The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-06-11

Both were candidates for admission TO West
Point Military academy and attending Clouse's
preparatory school. Buck had been made the
victim of mild form OF hazing by the other
students, and becaming enraged at some re-
marks by Thompson, drew revolver and shot
him.
j. WILSON, who was to have been hanged nj
Upper sandusky, Ohio, on the 18th inst, for
murder; was found dead in his cell on the Sd
inst, having taken poison during the night,
which was furnished by friends who visited him.
BURGLARS entered the residence OF Samuel
Dow, near Ceylon, o., OH the night Of the I'd
INST, oyerpowcrcd, gagged and bound Dow, and
relieved him OF $1,000 in currency.
WEALTHY merchant of Sandllsky o., was
robbed of about 800 at circus performance
on the Sd inst.
NORFOLK, Va, dispatch of the I'd inst,
says: "A colorcd seaman belonging to the
schooner Mignonette killed the captain and
cook, previously wounded the mate, took a boat
and escaped to shore. He il supposed to be
hiding i'll the swamps."
WHEN Upmau Co., consignees of S29,60O
in specie by the steamer Saratoga, sent for the
shme at Havana on the I'd inst, the purser
found the specie room had been broken into and
the specie distracted. The passengers had all
landed when the discovery was made
AT Tcxarkana, Ark, on the 3lst ult., a mob
attempted to take from Jail and lynch negro
arrested for attempted rape The friends of
Cromwell, the prisoner, fired on the mob The
fire was returned and eight persons are reported
wounded, some fatally. The prisoner had been
previously removed TO the Jail at Washington,
the sheriff experimenting danger.
Mrs. BRADLEY wife of farmer living near
Clear Lake, Cottonwood county, Texas, was
murdered during the absence OF her husband
recently. A stranger who was lodging in the
garnet for the night, hearing her cries, descend
ed and shot the murderers dead. Mrs. Brad
lcy's throat was cut. The murderera proved To
bc Mrs. Iructt and daughter, the former of
considerable property and an independent i'll
heritance of $4,000.
AT Baltimore, on the ::3lst ult., number of
negroes got into saloon row. The police in
quclIing the disturbance, shot aud killed Charles
MoSell and wounded several others.
MARSHAL FAiLENBURa arrived at Newport,
Ark, on the 31st ult., with NJ. j. McCrackcn, a
heavy operator i'll counterfeit money in south
east and northeastern Kansas. He was COM
mltted to the penitentiary for safe keeping until
trial in the Federal court.
Maria Arvout and Emily Chsey, widows,
we've brutally murdered Mt their residence at
Avon, Conn, on the night Of the 30th ult.
The bodies were not violated and valuables re-
manned untouched therefore the motive for
the crime remained mystery.
The Kansas Pacific railroad depot at BclOit,
Kansas, was broken into Oh the 10Th ut, and
the safe therein robbed of $500.
AT st. Johns, n. b., Oh the Goth ult., John
Draura, m elderly man, shot his brother Ed
ward dead and wounded another brother named
Chapman. He then fired the premises aud
when the people gathered killed himself.
Il. A. MORRIS, clerk to the librarian of con-
gress, was robbed Of $4,000 i'll currency at the
United States treasury Ill Washington, on the
18th ult He laid the package down for
moment. and some time later noticed that
bogus bundle had been substituted.
DIR. MELVILLE Of pcotone, ILL.,, shot and
killed young merchant of that town on the
night of the Goth ult., during u political dis
cusSion.