Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-03-11

fred the fatal shot
G. GRosEMAS and Vim. Carson were fond
guilty, on the 4th, Of the murder of Bernard Pick
err at Vanwert, Ohio. Picker was murdered at
his door one night in December last, and the
| murderers then tortured bis wife by placing her
| feet to hot stove until she told them where to
| find 81, 500. When the men were arrested IN
/ Vanwert they shot the sheriff and constable, in
ticting serious injuries on both.
NICHOLAS RIGHT well-to-do business man
of Fort Branch near Evansville, md, suicided
by shooting, on the 4th inst
An aged drayman, named John Prinzell,
hung himself in his stable at MI. Vernon, Ind,
on the Sd inst.
CHARLES WEBSTER, convicted OF an outrage
on little Frances OTTO on the 18th of October
1873, is to be hung on April 3D. His compan-
ion in crime, Geo. Washington, was executed on
the 2Ist of February last. Anderson, the wife
murderer, will be hung the same day. All in
Kentucky.
AT Mt. Vernon, Ohio, on the Sd inst, Mrs.
Julia Jenkins suicided in the temporary absence
of her husband and children. She tied her
lower limbs together and jumped into the els
tern. No cause known.
On the Sd inst, jeremiah Webster and John
Guttlife, farmers near Chillicothe, H., quar-
relied abou. fence. Guttliffe shot ard killed
Webster.
Cook HovEY, late city clerk of Urbana, Ohio,
ard an alleged defaulter in the sum of $4,000,
has beea arrested near London, Ont.
W. II. TRELwAY, deputy collector of internal
revenue, has been convicted of embezzlement
at Danyille, Va.
EX-AUDIToR KESNAY, against whom five in
dictments were pending, pleaded guilty at War
rem, Ohio, on the Sd inst. to two of them and
the remaining three were nolled. He was SEN
fenced two years in the penitentiary.
GEO. WOODS, n printer under trial at Evans
Vile, Ind, for the murder of Mrs. Nellie Hobbs
in 1877, took poison and was found dead in his
cell on the I'd inst. He was convicted about
two years ago and sentenced for life, but OBJ
tanned II new trial. The night before his suicide
the jury in the second trial failed 10 agree and
were discharged.
A oSE-ARMED negro named Louis Kinder,
who had outrsgeously assaulted white woman
at Georges Station South Carolina, was lynched
by mob on the I'd inst. At the last moment
he acknowledged the outrage, confessed to hav
ing outraged a colored woman in Newber1y six
years ago, to killing a colored girl near Kings
Tree last April, to four burglarles and innumer-
able thefts. After firing yolley of pistol balls
into the body the crowd quietly dispersed.
The dead body of q. W. Parker, man of
considerable property, was found floating in the
canal near the hospital at Cincinnati, on the ID
inst. His gold watch was missing. 1t is
thought he WAS murdered.
FRED Fuchs, a carpenter with n large family
dependent upon him, suicided by hanging i'll an
old shed, at Milwaukee on the I'd inst. in fit
Of dependency. His body not found until
five days after his death.
Two murders were committee at Rawlins,
Wyoming, on the I'd inst. Ed Clarke, returning
home at O'Clock in the morning, was shot and
MORALLY wounded by his partner John Lee,
simply because he attempted to start fire. An
hour later a saloon keeper named knuth was
stabbed To death by teamster named Frank
Harrington in a quarrel over liquor bill.
THREE men, Holland, Martin and Coward
disputed while engaged in pitching half dollars
at Quero, Texas. ON the 2Sth ult.. md Holland
started for his house for gun to kill Martin
His mother ~ years old. came from the house
and caught Martin, who was trying to prevent
Holland from getting the gun. She held his
arms while her son drew knife and savagely
hacked Martins throet. Coward placed pistol
in Martins hand and he shot Holland in the
alm then shook himself clear Of the old woman,
knocked her down and shot her, inflicting a
wound from which she shortly died. He then
fired again at Holland, wounding him MORALLY.
Martins injuries are not serious.
A FEARFUL tight occurred on the night of the
2Gth ult, near Seward, Neb., at school house
where nightly religious meetings have been held
lately. A party of men attempted to break up
the meeting. A lively tusse ensued, III which
many shots were interchanged and eight per-
sons wounded. Vim. Bates died from his
wounds and Levi Bates is probably fatally
wounded.
JOIN II. MARTIN, an inmate OF an Ohio in
sane asylum, suicided by cutting his throat. He
carried policy of $4,000 on his life.
BEVERLY +. MORTON, six weeks ago appointed
. letter carrier in Louisville. has been arrested
for stealing the contents of letters.
RFv II. w. RICHARDSON. of Seacliff, Long
Island clipping with his wife's sister and leav-
ing behind family of small children, was ar
rested on steamer about to start for Texas
THIRr Y-roUR indictments in the aggregate
have been found against the comptroller, city
treasurer aud clerk of Elizabeth, n. j.. for con-
spiracy to defraud the city. The Indictments
chiefly charge the officers with having bought
bonds at market prices with their own or city
money and turning them into the city at par
and interest, dividing the profits.
FRED Seller, r bar keeper, got into 4 Diff
Guilty i'll a saloon at Evansville, Ind, on the 2Sth
ult., and shot A. j. Hickman. the saloon keeper.
through the head. killing him instantly.
ABROAD.