The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-12-12

THOMAS ROLAND, q New York In
spectOr o. elections in 1873, has been CON.
victed Of issuing fraudulent certificate OF
election TO an alderman and sentenced TO
two years In states prison.
AN old farmer named Michael Kuhn,
residing near 0akdale, Wis., was literally
hacked to pieces by his son Henry, on the Sd
instant. The murderer WAS arrested. Pre-
yious TO the butchery an attempt had been
made to poison the old man, but an emetic
saved him. Disagreement over property
was the cause.
JOHN w. NASH, q well-known young
man Of Milwaukee, committed suicide at
the NewhsiI house, In that city on the 9th
instant, with lauduuum. He was the son
OF president Nash Of the National Exchange
bank.
A. J. HAMILTON, tax collector of Los
Angeles, Cal, has skipped with collections
amounting to es,eO0.
WHILE under the influence Of liquor
on the 4th inst, w. w. Beasley threw q
boarding house keeper named Mrs. N. ].
Herbert from q third story window, killing
her almost instantly.
ANDREW TRACY was hanged In Jail at
SmithPOrt, Pa, on the 4th. for the murder
OF his cousin Catherine Reilly, in Septem.
Der, 1873. He left q statement eonfessing
that he murdered her for love.
AT Ansonia, Conn.,, on the 4th instant,
drunkard named Upton threw lamp at
his wife. The burning missile fell into the
cradle burning the baby to death. Mrs.
Upton was probably fatally burned in at.
tempting to save the infant.
A NEGRO burglar shot and it is
thought fatally wounded Ransome Lossee,
farmer living near CoxSackel, N. Y, ON
the night Of the Sd, during a seufie conse.
quent upon his detection. The negro was
captured and jailed.
GEORGE MANSFIELD was shot and
killed at Jonesboro, Ca, on the night of
the Sd inst, by ]. N. Walker, his oppo uent
for the Office Of iatendant.
THE Dominion department of the in
terror received dispatch on the I'd inst. in.
forming them of the death of Sergeant
Grayburn, of the mounted police. His
body was picked up near Fort Welsh. 1t
is thought he was murdered by Indians.
JERRY SAUNDERS and Phil Bradshaw,
colored, quarrelled at Kinsley, Ks, on the
LIST inst, about a woman, and the former
struck the latter with q doubletree and
killed him. Saunders was arrested
THORNTON T. BAKER, who has been
absent seven years to escape indictment for
grand larceny and embezzlement, returned
to Lancaster, Ohio, on the LIST inst, and
gave himself up. He was released on 5000
bail.
WASHINGTON E. HALL, an inspector
Of elections in New York city, convicted of
making false returns at the election of 1878,
has been sentenced to eighteen months in
the state prison.
AT Chicago on the Both ult., in the
case of Crowley and Gillen, on trial for
throwing pepper in the eyes of an Illinois
Central railroad messenger about six months
ago and robbing him of $4,000, the jury,
after being out l6 hours, returned a verdict
against Crowley as accessory to the crime,
and fixed the penalty at seven years in the
Penitentiary. The jury disagreed as to
Gillen.
A RAILROAD riot occurred near To
peka, on the Kansas Central railroad. 1t
appears that while contractor was paying
his men q large number of forged checks
for the mems time were presented, which
he refused to pay, whereupon o mob of
graders, with cooked revolvers, took posses
sion OF the contractors quarters and forced
him to pay the checks. The citi-
Gems Of the vicinity became highly incensed
at the action of the rioters, organized q
posse, arrested the ringleaders of the mob
and restored order.
JOHN BARKER was shot and killed by
Marsh Carter during a quarrel in Hender.
SON county, KY, near Mt Vernon, Ind, on
the 28th ult.
JAMES NJ. LOWE, arrested for the
murder of his brother, Joseph A. Lowe, on
thu 9th of September, was arraigned at
Portland, Me-. and plead guilty. He con.
fessed that at about 8 O'Clock on the morn.
ing Of the murder he walked to his broth.
er's house, West Cumberland, hiding behind
some bushes until his brother returned
from dance. He then hid behind barn
door, and wheu his brother went in he
struck him with an axe, telling him to the
ground. This blow, however, did not ex-
tiDguish his brothers lantern, and by its
light he struck a second blow, nearly sever.
ing the head from the body. Disagreement
over property was the cause.
A SQUAD of sixteen revenue deputies,
raiding in the towns near Atlanta, Ca, on
the 2sth, was surrounded by large force of
armed mountaineers and forced to surren-
der prisoner, alleged to be leader of the
moonshiners. The deputies surrendered
without fight, but one of their number was
wounded and left in q fence corner for
dead by the mountaineers.