The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-11-07


y killed Chris Fsrrer, Of Sioux City, Iowa,
on the SOth. The shooting waa dehe In
sell. detense, Ferrsr having climbed In
CoolsS's wagon and attacked him. Cooley
drove 10 the sheritf's ofice and surrendered
himself together with the corpse which re-
NAMED In the wagon.
JOHN O'NIRL, q Mollie Mcguire, sen.
fenced TO death, has had his sentence com.
mutsd to imprisonment tor life.
JOSEPH PATTERSON, Of Kentucky,
has been sentenced to imprisonment for
life for the murder OF Charles Kern, over .
game OF cards.
w. II. HENDERSON, commercial editor
OF the San Francisco Chronicle, shot himself
twice In the head, In the Arion saloon, on
Kearney street, on the 2Sth, and died.
ED. MALONE, was shot and killed at
Cheyenne, on the 29th, by Charles Boulter.
BOulter gave himself up and claims he acted
In selt.defense.
AT the .Nicoll House, In Oakland,
Cal, on the 29th, Mr.. Herbert Benton and
Miss frankie Woodward both coin United
suicide by shooting themselves with the
same pistol, the man shooting himself first.
IL was q premeditAted deed, ~ both hsd
threatened to kill themselves.
A NAN named William Young was
hanged by o mob at Luray, No., on the G9th.
four persons and had been oil on wedding
trip, having married q Miss Bray, Of Ohio.
When the couple arrived home mob sur.
rounded the house and after an exchange OF
shots captured Young aud hanged him.
THE body Of q white man was found
floating In the river At Memphis, Tenn, on
the morning OF the 2sth, with rope tied
around his legs. Verdict murder.
AT q house Of ill.fame at Harther,
Ohio, on the night Of the 27th, Isaac Muncy,
colored, was shot through the heart by q
man named Snodgrass.
A BURGLAR broke into q fur store in
Cincinnati on the 26th, and carried away
twenty.six fne seal skin sacks, valued at
5000.
Miss MARTIN, q respected young lady
OF Mlnonk, ILL.,, died on the Goth, OF inju.
ries inflicted by Hannis Deboer, who raw.
ished her. The brute escaped lynching by
firing the Jail and rendering 1t untsnsbls.
When the avenging mob assembled they
found that Deboer had been removed to
Peoria.
MoNRo AMOS q drunken negro, 70.
sisted arrest at Atehison, Ks, on the 28th,
and shot the officer in the abdomen, fatally
injuring him. As he dropped, the police.
man shot and killed his murderer.
CAPT. CANNON, OF the schooner
Florstts, collected 81, 400 freight money at
Buffalo on the 25th, and abscOnded.
JOHN T. HAWKINS was shot dead in
the street at Courtland. Ala, on the Gath,
by J. +. Drake, whose brother he had killed
last May. Tne grand jury had failed to
find true bill against Hawkins for shooting
brakes brother, which so incensed him that
he shot the murderer.
AT Burton, Mich, on the 9th, while
William Copeland and Geo. Rhinehart were
engaged in digging ditch across the land
OF VIVA. Witham the latter appeared and
ordered them to desist. The men not com.
plying Witham shot Rhinehart dead. He
was arrested.
CHAs. ANDREWS, proprietor of two
saloons at Cincinnati, shot and killed him.
self in his room on the Goth. 1t Is said he
grown desperate from losses in bucket shop
specu alions.
MATHEW FITCH, who killed his wife
and four.year-old daughter near Hadley,
Lapeer county, Mich on the 10Th, has been
captured.
FRANK BRINToN, receiving teller OF
the First National bank, Boston, pleaded
guilty on the 25th, to embezzling 1881,
and was sentenced to five years at hard
labor.
+. W. DAYKIN and NJ. Hoyt, two
medical students frem Cleveland, were ar.
rested at Ashtabula, Ohio, on the Goth, for
body snatching. The two men went to the
county infrmAry farm, opened the grave OF
Mrs. Goodrich, an old lady rs years OF age,
packed the body In trunk, and were about
to take the train for CleYeland when arrest.
ed.
A TELEGRAM from Yankton says the
Supreme Court affirmed the decision OF the
lower court in the case OF Martin L. Conk,
tried and sentenced TO be hung for the muir.
der OF Mrs. Minnie COLLISION, August goth,
1870. Conk was large mine owner, and
has spent large fortune in his efforts to
secure acquital.
ATCiucinnsti on the Goth the jewelry
store Of Fl. T. Kent was adroitly robbed
Of fifteen gold watches, valued at $3.50.
JAS. H. RIDDLE, head of the firm of
hiddle, Coleman q Co.., aad presiden; OF
the Franklin Savings Institution, Pittsburg,
Pa, and his son, Geo. D. Riddle, cashier OF
the latter, hitherto looked upon as
solid and substantial business men, have
been found guilty on four counts for en-
bezzlement and two for conspiracy. The
account of Riddle, Coleman & Co., was
overdrawn to the amount OF $50, 496 OF.
The account OF Frantz & Co., OF which firm
the cashier was member, was overdrawn
s., 1874. Besides these, $5,S47.71 were