Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-08-20
CRIME.

is $4,000 short in his accounts, says a
dispatch of Aug. 18th.
A PHILADELPHIA lawyer, named vii.
liam Vance Harper, disappeared Aug.
18th, leaving various clients in the lurch
in sum total of nearly $1,000
JAMES f. MCMuLLEN, of McKeesport,
Pa, for some time treasurer of "a build
ing and loan association, has stepped out
with $4,000 belonging to the associa.
ton. SO says dispatch of Aug. 18th.
JOHN CHAMPION, colored, was shot
dead while at dinner with his wife and
children in Prince George county, Md,
says u Baltimore dispatch of Aug 10.
! No arrests.
DAN MCG~SNIs and Ben Marks were
arrested in Council Bluffs, Ia, Aug. l3,
for the robbery of the Merchants and
Mechanics bank of Galesburg, III on
the 2nd of July
IT was discovered by the chief of po-
lice Of Terre Haute, Ind, Aug. 18Th, that
the recent incendiary fires in that city
had been started by depraved lad of
nine years
A SAN FRANCISCO dispatch of Aug.
18th says LUCKY" Baldwin, the owner
Of Mollle McCarty, has been arrested
near Los Angeles, where his distillery,
warehouses and wine vaults were seized
| by the L. S. Marshal on a charge of de-
frauding the revenue by reflling stamp
ed packages Of brandy.
REPORTS from Titus county, Texas,
Aug. 18th state that jeff Hopkins out
ragged a white woman, and then murdered
her and her infant daughter, and set fire
to their house to conceal the crime. The
charred skeletons of the woman and
child were found in the ruins, with four
buckshot in the woman's back bone.
A FALL RIVER, Mass, dispatch of Aug.
| 18th says Walter Pine, third treasurer of
the American Linen company has been
dealing in futures with the company s
money, and lost 100000. His trans
actions were similar to those of George
b. Durfe at the Mechanics mill. The
stakeholder meet next week.
A NEW YORK dispatch of Aug. 11th
| says last night two prisoners, Dedis Gil
lespie and John Obrien, escaped from
Blackwel's Island. They were IN guard
boat with Keeper Stephen Kelly patrol-
| ing the East River side, when boat in
which were six rowdes approached and
demanded the surrender of the prisoners.
! The keeper refused, and the roughs up
set his boat. All three were picked up
and taken on board the roughS' boat but
on Kelly attempting to draw revolver,
he was thrown overheard, and with diff
Guilty saved his life.
A CHEToPA, Kan, dispatch OF Aug.
| 10Th SAYS: Captain John Secrest, mail
contractor, on the route west from Ninita,
Indian Territory, was found some $50
miles west of Ninita, II day or two ago,
murdered. He left Vinita few days be
fore with a cons derable sum of money,
for the purpose of paying off his mail
carriers 1t is supposed the desperadoes
who robbed Coneyvillc a short time ago
are the parties who committed the crime.
A PITr.BuRG, Pa, special Of Aug. 18th
says Capt George III. Shaneielt, who has
travelled extensively in the west as
| Murphy temperance orator,got on spree
| here tonight. After smashing nearly all
the furniture in his residence, he chased
! his family into the street where they
were found and cared for by neighbors
/ He then locked himself in his
room and defed the officers who
were sent TO arrest him.
| They finally kicked the door in took the
bellicose captain in custody, and march
ed him 10 the station-houSe, where he
tried to hang himself and nearly sue,
cccded. There was rope suspended
from the skylight, and the captain,
climbing up to 1, made a moose on the
end and slipped it over his neck. Then
he swung himself clear lie was cut
down and resuscitated He was one of
Murphy's first converts here, and for
! long time kept the pledge.
| 4 HORRIBLE case of fatal stabbIng oc-
CURED at Urbana, H., Aug. nth, in an
! alteration between Captain j. NJ. Tracy
and Alvah, II. Whitcomb, both business
men and partners as abstractors. Tracy
cut Whitcomb in the abdomen so that
his bowels hung out the knife being
turned round and round, cutting him all
to pieces internally. Another stab en-.
| tered higher up, neu the breastboue, and
penetrated into the abdomen Great
/ excitement followed the horrible occur.
renee all afternoon. Whitcomb'S dying
declaration and swern to was, that he
/ and his partner, Trscy, have been having
difficulty between themselves that Tracy
! TODAY called to him in the street to
come to his office He went up rs de-
sired and Tracy strtck him with heavy
paper weight, wheI a fight ensued, dur
/ ing which Tracy d sembowled him, as
above; that he had 10 weapon, but held
/ Tracy's hand to keep him from cutting
/ him.
FLIES.