Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-05-12

on the I'd inst. Col Goodwin was recently dis
charged from the Indiana insane asylum. DR..
Goodwin was prominent citizen of the eastern
part Of the state, and lay delegate to the gen
eral conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church, now h session at CinCinuAh
At Honstont Texas, on tho I'd inst, two dti-
zens named MCGOWAN and Turley, who have
quarTeled from time to time fdr the past three
years, met and settled the difficulty. McGowan
shot and killed Turley, who was unarmsd.
Adam Waggoner, IN old man living on 4 farm
in Gala county, O., wAs shot and killed III his
field ON the frst inst, by his nephew Phil.
W.gg2ner. They bad qufrrylsd ~ abont lsntiG
societies wets making pilgrimage TO the crest
Of Garrot mountain to greet the rising Of the
sun, a. usual on the first Sunday in May, ono
DAlzell, farmer, refused permission to party
70 cross his premises, and upsn their pcrsisting
to do 30, be shot Joseph Van Houten dead. The
excited Germans Immediately fired the build
lngs on the premises and were about to hang
Dalzell when he was rescued by detachment Of
police.
Frank Burke was shot dead 1t Philadelphia,
on the night Of the 0Oth ulk, by Policeman
William Shields. Burke WIS hurting stones ut
the officer; having b6en order6d on the corner.
Mrs: William Stokes, living apart from her
husband with an aunt in Brooklyn, was shot
dead on the night Of the 1st inst, by E6kHrd
Kennedy, who boarded in the same house. Mrs.
Stokes refused to marry Kennedy. Kennedy
also shot himself, but not fatally; lac had shot
himself on q previous occasion, when rejected
by Mrs Stokes.
Henry Long was fatally shot by mob at
Esquire Bosten's Office, Blue River township,
In a quarrel at Pennington, N. IL, ON the
10th nit, between w: Kennedy and his wife,
their son samuel interfered TO protect his
mother, the father seized butcher knife and
stabbed Samuel, killing him almost instantly.
An orphan girl named Meeker was poisoned
by her uncle, AMMAN Meeker, who WAS also her
guardian, at Duxbury, Vt, on the 23d uh. The
wretch piloted the officers to where her body
was buried, on the S0th nit. He confessed that
the girl being cross she wfs given dose Of
strychnine and STARTED to the Waterbury River
valley. On the road she died and was buried in
swamp
J. ]. Hoover, who killed . saloon keeper
named Bennett, in April, 1878, was taken from
jail Mt Fairplay, CAL, on the 28th, and hung.
Mrs. Houston, living in the neighborhood of
Austin, Texas, in fit Of insanity on tho 9th,
attempted to murder her five children by driv-
ing knitting-needles into their brain. through
their ears. Ono WAS killed and two others sefi-
ously injured.
James Loomcr shot and killed George De-
ing. on the Missouri river, on the 26th. Cause,
undue familiarity with Loomer's wife.
Policeman Tom Perkins was fatally shot At
Buena Vista, Cal, on the 27th, by three bunko
steerers, whom he was trying to arrest.
At Bradford Pa, on the 2Sth, John Fully and
Luke Kane, Of Olean, went to the. .houseof John
Smith and beat him terribly, when Smiths son,
a lad Of Is. shot Kane dead.
Hiram Kelley, an inmate of the state lunatic
asylum, at Columbia, y. O., killed his room
mate, o man named Calabacher, By fractrring
his skull with stone bowl, on the a8th.
On the night Of the 9th, ut Kansas City, NO.,
VIM. CASTOR and Thomas Wright had fight
about q divorced wife, who was living with Gas
ton in adultery, and CASTOR was badly beaten,
next morning Cast hunted up Wright and
shot him dead.
At Norborne Station, NO., on the 28th, one
Lynch, a saloon keeper, became involved in q
difficulty with man named Worth, and shot
him dead
John W. Phillips, police officer, was fatally
stabbed at Kalamazoo, Mich, on the 27th, by
David d. Mason, whom he was arresting.