Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-06-03
TEE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

JACOB SMITH, awealthy farmer of Lucas coun-
ty, Ohio. was arrested on the 9th ult. on a
charge Of having murdered his wife's uncle fif-
teen years ago III order to obtain possession of
some $4,000.
REIGN of terror prevails III Lawrence couIl-
ty, Kentucky. Regulators are riding III all di-
rection., cutting telegraph and telephone wires.
and committing other and more serious dcpre-
dations.
FIVE or six men arrested at New Orleans for
firing vessels loaded with cotton have confessed
their guilt The temptation was the salvage
which tug men and others who assisted i'll put
ting out the flames received.
Coz. MORTON, respectable and respected
citizen of Quincy, committed suicide on the
26th. He has been suffering from ill-health for
some time.
A FouRTEEN-YEAR-oID boy Of Barry county,
Michigan, committed suicide on the 25th The
boy had been so malheated by his father that he
said before he committed the rash act that he
had rather not live.
EDWARD HALL, Mike Walsh and Robert White,
three notorious New York fcrgers, were arrested
at Reading, Pa, on the 9th, charged with
connterfeiting scrip issued by the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad company. Seyenty-seven
hundred dollars worth of bogus certificates were
found upon them.
THERE was great excitement in the Court of
General Sessions at Kingston, S. c., on the
Goth. A man named Ward was found guilty of
forgery and as soon as the verdict was announc-
cd hc rose from his seat within the bar, drew
pistol and fired twice deliberately at two men
named Harper and Lane, the principal wit
nesses against hun. Harper was unhurt but
the second shot wounded Lane in both hands.
Ed. NELMs, the negro who assassinated Rufus
Armstoad by shooting him in the dark, three
weeks ago, near Hernandez Miss, was captured
in Tunica county, Miss. on the 26th, by three
colored men who secured $3.50 reward offered
for his body, dead oraliye. The assassin Is now
in Jail at fernando. 1t is generally believed he
Will be taken from Jail and hanged by friends OF
the murdered man.
THOMAS G. THuRsroN, who was recently
acquitted of the murder of his partner in
January last at Leayenworth, Kansas, made q
murdcrous attack on ID. Il. Anthony of the
Times, thatcty on the Goth, firing several shots
at him. Anthony escaped, but the stray bullets
badly wounded Thurston's attorney, Lucen
Baker, and sl htly injured a printer named
John Douglas. Ihurston Is under arrest.
s. G. CARLL is under arrest at New York for
hypothecating $4,000 worth Of stolen govern
ment bonds.
LAD named Charley jackson, Gyears of age,
was kidnapped by two men at Stockport, N. Y,
ON the 25th. 1t is supposed he was carried to
Albany.
4 PADuCAH special says Dan L. Jones,
saloonkeeper OF Murray, Galloway county, KY,
shot and killed Joel Ferguson, town marshal,
ON the gath inst. 1t seems that Jones got into
difficulty and threatened to shoot citizen
when Ferguson contiscated his pistol This
enraged him so that he went home. procured
shotgun, returned and killed the maIshal
Ara horse race at Cotton Cal, on the 10th,
while the stakes were being delivered, one
Orteza, a Mexican. owner of the defeated horse,
shot the stakeholder, Edward Sixby, dead. A
party started in pursuit of the murderer, when
the latters friends fired into the crowd, but no
body was hurt
ROBERT KREId secretary of the San Jose
CAL, Savings bank, shielded on the night of the
23d inst, by cutting the arteries of an arm
A COW boy named Garry shot and killed
George Wolfe on the 23d inst, near Julesburg,
Col.
! DETECTIVE SMITH MORALLY wounded Patsy
/ Walters in an ARRAY at Sidney, Neb., on the
night of the Odd.
/ SUPERVISOR PHuLIP CASEY, was shot and
killed by an eX-eonvict named John Wall, while
attempting TO quel disturbance at Troy, NJ
y, on the 2tth inst.
PARTY named Gum, who murdered his
father pt Brdsewater, Mass, that he might OBJ
tain possession of property valued at $4,000
cut his throat with razor at the Plymouth
. tMasS) house of correction, on the I'D inst.
1 1t is believed he viii die.
PETER EbNrER, a German 50 ye..rs old, was
arrested at Buffalo, n. y, on the 22d inst,
on the charge Of having murdered his son, At
Random Lake, Ozaukec county. Wis. Zimmer
was on his way to New York to meet his in
tended wife, whom he expected to arrive from
Germany.
JOHN kELIIHER, the American Express agent
at Red Hook, n Y, has deeampeG with $500
belonging 10 the Red Hook National uapS
Two brothers Chalf-broeds) named Bill and
Budd Bussley, fought duel at Denison, /. T.,
on the I'D. in which Bill was killed.
CHARLES HocH was fatally kicked inthe stomach
and back nj Peoria. HI. on the night Of the 22d
inst, by Angus, Phelhauer.
A YOUNG man named Walter Smith for found
murdered at Somerville, Mo-, on the night Of
tie 22d inst, and companion named Charles