Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-09-11
Murderous Deeds.

Alexander Bryce, jr., prominent Re-
publican politician, was assassinated at
Walhslla, South Carolina, on the 9Th inst
Clark Brown was arrested at West Win
chester. Ont, on tho 9th inst, for the muir.
der of his father and sister. He subse.
quentIy confessed the crime, and said that
he was impelled by some strange feeling to
commit tho awful deed.
Theodore Daniel, black fend, in Jail for
attempting to outrage a young lady at
Union, Boone county, KY, was taken from
Jail by mob on the 5th inst. aud shot.
Theodore Smith, a colored deck hand on
the steamer Cherokee, was shot dead by the
mate at Cincinnati on the 5th inst.
Elijah Frost, Bige Gibson and Tom Nc.
Cracken were taken from the constable at
Willis, CAL, ON the 4th inst, and hung by
q mob. These men were under arrest for
larceny OF saddle and some harness.
John II. Gatling, brother of the inventor,
was found. murdered at Aurfresboro on the
Sd inst
In melee at tho Lincoln house, Worces.
ter, Mass, on the Sd inst, Thomas Callahan,
the steward, shot aud killed Luke Daily, the
porter. They were rivals for the affections
of the same servant girl.
In Allen county, Kentucky. near the Ten
nessee state line, Anderson Grover, in fit of
jealousy, shot and killed his wife and then
blew his own brains out with a pistol.
Near Gainsboro, Tenn, James Halle shot
ind killed VIM. II. jenkins in the woods
where the latter had been telling timber.
The bodies of two women and little girl
were found in a house at Waynesville,
Ohio, station on the Little Miami railroad,
on the Sd inst. They were all evidently
murdered some days ago, as the stencil
from the bodies was dreadful. They are
supposed to be Mrs. Hattie and her sister and
sisters child. The bodies were covered by
bed clothing and had been sprinkled with
lime.
George Schwartz, q well-known political
manipulator and proprietor Of cigar store,
in San Francisco, CAL, was shot in his place
of business on the I'd instant, by Dudley
Haskell. Cause, vile language on the part
of schwarts, which he refuses to detract.
The Eureka stage coach was stopped
ebove Nevada city on the 2L inst, by two
masked men, the express bag taken and
passengers made to stand and deliver. VIM.
F. Cummings, banker Of Moore's Flat, re.
sisted the o)bere, when they attempted to
take gold bar belonging to him and was
shot through the head and instantly killed.
Bud, Oliver was murdered in the most
oowardly and unprovoked manner by
Robert Hosely, town marshal, at Camden.
vile. Anderson county, KY, on the 30th ult.
At New York on the 1st inst, the 'dy of
q boy has been picked up in North river
with hands and feet securely bound.
. Richard Stevenson, United States deputy
marshal, wss shot to death in Kingman
county, Kansas, on the 30th ult., by horse
thief, who escaped to the Indian territory.
He had arrested the thief At Wallipgton
and was returning the prisoner and prop.
erty to Kingman. Both men, together with
drummer, were in the carriage, and in de-
scending sudden declivity the thief
ynstched Stevenson 9 revolver and shot him
through the breast. He then diss.med the
commercial traveller and mounted the best
horse and fed. 49,. :" Ill.,.
David Cantrell, aged 1s, shot and killed
Frank Mcconnell. aged 10, in Caldwell
county, KY, ON the soth ult. Cantrell
clsims the shot was accidental; he wss ar.
rested and in default of bail jailed.