Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-04-22

Philadelphia University Of Medicine and Sur
gerry, where q reporter recently purchased a Ger
| tificate to practice medicine.
PETER LAWN, ringleader in the celebrated
gold brick swindle at Denver, Co., last October,
was captured at Denver on the l4th inst.
DIR. w. e. BLAND, shot in an election riot at
! Edgefelds, Ga, died on the 18th inst
WILLIAM and John McGingeon were assaulted
and robbed Of 5000, near Plain City, Ohio, by
/ three masked men, on the 18th. The robbers
! escaped.
I INTERNAL revenue officers destroyed in Pick
ems and Cherokee counties, S. c., nine disilleries
and II, 900 gallons of mash and beer, and secured
six copper stills.
In fracas at Eagle Pass, Texas, on the 18th
a Mexican woman was killed and Lieut.. Decker,
OF the oath infantry, shot in the mouth.
PERLEY B. HUTCHINSON, Of Huntington,
Mass, was murdered in his home on the night
of the 18th, and the building set on fire to con-
ceal the crime.
JAS. FARRIs, OF Hartford, Conn, was shot
and killedby gambler named George Pehawy,
at Nashville, Tenn, on the 18th.
In the Coliseum theatre, Denver. Col. on the
9th instant J. NJ. Overton, the PROPRIETOR, fa-
tally shot Thomas Nugent, bar tender. while
engaged in quarrel.
AT Leadville, Col, on the 18th, Lawrence
Fitzgerald, miner, was fatally shot by George
Tottersoll while quarreling over a claim owned
by Fitzgerald which Tottersoll attempted to
jump.
AT Brenham, Texas, on the night of the 10th.
VIM. p. Ralston fatally stabbed Robert Ficklin,
who attempted to dissuade him from attacking
an officer who had, few hours before, arrested
him for disorderly conduct.
VIII HApDwrrR killed Jobn Erapch ~ wooo
Texas, on the 18th and then suicided. A love
affair was the cause.
CHAsTISE Cox, who murdered Mrs. Hull
and Pietro Balbo, who murdered his wife, have
been sentenced to be hanged in New York May
2Sth.
FRANK WHITEHEAD, a farmer in LeSueur
county, Mimi, was shot and killed by two I'M
known men on the 18th inst His wife tells the
story that two well-dressed men entered the
house and demanded money. She fled from the
house and on returning found her husband
fatally wounded. He did not speak afterwards
and soon died. The woman's story is not
wholly credited
FRAcAs at Il country dance in Galloway
county, Mo-, on the night of the 9th instant
resulted in the killing of Louis II. Myers by
Mark Walton.
A FAMILY quarrel at st. Louis on the 18th
lnslant resulted III the Killing or Michael Mesh
man by VIM. Fitzgerald. The murdered man
was shot through the left lung.
CLEoPHAs LAcHANcE has been arrested at
Montreal and confesses to numbering Miss Des-
iet ut Bulstrade.
On the 10th instant, John Sullivan keeper Of
the Barrett house, New Orleans, shot dead
John Raymond, colored. The difficulty was
about ten cents.
Mrs. WILHELMINA TREsKE, German lady
sixty years Of age, living on Eleventh street
near Jefferson, st. Louis, was murdered by her
eldest son, William, on the 10th inst. The boy
has been crazy for the past three years. No
one witnessed the deed, which was done with
butcher knife.
THE Touring mill of Cook x Abbott, at Lock
port, Ind, was destroyed by fire on the 7th
inst. Loss $4,000; insurance 5000.
THE steamer syria, from New Orleans for Liv-
erpool with 5000 bales of cotton and 300 tons
of oil cake, was abandoned at sea because of the
loss OF rudder and sternpost and breaking of the
main discharge pipe. The steamer Gellert took
off the crew.
The body of man nearly nude was found
on the 9th inst, IN the woods at Durham. The
head and one arm were missing. The clothing
was found scattered about There was every
indication of sharp struggle for life