The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-23

were charged with the assassination of Rufus
Armistead, near Horn Lake. Miss, about two
months ago.
PATRICK BATEMAS, a barkoeper at Chicago.
was killed In row ut his saloon Oh the 18th
inst, by blow on the head.
GANG Of desperadoes invaded the premises
of farmer named Cordcr, in southwestern
Virginia, one night recently and demanded That
he dismiss young lady guest from bis house
His answer was q charge of buck shot which
killed one Barker, leader of the gang, when the
rest vamOsed.
Ar Dubuque Ia, ON the 18th inst, Constable
Peter Scanlan, while attempting TO arrest
August Wunderlich for beating a woman who
we'd with him, was shot by WunderlIch and his
body thrown into n slough where il was found
next morning. The murderer escaped.
AT noon on the 18th inst, :. \. Rickley, pres
ident of the Capital City bank, Columbus, O.,
was shot through the forehead while standing
at bis desk, by Andrew Eichenberg, a German
dyer. Eichenberg was on the street, and az
soon NJ nc shot Mr.. Rickley, he placed the re-
volyer at his temple and shot himself, dying
almost instantly. Mr.. Iticklcy may probably
live, but the chances are against him. The
trouble grew out Of Mr.. Ricklcys refusal 10 loan
Eichenburg money.
Ar Lcmars, Iowa, on the 18th inst, Major G.
J. G. Ball shot and dangerously wounded DIR.
W. H. Porter, the ball entering the neck just
below the lobe of the ear and lodging in the
bones on the opposite side. The trouble Origi-
mated IN Ball being prosecuting attorney liz u
rape case where Porter was defendant.
MRs. BRowN who with her paramour Wade
has been accused of the murder of Mr.. Brown,
was found guilty on the 18th inst, at Indanap-
oils. She WAS sentenced to De hanged. Wade,
who was tried previously, will also suffer the
death penalty.
CHRISTIAN PECK, promising young business
man Of Lttleport, In, blew out his brains on
the 18th inst. Cause, his atlianccd married all
other man during ms absence on visit to EII-
rope.
An Englshnlan named Thomas Scott suicided
by shooting ut Toledo, o., on tho 18th. For
eleven years he was private in the Dist Scots
Fusiers, and during that time participated in
the battles Of Balaclaya, Sebastopol and King
burn, receiving for his bravery two silver
medals.
NJ. GARDNER aged ~, and II. Fitch, aged II,
were found dead near Potter Valley, Mendo-
elmo county. Cal, Oh the 18th inst, one shot
through the head, the other through the heart.
No quarrel is known to have existed between
the boys, and il il believed 10 bc case of
murder. A mans tracks were found in the
vicinity
On the 18th inst, Sam i. Bowlcs ex-county
engineer nj Cincinnati, who was convicted re-
Gently of forging county bonds, was sentenced
by Judge Burnett 10 serve 4 term of ten years
III the pcnitcntiary. Sentence was suspended
for sixty days ~ allow an application for writ
of error.
Ar Bycrs, Col, on the 18th inst, an unknown
tramp about 80 years old came to the depot,
and while engaged in conversation, suddenly
drew a large butcher knife and gave Samuel
Green n cut over the eye, cut John McGlynn no
that his bowels come out, and then stabbed
Frank McCrackcn, the telegraph operator, prob
ably fatally. ia the left side. MaCracken ran
across the street, followed by the tramp, who
was shot dead by constable. The tramp could
not be identified, but is supposed to be almanac
AT Milwaukee,, Wis, on the 18th instant,
Peter Hemmingson placed his neck across a
railroad track and had his head almost struck
from his body by passing train. Whisky was
the cause.
One Basham, who lives seven miles southeast
! Of Independence, Mo-, was arrested Oh the 18th
instant. for being implicated in the celebrated
Glendale train robbery committed last October.
Officers have been watching Itasham for two or
three months and have finally found sufficient
proof to convict linn.
G. Ii. COLLINS, n well-known business man
of Omaha, committed suicide by shooting HIM
self through the head with revolver. on the
night of the 10th. The motive or cause of the
act Is a mystery.
Two tramps passing through Stoneville,
Westmoreland county, Pa, Oh the 9tn inst, got
into quarrel which ended in the death of one
of them. His companion Drained him with Il
boulder.
some unknown person shot and KILLED o
desperate named Baker Mann at Mocck's
mill, near Arlington, Va, on the night of the
9th inst. Mann had deserted his wife for a
lewd woman, whose body was found near by
with the throat cut from ear TO ear.
MARTIN LOFTS, residing i'll Nelson county,
Va. fatally beat his wife for refusing to aid him
i'll robbing neighbor.
! JOSEPH JOHNSON shot James J. jenkins in an
alteration at Gothic City, Col, on tie 10th
inst, inilictmg fatal wounds.
Two masked men boarded train on the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad, at Winthrop station, on
the 9th inst, and robbed the United States eX-
press company's safe Of $3.50.