The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-09-24
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR

AT Pocahontas, Ark, on tho 18th inst, Vim.
Wcans, a lawyer went into the store Of Chas
Nichols bought pistol and then going up to
where Nichols was sitting on stool said, "Pro-
pare yourself" and shot him through the heart.
He went ON the street saying no ought 10 have
shot Nichols year ago, and surrendered HIM
self to the officers.
GEoRGE MITCHELL (colored) for the murder
Of woman with whom he was living M his
wife, was hanged at Troy, o., on tho 18th inst.
Ron HARPER, attacking James Thompson
with knife, was shot and instantly killed by
the latter near Bots dare island, Texas, on tho
| 10th inst.
WILLIAM SMITH, Of tho firm of Forname 4
Smith, merchants, Of Damascus, Wayne county,
Pa, has disappeared, and IN q defaultor to tho
amount Of s25,0OO. Fornamo in ruined and
several firms at Cochecton, N. Y, loso largely.
stock speculation.
JAMES CoFFEY, q cigar maker Of New Albany,
Ind, shot and instantly killed Robert Dudley
in Louisville on the 18th inst. They quarrelcd
over woman of the town.
MRs. JOSEPH POWELL, OF Quincy, ILL.,, under
took to prevent an assault on her husband by n
negro on the 10th inst, by jumping between
| tho two men. At that instant gun in the
hands Of the Scnegambian was discharged, and
| she fell with mortal wound in her hip.
MARY EGAN, washer-woman residing at
Sioux Falls, was found murdered in her house
on the 18th inst. Her husband, a worthless
chap, in under arrest, charged with the crime.
NEHEMIAH L. KINDS, prominent citizen Of
Cooperstown, N. Y, shielded by drowning on
| the 10th inst.
DUEL between Ute Indian and n Navajo
took place at Santa Fe, N. NJ, on the 18th inst.
The Ute was killed and the Navajo seriously in
jured. Knives were the weapons. Both Indians
wanting to marry the same girl
Ar II o'clock on the night Of the nth inst, n
mob Of one hundred armed men came into
Springfield, KY, aud began to batter in the
doors of the Jail containing two negroes charged
with the murder OF an old man named Laprade.
Four suspected negroes were in tho hands OF
the mob and two others in the JAIL also negro
named Joe Ramsey, who murdered Miss Holt,
because she refused to marry him. Ramsey was
shot TO death and left on the floor Of the Jail
and the two other prisoners were taken out and
hanged. II is feared that some Of the sus-
pcctcd negroes will yet suffer at the hands OF
the excited citizens.
In shooting affair at Buffalo Springs, Texas,
on the 14th inst, j. Lamb received twelve buck
shot in his person, Geo. Edwards five, Colonel
Young four, and Press Chandler was shot in
the hand All the wounded are in q critical
condition. Maltrcatment Of hog was the
origin of the difficulty.
HENRY MocKoBER, guard in charge Of con-
victs aboring on the Big Sandy railroad near
Mount Sterling, o., was killed by his gang who
made their escape. MOckobee's body, literally
cut TO pieces, was found on the 18th inst.
VIM. LANE, n colorcd man, was shot and
killed by Mike Hawkins in q row at Lawrence
burg, KY, on the 18th inst.
CHARLES d. GAMBRIL, New York architect,
killed himself on the 18th inst.
RICHARD ADAMS, Deadwood's defauling OK
postmaster, who escaped from the marshal after
trial and conviction and was recaptured ut Fort
Sully, was sentenced on the 18th to three years
imprisonment and 5000 fine.
On the 18th inst, Charles L. Cole and Frank
Goodrich, both residents OF Pine Run, Genesee
county, Mich, were arrested on charge Of pass
ing counterfeit money and brought to Detroit,
Mich. Cole is a wealthy farmer and justice Of
the peace. A quantity Of bad five dollar bills
on the State National bank Of Troy, N. Y, was
found his possession.
A ST.. LOUIS saloonst named A. W. Zittell,
was shot and killed on the 18th inst, by John
Laughlin, whom he had refused drink.
JOSEPH TApsoN, formerly secretary Of the
Metropolitan Railway Company's Provident
Savings bank Of England, was arrested at Phil
adclphia on the 18th inst, OH n charge Of ap-
propriating at different times during tho past
four or five years sums of money belonging to
dcpositors Of that institution aggregating about
S50000.
Ar Pueblo, Col, on the 18th inst. hard
character known as Nickel Smith was taken
from Lis home by committee of citizons, and
hanged for rape committed on small girl on
the Sth INST.
AT Planiied, n. j., on the 10Th inst, John
johnson, colored, coachnan, killed Samuel
Williams, also colorcd.
Is disturbance in Covington, KY, on tho
18th inst, tho police undertook the arrest Of
two or three colorcd men. One of them, Joe
Saunders, resisted and was shot and instantly
killed.
JOHN MCCARTHY, employed ~ carpenter in
the Mare Island navy yard, killed his wife in
San Francisco on the 18th inst. and shot HIM
self, but not fatally. Cause, refusal OF the wife
TO live with him.
The safe of Clire Bros, at Martinsburg,
Knox county, o., was blown open by burglars
on the 18th inst, and robbed of FL 1926.
AT picnic near Owenton, KY, on the 18th
inst, a row occurred between drunken youths.
Pistols were used with fatal results to Barnard
Acre. Three Hammond brothers were wounded
two it in thought MORALLY.