The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20


cd at the same place, ended ON the 18th by the
fatal shooting OF the former by the latter
AspRkw SAITH, for twelve years treasurer OF
North Andover, Mass, Is In jail, having con-
fessed TO misappropfiating funds. Tho amount
Of his defalcation Is not known.
BURGLARS visited westport, Conn, ON the
night Of The 10th. They gagged the village
Waterman, carried him to the National bank,
the doors Of which they forced, snd locked him
IN closet They then blew open the door of
the vault, but the explosion WAS 80 violent that
the plate glass front Of the bank MAS blown
into the streets. The villagers were aroused
and the burglars lied with sS,b00 cash.
| Ar l.eh ghton, Pa, ON the 18th, Edward
Mulhesin visited man named Goldberger, to
contradict a scandal about himself and Gold
oergers wife. After short talk Goldberger
shot Mulheiin dead.
! CLARENCE w. SMITH, q clerk la the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Office at Kansas City, No.,
suieided by shooting on the nth. Last July,
IN temporary NJ OF mental alteration. she
shot and wounded u MIR. Roberts, at the juno
ton depot, and attempted 10 cut the throat Of
Depot Master Fredenberry. His trial for these
offences Was 10 take place at the next term of
the court, dread Of which probably unbalanced
his mind and caused hun 10 commit the deed.
Mrs. ELLEN FIrzoERAi.D, q woman aged 40
years, committed suicide at Louisville, Ey., On
the llth by setting fire 10 her underclothes with
q match. She WAS discovered in the yard, with
the lire raging all OVER her body, praying for
mercy. Her body was burned to 0 crisp from
head 10 feet.
IN Philadelphia, Jennie Moore, alias Tyson,
was kicked to death, and Isaac Tyson has been
arrested. Both colored.
On the night of the 18th, nineteen colored per-
SONS confined in the county workhouse at Mem
phiS, Tenn. escaped. One Was killed by the
guard while attempting his reanest, thirteen
were captured and i've are still of large.
LUTHER b. McKISSEY shot and killed his
father-in-law, Jacob Fry, an old and respected
citizen Of Peoria, H., on the 10th, because Of
trouble about divorce suit pending against the
former. ....s
ScorT COOPER, q stock dealer, was chloro-
formed, gagged and robbed of $4,000 in hotel
at Brookyille, Ind, on the 10th. He was found
unconscious in the morning.
LAST month Geo. Beck buried his wife in the
Lutheran cemetery in Queens county, L. l., aud
on the 9th went and laid down on her grave and
committed suicide by shooting.
CAPT. ASHLEY BRows, cashier in the internal
revenue Office at Dayton, Ohio, is detaulter to
the amount Of s10,0O0. The peculating cap
tain upon being discovered made his escape
with 81, 200 Of the funds OF the Office.
The COW boys Jim West, John Dorsey and
Tom Henry, implicated in the shooting of Carson
at Las Vegas, recently, were taken from their
cells on the 9Th by a mob Of seyenty-fye armed
men. They were dragged to the central plaza
and ropes were thrown over the beams Of the
windmill pump. West was hauled up and
strangled. The impatient mob then began FIR
ing, and In short time Dorsey and Henry were
rlddled with balls. There was no resistance to
the mob.
Ira DAWSON committed suicide at Green's
burg, Ind, on the Sd, by shooting himself in
the heart. The refusal Of his company by q
young lady is the only motive assigned. He
was highly respected and an active church menu
Der.
OK the night of the 9th three burglars en-
tered the bank at Knoxville, Tenn, seized and
bound the president, Z. c. Runkle, who was
asleep in the building, and after gagging, beat
ing him and burning his feet In q shocking
manner to extort the combination of the safe
lock, departed taking $500. There was time
lock ON the safe and Runkle WAS unable TO give
the combination.
THREE white and two colored culprits were
publicly whipped at Wilmington, Del, on the
It'll.
The supreme Court OF Georgia refused q new
trial to Cox, sentenced to imprisonment for life
for the villainous murder Of Col. Aston, and
now the case is to be carried to the Supreme
Court Of the United States.
Bosros dispatch says Royal b. Cement, late
cashier Of the Eliot National bank, has been
found guilty of embezzlement. His bail was
increased to $4,000.
NEAR Londonderry, n. H., on the stb, during
the absence of her husband, Mrs. Sarah Dillng-
ham was outraged and murdered by her
nephew, William Wallace, who afterwards made
an unsuccessful attempt to kill himself. Fail
ing in his designs upon his own hfe he gave
himself up and declared the shooting of his
aunt to be the result Of premature discharge
Of his pistol.
JOHN q. y. BRows, living near Indianapolis,
Ind, Was murdered while OH his way home, on
the night Of the 9th. Joseph Wade has been
arrested on suspicion.
AT Cromp's saloon, Palestine, Tex, on the
7th, John Kerr was shot dead by Kirk Hoge
without proyOcatiOn.
ANTHONY MURPHY Was fatally pounded about
the head with mallet in the hands Of O saloon
keeper named MCGOWAN, at Joliet, IL, on the
7tb.