The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

AT n barbecue at Tcxarcana, Texas, on the
18th inst. one negro was killed and two
wounded.
MAN named Moore, clerk in Shows store
near Dodge, Texas, was found dead on the 18th
inst. shot i'll the head and breast.
JOHN MCDONALD was shot and instantly
killed by Darius Parks, at Niles, o., on the 18th.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL WILLARD AYREs
was shot and instantly killed Oh the 18th inst at
Cherokee town. Chicksaw nation, by a negro
whom he attempted to arrest
JOE SMITH shot and MORALLY wounded Turner
Balsn at dance at Memphis on the 18th inst.
Both are cOlored.
MARTIN KLINE, maltstCr, arrived ut Buffalo
on the 18th inst, from Queenstown, Ont, and
~ now in jail. The Bank of Commerce accuses
him of forgery. His Indebtedness il il claimed,
will aggregate $4,000.
FRED s. SwARTz, postal route agent on the
Reading railroad, between Philadelphia and
Pottsyille, has been arrested for robbng the
mails.
NEAR New Albany, o., on the 18th inst, Roger
Russell, 10 years old, fired two barrels of shot
gun into the face and breast of Jno. Norman,
his son-in.law tearing both eyes out and inflict-
ing mortal wound. Cause, alleged ill-treat-
ment by Norman of his wife.
BURGLARS blew open safe at Clarkvie, Bor-
gen county, N. j., on tho 18th inst, and OBJ
tanned securities of the st. Joseph Il Pacific
Railroad company and Of the Kansas x Nebraska
Railroad company valued at $4,000, belonging
TO T. Edgar Hunt.
OK the 18th inst, in tenement No. al Thomp-
son street, New York, Amandee Bigot, u French
timer, cut the throat Of Mrs. Marietta Renaul,
a married woman, who had rejected his i'd
vanccs. BigOt then cut his own throat. The
woman was housekeeper in the tenement, 43
years OF age and the mother of seven children.
ALEXANDER RUSH, a prominent farmer Of
Steubcn county, Ind, shot his wife fatally on
the 10th inst. Cause jealousy.
THE body of man about 5Oyears of age, with
his head severed from the trunk, was found by
a blackberrying party in Locust Valley, N. Y,
on the 9th inst The corpse was well dressed
and M the pockets were rillcd 1t IL supposed to
be case OF murder for money.
AMAN named Click went to sleep with mer-
chant who anticipated q raid on his store at
Tyro, N. c., u few days ago, and when he awoko
he found himself standing over the dead and mu-
disclosed the fact that Click was q victim Of
sOninambulism, and droamt of fight with
negroes in which no was staying them right and
left with an axe. Tho unfortunate man was
discharged from custody.
In row at the saloon Of Joseph LorenZ, in
Muscantah, H.. some twenty miles east of st.
Louis, on the 9Th inst, VIM. Trullock shot aud
killed Geo. Wethport, and wounded man
named Herman. Irlllock was arrested.
AT Nikelvelt, Texas, on the 18th inst, A. Pru-
gal had difficulty with p. H. Snyder and II. NJ.
Wahlfrom. Snyder was kill and Frugal danger
ously injured.
II, tl,n iY,ut I'M
Pickering and son were arrested for the murder
of q. w. Dawson, near Harrisburg, Saline
county, ILL.,, nine years ago.
THOMAS BECKETT, u Jacksonville, ILL.,, miller,
got into quarrel aith his wife and ran away
with their infant child. The child died in q
few days aud Beckett returned to see his his
wife, but was denied entrance to the house, and
exchanged pistol shots with his wife's brother.
He fled, pursued by officers who found him u
corn field. Beckett opened fire on the officers.
woundng u deputy sheriff in the groin and
Detective Freeze in the breast, but finally sur
rendered, after receiving wound III the leg.
NEAR Shutesburg Centre, Mass, on the 9Th
inst, young man named Jarvis Nelson Phelps
shot and killed Sadie A. Grover, his former
mistress and mother OF three-year-Old child,
aud then fatally shot himself. Phelps had
served sentence for bigamy and had 0ndeav-
ored to get the girl TO live with him again.
jealousy led to the murder.
HENRY SCHUYLER was robbed Of diamonds
valued ut $4,000 at Utica, N. Y, OH the 9th
inst.
AIPHoNso KLOoK shot Jerry Holden, of Her
kimer, dead at Little Falls, N. Y. on the sth.
Holden was having improper relations with
Klock's sister when the deed was committed.
A GREENBURd, KY, dispatch says in row on
the 9Th inst, near Bethel church on Columbia
pike. Felix Garlic killed Jack Gowdy with a
gun. Gowdy's friends in turn shot Carhle in
two places and stabbed him twice. He IL not
expected TO live. All are colo,ed.
TIE body Of Patrick Corcoran, aged "a, was
found on the 9th inst, on the third pier Of
Tenth street bridge, Pittsburg, Pa, with his
skull fractured and several wounds on the head
evidently delivered with u blunt instrument
1t il supposed he was murdered in q house near
by and carried to this point
AT Cincinnati, on the 8th instant, A. Chum-
ley was shot and IL IL thought fatally wounded
by Thomas Il. Snelbaker, during family quar-
rel. Chumley il police officer.
JOHN BALE, who murdered his wife in May,
1879, was taken from Jail at Athens, La, on
tho night OF tho It'll instant, by mob Of horse
mon, and hanged. -Four previous attempts had