Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS

Richard Dearborn, wealthy farmer
of Kendallville. Ind, hung himself March Is.
On the morning of March II, Martin
Powers, of Chicago, shot his wife probably
atally, and then shot himself causing instant
death.
Mrs. Dexter Owens, wife of well-to-
do farmer living in Pierce county, Wisconsin
six miles from Red Wing, Minnesota, hung
herself March Is.
The tanatical Mahommedans, at Con-
stantinople, are making great efforts to pre-
vent the execution of the assassin of the Rus
sian, Col. Corneroff.
At Chaska, Pa, on the night of March
IS, Richard Neildo, a prisoner in the Delaware
county jail, attempted to escape, and in doing
so broke a gas pipe and was sutfocated by es-
Gaping gas.
On the night of March 16, at Senatobia,
Miss, Calvin Roberts, colored, was shot by the
city marshal while placing distractions on
the track of the Mississippi & Tennessee rail
road. He will recover.
A Bismarck D. T. Tribune special
from. Miles, City says, William Reese was ia
tally shot By DR.. Leberher, on the night of
March Is. Cause, jealousy over a sporting
woman. Reese will die. Leberher is in Jail.
Parson, known as the Avon murderer,
was hung in Rochester, N. Y, March 10, on
conviction of numbering Mr.. Whitney. He went
to his doom waiting and proclaiming his in
nocence, and charging the crime on Mrs
Whitney.
Clarence Davis, the bigamlst who ap-
pears to have lad five or six wives in various
ports of America, having one or two also in
Canada, was held to bail in Chicago, March
II. by the police Judge in $4,000 bonds to ap
pear before the criminal court.
Homer Wellington, rich young mer'
600 year, is in jail charged with an attempt
to poison his wife and two young children
the youngest child died.-Cause, his infatua
ton for dashing grass widow.
At st. Louis, Mo-, at late hour on the
night of March 1Stha young man named Cam
den Gordon assaulted Raymond Troxler, a
Keeps saloon, with bowie knife, severing
couple Of arteries in his head, from which h
died in few minuted. The assault is said tt
have been unprovoked and cold bleoded. Cor
was arrested.
John Gnbley Chicago lawyer charg
by juror with attempting to bride him, wa
found guilty of simony, March 20, and senten
ced to sixty days Imprisonment, and so start
ling were tho facts as to bribery developed Oh
the trial that his case and conviction, witt
oilers, was recommended to the attention O
the grand jury.
One hundred masked men rode boldl,
up to the county Jail in Winchester, Ill. a
one o'clock on the morning of March II, bal
tered in the door, disarmed the guards an
jailor, and with revolvers in hand compelle
them 10 give up the keys. They then opene
the cell Of Joseph J. Fields and despatche
him with a number of pistol shots. He ha
murdered James Pudget on the 25th of las
February.
For some weeks there has been troubl
among the coal miners at Rapids City on az
count of some strikers wishing to return
work. Mystic warnings with skull and eros
bones, and signed Mollie Mcguire, have bee
distributed among those who were presume
to be weakening. Wednesday night March L
Taylor Williams was shot through the hear
IN DIS own mousse. Two suspected men nav
been arrested and are held for inquest. Nor
trouble threatened.
The Maine legislative committee t
inquire into the conduct of Ex-Gov. Garcelo
and council, made their report March Is. Tn
eporJ states that Garcelon, while evincing
willingness to disclose everything, was infrl
in his memory, and failed to give satistactor
reason for his course. When the evidenc
was laid before him, he ceased longer to d.
fend the counting opt, and passionately d.
clared his own innocence and declared that
Judas among the council has done the vi
lainy.