Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-08-14
MurderOus Deeds.


do, shot and killed Captain Joseph Boyle
OF the steamer Heroine, at Vaudeville, La.
on the 8th inst. The murdered man sho
Bosque twice before he expired.
VIM. Wallace, metropolitan policeman
Of East st. Louis, and Jack Sullivan, WHIT
was very strong partizan of Mayor Bow
man during the political troubles yea1
ago, got into trouble at saloon in st. Loui.
on the 10th, during which they emptied re
volvers at each other. Sullivan was NOR
tally wounded and Wallace badly 80.
J. Baller, who grossly assaulted a child
II years of age, at Fort Fairfield, Me-, wa.
pursued by mob on the Sth inst, and
shot.
Mrs. Brown, alias Riley, was shot in the
head and killed, on the .8th inst.,. in an
oyster saloon in New Orleans, by police
officer Tom Clarke. her paramour. Both
were drunk. Clarke escaped.
At Montgomery Ferry, about fifteen milei
west of Harrisburg, Pa, on the 7th inst
Samuel E. Albright murdered w. X. Miller
who had recently married the young lady
who had given Albright the mitten. He also
attempted to shoot the lady, but missed hit
aim. The murderer escaped to the noun
tains.
w. K. Miller, of Harrisburg, was shot dead
at Newport, Pa, on the 9TH inst, by Samuel
f. Albright, of Montgomery's Ferry. Botl
were paying attentions to the same young
woman and met at her house.
Two convicts named Mcguire and w. E.
Andrews, occupying the same cell in the
state prison at San Rafael. CAL, became in.
,volved in quarrel, growing out of an old
feud, on the 9th inst, when Mcguire drew q
sharp knife across the throat of Andrews,
completely severiug the wiudpipe and caus.
ing death instantly.
At Albany, N. Y ION the 9th inst, Thos.
Mallan, aged go years, returning from work
and having few angry words with his wife,
shot her dead.
Samuel Aussbaum, an old citizen of Cape
.Girardeau county, No.. cut his wife's throat,
on the 5th instant, and then cut his own
throat. Domestic trouble is said to be the
cause. Mussbaum will die and his wife
may recover.
Dr.. James l.. Roberts, highly respected
citizen of Melville, Roy county, No., was
shot dead on the 9Th instant, by DR.. ]. L.
Keyes, who charged that Roberts was Sian.
dering his family. Keyes escaped.
! Charles Ballet, livery stable keeper OF
Middletown, Ohio, shot and killed his wife
on the 9th inst, and immediately afterwards
placed revolver to his own head and fired,
dying instantly. Ballett was drunkard,
His wife had pstitioned for divorce which
angered him and caused the tragedy.
During family quarrel in Buncpmbe
county, N. c.. on the 9Th inst, Joseph Wnu
shot and killed his brother John.
Solomon Sem, of the firm of Schille,
Cossman G. Sem, iron founders, Chicago,
quarreled with the foundry foreman named
Conrad Engelman, on the 5th inst, and
shot him dead. After swapping the weapon
at his own head Sem retired to the private
Office and cut his throat from ear to ear.
Sem was quite wealthy. The trouble was
about pillar which had been cast in the
shop, and which Sem claimed was imper
feet. -
Mr.. Aaron Goodfellow, one of the most
respected citizens of Bloomington, ILL.,, wa&
waylaid and foully murdered by thugs
while returning home from croquet part,
on the night of the 5th inst. The victim re
ceived two shots--one through the jaw and
another piercing bis body. The murderer
are at large.
During the absence of James Rose, col
ored farmer, from his home, at Petersburg
Pa, on the 4th instant, Maggie Tinnis, will
whom he lived, and their infant child wer|
murdered by an unknown man and wo
man whom Rose had married and aban
doned.
Four unknown men, supposed to belong
to gang of desperadoes in Indian terrific
ry, rode into Copcyville, Kan, on the Sd
robbed the postoffice, and committed othe
depredations. The citizens resisted, one o
whom, named Fitzpatrick, was killed, an.
another named Roberts wounded. Unite,
States troops are in pursuit of the Williams