The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-09

jai, shot and fatally wounded the jailor, and at
tempted 10 rescue Webb, q prisoner under tho
death sentence for murder. The rescress were
scared on before accomplishing the purpose. A
posse is 10 pursuit. and II captured, the men
WIN certainly DO lynched"
Jams MANSON WAR srcNk mhlAtto, was
hanged Of Washington on the I'd inst, for the
murder Of his wife In 1873. His head was sew
ered from his body by the rope.
EDwARD TATRo, boy, was hanged at Wind:
sor, Vt, on the ID inst, FOR the murder of Mrs
Chas. w. Butfer.
GEO. WARNER ENoLisn, treasurer Of Borden
town, N. J., hanged himself on the 18th inst.
BES. JOHNSON, charged with raping Miss
Ammo A. Ball. in Clark county, Ky; was taken
from jail at Wincheste5 Ky, early on tho 81st
ult, and hung IN the courthouse yard.
TEXAS rangers had fight on the 29th ult
with party Of Mexican desperadoes, near Fort
Smell, killing two and wounding one OF thom.
A MAN living near Kalamazoo turned his
daughter-in-iaw out Of doors on the evening Of
the S1st ult., and when her father and some of
the neighbos demonstrated he fatally shot one
OF tho latter, and finished the days disturbance
py taking dose Of nitrate OF silver He may
recover.
A MAN calling himself Frank Howard was shot
and killed ON the 10th ult., at Pritona, ON Coal
river, w. Va, by Q man named Atkins, who claims
he did II in self defense.
Ar Leadville, Col, on the SOth ult, +. A.
Prentice shot and killed I. C. Dixon while en-
gagged in q quarrel growing out Of an alleged
insult offered by Prentice to lady whom Dixon
was escorting home.
JAMES EDWARD JOHNSON (colored) was shot
dead al Washington, D. c., on the goth ult., by
aR.a ISsrE
CHARLES THEIs, young man, was shot dead
by Joseph Ritter at Newport, KY, on the 29th.
They quarreled about girl
IT has transpired that John Gochring, an in.
mate Of the Allegheny City, Pa, almshouse,
was killed on the 9th Of February by weak
minded inmate named Coolhoff. Coolhoff and
and II. b. Crawford, keeper Of the insane de-
partment, have been arrested.
ISAAC FRANK, well known In police circles ten
years ago a. detective, suicided ut the union
himself in the temple. Motive unknown.
Mrs. GLEN, Of Indiana, recently convicted Of
forgery and other swindlng, has been sentenced
to four years imprisonment.
A LUSArIc made murderous assault on o
young man near sandusky, O., on the Goth ult.,
and was choked to death by the latter.
Two men, VIM. Alfred and Frank wheeler,
alias Simmons, quarreled over Kate White, q
prostitute, at Louisville, Ky, on the 28th ult:,
when fight onsued, during which Alfred cut
Wheeler throat, causing death In few min
utes. The murderer escaped.
WELLINGTON, the cultivated Boston prisoner,
explains the finding Of arsenic in the stomach
Of his little son, who died last January, by
saying that he gave poisoned candy to his wife,
who innocently gave it to the child.
A SOLDIER OF the Twenty-fifth infantry was
killed at Fort Davis, La, on the 2Sth ult., by
deputy sheriff named Latham, while resisting
arrest.
JOHN BURNS, a negro, murdered his estranged
wife at st. Louis, on the Goth ult.
PATRICK TESToS q laborer In the steel mill, at
Springfield, Ill, became involved in q quarrel
with his wife, on the 2Sth, and killed her by
beating her on the head with o sledge hammer
and kicked her. He then threw the body into
the cellar, mopped up the blood, dressed HIM
self and departed. He was arrested and con-
fessed the crime.
night Of the 9th, resulted in the death Of man
named Chiselm: Dixon, the proprietor Of the
saloon, struck the fatal blow, the victim falling
on his head, fracturing his neck.
Elk COMPTROLLER THOMAS b. LsoGETr and
Daniel w. Leeds, e,-clerk Of the city treasurer,
at Elizabeth, N. j., convicted Of conspiracy to
defraud the city, have been sentenced, the
former TO seven years in the state prison and
S2,25O fine, the latter to four years and $500 fine
JACOB FREY, an old man Of SO years, cut his
wife'S throat on the 26th, at their home in the
southern part Of st. LOUIS and then severed
his own windpipe. Both probably will die. The
affair grew out of quarrel about money.
A MURDER was committed on the night Of the
Gath, in Mason City, West Va, sixteen miles
south Of Gallipolis, Ohio. jessie Arthur and
William Ray had q quarrel about q young wo-
man at q dance, when Ray dared Arthur TO
shoot him. Arthur did the same. and Ray shot
twice, both balls taking effect, one in Arthur's
heart and the other in his head. Ray escaped
arraat