The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-08
CRIME.

DAVID WHITE, an old, wealthy and re-
spected citizen OF Charles City, Iowa, lost
$1,000 in a game of monte at Coles circus
grounds. r
CORNELIUS MAYER, glass manufacturer
in Brooklyn, n. Y, was murdered in the
streets OF Wlllianlsburgh on Saturday by
band OF roughs who are now under ar
rest.
DANIEL CLUNE, of Holland, Brown
county, Wis, was under arrest. on the
charge of selling liquor to Indians. Clune
is one of the richest and most influential
men in his town.
CRY treasurer Williams of Rochester.
n. Y, committed suicide June 30. His
accounts were declared correct by a COM
mittee Of the common council. the day
previous.
A TERRIBLE murder occurred at Duluth.
MIMI, on LIST inst. Hartman Opel struck
E. D. Brenna with loaded cane and in
stantly killed him. Opel made his escape.
North shore parties and tugs are after him
now.
BEDFORD, Penn, and Queenan, the
Washington, D. c., murderers, we're SEN
fenced, on the Oath inst, to be hanged on
September 10. Judge Hagner, of the dis
trict court, pronounced sentence.
EMERY B. MoREY, of Battle Creek
Mich, formerly prominent and successful
dealer in real estate, has been convicted of
forgery and will be sentenced on the 9Th
prox. His daughters marriage is set for
the following day.
The Galveston Neacs' special from Schulz
enberg says w. R. Ragsdale, a prominent
citizen, was murdered by cattle-thieves.
whom he had followed four miles. They
dragged his body half mile and threw it
into the branch.
THE boot and shoe store of Sterfeld &
Go. at Etna Green, Ind, was burglarized
and nearly the whole stock carried away.
There is no clue to the thieves, as it was
not discovered until business hours the
next morning. Sterfeld estimates his loss
at $4,000.
WHILE on his way home, D. Amerman,
a grocer, of Alliance, O., was attacked
by two men and choked until he was I'M
conscious, and then robbed of $500. The
night being very dark the robbers were not
apprehended, and are still at large
TIE swindler, James T. Harris, of
Georgetown, Texas, who has obtained large
sums of money by transmitting circulars
through the mails in the north asking f.
nancial aid for suppositious community
of sufferers by the failure of the crops, has
been run down by special agent of the
postoffice department, and lodged in jail.
Ex-JUDGE YAPLE, of Cincinnati, was
robbed on the street of very valuable
pin, picked from his scarf. The
pin was worth 81 200. The thief, one J. F.
Norris, was arrested, but he had in the
mean time turned the pin over to his pal
The pal was also arrested, but the pin
could not be found on him.
WILLIAM NJ. WILLS was shot and killed
in Washington township, eight miles from
Mount Ayr, Iowa, on the 25th inst, by
two brothers named Golden. The killing
was caused by a quarrel over a game Of
pool. Excitement runs high, and militia
have been called out to protect the muir
derers, who are now in Jail
AT the Adams county poor farm, near
Coalsburg, Illinois, one of the inmates
killed another on the LIST inst. Owing to
the fact that the quota of Adams county at
the state asylum is full, there are num-
Der of insane at the poor farm, where
there are not proper facilities for confn-
ing them.
SIX escaped convicts from the Idaho peni-
Tertiary stopped a stage-coach on the Chal-
lis and Utah line, on the Both of June, re-
Heved the seven passengers men and
two women-of all their valuables, and
then Invested them of all of their clothing.
The unfortunates travelled several miles
in 4 state ofnudity, and procuring some
sheets and blankets continued their Journey
to the railway where they obtained suitable
apparel