Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-05-06

Rosebud landing. on the Missouri, George
Decamp vas shot and instantly killed, by james
Loomer. Intimacy with Loomers wife was the
cause.
MRS. Houston, living near Austin, Texas, in
a fit Of insanity ON the 18th, attempted to
murder her five children by driving knitting
needles into their brains through their ears.
One killed. two others seriously injured.
JOHN MACARTHUR, former postmaster at Chi
cago, was found guilty of embezzlement as
postmaster in the United States Court on the
23tL, on four counts of the indictment against
him and not guilty on the other counts. The
amount embezzled WAS fixed at $50, 900. The
penalty is double the amount of the embeZzle-
ment and from one to ten years iii the county
jail. He was given until June IA to prepare for
the sentancc-
A BUESA VISTA, COL. dispatch says Police
man Tom Perkins was fatally shot by three
bunko stesrers on the 9th, while attempting to
arrest them.
BRADFORD, Penn, dispatch of the 2Sth
says: John Tully and Luke Kane, of Oleap
went last night to the house of John Smith,
three miles out Of town, and beat him terribly
Smiths son, lad of Is, shot Kane dead. Tully
fled but soon returned with a constable who
arrested the boy"
CHARLES WEsTLY HAMMERS was hanged at
Winnemucca, Oregon, on the 9th, for the muir
der of L. X. West, at Paradise, about year ago.
The steamer Alice was totally wrecked at
Louisville, Ky, on the 28th. She went over the
dam, struck bridge pier and sunk. No lives
lost.
ANDERSON VOID, Swede, vas shot and
killed by Glenn. Burke, fellow boarder, at
Johnstown, Pa, on the night of the 26th. Void
was drunk, and was creating disturbance.
VIM. Z. GnLEsPIN, of Columbus, Ind. on his
death-bed few days ago. made a confession
that he and two others, names not given, killed
wealthy stock trader named James jameson
ten years ago, and divided between them a large
sum of money found on his person. Jameson's
body was never found, and this is the first clue
to the manner Of his death.
WHITE stock thieves killed John Delfebach
and run off hundred and fifty head of horses
from lnyan kara mountain, fifty miles west of
Deadwood, d. T., on the goth. Deffebach was
one of the heaviest stock men in the west He
leaves wife and five children. The same band.
disguised as Indians, have committed numerous
depredations during the past two months. A
party from Deadwood has gone in pursuit
DURING an alteration at low GROCERY at
Cincinnati, on the 9th, Jacob G. Merriman
suuch man iELHtu lato, lclluS MN. LAKE
head struck the pavement so forcibly that his
neck was BROKEN causing instant death.
JOHN DYER, notorious desperate, who has
caused much trouble, appeared in the town of
Saybrool, III, on the 26th instant, whereupon
an alarm was given, and $50 citizens turned out
to hunt He was followed into the woods and,
refusing to halt, was shot number of times
and captured He may survive
AT Harrisburg. Pa. on the Goth, Judge
Pearson sentenced VIM. II. Kemble, Emil J
Petrof, Chas. b. Salter, Jesse b. Crawford and
VIM. f. Rumberger each TO 800 fine and one
years imprisonment at hard labor at the east
penitentiary. Petroh and Rumberger were
members of the legislature and were convicted
Of corrupt practices and bribery. Salter and
Crawford We're lobbyists.
ALBERT HAZE, in difficulty at Terre Haute,
Ind, on the Goth, with jerry Dwyer, over some
work at the blast furnace. shot Dwyer three
times; one wound supposed to be fatal.
ERNEST KEHE sucided at Newark, N. j., on
the 23d, by throwing himself under passing
train.
CAPT. EDWARD NJ. WRIGHT, one of the ord
nance department. Washington, killed himself
on the Oath inst.