Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-02-19
TIE CRIMINAL CALANDAE.

The residence Of George II. Norman, Beacon
| street, Boston, was entered by thieves on the
evening of the 18th, while the family was at
dinner and robbed of bonds, checks, money
and diamonds aggregatng III value about @l2,-
| 600.
BoSIFACGo NUNEz, confined in the county Jail
at San Francisco under conviction for the muir
der of William Frey last April, hung himself in
his cell on the night of the 18th, using a rope
made from his shirt.
A QUARREL between s. II. Brummet, editor of
the Enterprise, HOLSTER, Cal, and Ct. II. Carl
ton, editor Of the Telegraph, a newspaper print
ed at the same place. ended on the 18th by the
fatal shooting of the former by the latter
ANDREW SMITH for twelve years treasurer of
North Aldover, Mass, is in Jail. having con-
fessed TO disappointing funds. The amount
OF his dedication Is not known.
BURGLAis visited Westport, Conn, on the
night Of The 10th. They gagged the village
watchman carried him TO the National bank,
the doors Il which they forced, snd locked him
in a closet. They then blew open the door of
the vault, hut the explosion was so violent that
the plate glass front of the bank was blown
into the streets. The villagers were aroused
and the burglars fled with 70, 800 cash.
AT Leh gfton, Pa. on the 18th, Edward
Mulhern visited man named Goldberger to
contradict scandal about himself and Gold
berger's wife. After short talk Godborger
shot Mulherin dead.
CLARENCE w SMITH, q clerk in the Atchisou,
Topeka and Santa Fe Office at Kansas City, Mo-,
suicided by shooting on the 18th. Last July,
in temporary fit Of mental alteration, she
shot and wounded Mr.. Roberts. at the juno
ton depot, and attempted to cut the throat of
Depot Master Fredenherry. His trial for these
offences was to take place al the next tenn of
the court, dread of which probably unbalanced
his mind and caused hun to commit the decd
Mrs. ELLEN FITZGERALD g woman aged ~
years, committed suicide at Louisville, Ky, on
the nth, by setting fire to her underclothes with
a match She was discovered in the yacd WITH
the fire raging all over her body, praying for
mercy Her body was burned to & crisp from
head to feet.
liz Philadelphia, Jennie Moore, alias Tyson,
was kicked to death, and Isaac Tyson has been
arrested. Both colored.
on the night of the 18th, nineteen colored per
sons confined in the county workhouse at Mem
phis, Tenn. escaped. One was killed by the
guard while attempting his rearrest, thirteen
wore captured and five are still at large.
LUTHER b. MCErNNEY shot and killed his
father-in-law, Jacob Fry, an old and respected
citizen of Peoria, Ill.,, on the 10th, because Of
trouble about a divorce suit pending against the
former.
SCOTT COOPER, stock dealer, was chloro-
formed, gagged and robbed of $4,000 in hotel
at Brookyile, Ind, on the 10th. He was found
unconscious in the morning.
LAST month Geo. Beck buried his wife IN the
Lutheran cemetery in Queens county L. l., and
on the 9th went and laid down ON her grave and
committed suicide by shooting.
CAPT. ASHLEY Brown, cashier in the internal
revenue Office at Dayton, Ohio, is a defaulter to
the amount of $4,000. The REGULATING cap
tain upou being discovered made his escape
with -, 700 of the funds Of the Office.
THE COW boys Jim West, John Dorsey Ind
Tom Henry. implicated in the shooting Of Carson
ut Las Vegas, recently, were taken from their
cells on the sth by a mob of seyenty-Gve armed
men. They we're dragged 10 the central plaza
and ropes were thrown over the beams of tie
windmill pump. West was hauled up and
strauglei. The impatient mob then began fir
ING. and in a short time Dorsey and Henry were
riddled with balls There was no resistance TO
the mob.
INA DAWSON committed suicide at Green's
burg, Ind, on the Sd. 10y shooting himself in
the heart. The refusal Of lis company by a
Young lady is the only motive assigned. He
was highly respected and an active church men,
her.
OK the night Of the 9Th three burglars en-
tered the bank at Knoxville, Tenn. seized and
bound the president. L. {. Runkle. who was
asleep in the building. and after Sagging, beat
ins Inn and burning his feet in a shocking
manner to extort the combination ct the safe
leeb departed taking -, 200. There was time
lock On the safe ANA Euuhle was unable to give
the combination.
tI,,,,,,,. white and two nolore1 rillrrits were
publicly whipped at Wilmington. Del, on the
7th.
THE Supreme Court Of Georgia refused new