Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-01-15

did not appear at the exchange or at his
Office after the discovery Was made, AID
died suddenly on the 9Th, at the house Of
friend in New York. 1t is thongnt that,
unable to bear his disgrace, he may have
committed suicide.
AT Manuvski, on the Gatineau river,
Ottawa, a man named Brisbois quarreled
with his partner, on the 9th, and literally
chopped him to pieces. The. i'll rderer es-
capped.
GEORGE ERNST, farm laborer in
Markham township, near Toronto, fatally
shot Mrs Mary Prebs on the Sth.
IL the Cholio district, Georgia, on the
7tb, during the election for tax receiver,
NJ. A. Smith, a bailiff, called Jasper Spence
to OILS side to talk about the election,
Smith, without warning, snatched pistol
from bystander and shot Spence dead.
DANIEL DE CASTRO, a boy IA years OF
age, suicided by hanging, at Springfield,
ILL.,, on the 9TH.
STEPHEN LoNGFELLow, nephew of
the poet, was arrested at Boston, on the 7th
for forging The latter's name to check for
$1,000.
AT Lake Providence, La, City Mar.
shall Mcclure, while attempting to arrest q
number OF hatboatmen, was shot dead
Five men we're arrested on suspicion and
placed uudsr guard. On the nj ght of the
5th several of McGuire's relatives broke into
the prison and fred upon the prisoners,
wounding all but two morally. The coro-
ner's jury discovered the murderer of Me.
Guire to be James Brown, who escaped in
a skiA The men killed and wounded by
McGure's relatives were innocent.
A MEXICAN named Juan Gravel was
lynched at Alamosa, Col, on the 9th for
cattle stealing.
PosToFHCE station F, 40l Third sv-
enue, New York, was entered on the night
OF the 9th, the safe blown open and "a 900
stolen.
THERE is a deficiency of over 100000
in the accounts Of Daniel Emmons, the
missing town treasurer of Everett, Mass.
ATTEMPTS have been recently made,
without success, to wreck trains on the
New York Central railroad, near NIAGARA
Falls.
JOHN M. CARR, of Rushville, Ind,
walked into the mill race, the depth OF
which is three feet, and then snot himself
with revolver.
WHILE seated in his Office on the
night of the Sd, John Harvis, deputy sheriff
Of Pamela county, Tenn, was shot and NOR.
tally wounded by an unknown party.
EDWARD CURLEY, Mollie Mcguire
of Columbia county, Pa, charged With the
murder of John Cunning, an old man in
Centralia, July 26, 1876, returned to Cen.
trala on the Sd az surrendered himself to
the authorities. Curley is expected to turn
states evidence and make some star ling
exposures.
AT Lyons, n. Y, on the 9Th instant,
Frances Hovey, an esteemed young lady,
entered her fathers store and shot him
dead. She then reloaded her pistol, went
up stairs to her room, and killed herself
N. O. TALLlFERo, retiring storekeeper
of the penitentiary at Richmond, Va, is
short $4,000 to $40, 900 in his accounts, but
says it will be made good by his sureties.
MRS. CoLLERACKEs, of Greensburg,
Pa, has identified the photograph, clothing
and pocketbook of the man killed near
Fremont, Ohio, in May, 1878, as her hus'
band. He left home to seek work, and
had with him 1910 in cash and a gold watch.
One Peter Welsh is accused of the murder.
MRS. G.. E. LEWIS, a widow, commit
ted suicide at Memphis on the Sd, by shoot
ing. Cause, mental depression.
THE body of man named Mulligan
was found burned to crisp in his shanty,
near Sherbrooke, Canada, recently. The
coroner's jury came to the conclusion that he
had been murdered, and William Gray and
wife, from the United States, have been
tnA Far ha ga.iYg mr. az M
clothing which belonged to Mulligan were
found in their possession.
CORPORAL NICHOLSON, discharged
from arrest by the failure of the grand jury
10 indict him for causing the death OF Pri-
vate Kopp at Fort Adams, Rhode Island, by
throwing him, as alleged, into cistern, has
been dishonorably discharged from the
army. Prior to his discharge he was re-
2uned IN the rap ka