River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26
Criminal.

A CATHOLIC priest in New Mexico has
eloped with one of the Sisters of Loretta,
and her relatives are in hot pursuit
TREMAINE, an East St Louis saloon
Keeper, shot and killed Horace b. Vail, a
drunken customer, who assaulted him.
JULIA Brown, 10 years of age, who
claims to live in Green Bay, Wis. was ar
rested in Milwaukee, Wis, on the goth
inst, for shop-lifting.
JEREMIAH Ford was arrested for knock
ing his wife down Saturday night and in
hicting injuries which caused her death.
Ford was drunk at the time and the woman
was endeavoring to get him home.
A YOUNG man named Waldron was ar
rested at Sunny Side, Ga, by Sheriff Spald-
ing, and posse overpowered the sheriff
and took the prisoner and cut his head
off. Waldron ran away two weeks ago,
with girl twelve years old, his wife S
sister.
Two prisoners confined in the Minnea-
| polls, jail broke out on the 18th inst, and
have not since been apprehended. They
were VIM. Scott, in for burglary, and
Steve Golden held for larency. Scott is 26
wears old, five feet and eight inches, and
dark complexion. Golden is p years old,
light complexioned, brown hair, blue eyes.
| and stands five feet eleven and one-ha!t
inches in height.
A TELEGRAM to the Courier-J0urndI
of Aug II, from Shepherdsville, says:
Hon. J. Proctor Knott was shot and NOR
tal.y wounded, this morning, at Mt. Wash
ington, ten miles from here, by j. w.
Lewis, greenback candidate for congress.
No particulars. Great excitement pre-
walls. The Courjer-Jolu7ldi docs not be-
lieve the report TO be true.
A SPECIAL to The Commercial from Bed
ford, Ind, says that trouble in the Catholic
church there led to an affray, in which
Emil Gaussein was stabbed ten times by
man named Gertzel. The priest refused
to baptize Gaussein's child, and the father
cursed the priest His friends took up
is the same priest who made everybody in
the place angry last Sunday by preaching
strong sermon against the saloons.
A YOUNG LAWYER named Parkhurst, of
Bath, \. j., shot and killed Miss Fannie
Howell on the 10Th inst. They were mar
ried four years ago at a picnic but her par
ents refused to let them live together and
obtained a decree from the courts annulling
the marriage. Both are now of age and
Parkhurst insisted on a re-marriage but
Miss Howell refused upon her refusal he
drew revolver shooting her then himself
AN elegant gold watch was stolen from
the residence of T. q. Wright, of Racine,
Wis the number of the watch was posted
in different iewelry establishments of that
city. At 3 p. m, on the 18th inst, a
women entered the store of, W. Spence and
produced the identical watch. Mr.. Spence
kept the woman in conversation while he
dispatched a boy for Chief Mills. who eff
fected the arrest promptly. The crook
proved a well known woman OF the town,
named Kate A. Anderson.
OK the 18th inst, at Fl. Scott, Kansas,
some fifty men rode to the Jail and called
up Sheriff Rucker, and on pretext of
having prisoner for him induced him to
unlock the Jail. They then seized the
sheriff and locked him in cell, took out
Thomas Watkins, confined for horse steal
ing, and departed, since when no trace Of
the party or Watkins has been discovered.
One theory is that Watkins has been
lynched and another that the mob were
his friends and took this means to rescue
him
j. G. WALKER, son of DIR. Walker, OF
Indianapolis, Ind, shot and killed the
notorious burglar, Rodifer, in his fathers
residence on the 18th inst Rodifer has
served several terms in the penitentiary,
and was recently pardoned out for good
conduct. Mrs. Walker was awakened bya
noise in the house, and discovered that