife, daughter
and son, Robert NJ. Murray and one othe
man. The moutains are said to be full O
Indians.
During the Democratic primary cleo
j ton in Cincinnati, on the evenicg of August
9th, Herman Bisack, and II. Devots, dele
Il
in the temple with his fist, killing him in
stantly.
At Rawlins, Wyoming Territory, tn
tr al of the train robbers resulted in thei
conviction and the sentence of three of then
to the penitentiary, for periods of nine, sever
and five years. Gibson, who turned State
evidence, was fined. So G# ID
r. B. Conant the defaulting Bosto
bank cashier has been lodged in Jail, but re
leased on $4,000 ball. 1t turns out that b
lavished money on pretty actress. Tn
Hub" it may well be feared is getting to b
demoralzed.
A Madrid, Spain, telegram of Angu:
10th, says gang of insurgents has made il
appearance in Estermaderia, shouting for
republic. A railway train was stopped
them. Government troops have gone in pu
suit of them
Over thirty United States prisoner
from Fort Smith, Arkansas, arrived at
Louis, Aug. 5th, and left for Indiana an
Michigan penitentiaries. They consist
half-breed Indians, negroes, and eight wifi
: men, all from the Indian Territory, convicte
horse stealing, violating the revenue law
and few o. them being accessory to mu
ders.
H. H. Hampton, financial agent {
South Carolina, was arrested at Westfel
Mass, August z, and put in the lookup wit
tramps and drunkards. Hampton says he h,
been negotiating for settlement in Ne
York, has all along been willing to submit b
accounts to arbitration and is the " tim
political persecution, and that the State owl
him S14,00C.