The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-11-21
TIE blacksmith shop of Wilson &

The blacksmith shop of Wilson d
burned at Frankfort, KY, on the
18th. The remains OF child of NJ. A. Jones
were found In the ruins. Ii 10 supposed
Wilson, who IL an ex-pTison convict, MUIR
dered the child aud fred the place TO
destroy the evidence of his crime. Ii 10
thought the remains of HeEskiah Gardiner,
who disappeared on the Sth, are also in the
ruins Of the shop.
BURGLARS entered store at Sparta, |
Ohio, blew open the safe, got 1000, dam
aged dry goods to the extent OF another
81 900, and got away.
WM. II. HARRINGTON, recently elected
county commissioner of WicomicO county,
Nd, was shot and instantly killed during Q
quarrel, by ]. Wesley Turpin. Both were
farmers. 1t was an old feud.
EDWARD @. PALMER, late president
of the Louisiana Savings bank, New Or
leans, was arrested on the 18th, upon tive
indictments by the grand jury, one charging
him with the embeEslement, in June, 1879,
of 81, 437 of money belonging to the bank
or deposited therein, the other with pub
fishing false reports and wilfully concealing
| facts as TO the condition of the bank, to de-
ceive the public. Palmer was imprisoned
in default Of $40, 900 bonds.
J. G. HILL, of Santa Rosa, Cal, was
killed and Hamilton Little wounded, in
neighborly passage at arms with family
named Travis, on the 18th, growing out OF
SANDER.
On the 10th, Mrs. Margaret Meyers,
of Memphis, poured kerosene on her
clothes, set are TO it and burned to death.
She left four children, penniless, having
been dipped into marrying one Donovan,
who, she said got all her property, some
$10,0Oc, and got away with 1t.
In Lancaster county, s. c., on the
night of tina 9th, Mrs. James Adams, a
white woman, cut the throats of her five
children, set Are TO her own clothing, and
burned to death. She is supPt sed to have
been insane.
A HORRIBLE crime and summary pun
ishment by lynching, occurred at Ward
. Todd county, Minnesota, recently. John
! Waldo had succeeded in winning q Mr.
Coldale's wife and induced her TO live with
him. Shortly afterwards Walde's house wal
burned down and Waldo charged Coldal'
with the crime, threatening vengeance. TIT
next act in the DRAMA was the myGteriou
disappearance Of COldale and a man whit
}. lived with him. Suspicious of murder be
S came rife, and lerge crowd which gathered
so frightened Wade that he confessed tn
crime and showed where the bodies wer
> buried in the brush. He said his brothe
t Michael aided him in the bloody deed
9 The mob hung him up Immediately. Hi
brother was also captured and hung.
:, NEAR Midland, Mich, on the 9th,
It crazy Frenchman named Louis MelZs
stabbed his mother-inlaw eight times, il
hicting fatal injuries. A neighbor name
II Marsh was called TO the rescue aud after
70 terrible fight killed the lunatic with bio
on the head with an ak.
Il AT Rswlins, Wyo., Francis Murray,
y, government teamster, while intoxicate
n fatally shot one man and threatened
shoot others. Sheriff RAnskin shot hi
al dead, and the jury said it served him RICH
IS AT Louisville, KY, on the 9th, Mart
d. Calpin disembo eled Peter o Connel duril
X a quarrel.
IS MASON c. HATCH, a young busine
d. man of Chicago, is missing with $500
w the Travelling Mems ASSOCIATIONS mon'
he He was treasurer OF the instiIG uon an
he vestigation brings to light forged I-+ceil
90 for the aJment of money.