The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-01
CRIME.

among the drift logs floating in the Miss
issippi, at Lansing Iowa.
GEO. S. CoNGDoS, of Lincoln, ILL.,, was
handling a revolver.
Four men were hanged in Brown
county, Texas, last week by a mob, it is be-
licved for crookedness with cattle.
Mrs, GIEsLER, of Fond du Lac, Wis,
charged with setting fire to her husband S
store, was examined before Justice Breasted
and discharged
BURGLARS broke into the foundry of B..
r. Frederick of Marshallton, Iowa, on the
22nd inst, blew open the safe and secured
$50 in money and $500 in notes.
FRANK k1MBAL was fatally shot at Nov
city, Missouri station on the Quincy Mis-
souri, and Pacific railroad, by Joel Latham,
a sport of that town. The affair grew out
of game of cards. Latham was arrested
and lodged in Jail at Edna.
TIE safes of d. Lacharite's dry goods
house and the postotfice, at Assumption,
ILL.,, were blown open and the contents
taken. Lacharite lost $500, and the post
master upwards of $500 in currency and
$500 in postage stamps.
ST PATRICK s Catholic church. of Joliet,
ILL.,, was forcibly entered, and robbed of the
gold and silver altar vessels and ornaments.
James Egans grocery was robbed the same
night of about 225 in small silver and pen
nics. No clue to the robbers in either
case.
CORONER W1sIIARD, of indianapolis, has
discharged Henry j. Brown, colored
man, first arrested for completely in the
Williams tragedy, also Eunice, the wife Of
Alonzo Mcclure, who is supposed to have
fired the shot that killed Williams, and has
ordered John Clark, another colored farm
hand, into custody. He will make up his
verdict tomorrow.
CHARLES LAssoN, a negro, has been ar
rested in the town Of Norway, Wisconsin,
on the charge Of malicious mischief, COM
mitted on the premises of John Storm,
whose father had foreclosed the mortgage
upon the estate of Lasson's deceased father,
where the trespass was committed. The
negro recognized before Justice johnson in
5000 to appear for trial on July 2nd.
AT Thomson Station, Tennessee, Tim
Dodson and Fred Barnet, prominent citi-
zens of the county. met on the road. They
had previously had dispute about q bet.
Dodson started toward Barnet when the
latter emptied the contents of a shotgun
into Dodson's head, tearing away part of
his face and killing him almost immedi-
ately. The jury rendered a verdict of JUS
titiable homicide.
THE preliminary hearing Of the man
supposed to be Jack Conners, the leader of
the Neenah diamond robbery, took place
the prisoner was identified not only as
h,,t, ! nf bo pt-
ed thieves. His bail was put at $1,000,
and he will not be tried until the fall term
of the circuit court.
THos. THoRNER, a house servant at the
residence Of Gen. James Il. Worthington,
near Chillicothe, Ohio, on the 23rd inst,
brutally murdered a colored tenant at the
place by the name of James ID. Cotton.
The Weapon used was shotgun, Thorner
firing the entire charge in Cotton's neck,
killing him instantly. The deed was done
caused by an old grudge, but was without
provocation.
ANDREW and Thomas Johnston, brothers,
farmed two hundred acres near the village
of Corinth Ontario, and for some time
past they had been on bad terms. They
went out to work on the farm, and about
noon the neighbors found the body of
Thomas, mutilated, and with his throat
cut, near the stable On searching further
the body of Andrew with his throat cut
was found at the bottom of well close by.
Andrew killed Thomas by first knocking
him senseless with some heavy instrument
and then cutting his throat. Andrew then
ran to the we'll, and after cutting his
throat, jumped in. A huge jack-knife,
covered with blood, was found near the
we'll Andrew leaves widow and four
children. Thomas was unmarried.