Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-08-27
"A Murderous Record.

In ngnt at the Jupiter mine, Booze,
Cal, on the Esd inst, John Golf was killed
and three others wounded.
T. W. Mcclure and Henry Bedford, con.
testants of the land claim in Barbour county,
Cal, quarreled on the Goth inst, about cut.
ting timber on the land in dispute, In the
scene that ensued revolvers played an
active part McCIure's funeral occurred
next day.
At Trinidad, Col, on the Esd inst, Dan
Logan and man named Cormack were
strung up by mob. Both were in jail for
raping children.
Mr.. Wilson, an engineer long connected
with sugar plantation near Guineas,
province of Havana, and forty miles from
that city, has been murdered. Wilson after
finishing the seasons work on the planta.
ton hired small farm. He was reused at
attacked by party of men with swords,
who almost instantly killed him. Mrs. Will
son intends laying the case before Consul
General Hall.
Police Sergeant Jacob Nohl, of Toledo, o.,
shot and killed q man named Ross Sauls-
bury and then shot himself fatally on the
23d inst. Salisbury was the author of
newspaper articles rejecting on NohPs
character.
Hugh Mcclure shot his stepfather fatally
at Tuscola, ILL.,, on the 21st inst. An old
feud existed between them, caused by fam.
lily difficulties.
An Infamous den where infanticide and
abortion was practiced, was disclosed al
Boston, Mass, on the 22d inst. The bodies
of four infants supposed to have been muir
dered, have been found.
r. B. Pearson, superintendent of public
education of Harrison county, killed John
D. Conkerton, of New Orleans, at Mississip.
pi City, La, on the 21st. They quarreIed
about drink.
J. w. Cotton, station agent and grocer at
Williamsburg station on the Kansas Pacific
road, near Topeka, was murdered on the
21st inst. by a tramp. The tramp called fol-
cheese and while Cotton was reaching into
barrel to get the crackers the tramp
struck him in the back of the neck with an
axe, nearly severing the head from the body
James Johnson, aSwede, murdered James
Gibson, marshal of Barry county, Mich, al
Vaudeville, on the 10th inst. The murderer
was captured at Chicago on the 21st inst,
and acknowledged his guilt.
Henry NJ. Dixon, of Yazoo City, Miss.
who had announced himself as independent
candidate for the Office of sheriff, was shot
and killed by James Barkesdale, candi
date for the Office OF clerk of chancery, on
the Goth instant.
The rancho of Jim Raines on the Salmon
river, near Walla Walla, W. T., on the 18th
inst, and Raines and Jim Edwards killed,
and Albert Weber badly wounded.
At Waldron, Scott county, Tenn, on the
10th, the sheriff, Samuel Lemming, while
attempting the arrest Of Walter Malone for
butally assaulting his wife, was shot and
mortally wounded by Malone.
The partially decomposed remains of a
body supposed to be that of Samuel E. AL.
bright, who killed William r. Miller, at
Montgomery Ferry, Perry county, Pa, on
the 9TH of August, were found in the cave
near the scene the of murder on the 18th
inst. It is supposed that after committing
the murder Albright killed himself.
Benjamin Miller murdered James Kerlin,
notorious saloon keeper, on the night of
the 18th inst, at Riverton, near Chicago.