River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-15
CRIMINAL

IoUIs ZERGA, was killed at Omaha Neh.,
| bv another Italian, William Gozolo. The
murderer is still at large The governor
! has offered $500 reward for II.
/ A. ii. MoRKIsoN's woodenN are and pa
! per pail mandatory at st. Joseph, Mich,
I WAS DESTROYED by fire on 9th inst The loss
/ is s75,0o0; insurance, $4,000.
Coy. FOSTER pardoned Charles West
+ sentenced for two years, in June, 1879,
/ from Lawrence county for burglary. He
HIS lort his sight in prison, and his health
/ Is gone.
C1EN Estes, colored, shot dead Joseph
! Estes. white farmer near Cascade vii
/ lage, Virginia The affair grew ont of a
ease ef trespass.
1HE jury in the case of Albert +. Glass.
/ charged with the murder at Peshtigo,
/ Wis, of LYMAN Penree, have brought in
a verdict OF ulanslIughter in the second
degree
WRIGHT KEMP, tie founder of the vii
| lage If kempton, H., ON the kankakee
+ and Southwestern railroad, was stabbed
while attempting 10 make peace between
/ two guarding, drunken, rowdies, His in
4 iuries are dangerous
1 4 NEGRO named Sylvester was arrested
| in Pen. .cola, Alabama on the 9th inst,
| and brought 10 Mobile, accused of the
/ murder of Officer Jerry Lynch, eight
wears age The murderer has been identi-
| fed
| TIE Okla Indians were placed upon their
trial, on the 10th inst, for the fourth time,
! for burning the Roman Catholic church in
/ their village, tive years ago. The cost to
the province of these prosecutions has al
! ready amounted to $4,000.
/ A SHOOTING affray occurred between
/ Elmer Hapman and Tom Stevens, at Den
yer, Colorado, on the 10th inst The lat
/ ter was fatally and the former slightly
wounded The shooting was the result OF
/ a family feud which has existed for some
time.
The governor If Colorado on the 9th
! inst pardoned David Stubblefield, an old
/ gambler, who two years ago killed jack
/ Martin, timer in a variety theatre in
Denver Stubbletield il 80 years old, and
was diving in the penitentiary, to which he
was sentenced for ten years
Is the district court al Iowa city, on the
til inst. Judge Shone Sentenced Thomas
and Patsy Carrigan to six years in the
/ penitentiary, for burglary. On receiving
/ sentence one Of them made an attack on
| Marshal Stevens with a club, but was
| secured befor intiicting any injury.
JENNIE long, a young lady of good fam
| ilv and fine appearance, threw herself into
+! Charles river, at Cambridge, Mass, and
| declining assistance from the shore
drowned in the presence of large group
of excited spectators. No motive is a
signed for the deed.
4 DIFFICULTY occurred Sunday at Fort
Stockton, between two soldiers, Taylor ana
L.,
| in the shooting of Baker Robinson was
arrested and turned over to the custody Of
the civil authorities. The next morning
ne was forced, under guard, to dig grave
I for the remains of his victim.
At Nulmre Mine, Arizona, Mexican
named Jose Maria Salazar, disappointed
suitor Of Miss l.ubiate, called at the resi-
donce, and after brief conversation sho
her dead. The murderer fled, but mel
secured the country on foot and on horse
back, and soon captured him, held Lynch
court. and on the testimony of an eye-wit
ness 10 the deed. convicted and hung him
TuE police al Champaign, III, found {
! man in the creek in an almost lnsensiblt
condition, trying to wash the blood from :
large number ! bad wounds on his head
and face. II, gave his name a. Fitzgerald
from st. Joseph, H. He had no knowl
edge as 10 what hurt him, and nothing car
I've learned from others, only that he hac
been seen in the company Of two negroes
| upon whom suspicion rests.
Troy Mills, near Cedar Rapids, la.
had a celebration on 9th inst, during which
the Marshal of the town slapped man il
fbe face for having insulted woman. 4
free fight, in which several hundred ol
each side were engaged, resulted there
from During the row ii Is thought tha
four persons were fatally injured and no.
less than thirty persons seriously wound
ed