Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-15
Three brothers named Hammond were wounded.

Three brOtherS named Hammond were wounded,
two, it is thought, MORALLY.
Nicke Smith, q hard character, was taken
from his home at Pueblo, COL, on the 18th
inst, by committee of citizens, and hung.
Smith had raped q small girl
At Palnfield, N. j., on the night of the 18th
inst, John Johnson killed Samuel Williams.
Both colOred.
Mrs. John Mccarthy of San Francisco, re-
fused to live with her husband for reasons best
known to herself. John did not like his wife's
course, sought her out and shot her dead on
the 18th inst He then tried to put an end to
his own worthless life, but did not succeed. He
is dangerously wounded.
The police of Covington, KY, attempted to
arrest party of colored men on the 18th inst.
One of them resisted and was shot dead His
name vas Joe Saunders.
Mrs. Cynthia Sargbut, aged 70 years, living
alone at Fort Ann N Y, was brutally murdered
on thenight of the 9th inst There was nothing
disturbed in the house to indicate that the cause
was robbery.
| Thomas Morgan, formerly assistant superin-
| tendent of the gas works at st. Joseph, Mo-,
was fatally shot by Richard Stevenson, a former
deputy sheriff of Kansas City, Mo-, at Leadville,
Col, on the 9th INST: Cause, jealousy.
Salt Lake City, Utah, was startled on the 9th
inst, by bloody affray which occurred at a
railway depot, in which both contestants re-
| ceVed fatal pistol wounds. The parties were
r [. Smith and DR.. B. L. Snedaker and the
trouble was in regard to Miss Davidson to
w1om Smith was engaged, and who according to
rrmor was drugged and outraged by the doctor.
| at the Opera House at Melbourne, Australia,
on the 10th ult., new arrival, McGregor
Green, maddened by jealousy, shot his own
wife and Loudey, member of the French ex-
hbltlon commission and then himself. The
two former received severe head and face
wounds, but Green died.
| Jim Robinson, city marshal of Water Valley
Miss, was shot and instantly killed by John
Adams, contractor of the Chicago, st. Louis
and New Orleans railroad. The difficulty was
about coat.
w. A. Arnold marshal of Lancaster, Ky
and cousin of j. III. Arnold, who shot and
killed r. e. Little shot and instantly killed
Robert Boyle, stepson of Grove G. Kennedy, in
a tent during the performance of Zell Bros.
circus at Lancaster on the night of the 7th
inst. Arnold was attempting to arrest Boyle
for boisterous conduct using his weapon with
fatal effect.
Saml. Perkins, young man from Uniontown,
KY, was found on the morning of the 9Th inst
lying on the platform at Vincennes, Ind, with
cash in his head. He died in few hours
afterwards. The coroner's inquest found no
trace to the murderer, but fromthe fact that
Perkins had been robbed it was evident that
he had been murdered.
The Galveston (Texas) Neaus special from
Navasota says man named Peoples returning
from Mclean where he had sold some cotton
was waylaid, killed and robbed by one Tai
iaferro, negro. Taliaferro was captured near
Independence, and while on the way back some
men disguised overpowered the guard and car
ried off the prisoner. 1t is supposed he was
lyrched.
A Pomeroy, o., special dated the 7th inst,
says Frank Green (colored) was hurrahing for
Garfield, when the marshal undertook TO stop
the noise. He was struck by Green, whereupon
John Hart bystander, knocked Green down,
crashing his skull and killing him.
VIM. E. Foster, travelling agent, while on a
clark with party of young men at st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, on the 9th inst, was struck on the
head with billy by Police Officer Chapman and
his skull crushed from the effects of which he
died
Andy mclaughlin shot and killed Joseph
Nevins, at Roses cabin, Lake City, Col. on the
9Th inst. They quarreled over game of cards.
Nevins assaulted mclaughlin with an axe. The
latter shot in self defense.
At Detroit, Mich, on the 9Th inst, John L.
Petier, laboring man, while drunk and in
fit of jealousy, shot his wife and then himself.
Both balls took effect in the head; but being
a pistol of small calibre, did not penetrate the
SKULL