Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-05
Recent TRAGEDIES.

grafton averted. Loss S15, 600.
Recent Tragedies.
J. +. Oakes, aged 10, fatally stabbed r. 7.
of the 31st ult.
Ata political meeting at Balltown, KY, on
the 30th ult.. Turner Wilson was fatally shot
by johnson, son of ex-Iieut. Gov. johnson.
VIM. Mackin shot and fatally wounded his
brother Michael on the 1st instant, while the
latter was trying to enter Williams house, at
Chicago. Michael had visited the house before
that day and abused his brothers wife. !
Near Oxford. N. c., on the 31st ult., a boy,
years OF age, named Barton, threw his infant
brother into we'll where he was drowned.
An English missionary and his two servants
have been murdered at Ismidt, Asia Minor, near
Constantinople.
An armed mob of about 100 men from ad-
joining counties went into Moberly, Mo-, on
the Goth ult., and as Sheriff Matlock was taking
J. G. Carlew into the court house to be tried
for committing rape OH the person of Mrs.
Crump at the hotel in that city last March,
opened fire on him. Carlcw took to his heels
but was finally cornered in building. where he
was shot to death by the husband Of his victim.
intense excitement prevailed while these violent
proceedings were in progress and the officers of
the law seemed paralyZed, as they made no ef-
fort to stop the butchery.
On the night of the 29th ult.. a party of Is
masked men went to the house of Job Thomp.
son, colored, about twenty miles from Atlanta,
Ca. dragged him out, beat him and his wifi,
fearfuEy, fatally shot his son, and killed his
daughter. Great indignation is felt through
out tho county. A citizens meeting at Jones'
boro denounced the killing, and offered $500 re-
ward for the murderers. Thompson says he
recognized as the leader of the gang John
Gray, whom he recently prosecuted and had
A DartV Of Creek Indians ctfacka1 fuO Hhoro-
kees near Gobson station, I. T., on the 2Sth,
killing one and wounding another. The Creeks
were ncensed because two of their number were
hanged by the Cherokees.
Mrs. Anna Lynch, of the Keystone house,
Portland, Oregon, fatally stabbed Alex. Matte
position and attempted an indecent assault.
Thomas Delana, proprietor of livery sta
bic at Chicago, was fatally stabbed about mid
night OF the 9th, by his wife, whom he was
endeavorlng to persuade to accompany him
home.
Michael Maddox was arrested at Baltimore,
Nd, on the 9th, for killing John Schaba, a
schaba in his (Sladdox's) wifes chamber.
joseph Staats, young man who was married
only 10 days ago, was shot dead in his yard at
Centralia, Ill.,, on the night of the 25th by some
person unknown. Some think it a suicide while
others believe it a murder.
John Dlsgs, the negro who outraged Mrs.
James T. Chiffely OH the night of the Oath, near
Durnestown, Nd, was taken from the Jail at
Rockwell, on the 9th, by an armed mob, and
hung.
At barn dance at Green Brier station,
Robertson county, Tenn, ON the 26th, Ben.
Webster was mortally wounded with stone,
thrown by Tom Jones. Webster was one of the
most substantial citizens of the county.
George Washington, q colored murderer, was
recently hanged by a mob, in the backwoods of
Tennessee.
a Mexican army officer being imprisoned at
Monterey for drunkenness, his comrades stormcd
the jail. on the 26th, but were successfully re-
sisted by the citizens and police. Three officers
and fourteen men were killed or wounded in
the melee.
Pat Kelly and Jack Brown, of Rochester,
Pa, who had been on bad terms for years, met
Oh the 25tI inst. and had it out. Kelly will
dlc from pistol wounds received in the affray
A son of Hon. D. N. Solomon, residing with
his father on farm about thirty miles >ftom
Council Bluffs, Ia, shot and killed one OF two
burglars who entered their premises on the
night of the 9th.
Dr. f. NJ. Williams, of N1echanicsburg, Miss,
was assassinatcd while riding home on the night
of the 9th inst. A negro arrested on suspi-
clon confessed the crime, stating that he was
paid to kill the doctor.
party of roughs created q disturbance at a
neSIo camp meetng near CINCINNATI, Ohio, on
the 25th instant, and a general row ensued.
One Ct the roughs was perforated through the
abdomen by bullet, and several of the darkies
were so badly hurt that they are not expected
to survive.
At Sag Harbor, N. Y, on the 26th instant,
Miles Morris was shot dead by q seaman who
accused Morris of being improperly intimate
with the wife of the seaman.
DR.. Alfred Lefevre was fatally shot in his Of
flee at Oakland, CAL. on 26th instant, by Ed
ward Schroeder. Both parties were in good So
cial position, the latter being bank teller and
the former a long established and popular dent
ist. Suspicion Of criminal intimacy between
Schroeder's wife and the murdered man led to
the tragedy