Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-10-01
CRIME.

JAMES :. GROVER, prominent either
and merchant Of Oak Creek, Wis, hun.
himself on the 2lst inst.
MAI. NELSON, Of the pay department o
he army, is now on his way to New Yori
in custody. He IL short about 5000.
TnuRsToN, who attempted 70 assassinat,
Col. ID. X. Anthony, Of Icayenworth
Kan, has been sentenced to eighteen
years imprisonment.
Two boys ~ Reading Pa. quarreled on
the 18th inst, over game Of marbles
one Of them settled the dispute by killing
the other with u stone.
No clue to the identity Of the unfortu
nate woman calling herself Mrs Harris
who died in st. Paul, on Sunday, has beer
obtained. II IL known. however, that her
statement that she was the novelist of that
name was false.
THERE il great excitement i Hrattle-
boro, VT, over the arrest in Omaha oi
Waite the absconding bank president.
and it is intimated that some other prom.
incnt citizens may disappear now that the
fugitive il on his way home.
A New YoHK bartender was stabbed,
on the 25th inst, the knife penetrating
the heart for five inches, and yet h, lived
Tor thrcc-qunrters of nm hour, II is am
other great surprise To the doctors.
"REpSEY' BrRNs, charged with the
murder OF l}ohnow, has been convicted in
the criminal court, and his punishment
fixed by the jury at ionrteon years im-
prlsonmcnl, the lowest penalty for the
crime,
A uo> at Bcloit, Via. pointed shot gun
nj two little girls, with the intention of
searching them, The weapon went Oft of
course, portions Of the charge striking The
girls oh their faces. While not fatally in
jured, they are dislignred for life
a LITTLE orphan girl, living in the fm-
lily Of Mr.. and Mrs Andrew Crawford,
near Belvidcrc, H., was whipped regular
" three times day until she.grew tired Of
it, and took to the woods She was fond
by Il aympathiaing person, to whom she
told her sad story, and who Immediately
placed Mrs. Crawford under arrest.
Two miles east of Monoagahola CITY,.
Penn. on Friday night, the keeper of d
gambling house fatally shot miner, who
had broken the bank few days before
and been ordered by the proprietor never
10 come there again lie went back, how
ever, with revolver, and was inmedi-
atclv shot.
pn. TAlcorr, editor and proprietor y u
grccnbnck paper at Maryylle, Mo, y,.
shot and killed, late on Saturday niE,t,
ut his residence near that place. lie was
seated near II window, reading, when
some person unknown fired ut his shadow
on the curtain He died with the firm
Al L. H., 4,
ploy Of national bank associations ,ut
neither his family nor his neighbors share
this belief
a SPECIAL from Corning, O., says; me
of the MALTA officers to-day found a aus
piciols character in camp, who, uponhe-
ing pressed for particulars, snid that intho
battle Of Sunday one miner was Killed
outright and eight wounded, one of whom
will die The man who was killed vas
buried ON the way home by his associates.
II ii snd the miners expect arms ipm
some quarter, and intend making gelcr-
nj attack On the troops M soon rs the ANS
arrive, and that they will commence oIcr-
utions Us burning buildings. The colUed
miners all went to work.
TnE Mack murder trial was called on
the 23rd inst, al Jefferson, Wis Mosrs.
Sale. Bennett and Smith appeared iorthc
state. and Winans and Fethcrs for thcdc-
Tense. This case will be remembered MS
the one where the wife and paramount we're
charged with killing the husband witt a
club Unlock county Wis. where the case vas
tried i'm December 1870 and resulted in
the conviction of Mrs, Mack, and her SIM
tcnce to states prison for life but her com
ael through i technically obtained d a.
hearing. The case created much Il
sensation in that vicinity, where il was so
generally discussed that il was hard to ind
4 competent Jury
TnE postotliec nj Ahnapcc, VIA. vas
broken into aud about fifty letters in he
general delivery broken open. The tliei
rot away with all the money III the c,sh
boN, about five dollars and eight ncwre-
volNcrs. Monday morning he was dlSc,v-
cred bv means at the reviewers and arrest
ed hy the city marshal. Soon after arpst
he broke away and ran for dear life with
half the village at his heels hut wnsrc-
captured. An examination was held re-
fore Justice Parker, and he was boIud
over 10 the circuit court, and il nov olg
I'd III ail He gives his name as Clas.
Iovce, and ina blacksmith The postotiee
department has been notified Of his cap
turc and il il Thought will send an AGENT
IA investigate the matter