Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-07-09

colored church, white how l,ot,;-
through window, was shot in tha han,s
Two more shots were fred ;r,o ~
church. Some of the men In the
church returned he f.e, and ar.
forty shots were exchanged. o.
negro was wounded. He
A DEs MoISEs, Iowa, special r,do.
date of July I'd, says: Last Jannora
William Mckinney mysteriously disan-
peared from the home of Thomas /,
Hahn, Madison township farmer anj
nothing was heard of him till yestar,
day, when he turned up at Polk Citv
Daring his absence Hahn had heen
tried several times for his murder al
had barely escaped lynching bv his
neighbors.
FROM Madisonville, Texas, July o.
comes the following: On Sunday nigbt
several young white mon from tbe1,wn
were IN attendance at negro preach.
ing, five miles distant. Among them
were Spencer Wolf and Robert KiInat.
rick. The two were sitting under an
arbor, when an assassin, concealed in
the bushes with Winchester rifle. fred
instantly killing Wolf, who fell dead
Fitzpatrick and Wolf had exchanged
seats, and it Is said the assassin aimed
to kill Fitzpatrick instead of Wolf. The
bali also struck a negro woman and a
negro man, dangerously wounding both,
A GREEN Bay special of July 2nd
says: The body of a widow named RYAN
was found in tnicket in the town of
Glenmore, this county, yesterday morn
ing. Her throat was cut and her face
showed evidences of being previously
knocked down with a billet of wood
The body was sixty or seventy rods
from her own house. Up to the pres.
ent time nothing has transpired to
trace the murderers or show any mo-
tive for the deed. The house has not
been entered.
A BosToN special telegram of June 80
says the arrest of Capt James f. Ed
monds. of Newton, for forgery, has
caused considerable excitement in the
city, as perfect confidence was felt in
him. He has been an alderman in
Newton for the past five years, is now
nominee for mayor of Newton, and un-
doubtedly would nave been elected to
that office but for this affair. Last
Wednesday he had an apoplectic shock.
Last night officers obtained full con-
fession from him as he lay in his bed.
The amount OF forged paper he has ut
tered, so far as can be learned, is about
$4,000, and it is in the form of
notes for three and four months.
The Daiig advertiser of Boston pub
lished July 3rd the story of the efforts
of the friends of j. F. Edmonds, the
forger, to raise money enough 70 salts
fly his creditors and thus avert his pros
ecution tor self-confessed forgery. 1t is
asserted, but not proven. that the banks
holding his fraudulent paper have
agreed to accept 80 per cent of the
amount and make no appeal to the
law. Parties were actively engaged
to-day 10 securing pledges OF
money, with the distinct understanding
that he shall be saved from felons
fate, and will endeavor to raise SAC, 600
before the grand jury can have time
to find an Indictment, in which event
they claim they will not be compound
ing felony, for, not having been
proven guilty of any crime, he must be
held innocent. But, if it should appear
that Edmonds is still deceiving them by
Withholding confession of forged notes,
his friends will at once drop the mstter,
and leave the law to take its course.
The probabilities are that he will follow
Chase. Hathaway, and other Respectable
forgers to the state prison, for 1t is pretty
loudly limited to-day that merchants
hold notes of his amounting to as much
as the banks have.