Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-06-10
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

AT Madison, Ind, on the 18th inst, Ransom
Smith shot and killed Jacob Hammersmith.
The parties were neighbors and had quarrel
about chicken trespass.
JOHN G.. THOMPSON Jr., of Ohio son of the
sergeant-at-arms of the house of representatives,
Washington was shot and seriously wounded in
the abdomen, on the 4th inst, at Highland
Fails, n. Y, by Beaumont Buck, of Texas.
Both were candidates for admission to West
Point Military academy and attending Clouse's
preparatory school. Buck had been made the
victim of mild form of hazing by the other
students, and becaming enraged at some re-
marks by Thompson, drew n revolver and shot
him.
J. WILSON, who was to have been hanged at
Upper Sandusky, Ohio, on the 18th inst, for
murder, was found dead in his cell on the Sd
inst, having taken poison during the night,
which was furnished by friends who visited him.
BURGLARS entered the residence of Samuel
Dow, near Ceylon, o., on the night Of the "a
inst, overpowered, gagged and bound Dow, and
relieved him of $4,000 i'll currency.
WEALTHY merchant of Sandusky, o., was
robbed of about 500 at n circus performance
on the Sd inst.
NORFOLK, Va, dispatch of the I'd inst.
says: "A colored seaman belonging to the
schooner Mignonette killed the captain and
cook. previously wounded the mate, took a boat
and escaped to shore. He is supposed to be
hiding in the swamps."
WHEN Upman & Co., consignees of 800
IL specie by the steamer Saratoga, sent for the
same at Havana on the "a inst, the purser
found the specie room had been broken into and
/ the specie distracted The passengers had all
/ landed when the discovery was made.
| Ar Texarkana, Ark, on the 31st ult., mob
attempted to take from Jail and lynch negro
arrested foI attempted rape The friends of
/ Cromwell. the prisoner, fired on the mob. The
/ fire was returned and eight persons are reported
wounded, some fatally. The prisoner had been
previously removed to the jail at Washington,
/ the sheriff apprehending danger.
NlRs. BRADLEY wife of farmer living near
/ Clear Lake, Cottonwood county, Texas was
murdered during the absence of hei husband
recently. A stranger who was lodging IN the
garnet for the night, hearing her cries, descend
/ ed and shot the murderers dead. Mrs. Brad
/ levs throat was cut. The murderers proved to
be Mrs. Pruett and daughter, the former of
considerable property and an independent in
\ heritance of $4,000.
Ar Baltimore, on the ..31st nit, a number of
negroes got into a saloon row. The police In
quolling the disturbance, shot and killed Charles
Mosell and wounded several Others.
MARSHAL FAILENBURG arrived at Newport,
Ark, on the 31st ult., with NJ. j. McCrackeu, q
heavy operator in counterfeit money in south
east and northeastern Kansas. He was com
mtted to the penitentiary for safe keeping until
trial in the Federal court.
Maria Arvout and Emily ChilSey, widows,
we've brutality murdered at their residence al
Avon, Conn, on the night of the 30th ult
The bodies were not violated and valuables re-
manned untouched, therefore ths motive foi
the crime remained a mystery.
THE Kansas Pacific railroad depot at Beloit
Kansas, was broken into on the 10Th ult., and
the safe therel lo1bed of $500.
An st. johns y. b., on the Goth ult., Johr
Draura, an elderly man, shot his brother Ed
ward dead and wounded another brother named
Chapman. He then fired the premises anC
when the people gathered killed himself.
Il. A. MORRIS, clerk to the librarian of con
gress, was robbed Of 100 in currency at the
United States treasury III Washington, on tn,
2Sth nit lie laid the package down for {
moment. aud some time later noticed that /
bogus bundle had been substituted.
Or. Melville. Of Pootone I'll. shot @nC
killed young merchant of that town on thu
night OF the 18th ult.. during political dis
cussion.