Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-12
A Victoria (B. CO. dispatch of the I'd inst,
says the loss by the Yale fire will foot up 500,
600: Nearly all the safes failed and the con-
tents were ruined. The two men burned at
YOrk's hotel have since died.
Recent TRAGEDIES.

A&CCcAS AEdX6OAeSs
A mob Of horsemen took John Bai]z, who
Athens, Ka., on the night of the 7th inst, and
hung him. Bailz had been twice sentenced to
death, and each time granted new trial.
Thomas E. Snelbaker, fatally shot Policeman
A. Chumley, while under arrest, at Cincinnati,
o., on the 8th inst, for disorderly couduct.
Barney Cleveland, a colored man, was shot
dead by an officer at Milan, Ia., on the 7tb,
while resisting arrest.
II. l.: Edwards, preacher, was called out OF
his residence ut Galveston, Texas, on the night
OF the 9th inst, and shot dead by unknown par.
ties. -
,At At 9ldtow3, eIss & Gsaighead county, Ark, few
Strelght 4 Co., Of indianapolis, Ind, was
killed by CALVIN Smith-by blows from behind
With gun. Both men were engaged in getting
out timber, and had quarrel of two years
standing, which originated in business rivalry.
On the evening of the 5th inst, Woodson t..
Gunnels, weli-to-do farmer living 20 miles
west of Americus, Ga, left home to visit q sick
nejgnbor and returning home ut ten o'clock al
night, found his wife and nine of his ten small
children in a horrible sleep from the effects OF
morphine administered in lemonade by Mrs,
Gunneis: note in q handwriting OF Mrs. Gun.
mel was found under the morphine on the table,
in which she stated that she had deliberately
administered morphine to the children and her
self with the intention Of destroying them all
and that she was not actuated by any domestic
trouble. Medical aid was immediately sum-
monee, put MIR. Gunnels soon died., and no
hopes or recovery are entertained for three of
tne chlloren. The others are believed to be out
of danger.
At May Lick, KY, on the Sd inst, Perry
Jefferson was fatally shot by two negroes who
were subsequently lynched.
An American missionary and his American
servant, while on the road to relieve the fam.
lshed population, were found with their throats
cut. near Isnlidt, Turkey, recently. The nur-
Turks, and confessed the crime.
row occurred in John Sullivan's saloon ut
Chicago, on the Sd inst, between the proprietor
and French sailor named Bourgorn. In the
melee the latter was struck in the chest by o
beer keg III the hands of Sullivan's wife, All
the parties were arrested. Next morning Bour-
goun vas found dead in his cell. Mrs. Sullivan
is held for murder.
Deh'is Hayes, milkman, was shot dead at
San Francisco, CAL, on the 4th inst, by Michael
Dolau, in q trifting alteration. -
At San Francisco, CAL, on the 4th iust.,
James Cahill, All assaycr, fired a harmless shot
at Mrs. n. Sheline and then shot himself
through the head.
Baptiste Felschncider, cook at the United
States hotel, Saratoga, was shot dead on the
night OF the Sd INST, by his friend and room
mate August Bremmer. Another case of play
fully pointing pistol.
At Sherman, Texas, in an alteration on the
4th inst, a man named Weaver stabbed and
killed neighbor named Cox: Both farmers.
Dep1:y Sheriff vii! F. Garrett was shot and
instantly killed i'll a house of ll-repute at Gal
weston, Texas, by W. P. Allen, whom Garrett
was about to arrest.
W. w. Taylor, deputy sheriff, attempted the
arrest of Martin L. Minnott, a notorious des-
perado, at Montague, Texas, on the Sd inst.
Minnott tried to shoot Taylor, but missed his
aim and was killed instantly by the officer.
colorea girl with whom he had quarreied, in
the custody of all officer on the Sd inst, and
golngsup to her, placed revolver to her temple
and fired, killing her instantly.
Clinton Montague, an employ of Lasher's
brewery, was found dead on the night of the
"a INST, at Crawtsh Bottom, Frankfort, Ky,
with q bullet through his head. No clue to the
murder.
Early on the morning of the Sd inst, a bur-
glar entered the premises of John Mcmahon, a
saloon keeper, at Chicago. The latter was
awakened by the noise and called out from the
bedroom, when the fend advanced to the bed
side, PLACED the muzzle of the revolver to Nc
Mah0ns right breast and fired. The bullet en-
tered his body just above the nipple, and Nc
Mahon fell back dead. The murderer escaped.
Burglars and night prowlers are meeting with
hot receptions nowadays at the hands Of law
living citizens. Henry Moore was discovered
hanging around a private residence at Morrison,
Ill.,, on the night of the 1st, and in attempting
to escape was shot dead by an officer On the
night Of the I'd inst, several citizens of Fort
Edward: N. Y, thought they discovered bur-
gar and opened fire on a retreating form In
the morning the dead body of Dan NIcDougall.
village vagabond, was found. 49,
Bonaparte Smith (colored) was fatally stabbed
and beaten in an election riot at Milton, Ky.,
on the I'd inst. Cornham, the man who did the
stabbing. was arrested.
The negro, Becd Evans, who killed q boy
named Johnnie Dwycr, in Trinity county, Texas
recently, was taken from the Pennsylvania jail
ON the LIST inst, by party of armed men and
hanged.
Near Weston, Iowa, on the Rock Island road
about O'Clock On the morning of the I'd inst,
young man, named Owen Mckay, from
Illinois, employed on the farm of August
Anderson, was assaulted by Patrick and
Michael Radigan, living on an adjoining farm
and was pounded to death. The trouble was
the result of Mckay undertaking to drive
through lane Oh the farm of Radigan, and
Mike repu]sed him, as he had incurred his dis
pleasure on former occasion.
Xavier Lindoner, a house painter, was bru-
tally murdered at New York, on the I'd inst, BY
q. J. Munzburgh, a Polish plasterer. The men
had quarrel several days previous, but were
separated before either was injured.
BosCrworth, an insane inmate of the Door
house at Sahna, Kan., rushed at his keeper with
hatchet, on the LIST inst, and was shot dead.