The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-02
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

JOSEPH HANSON was stamped to death
by George Pickering in a saloon, in South
Camden, Del, on hristmas eve.
FRED COLEMAN, colored, head waiter
OF the Miles house, Cincinnati, died on the
% h from INJURIES Indicted by John Wood.
son, a barber, and waiter named Price,
who waylsid him on the night OF the "a aud
beat him about the head with . bowlder
wrapped in towel.
JAKE GEIGER killed Alfred Fitzwater
at ball on Christmss eve, at Batavia, . q,
by striking him with stone mason's ham.
mer.
EARLY on Christmas morning Bernard
Pecker, an old German resident ut Delphos,
Ohio, Was called to his door by loud
knocking. Upon opening the door he was
confronted by three men armed with revol.
vers, who demanded his money. He resist.
ed and was shot and instantly killed. His
wife hearing the disturbance came TO his
ssistance. She was bound with ropes,
gagged and tortured with IRE until she dis
closed where the money was. Fifteen hun.
dred dollars were taken.
Fred VouLEY, book.keeper for Il. q
Huston & Co., railroad contractors, Cincin.
nsti, was discovered TO be a defaulter and
traced 10 New Orleans, where he was cap.
tured. When arrested on the cath, he
swallowed poison and died in ten minutes.
EDWARD HAELEY Was fatally shot by
Deputy Marshall Mullins a, Nashville on
Christmas while resisting arrest.
Al a "Bloomer ball in sailor
boarding house at Wilmington, N. c.,
Christmas eve, Maria Hall, IL negsess, fatally
go
A GENTLEMAN about 80 years old,
supposed TO be :. A Skies, OF Kennedy.
vile, n. Y, jumped from the new suspen.
sion bridge, Niagara Falls, on the ?tsb, and
MAS drowned.
DAvT FOX, at one time q member Of
the notorious Jesse James gang, was ar.
rested il Summer county, Kansas, and is in
Jail in Ksnsse City, Mo.
The bark Francisco Donavoro arrived
a, Brooklyn on the cath. Her captain re-.
ports q mutiny during the voyage. Two
sailors rebelied killing the cook, Sebastian
Aqusrorne, The boatswain, Antonio Mar.
chisia, and woundins the mate and one man
The mutineers were finally ovtrpowered,
killed and thrown overheard.
The steamship Colombo recently ar
rived at New York from Mediterranean
ports with fruit. One OF the boxes Of
oranges appeared unusually heavy, and upon
opening II, in each of its three compart.
menis WAS discovered u small bag Of sand,
carefully packed around with straw, and
opposite the open space between the stats OF
the box was a row OF orap ges, the deception
being most complete. 1t was discovered
that $50 orange boxes packed with sand had
been slowed in the hold.
PETER GILBoy, sged "a, died at Gin.
cinnati on the I'D. from knife wound in
the left lung, received in an ARRAY week
previous with William Ortrer.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, is agog over the
disappearance OF e. T.. Baker, proprietor
OF the elevator at that place, and creditors
representing 49, GOO are getting anxious.
MAX HISS, hired servant, murdered
Mrs. Frederick c. Werner, at Long Island
City, l. l., on the Goth, by stAbbipg her
with a sheath knife. His object was plum.
der, as he secured a lot Of clothes aud $3.50
in cash before decampipg.
CHARLES HOWARD, son of Hon. Henry
Howard, of Port Huron, Mich, was fatally
shot by Jas. Mulligap, proprietor OF saloon
TO which Howard was endeavoring TO gain
admittsnce at an untimely hour on the night
OF the 10th.