Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-27
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
A Case for Judge Lynch in AIissouri-A
Young Married Woman Dragged from
Her Horse and BrutaiIy Outrsged-An
iowa Actor Arrested at Washington n for
Forgery-Fires and Other Disasters.
A CASE FOR JUDGE LYNCH.

Grayson, asmall town in Missouri, near thil
CITY, a terrible outrage was committed las
night upon the person Of Mrs. VIM, &
young married woman, by an un.
known man. Mrs. Winn lives mile and 8
half from Grsyson and had been there to dc
some trading. When she returned home at
her gate, on alighting from her horse an
unknown man jumped from behind some
bushes where he had been hiding, seized
her and accomplished his purpose after his
poor victim had been exhausted by most
desperate struggle to prevent the terrible
deed. The scoundrel fled and Mrs. Winn
some time after remounted her horse, rode
to Grayson and told her sad story. In half
an hour seventy men were in the saddle
and united in searching the country
fer the villain, but at last accounts he had
not been captured. Suspicion attaches it.
self to stranger who had been been loafiDg
around Grayson several days, and there is
such strong feeling that if this man is cap
tured the most trivial circumstances against
him will undoubtedly cause him to be
lynched, as but short time ago at Platte
City, near Grayson, o negro confined in Jail
for raping white women was taken from the
Jail and hanged.
AN ACTOR ARRESTED FOR FORGERY.
Special Telegram to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Sept. 26.-An actor
calling himself John Bardson, claiming to be
from Keokuk, Ia, is in trouble here, he hav-
ing been arrested yesterday afternoon at the
instance of Mccullough, the we'll known lum-
ber dealer, on the charge of passing forged
check. The check was drawn on the Far
mers' and Mechanics national bank of
Georgetown for $14, payable to the order of
Father Harril. Mr.. Mccullough states that
Bardson came to his Office dressed as
priest, and ordered So worth of lumber to be
sent to place on New Jersey avenue. The
driver failed to find any such number. The
prisoner gave the check in payment and re-
ceived $12 in change. The check was pro-
tested and deemed forgery. Mr.. Bardson
is about thirty-four years of age. He takes
the character of an old man at the theatre,
and when arrested was dressed like priest.
sCALDED TO DEATH.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Sept, 26.-A fatal dis
aster occurred on board the Louisville and
Madison packet, Maggie Hooper, Saturday
night at II o'clock. The boat was going up
and when passing Neel's Landing her steam
pipe exploded with terrible force, filling the
stern of the boat with scalding steam. Lem
P. Rogers, engineer, was scalded and in his
agony leaped into the river and was drowned
Five colored roustabouts were severely scald-
ed, and two of them, Geo. Brown and Jim
Smith, arc expected to die. The steamer
Gen. Little brought the wounded here, and
they are in the Marine hospital. Cause of
the explosion not known. Only few pas
sengers were on board at the time and none
were injured.
DEFECTIVE STEAM GAUGE.
DENVER, COL, Sept. 26.-The boiler OK
ploded in saw mill fourteen miles east of
Leadville, yesterday, instantly killing Wash
ington Emery, engineer, and James Men
zier. The explosion resulted from too much
steam, the gauge being out of repair.
STATE BONDS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.-Some time ago
package of six thousand dollars worth of
town bonds, taken from dead soldiers, were
abstracted from the chief clerk g roomlsecond
auditors department. Investigation satis-
fies the secretary of The treasury that the
bonds were taken by Chief Clerk Herring,
now dead.
PAPER MILL BURNED.
SPRINGFIELD, O., Sept. 26.-The paper
mills OF Enox, near this city, owned by the
Daily Republican company burned this after
noon. Loss $35,OOO; insurance $4,000,
divided among several companies. The
owners had large orders ahead. The same
mills burned four years ago.
TANNERY BURNED.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 26.-The Egner tan
merry, (Which became noted five or six years
ago as the scene of the brutal murder and
cremation of young man named Schilling)
by Egner 81 Rufer, burned to-day. The
building was owned by the Walburg heirs
and the tannery by Simon Wolfstein. Total
loss 10000; insurance about $4,000.
ASHORE.
LONDON, Sept. 25.-The. steamer Cano
pus, Capt. Horsfall, from Liverpool for Bos
ton, with forty-hve passengers, has gone
ashore in Kiel Bay, near Null of Kintire,
Scotland.
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