The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-10-07
CRIME.

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the 18th inst, over a game of marbles
one of them settled the dispute by killing
the other with stone
Two British officers are under arrest at
Candahar, on suspicion of having inten-
ionally contributed to the defeat of Gen
eral Roberts by Ayoob Khan.
CURRIE, the man who killed Ben Por-
ter, in Texas, arrived at Nicennes, Ind,
on the 2Sth inst., where he will make a
visit. He claims that the northern press
has misrepresented him.
THERE is great excitement in Brattle-
boro, VT, over the arrest in Omaha of
Waite, the absconding bank president.
and it is intimated that some other prom
inent citizens may disappear now that the
fugitive is on his way home.
A New York bartender was stabbed,
on the 25th inst, the knife penetrating
the heart for five inches, and yet he lived
for three-quarters of an hour. 1t is an
other great surprise to the doctors.
'REDNEy" BURNS, charged with the
murder Of Bohnow, has been convicted in
the criminal court, and his punishment
fixed by the jury .at fonrteon years i'm
prisonment, the lowest penalty for the
crime.
A BOY at Beloit, Wis pointed shotgun
at two little girls, with the intention of
searching them. The weapon went off, of
course, portions of the charge striking the
girls on their faces. While not fatally in
ihred, they are disfgured for life.
THREE laborers on the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and St. Paul railroad, named James
Mcdonald, Stephen Mccartney and J. O.
Baldwin, were arrested at Elgin, ILL., on
the 2Sth inst, for stealing and rihing the
trunks of Rodney Sherwin, travelling
salesman for Lawrence & Martin, of Chi,
cago. They were sent to jail in default OF
bail.
A LITTLE orphan girl, living in the fam
lily of Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Crawford
near Belvidere, Ill, was whipped regular
ly three times day until she..grew tired OF
it, and took to the woods. She was found
by svmpathizing person, to whom she
told her sad story, and who Immediately
placed Mrs. Crawford under arrest.
Two miles east of Monongahela City,
Penn, on Friday night, the keeper of a
gambling house fatally shot a miner, who
had broken the bank a few days before,
and been ordered by the proprietor never
to come there again. He went back, how
ever, with revolver, and was immedi-
ately shot.
A SPECIAL from Corning, o., says: One
of the MALTA officers to-day found sus-
picious character in camp, who, upon be-
ing pressed for particulars said that in the
battle of Sunday one miner was killed
outright and eight wounded, one of whom
will die The man who was killed was
buried on the way home by his associates.
1t is said the miners expect arms from
some quarter, and intend making gener-
al attack on the troops as soon as the arms
arrive, and that they will commence oper-
ations by burning buildings The colored
miners all went to work.
The Mack murder trial was called on
the 23rd inst, at Jefferson, Wis. Messrs.
Sale. Bennett and Smith appeared for the
state, and Winans and Fethers for the de-
fense. This case will be remembered as
the one where the wife and paramour were
charged with killing the husband with a
club in Rock county Wis. where the case was
tried in December 1879, and resulted in
the conviction of Mrs. Mack, and her SEN
tence to states prison for life, but her coun-
sell through a technicality obtained a re-
hearing. The case created much of a
sensation in that vicinity, where it was SO
generally discussed that it was hard to find
competent jury.
THE postoffice at Ahnapee, Wis, was
broken into and about fifty letters in the
general delivery broken open. The thiel
got away with all the money in the cash
box, about five dollars, and eight new re-
volvers Monday morning he was discov.
cred by means of the revolvers and arrest.
ed by the city marshal. Soon after arrest
he broke away and ran for dear life with
half the village at his heels, but was re.
captured. An examination was held be.
fore Justice Parker, and he was bound
over to the circuit court, and is now lodg
ed in Jail. He gives his name as Chas
Joyce, and is blacksmith. The postoffice
department has been notified of his cap
ture, and it is thought will send an agen
to investigate the matter.