The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-05
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

MARK SUMNER, q Baptist minister, has been
sentenced by the United States District Court at
Louisville, to six years imprisonment for
forging pension papers.
JOHN HENRY JOHNSON, q negro, was hung
III Savannah, Ga, on the 9th ult., for the muir
der Of Daniel McDcrmott, q seaman on British
lark, in March, 1873. He confessed his guilt
and said lac was going right to heaven.
JAMES HOWARD was hung at Ozark, Frank
lin county, Ark, on the 9th ult. In January
last he saw his wife dancing with q man Of
whom he was jealous, and, seiziug her by the
hair, he dragged her home and further NAL
treated her, 80 that she died.
AT Marion, o., OH the 25th ult., Enoch Young
had fight with two boys in saloon, and WAS
badly punished. He left, threatening VEN
geance, and soon returned with large knife,
and approaching Israel Benscy, who had taken
no part in the fight, stabbed Inn twice, killing
him almost instantly. He was arrested.
john WoLLEGE, q barber at Mount Joy, Pa,
fatally shot his wife, and slightly wounded his
son, aged Is, Oh the 25th. Jealousy was the
cause.
AT Hartford, Conn, on the 25th, Rev. A. W.
Paige pleaded l.ilty to the charge Of sending
obscene letters through the mail, and was fined
$500 and the costs. He taken to the Hart
ford county Jail i'll default.
FARMER gained Donahue, wealthy fruit
grower Of Otoe county, Mo-, was murdered by
al insane son OH the Gath. The boy shot a
horse and stabbed HIS father to death because
he attempted to take the pistol from him. He
attempted to kill his mother but she escaped
and he wreaked his fury on dumb animals about
the farm until captured.
ALFRED HARrZ, cashier i'll A. J. Meads COM
mission house, Kansas City, has disappeared.
An investigation showed that he had specialized
in bucket shops" and robbed his employer Of
$4,000 by raising checks and making false en-
tries. Ii also transpred that liartZ, while COLI
fdential clerk in large German tea house at
Hong Kong, embezZled $4,000.
Ak old man named Kenan stabbed and killed
VIM. Penn, aged 80, at Pttsburg, Pa, on the
2ith. The murder was the result of heated
argument and was committed in broad daylight
III the public street.
4 CoLoRED man named Brown and his wife
having been arrested on suspicion Of having
robbed the Gales,ille, ILL.,, bank, recently, some
excited citizens took them To the outskirts of
the town, and by threats of hanging, extorted
from them confession, duplicating Bill Stamp,
of Knoxville, and Len Ellsworth and Ed. Adle,
Of Mequon, all Of whom have been arrested.
! A. H. benton, Of Chicago, shot himself at
| the Fifth Avenue hotel, Topeka, rs, on the
| morning OF tue zou.
MIS-. CLARK, q respectable married lady, hv-
/ ing in the Garry neighborhood, Cass county.
! Texas, was bratally outraged and murdered ON
( the 22d. Three men were arrested. One con-
! fessed the crime. He was horribly mutiilated by
! the mob, lis clothing saturated with coal oil,
and set On fire. He was afterwards hanged.
JoHS DoZIER. II farmer living near Deep
Greek, Va, made himself obnoxious to the
neighbors by enforcing the fence law. On the
night of the 18th his house was surrounded by
q mob who kept up fusIlade until Dozier and
G colorcd man left the house by rear door,
attempting to escape to the woods. The colOred
man was struck by ball and killed.
! SALMON REED. q conductor on the Belt road
died at indianapolis, Ind, on the 2lst from
wounds received in O fracas i'll saloon with
Vim. Dougall, an engineer on the Bee Line.
AT Princeton, Ill, Oh the 18th, A. d. Garyin
attempted to shoot his sister, Mrs. Kessick,
with whom he had had quarrel. His design
upon his sisters life was frustrated by her
daughter who received the bullet III her own
body, dying instantly. Garvin then shot him.
self through the head, intiicting wound from
which he died next day.
= o. the 2lst the keeper of boarding house
on Florence street, Boston, learned that two OF
his dodgers, who roomed together, had been
missing eight days. lie opened their room and
found L. c. Marshall, one Of the missing
dodgers, dead upon the bed with o revolver in
his left hand and bullet hole in the right side
of his head. In the room large lot of bur-
glars tools were found, also crucibles and II
number Of precious stones taken from jewelry.
The theory Of the police is that tLe men quar-
relied over their spoils and that Marshall was
murdered by his .'pal."
AT Paterson, n. j., Harriet Hink, widow
,..l
outraged and robbed Of gold watch and some
money.