Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-07-15
Deeds of Blood.

At Arlington, Va, on the 9Th instant, Baker
Mann, a desperate living near Moeck's mill
He had deserted his wife and gone to live with
| g lewd woman, Martha Trent. Near the body
the woman was found, her throat slit from cal
to ear,s:,resenting CHASTITY appearance.
on the 9TH instant, two tramps passing
through stoneville, Westmoreland county, Pa,
to one another. Next day the body Of one OF
them was found on the road near Scott Dale
with blood oozing from gaping wound in the
head. There was nothing found on the remainf
to aid in identification.
James J. Jennings, Of Gothic City, Col. tool
possession Of Joseph Thompson's house during
the latters absence. When Thompson return:
ed he tried to disposses Jennings, who shot
and instantly killed him.
Martin Lofts living in Nelson county, Va,
wanted his wife to aid him in robbing one of his
neighbors. Mrs. Lofts refused, whereupon he1
husband beat her, infiicting fatal injuries.
On the night Of the Sth instant, at Danville,
enquired for his sister, who was an inmate OF
the place. They retired to private room,
where the brother shot his sister fatally. He
admits the crime, avowing that he done it to
wipe out the disgrace to his family. The dying
girl protested that her brother was right in
taking her life and begged that he be not pun
ished Before the brother was taken to prison
he and his sister embraced. He is a telegraph
operator, aged 20. The sister is II years old.
At Denver, Co.., on the 7th instant, Elmer
Hapnan and Tom Stevens had dispute about
family affairs. Pistols were used and Hapman
was seriously and Stevens fatally wounded.
At Leadville, COL, on the 9Th instant, as w.
W. Carter was escorting Mrs. Dillon from a
dance, they were met by the latters husband.
quarrel ensued, when Carter shot Dillon dead.
Jacob Kuntz, who resides at Homestead sta
ton on the Northern railroad, in New Jersey,
went to the house of his son at Union Hill,
where his wife resided, on the 7th instant, and
forbade her going to picnic. Upon her refus-
ing, Jacob fatally shot her. He then went to
the barn and killed himself. Kuntz has several
times attempted to take his wife's life and also
that of his son, who protected her. Kuntz
and wife are both over 60 years of age.
At the Vulture mine, Arizona, on the 21st of
June, Mexican named Jose Maria Solazar, a
disappointed suitor of Miss Lubiate, called at
her residence and shot her dead. The william
fed, but was overtaken by a party of citizens
and hung.
A party of rangers met band of desperadoes
on the 9Th inst, about thirty miles from Fort
Davis, Texas. Both parties dismounted and
took to the racks. when firing began one ranger
and one desperado9 were killed. Three of the
gang we're captured.
Two recently-arrived Italians, William Gozolo
and Louis Zerga, quarreled over game of
pool in an Omaha saloon on the 9Th inst, when
GozOlo drew his revolver and shot his COM
panion through the body. The wound is fatal.
The murderer escaped.
In an affray in Alascoa county, Texas, on the
9th inst, between two brothers named Dee and
the Myers brothers, one of each was killed and
the others badly wounded.
Colonel B. B. Cash, of Chesterfield, S. c.,
killed Col. VIM. NJ. Shannon, of Camden, in the
same state, in duel on the 5th inst.
Patrick Carroll, a miner elected from meet
of the Miners Union, at Bodie, CAL, on the
night of the 9th inst, attempted to re-enter the
when he was shot dead.
Tu Sing, an inoffensive Chinaman, was fatally
shot without provocation at Belleville, N. Y, on
the 5th inst.
A man named Baker was killed by another
named Reed in a quarrela at disreputable house
in Mt. Vernon, Ind, on the Sd instant.
At circus gathering in Shelbyville, ILL.,, on
the night of the Sd instant, Elisha Reed and q
man named Freel had a personal difficulty.
during which a revolver was fired, the bullet
killing Freeps 12-year-old son. Reed was placed
under arrest.
At dance at Milliard station, on the Union
Pacific railroad, near Omaha, on the Sd inst,
two young men quarreled. Lyon drew a revol-
yer and flourished it, when Mitchell drew his
and fatally slot his threatener.
E. Dawson shot and instantly killed James
Brown in saloon at Cambridge, Texas, on the
I'd inst.
During picnic festivities at Parker's Grove,
eleven miles from Cincinnati, O., on the 4th
inst, a very serious disturbance arose among q
party of drunken men, in the course of which
John Mullen, formerly private policeman at
the Atlantic Garden, was shot dead with pistol
by one of the party, supposed to be Michael
Morgan. Half dozen men were more or less
injured in the melee.
Myron Page, Of West Cascade, Iowa, was
shot while attempting to arrest a party who had
robbed the deposit safe Of Amber, Jones county,
on the Sd inst. Page will die.