Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-08
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The Insanity Dodge tn be Tried In the
Buford Elliott Murder Triai---An Old
Man of II Kills His Wife Of 70 and
Then Puts an End to His Own Existence
"A st. Louis Woman Shoots Her Brother
in-Law for Ill-Treating Her Mother.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.

Especial Telegram to the Globe.l
ROCHESTER,, Mimi, July 7.-Christian
Miller, farmer, was struck by lightning
and killed yesterday morning. His clothes
were nearly all burned off and disfguring
him almost beyond recognition. He leaves
wife, only having been married three
months. The fcneral takes place to-day at
the Norwegian church.
QUBBLEs OF EHE LAW.
NEW YORK, July Judge Potter has
granted writ of habeas corpus and
certiorari in the case of Christine Cox, the
confessed murderer of Mrs. Hull. The
petition sets forth Cox is unlawfully de-
tanned in the tombs on commitment by the
coroner, as the latter has not returned evil
dence upon which the prisoner is commit
ted.
JEALOUSY.
New YORK, June Mrs. Josephine A.
Cotton, wife of a composition, killed herself
to-day. Jealousy was the cause.
REvENaED HER MOTHERS BAD TREATMENT.
New YORK, June Mrs. John
Bandy, wife of the proprietor
of the Union depot hotel, this evening shot
Leonard Offerman, late proprietor of the
Tivoli hotel. Offerman and Bandy
married sisters. Their mother lived for
time in Ofermann's family. and Mrs. Bandy
says that she learned this evening of his out
rageous treatment of the old lady, and that
she shot him for it. One bullet shattered
the right arm and the other passed in at the
mouth and buried itself beyond the reach of
tho l,robe. Offerman is still alive but is in
a critical condition.
THE INSANITY DODGE.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 1.-The trial of
Buford for the murder of Judge Elliot COM
mences at Owentown to- morrow. It is gen.
orally conceded that the plea of the defense
will be insanity.
CUT IN TWO.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, July flames Patter-
son, a brakeman on the Louisville, Nash
vile & Great Southern railroad, was run
over and literally cut in two at Glasgow
Junction to-day.
CONFESSED THE CRIME.
Burrell Smith and John Hall, the two ne
groes who murdered Major Pugh at Muir
freesboro not long since, and who we;e Fri
day sentenced to be hanged August 9Th, con-
fessed the crime to-day.
BRUTAL FATHER.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, July IA man
named johnson, charged with attempted
rape on his 10 year old daughter,is sought by
the citizens of Wheatley, in st. Francis
county. The girls neck and face show
marks of q violent struggle.
BAD DOCTOR.
DR.. A. H. Gray, of Millbrook, in the same
county, is under arrest charged with rape on
13-year old daughter of John Hardel. Gray
is we'll connected, and heretofore of good
standing. He confesses to the seduction but
denies violence.
LYNCHED AFTER CONTRASTING.
DENVER, COL, July 7.5sJames N. Croft and
Chas. G.. Wofroth, arrested at Alamosa
Thursday for the murder of VIM. Syock the
25th inst. at New Mexico, were taken from
the Jail st A. M. Saturday by 100 citizens
and hanged to cottonwood tree. They
had confessed.
KILLED THE "oLD WOMAN AND HIMSELF.
PrrrsBuRa, July Joseph Atkins, fruit
gardener, a few miles from Greensburg, West
moreland; shot and killed instantly his wife,
yesterday afternoon, and after telling his near
est neighbor that he had killed the ''old
woman" placed the muzzle Of the gun under
his chin and fred andjkilled himself. The
trouble is believed to have arisen from a quar-
rel about a little piece of property where they
lived. Atkins had decided this land to his wife
some time ago and afterwards wished to get 1T
back again, but the old lady always refused
and the matter caused frequent alterations.
Atkins was n and his wife 70 years of age