River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-16
CRIME.

\ LEWISTON, Me, special of the 9th
says thirteen tramps armed with rocks
and missiles, boarded a train from Cum
berland, on the Maine Central railroad,
this morning, and defied the conductor
to Dust them. After running some dis
lance the train halted on an iron bridge
here, and help was called for, when the
rufilans left the cars. Several arrests
were made.
4 ST. LOUIS special of the 9th inst.
ives the particulars of desperate and
fatal encounter near Springfield, Mo, be
tween Rev. Geo. Large, a Baptism preach
er, and farmer named Frank Goddy.
These two parties met on country road
with laden wagons, and each refused to
turn out for the other, when hand to
hand fight ensued The minister got the
better of his antagonist and ripped his
abdomen open. causing a fatal wound,
which soon resulted in death. Rev. Large
has been arrested.
A CHICAGO telegram of the 9th says the
general manager of the Chicago d Alton
Railway has offered reward of $4,000
for the arrest of the gang of train rob
beers, who last night stopped the 2 O'Clock
train and rifled the express company's
SAFE at Glendale, Missouri. A proportion
ate part of the above amount will be Civ
en- for the capture of part of the rob-
bers. Although the loss falls entirely on
the express company, the railroad author
tiles are determined to prevent, If the
most stringent measures will do so, any
recurrence Of this outrage, and to break
up tho band of outlaws who perpetrated
it.
A KANSAS CITY special of Oct. 9th
says the outgoing Chicago d Alton
train this evening was stopped at Glen
dale, a small station fifteen miles east of
this city, by Il gang of eighteen or TWEEN
ty men, and robbed of the contents OF
| the express car. The station was com
PEELED to signal the train 10 stop, and
then the telegraph instruments were torn
out Stones had been piled on the track.
The robbers kept up a brisk
firing outside of the train,
while Grimes, the express messenger
was knocked down and the safe broken
open. About $4,000 were secured, and
the robbers left, going in i southerlY
| direction The agent at Glendale can
not be found, and it is not known
| whether he was murdered or was party
! to the crime. His mother was rendered
| insane from fright. A special train with
Il squad of armed men has just gone to
the scene of trouble to begin search for
the robbers. The leader of the gang, a
tall man with heavy sandy beard, has
been seen several times lately in the
vicinity of Glendale. The passengers of
the train were not molested.
A EVANSVILLE, Wis, dispatch of the
9th says an organization of 600 men,
raised in the towns of Fulton, Porter
and Center, in this county, started
! last night for Janesville, for the
purpose of taking Baumgartner, the
child murderer from Jail and hang
ing him. They concentrated their forces
a short distance from the city, when a
messenger met them and told them that
the sheriff was expecting the mob, and
had prepared to meet them by
having the artillery placed near the
Jail, where he could sweep the
streets leading thereto. This discour-
aged a good many in the crowd, and
part of the number returned home, but
POS of them decided to make a raid on
the Jail. They poured into the city on
various streets, at two O'Clock this
morning, the most enthusiastic and
indiscreet ones whooping and
yelling; with the crowd was
wagon carrying ropes, sledge-ham-
mers and crow bars. When they arrived
at the jail, they demanded the prisoner,
but Sheriff Comstock informed them tn at
Baumgartner had been removed; they
would not believe this until com
mittee of their number had been selected
TO examine the Jail. When they saw
their scheme was failure, they did a
good dea! of talking, but resorted TO no
mobilize proceedings.