The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-06-04

forgery and Us soon as the verdict was announc-
cd he rose from his seat within the bar, drew q
pistol and fired twice deliberately ut two men
named Harper and Lane, the principal wit
nesses against HIM. Harper was unhurt but
the second shot wounded Lane IN both hands.
ED. NELNs, the negro who assassinatod Rufus
Armstead by shooting him in the dark, three
weeks ago, near fernando, Miss, was captured
in Tunica county, Miss, on the 10Th, by three
colOred men who secured $3.50 reward offered
for his body, dead or alive. The assassin IL now
in Jail at fernando. 1t il 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 Leavenworth, Kansas, made
murderous attack Oh ID. II. Anthony OF the
Times, thatcity on the 10th, firing several shots
Mt him. Anthony escaped, but the stray bullets
badly wounded ThurstOns attorney, Lucien
Baker, and sli htly injured printer named
John Douglas. ThurStOn Ii under arrest.
s. G. CARLL is under arrest ut New York for
hypothecating $4,000 worth Of stolen govern
ment bonds.
LAD named Charley Jackson 6ye.rs Of age,
was kidnapped by two men ut Stockport, N. Y,
on the 18th. 1t il supposed he was carried to
Albany.
PADUcAH special says Dan +. JONES'
saloonkeeper Of Murray, Galloway county, KY,
shot and killed Joel Ferguson, town marshal,
on the oath inst. II seems that Jones got into
difficulty and threatened to shoot a citizen
when Ferguson confiscated his pistol. This
enraged him no that he went home, procured
shotgun, returned and killed the marshal.
Ar horse race at Cotton Cal, on the 26ul,
while the stake were being delivered, one
Ortcza, II Mexican. owner of the defeated horse,
shot the stakeholder, Edward Sixby, dead. A
party started in pursuit of the murderer, when
the atter's friends fired into the crowd, but no
body Was hurt.
RoBERr KREIG, secretary of the San jose
Cal, Savings bank, suicidcd on the night OF the
I'D inst, by cutting the arteries Of All arm.
cow boy named Garry shot and killed
George Wolfe Oh the sd inst, near Julesburg,
Col.
DETECTIVE SMITH MORALLY wounded Patsy
Walters in an ARRAY at Sidney, Neb., Oh the
night Of the 23d.
SUPERVISOR PHILLIP CASEY, was shot and
killed by an ex-convict named John Wall, while
attempting to qucll disturbance Mt Troy, n.
y, on the 2ith inst.
PARTY named Gum, who murdered his
father at Bridgewatcr, Mass, that he might OBJ
tain possession Of property valued at $4,000,
cut his throat with razor ut the Plymouth
(Mass.) house of correction, Oh the 22d inst.
Ii is believed he will die.
PETER ZMMER, u German so years old, was
arrested at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 22d inst,
on the charge Of having murdered his son, at
Random Lake, OZallkec county, Wis. thinner
was on his way to New York to meet his in
tended wife, whom he expected to arrive from
Germany.
JOHN KELLIHER, the American Express agent
at Red Hook, n. Y, has decamped with So, 800
belonging to the Red Hook National bank.
Two brothers (half-breeds) named Bill and
Budd Busslcy, fought duel at Denison, !. r.,
ON the ed, i'll which Bill was killed.
CHARLES IIocH was fatally kickedinth the stomach
and back at Peoria, ILL.,. on the night of the 22d
inst, by August Pfclhauer.
YOUNG man famed Walter Smith for found
murdered at Somerville, Mo-, on the night Of
the I'D inst, and Il companion named Charles
i. Williams is under arrest, charged with the
Crime.
Mrs. EMIL. BRENNAN was found dead III bed
at New York, on the 22d inst, with her throat
cut. On table was q note from her husband
stating that he killed his wife, she being un-
faithful
AT Lincoln Park, Chicago on the 23d inst,
Ambrose Ames, a resident Of GAINESVILLE, Wis.,,
took fatal dose Of arsenic. Cause, domestic
infeicity.