Morris tribune., 1880-12-30
NEWS SUMMARY.
WEEKLY RECORD OF CRIMES.

Horace E. Darling of Valley City Dakota.
was arrested at Milwaukee on the charge of
embezzling about 81 900 from the Northern
Pacific Railway company. -
The champion brute has been discovered
in Plantagenet, Ont, in theperson of Dumas
Brunet who secured the murder of his
father and stood by and watched the deed.
j. l.. Ayers. prominent citizen of Sid
ney, Ohio, has been arrested on the charge
of forging school bonds to the amount of
$40, 900 or S30, 900. He has hitherto borne
n high reputation for honesty.
j. J. Pratt of Braintree, VT has been
arrested for attempting to poison company
of Frenchmen employed by Geo. Spear in
cutting logs, on land claimed by Pratt.
Paris green was found sprinkled on the din
ner of the men.
John c. Wustum, Charles Perkins and
o. p. Whitney, connected with the match
bond swindle which has been in the federal
courts at Chicago for some months, We're
sentenced to the penitentiary at Chester, ILL.,,
for one year, and $500 fine.
Rev. L. B. Carpenter, an Episcopal cler-
gyman of Toledo, was robbed on Il Lake
Shore train. AS the cars We're about to
stop at Monroe gentlemanly- appearing
man inquired the time. AS Mr.. Carpenter
took out his watch it was grabbed by the
thief at the same time two other confeder-
ates seized the clergyman, bent him back
over the seat, hurriedly ritied' his pockets,
securing $50. and jumped from the cars
before the remaining passengers had time
to recover from their astonishment. The
watch was worth $3.50.
Nnchnel p Coffe. Laurent Defossa and
Chas. Wyant, president. treasurer and sec
retary of the Mutual Stock operating COM
pany, of New York recently supplanted by
the Guaranty and Income company, at No.
~ Broadway, have been arrested. They
are charged with obtaining money under
false pretences The history of the swim
ding operations of the Mutual Stock
Operating company extends over an entire
year, in which time probably as many as
200 persons have been robbed by it of sums
ranging from S. to more than $1,000.
4 terrible tragedy has been enacted at
Holmes Valley, Ky. David J. Carter, an
old and respectable citizen, and Ludd Har-
rington, also highly respectable, both farm
| ers i'll good circumstances, the former aged
about fifty five and the latter about thirty
| five, had law suit about the settlement OF
some outstanding accounts between them
which was heard yesterday. and after the
hearing, it became subject of conversation
| between the Gtigants, when from words il
came to blows, and Harrington drew pistol
and shot Carter the ball entering his mouth
and coming out at the back of the neck
Young Carter. son of the wounded man. ran
| home and returned with double barre
| shot gun. both barrels of which he dis
charged into the body of Harrington, appa-
rently killing him instantly.
Almost the entire business portion of Elk
hart, Texas, has been destroyed by fire
The chief of police at Ansonia Conn, was
! shot while attempting to arrest a disOrderly
character known as Chep Smith
Emil Hoya of Milwaukee, imprisoned in the
| Omaha jail for blackmail, committed suicide
Friday night by taking morphine, which hi:
physician had prescribed to relieve the pair
| incident to heart disease.
Charles Montague, q promising youth Of
eighteen, at Waterloo, Ia, for burglarizing two
residences in that town, and ravishlng female
| occupant has been sentenced to twenty-five
years in the penitentiary.
During disturbance in the hotel of P. T.
Griffin at Rockaway Beach one Malone at
| tempted to stab the proprietor The latter drew
| a revolver and fired six times at Malone, wht
| fell mortally wounded Griffin then seized {
gun and riddled Malone with buckshot.
At New Alexandria, Ohio, DR.. Schooley and
young dentist got into fight with Buckingham
farmer, when Schooley drew revolver and sho
Buckingham in the head Henry then took
shovel and beat Schooley over the head in hor
rible manner 1t is said that both Buckingham
and Schooley will die.
Henry Ostrander, age twenty nine, shot an
killed his brother, George Lyman CstrandeI
age twenty-six, at Camden, near Utica, N
Henry was jealous because his little sister
Cora, was caressing his brother He spit to
bacco into her eye, and George warned him t
stop. Henry then shot George through the ey
killing him instantly.