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minutes. The assault is said to have been un-

minutes. The assault is said to have been I'M
provoked and cold blooded.
colored minor named Taylor Williams, at
Rapids City, ILL.,. has been shot and killed by
agents of the Mollie Mcguire society, recently
organized there.
At st. Louis, on the 18th instant, Conrad
Hieman, while laboring under an attack of de-
lirium tremens, assaulted his wife with large
knife, driving the blade through the lungs of an
infant in Mrs. Hieman's arms He then struck
another blow. burying the knife in the heart of
his wife, killing her almost instantly. A brother
of Hieman attempted to seize the maniac muir
derer and received a severe stab in the back.
disabling him. Hieman then broke away. ran
toward the river, since when he has not been
seen.
VIM Shuttleworth, painter residing at
Memphis Tenn, awoke on the night of the 18th,
and perceiving a burglar in the room, COM
menced firing at him with his revolver. The
thief escaped, but next day he applied to the
hospital for admission, having been shot through
the chest. His name is Joe Costello, of Bowling
Green, KY. and it is thought he will die of his
injuries.
Wells B. Brown, a Lebanon. N. H., man, who
abandoned his family there some months ago,
and short time since, under an assumed name,
married o divorced woman at Aurora, ILL., cut
the latter's throat on the 18th inst, and mutt
lated himself in a horrible manner. The woman
was dead when found by neighbors, but the
At Mishicott, Wis, on the 18th inst. Fritz
Bruemmer returned home in state of intoxica-
ton, and becoming enraged at his little son for
some trivial cause, lifted him up bodily and
threw him to the ground causing bis death in
an hour and q half.
John G. Wyckoff, second clerk of the steamer
Hard Cash, shot and fatally wounded Lewis
Taylor, colored drayman at Memphis, Tenn,
on the 18th inst. The difficulty originated in
Taylor refusing to sign for cotton which he
had put on dray.
Early on the morning of the 18th inst band
of masked men rode up to the jail at Winches-
ter, ILL.,, battered down the door, disarmed the
guard and jailor, and, with revolvers in hand.
compelled them to give up the keys. They then
opened the cell of John j. Field and dispatched
him with q number of pistol shots. Field was
incarcerated for the murder of James Padgett,
on the 25th ult. He has wealthy connections.
At Chicago, on the 18th inst, Martin Powers
put three bullets into his wife'a head, inflicting
fatal injuries, and then, turning the muzzle of
the revolver upon himself, blew out his brains
The couple had been married but five months.
The cause of the tragedy remains mystery.
Emory Phillips entered the roem of Thos. J.
Snyder, at Grand View, Ind, on the 18th and
kicked in the head of bass drum, belonging to
Snyder, who, upon inquiring the cause of the
act, was shot just above the eye with revolver
and died instantly. Phillips had been drinking
all the afternoon and swearing that he OF Sny-
der would die before night.
At Aurora, ILL.,, on the 18th inst, Mrs. w.
Baldwin was found dead in bed with her jugular
vein severed, and beside her lay her uncon-
scious husband, with several gashes in his
throat, arms and abdomen. His wounds are not
fatal.
j. W. Wise and NJ. j. Pearson quarreled about
tobacco stick at Monterey, KY, on the 10th
inst, when the former crushed Pearson's skull
with stone, from the effects of which lie died
an hour afterwards. Pearson leaves wife and
small children