The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-15
CRIME.

CLARENCE DAVIS, the bigamist, was SEN
fenced, on the Sth inst, to five years I'M
prisonment and to pay a fine of $1,000.
Two women of Darlington, s. c., had
dispute about a man, which ended in one
of them being choked to death by the
other.
A GENERAL strike is threatened by the
coal-miners in the Hooking Valley, owing
to determination on the part of the
mine-owners to reduce wages.
THEor111Lus JONES, of Cincinnati, went
to the residence of his divorced wife on
the 9th inst, and shot himself dead on the
porch.
The governor of Illinois on tie 7th inst
ISSUED a proclamation offering a reward
Of $500 for the apprehension of Stephen
Coffin Hopper, who killed William X.
Hodge, in Johnson county, June Is.
PATRICK CARROLL, miner, elected from
a meeting of the Miners Union, in New
York, attempted to re-enter the hall, and
fired at those who opposed him, when he
was shot dead
A RETRIEVE has been granted to Monroe
Robertson, by Gov. Foster, of Ohio, SEN
fenced to be hanged July, IL, for thirty
udNS, ~ allow HlIll W StldlSltel UP lid
business affairs.
In the United States District Court
James A. Holden, ex-Cashier Of the First
National Bank of Newark, n. j., was ar
raigned upon sixteen indictments. lie
pleaded not guilty. Bail was fixed at $780,
600.
EMERY B. MoRBY, of Battle Creek,
Mich, formerly prominent and successful
dealer in real estate, has been convicted of
forgery and will be sentenced on the 9Th
prox. His daughters marriage is set for
the following day.
Mrs. SYLVESTER CHICK, of kenebeck,
Maine, took her only son, s years old, to
the river undressed him and held him I'M
der water until he drowned, and then at
tempted to drown herself.
The Wilkesbarre coal pier in East Provi-
dence, r. l., owned by the Wllkesbare
coal and iron company, caved in on "a
inst, carrying portion of the railroad
track and several coal cars. Loss, $4,000
to $4,000
ROVE MITCHELL an old fisherman, of
Columbus, Ca, while on drunk, was
murdered, by unknown parties, near Lind
wood, and his body placed on the railroad
track, where he was discoveEed before the
train arrived.
JACOB kUNrz, who resides at Homestead
Station, n. j., on the Northern railroad
went to the house of his son, at Union
Hill, where his wife resided, and forbade
her going to a picnic. Upon her refusing,
Jacob fatally shot her. He then went into
the barn and killed himself. Kuntz and
wife were both over 60 years of age.
TIE swindler, James T. Harris, of
Georgetown, Texas, who has obtained large
sums of money by transmitting circulars
through the mails in the north asking f.
nancial aid for g. suppositious community
of sufferers by the failure Of the crops, has
been run down by a special agent of the
postoffice department, and lodged in Jail.
SIX escaped convicts from the Idaho peni-
Tertiary stopped stage-coach on the Chal-
lis and Utah line, on the 30th Of June, re-
lieved the seven passengers-fv men and
two women-of all their valuables, and
then Invested them of all of their clothing.
The unfortunates travelled several miles
in state ofnudity, and procuring some
sheets and blankets, continued their journey
to the railway where they obtained suitable
apparel.
THE trial of Charles +. Goodhue, the de-
faulting treasurer of Stephenson county,
ILL.,, taken to De Kalb county b. change
of venue, has Disseminated. Great interest
has been taken in the case, which was
on trial for seven days. The county of
Stephenson was represented by Cochrane
states attorney, c. H. Reed, of Chicago,
Divine and Dunton, and J. L. Pratt,
The defendant by Hon. William
Lathrop, J. A. Grain, and Lowell & earns.
The jury returned verdict of not guilty,
and two other indictments where nolle
pressed by the people.
WALTER RossER, conductor of con-
struction train on the Nashville, Chat
tanooga and St. Louis railway, was brutal
ly beaten by his engineer, A. J. Flynn
Rosser had ordered Flynn to haul the
train from Hollow Rock to Huntingdon,
distance of ten miles, Flynn kicked
against the order, when Rosser insisted
upon it. Flynn took the train to Hun
tingdon, waylaid Rosser as he was coming
from supper, broke his skull with a
smoothing iron and then stamped upon his
face, breaking his nose and otherwise
mutilating him, and then escaped. Ros-
ser will die. He had been on the road
thirty years. The company has offered a
reward for Flynns apprehension.
FOREIGN.