Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-20

CAIRO, ky., on the 10th inst, by one Rogers,
owner Of a fish boat, they having had quarrel.
fatally injured.
William Oehm, while in an intoxicated con-
dihon, went to the residence Of Miss Charlotte
Joiner, at Chicago, Huron County, O.; ;sand de-
manded admittance. She ordered himito leave,
and on his refusal fred the contents of:a shot
gun INTO his stomach and breast. He died
shortly after. j"
On the 18th inst, Robert Bird, employed as q
track-hand on the Charlotte, Columbia and
augusta railroad, at Columbia, s. c., killed his
@s1fe, Hester Bird, at a point between Kelhans
and Sharpe's stations. Reports of criminal in
reached Birds ears he went home infiamed
With ilqnor, and enraged with jealousy struck
hls vile clown with the butt of ali az, and then
proceeded 70 cut her head oil with the Ak.
Bird Red to oanill race few mikes distance and
drowned himself = 5-SS1
Al Italian organ-grinder: named Charles Gar
della, was arrested at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the
10th instant, charged by a 10-year-old daugh-
ter with having shot dead her sister, aged five
years. -. >,.- - ~<a-ra
William Tomasson, seaman belonging to
Boston, killed mate Henry Metcalf, of the bark
at New York on the 18th inst. with the prison.
er in irons.
Horace Burr shot his wife at Corpus Christi
Texas, on the 14th. INST. Mrs. Barnard, his
mother.in-law, springing between them, was
shot twice.. Burr then struck his sister-in-law,
telling her to the floor. Re1oading the pistol he
. shot himself dead. Mrs. Barnal d's wounds are
pronounced fatal. The. cause offthe tragedy
was disagreement between Burr and his wife
resulting in the latter retrrning to her fathers
"A negro drowned the baby Of his paramour
in a asstfeet eistern at Columbus, Ga, and disap-
peared.s Since then he has been hiding in the
lattice work of the Western railroad bridge over
the river. His mother told the officers of the
place of his concealment, and they appeared at
either end of the bridge and demanded bis sur
render. The fugitive leaped 40 feet into the
river, and, uninjured by the leap, he sought the
deepest water and drowned himself.
mob of about one hundred masked men
surrounded the Jail at Osceola; NO., on the
morning of the 18th inst, took therefrom three
men charged with murder, and hanged them.
Recently hard feelings sprang up between
Henry A. Stocks and John R. Russell, farmers
prairie, Williamson county, ILL.,, on the 18th
inst. They met on the road and an alteration
ensqed, during which Russell shot Stocks, kill
ing him instantly.
At Parkersburg, W. Va, on the night of the
10th inst, Elmer Bartlett, son Of prominent
merchant, deliberately shot J. P. Tracewel of
Newport, inflicting fatal wound. Cause, do
mestic difficulty.
In a quarrel over q game cards at st.
Louis, NJ, Mack Sanders, q young colored
steamboat man, was fatally shot by gambler
| named Charles Ellis. I:'C
the 18th inst. James Farrier and George Wood
engaged in an alteration, when Wood smote
Farrier on the head with a piece of iron,
inficting fatal injuries. ..,-,.~.
The court having decided in favor of rail-
road company in regard to the ownership of
California, U. s. marshal attennp pied" to serve
writs of ejectment on the settlers on the 18th
inst. when fight occurred in which seven men
were killed and others wounded. The settlers are
banded together tor mutual protection. -.:.
+ Thomas Horne, a school teacher, and John
county, Mo-, on the 9Th inst, in which Taylor
| was shot dead. - Is + SZ:.& 1874
At Dayton o. on the 10th inst, Charles
Britton, a notorious desperado, was shot and
fatally injured while attempting to. rob tie
money drawer of q hotel.
At Augusta, Butler county, Kansas, on the
8ths inst, g. mob Of railbaIs tfack-lsyers at
tempted to rescue one Of their number who had
been aarosted and jailed for indecent exposure
Of his person., The ringleader was shot dead by
the city marshal. az !
l,:1fus Arnristead, foreman Of a plantation
, i!c::c Memphis, Tenn: was assassinated by an
w! ioMn negro on the night Of the 9th inst. -
negro pod Mrs. George Salmon and then
murdered his victim. The villain was arrested
| by the authorities; but a mob overpowered the
guards and hing the negro: - onI: .,9s"-H
Clarks;ille, Tenn, by their father, mother and
aunt, who had become crazed by religious ex-
sEdi7a' and, MolHe Wilkins, children, died
suddenly on the 7tth mstsata house in Buehan-
Ian County, n. C!s frs Their mother
] had frequently broken i'll and fkktna aeatables,
{ expecting him to- Get it, but hst 1wns children
" mefe si Her y'edls she 's Tow cnafseer and is
=. Thomas Jones, living at Iatan, ma, returned
home late on the night of the 7th inst, and
found that William Jackson bad dsnped bis
position as husband. He seized his gun and
fired, killing JacksQn instantly: Al are eolored.
j -: Jas, Tohin beat Ills dsughter to death With
chair, while in drunken frenzy, .at Chicago; ION
+ the 9th inst. So u4!-sE p,snb..$i f>"H )