River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25
CRIME.

The grand Jury at Yankton is unwilling
numerous fraudulent homestead entries in
Dakota.
WILLIAM II. BAARs, a bank bookkeeper
at Grand Rapids, Mich, shot himself
through the heart in the family lot at the
cemetery
AN inmate Of the insane asylum in Essex
county. New Jersey, hanged herself with
rope made from her stockings and
carriers.
CHARLES HAYWARD is in the Tombs at
New York on suspicion of being one of the
party who robbed the bank of Middletown,
Conn, of $3S, 800, on the 18th inst.
JOHN RILEY, of Stevens Point, was ar
rested in Winona, Mimi, on the goth inst,
charged with the attempted assassination
Of Judge Sherman Page, at Austin, Mimi,
last summer.
JOHN DREW, Il private soldier of the I'd
artillery, under arrest at Fort McHenry
for sleeping at his post, blew out his brains
at the door of his cell.
J. w. GREEN, of Miner ILL.,, on the 10th
inst. was soundly punished with a cow
hide and blacksnake whip in the hands of
the Misses Berger, regarding whom he
had been circulating derogatory stories.
MAYOR KALLoCH having, in a recent
sermon, denounced the grand jury of San
Francisco and uttered bloody threats.
Judge freedom has cited him to appear for
contempt, and will not finch in ordering
his imprisonment.
A PENNSYLVANIA farmer, named Daniel
Troutman, residing near Uniontown, fired
at two burglars on the 18th inst, one OF
whom returned the shot, with fatal effect
In his last moments Troutman identified
his murderer as Henry Romberger, who
was promptly arrested.
AN Arkansas man. named Ford. secIeted
himself in some bushes, on the goth inst,
near Texarkana, and killed DR.. Caldwell
as he rode by A horse trade had pre-
viously made trouble between the assassin
and his target.
A CLEVELAND dressmaker answered the
doorbell at o'clock in the morning, and
found her divorced husband, Thomas W.
Somers, sitting beside hitching post With
a bullet in his brain. 1t is thought he
shot himself after ringing the bell.
]. *. w. HossACK of Odell, H., Lave
made an assignment on the 22th inst, to
Jno. MeWing and p w. Kenyon. This
is the heaviest failure ever known in
Livingston county, the liabilities being
from $3.50, 900 to $300,0O0 The Hossack
Brothers were large grain dealers and owe
nearly everybody in that vicinity, and
their failure causes great dismay. 1t Is
estimated they will not pay over thirty
cents on the dollar.
THE trial of Patrick Fenton, who beat
MS wife to death with a hammer near
Springfield, H., and whose trial has been
occupying the attention of the Sangamon
county court for several days, closed on
the 10th inst Gen. McClernand made
the closing speech for the defense, and
Gen. Porter for the prosecution. The
case was given to the jury who returned
verdict of guilt, fixing the punishment at
twenty years in the penitentiary.
THE official report of the investigating
committee, which has been examining the
accounts of the defaulting city cashier,
Woodward, of Boston, places the total
amount of the defalcation at $50, 234. 1t is
also shown that when Woodward was pro-
NOTED from clerkship to the cashiers POI
sition in August, 1875. his accounts
were short S4,S79. The committee
finds that neglect on the part of the treas
urer to personally examine Woodward's
accounts, gave Woodward his opportu-
mites, and while expressing confidence IN
the treasurer. ii holds him responsible for
the amount stolen.
JoHN BERRY, treasurer OF the Bergen
County Savings Bank, and cashier of the
Bank of Bergen Countg. at Hackensack,
y. j., both of which institutions are con-
trolled by the same parties. has been ar
rested at that place, on the charge of en-
bezzling $4,000 to 100000. Both banks
are ruined, and have suspended. 1t is
stated that most of the money was lost in
Wall street speculations and in breeding
fancy fowls Berry has turned over to the
banks property valued at $4,000. Berry
is prominent citizen, aged 36, and has
heretofore been considered perfectly re-
liable. 1t is rumored that he attempted
to commit suicide with poison.
A DISPATCH from Dallas. Texas. of the
18th inst, says: This city was thrown into
great excitement to-day by the arrival of
q squad of forty armed farmers, bringing
the body of a dead man. and recounting
the boldest robbery ever enacted in this
section. Marion Johnson, a planter. was
met twelve miles out BY two masked men,
knocked down, and robbed. Being over
taken BY party in pursuit, he joined
them. Five other farmers were met who
had been robbed, and thes Joined the pur-
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