The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-12-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK
RECORD OF CRIME.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
RECORD OF CRIME.
the body Of Christian Englervass, from grave
yard
Micheal Welsh, st. Louis policeman was
shot dead Sunday night by BURGLAR whom he
was attempting to arrest.
Dan. Smith, negro who attempted to ravish
a white girl in Giles county, Tennessee, was
hanged by mob on Thursday last.
The editors and publishers of Truth, indicted
1or m 1 d libel Of Gen. Garfield naye filed
George Peoples, Mayor of Bismark, is charged
with buying and selling goods, knowing them
to have been stolen from the government.
It is reported that Charles Potter, of Newport,
r. l., member of the United States geological
survey in Colorado, has met with foul play.
near Santa Fe.
John Mosher and Isaac Norris, on trial at
Fort Wayne, Ind, for the murder OF Bernhart
fenced for life.
Kenneth Mcleod was bound for his home in
Canada with SIS, $50 which he obtained on false
representation from Reynolds & Co., bankers, Of
Ol City, Pa, he was intercepted at Cleveland,
and the money was found sewed up In his shirt.
A person known to the police as Sir Hugh
Courtney and by other names and titles, has
Sea OF 900 r o1 complaint e Of f Alfred
$ $9sEs'' "h0' on january 3d. last loaned him
DR.. G. H. Washington was hung by mob at
Otero, New Mexico on last Thursday night He
had treated dining room girl at hotel, who
died on Wednesday, stating before her death
proper liberties.
Abraham Robinson, a notorious incendiary
was arrested in Chicago on Monday last, upon
conclusive evidence of an attempt to burn his
cigar factory. He had SIC, 900 insurance in
outside companies He has been in trouble in
New York, Cleveland and Cincinnati for similar
work.
John Callihan, aged twenty two, was hung
Friday, at Wooster, Ohio, for the murder OF
Benz. Tornie, October2O, 1879. Callahan was
was one of band of roughs at the agricultu-
raj fair, who set upon young man named
Frank Martin Tornie went to Martins rescue
and Callahan turned on him and stabbed him III
the back, inf1icting mortal wound.
A drunken man named John Livingstone,
committed murderous assault upon Mrs.
Stewart and child, on Friday last, at the coal
mines in Mahaska county. The woman receiv-
ed one cut on the upper forehead, near the
medal line, four inches long, penetrating the
brain, and another cut at the right OF the spine,
opposite the first and second dorsal vertebrR,
and puncturing one lung. The child received
two cuts on the head, both penetrating the
brain. Both will die.
Storm Lake, Iowa, is very much excited over
a case of murder, cold blooded and inexplicable.
On the night of October Is a Mr.. John Ford
was shot while putting his horse in the barn. It
was about 10 O'clock The murderer fired
through an aperture from the outside, and
wholly hidden from the view Of the victim.
Two shots were fired, one Of which proved
fatal, death ensuing the following day. This
terrible affair is surrounded with profound mys-
terry, but young man named Abraham Shreves
has just been arrested, though Ford himself,
about to die, thought 'Abe' Shreves the last
man capable of the crime.
The grand jury Of New York. lately present
ed indictments against Joseph Hart, Louis Post,
Kenward Philip and Charles A. Byrne, for pub
fishing in Truth the criminal libel on Gen. Gar
field. Indictments were also presented against
Samuel Sullivan Morey for perjury. The in
dictments against Philip Hart, Byrne and Post,
charged the first named for writing, and the
others for publishing OH the 22d Of October
last, an editorial headed, Lying and Sticking to
It." in the Truth, and also publishing the
alleged Garfield Chinese letter and fac-simile
of it, and by these means unlawfully, wickedly,
and malicious devising as much as in them lay
to injure and villify James A. Garfield and to
bring him into public scandal and disgrace and
to deprive him of his good fame, credit and
reputation, and to great scandal and injury to
James A. Garfield and against the peace of the
people of the State of New York and their digni-
IT," These parties are all charged with crimi-
nal libel, the penalty for which is year in the
penitentairy and $500 fine.