The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-06
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

An unknown man, evidently II school teacher
from Ross county, Ohio, shielded with arsenic
ut Covngton, Ky, on the 3Oth.
CHARLEY TANG, q Chnaman, was hanged ut
Colusa, Cal, on the 3Oth, for tho murder OF
Chinaman III Colusa county IN December, 1873.
CHAs. I. FREEMAN, the Pocassct, Mass, child
murderer, was arraigned before the Supreme
Court OH tho 10Th. The physicians declared
him insane and he was demanded to the May
terni when, II his condition in the same, no viii
be sent to the lunatic asylum.
Al. Faiiibault, MIMI, ON tho 10Th, Rev. j. N.
Lower committed suicide by shooting. Ho
leaves wife and six children in Winncbago, ILL.,.
INTENSE excitement prevailed throughout
Shenandoah county, Va, on the 18th, in consc-
qucncc Of Il collision between white and black
laborers at Colombia furnace, near Edinburg,
that county. The cause Of tho trouble was the
employment OF ncgrcs in place Of discharged
whites by tho furnace companies. Militia was
ordered to the scene If the disturbance by tho
governor.
4 YOUNG man named Wheat was shot and
killed by deputy sheriff near Little Rock,
Ark., while resisting arrest. II was discovered,
after the shooting, which was commenced by
Wheat, that he waS not the party the sheriff
was after.
j. WYATT STONE, who killed his wife in Octo-
her, 1879, has been rc-scntenccd to hc hanged
III Washington. On FRIDAY, February q.
CHEF az PoIICE Benson, OF Norfolk, Va,
killed himself on the 18th. Domestic trouble
A CORRESPONDENT at Paris reports that
clerk in n New York bank, who abscondcd with
100000, has been arrested III Paris with Sl0, 900
on his person. The clerk states that he left
$4,000 in New Haven and $4,000 ut South
ampton.
FIVE persons convicted OF arson and incCn
diarism were recently shot at Santiago dc Cuba.
Ar the hospital for incurabcs at Worcester,
Mass, on the 9th, Thomas DwyCr, q lunatic,
was killed 10y another named Warren Rice.
THREE more illicit distieries have been de-
stroycd and six moonshiners captured in Ten
ncssce.
CHARLES PoupoR, aged 30, = local preacher
OF tho Methodist Episcopal Church, suicided by
hanging Oh his farm, four miles west Of New
Albany, Ind, on the 18th. Calsc, insanity,
produced by religious excitement in relation to
Sanctiiication.
Mrs. CORA u. MYERS died from the effects Of
M abortion at Bradford, Pa, on the 18th. The
coroncr's jury returned q verdict duplicating
Charles j. Myers, her husband. Mrs. &. \.
Heath, her mother, Ella her sister and DIR. L..
q. Read. The doctor has lied.
Rev. Mn. HAYDEN, who has had two trials on
the charge OF the murder of Mary StannaId, at
New Haven, Conn. has been released III $4,000
bail.
Ar Augusta, Me-, on the 10TH Jason =.
Scribner was sentenced to life Imprisonment for
the murder Of his two children in May. 1873.
\ DISPATCH from Trinidad, Col. dated the
18th, says several hundred Texas cow boys are
encampod between there and Los Vegas. Fiji
teen of them entered Los Vegas OH the night Of
the I'D, killed the city marshal and two citizens
and wounded five others.
JAS. /. SIMMONS, formerly n telegraph oper-
ator, suicidcd with Paris green at st. Louis on
the 9th.
A BURGLAR named Henry Stevenson was
fatally shot by policeman at Indianapolis, Ind,
on the oath.
FREDERIcK KRANJA, Poandcr, aged II, was
tabled and killed at Chicago on the night Of
the 9th. by Charles Schank.