Jamestown alert., 1879-06-26

Harris was fatally shot by DR.. Albert De Wolf
Two years ago she secretly married De Wolf.
They separated and De Wolf proposed rcun-
ion. She refused. - :
OREGON MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
In the city elections at Portland, Ore
gon, June IL, the Republicans elected the
mayor and two counoilmen-the Democrats
the balance. In the election in East Portland
the Republicans made a clean sweep.
, YELLOW FEVER IN NEW YORK.
Advices from New York city to June
II, say that DR.. Vanderpool, health officer at
quarantine says that unless rigid quaran-
tine is kept up, there is possibility of yellow
fever making its appearance in New York.
,s ~ @ss as A5LYNCHED.. &5as hi
j. Moore, who grossly assaulted and
then murdered Miss Woodward on the 5th of
June, near Wexford, s. c.. was hanged by
mob Of one hundred and fifty armed men June
II, who rode into Spartansburg. The jailor
had removed Moore but the lyncbers discover
ed his whereabouts.
MORMONDoM B1GAMY.
At Salt Lake, Utah, June IA, George
r. Reynolds, the Mormon husband Of several
wives was sentenced to five years imprison-
ment and $500 fine. He is the first Mormon
convicted of polygamy since the passage of
the act in 1862, and every effort was made to
prevent conviction. 1t is expected he will
leave here tomorrow morning on his way to
Detroit penitentiary.
.~ DESTRUCTIVE STORM.
A terrific hail storm, SIX miles wide,
passed from West to East near Germantown,
Columbia county, between II and II o'clock
on the night of June 16 Hail stones about
as large as hickory nuts came down, and panes
of glass were broken in every farm house,
poultry killed, fruit of every kind destroyed,
trees uprooted, fences blown down, and near
WIFE MURDER.
At San Francisco, June II, James
Bowlan, hackman, deliberately murdered his
wife,i Nellie, calling at the house where she
obtained employment as housekeeper, and
shooting her down on her refusal to resume
marital relations with him. Mrs. Bowlan
had left her husband on account of his repeat
ed brutal treatment Deceased was a native
8 of New York, age 25. @'@ &@*' @ "
SENTENCES COMMITTED.
The President has committed the SEN
tence of Jos. Reyton, colorcd, convicted Of the
murder of Louis Day in December last, and
who was to have been hanged in Washington
June 90, to life imprisonment in the Albany
penitentiary. He has also commuted the
sentence of Louise E. Wallace, colored, con-
victed of the murder Of her infant child in
April, and who was to have been hanged
June 81, to ten years Imprisonment in the AL
bany penitentiary.
SUSPECTED BUGRLARs RELIEVED.
The property taken from the house of
Gov. Davis in St. Paul, by burglars a few
nights since has has been recovered. The
diamond stud was found on the dead body Of
James Ganey, the burglar who was shot at
Rochester, Mimi, by Marshal Kalb, and the
watch was found on the person of fellow
named Vandiker who is under arrest as one of
Ganey's gang. The lewd young men Nick
Frances and Thomas Keegan who were in Jail
at St. Paul charged with the burglary, have |
been released ..-lw@
CALIFORNIA POLITICS.
The Republican State convention met
at San Francisco, June 18TH George C. Per-
kins was nominated for Governor. The fol-
lowing are the leading points in the platform
adopted: Reafirms the principles of the Re-
publican party; denounces the attempt of the
Democracy to interfere with the purity of
elections; sustains the Presidents veto policy;
pledges the party to faithful application of
the new constitution and support OF progress
sive education; pledges the candidates for the
legislature to attempt to settle the differences.
.- ..-... WIFE MURDER.
Another bloody murder was committed
at st. Louis, Mo-, on the morniug of June 10,
Henry Erb, pusher of street hand cart, and
man of bad repute, assaulted his divorced
wife in the back yard Of her residence, 319
South Third Street, between and o'clock
and plunged large knife twice into her right
side infcting a wound from which she
died in a few minutes. Erb was arrested
shortly after and locked up. No immediate
cause, is assigned for the act, but it is known
they quarreled several times within few
months, and on one occasion he beat her badly
SHOT.
A Winona telegram of June 49, says.
about midnight Saturday, notorious colorcd
character about town named Jim Green, was
shot and severely wounded by sport named
John Morris, who Immediately ran away, and
has not yet been found. 1t is said that Morris
had with him large sum of money, which
Green and hotel runner named Claud Field
caught sight of while drinking with Morris at
saloon, and it is supposed that Norris fired
the shot under the impression that he was in
danger Of being robbed by Green. Green and
Fields arc in jail awaiting investigation.
SHOT RY A FRANTIC WOMAN.