Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1880-12-01
CRIME.

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LEwIsC G. RICHTER, a prosperous miller,
Of Lincoln, H., is in Jail for an attempt
murder his divorced wife.
IDAHO rejoices over the return to her
penitentiary of three escaped convicts who
had already killed two pursuers.
A BURGLAR in Brooklyn made a heavy
haul in bank notes, and sat deliberately on
the victims bed to count them over, in
which position he was seized and held un-
til a policeman arrived.
JAMES BAXTER, the match-stamp thief,
now a fugitive from justice at Chicago, ha,
distinguished himself at Toronto by kid
mapping his son from his divorced wife's
attorney, and escaping to Montreal
REVENUE COLLECTOR WADE, of sSavan-
nah. reports the arrest of the notorious
moonshiner, Wash Parham, and the des-
truction of his distillery.
SAMUEL +. PERRY, a negro who took .
leading part in arranging the exodus from
North Carolina to Indiana, was arrested,
Oct. 2Sth, at the second auditors Office in
Washington. on charge of forging school
orders in North Carolina.
Two persons named Reilly and Wycoff
escaped from the city jail of Alton, Ill.
by digging through a stone wall. The lat
ter was recaptured. but the former made
good his escape.
a sPEc1AE to the Piouser-Pi.e says
Robert Lowe, of West Albany, Wabasha
county, in this state, shot and instantly
killed his wife and infant child, and after
wards blew his own brains out. Domestic
trouble was the cause of the tragedy.
LIZZIE BARTON, has achieved an unen-
yiable reputation in Dewitt county, Ill,
as an alleged horse-thief She is about lG
years old, and has been in Jail several
times, and has stolen three or four teams
OF horses. besides other property, A re-
ward of $50 has been offered for her arrest
and the recovery Of the property
Mrs. MEAKER, who with her son Az
mon, is in jail under Indictment for kill
| ing little Alice Meaker, her husband half
sister, at Waterbury, VT, last spring, made
a nearly successful attempt to burn the
Jail on Oct. %. She set fire to the cell but
the flames were discovered in time to save
| the Jail,
| AN attempt was made to rob the nation
al bank Of Wellsbury, w Va, October
| 80. As the Waterman was entering the
| bank he was attacked by three men and
| Knocked down his cries caused the robbers
| torrln. Pursuit was made and one of the
gang arrested and taken in custody. by the
| mayor. He gave his name as g. Carson,
and says he resides in Chicago.
Is. a sssNsa.rrt,rs l,aes, eIeaIed - say
| a Philadelphia, Pa, dispatch, by the
discovery that Mary Ann Conner who
died six weeks after her marriage and Just
after making her will, leaving her prop
erty of about $4,000 to her husband
Michael Conner was the seventh wife of
the man, his sixth wife having died with
in a few months of his marriage TO the
woman who expired lastweek..
A. FURIOUS fight occurred a few nights
age in a low den near Camp Sheridan,
where large number of cowboys and
soldiers had eongregaIed. A dance was il,
progress, and poor whisky was consumed
| In large quantities by both sexes. One
| man was shot dead on the floor early III the
evening, but the festivities were continued
until the whole party became involved in
| ashooting affray. Two men were killed
and several wounded -
In Brooklyn, n T., on the Goth inst,
| the secret service officers arrested w.
Spencer alias Bill Brockwav, Charles Fl.
Smith and jas. F. Owens, charged with
being concerned In counterfeiting OF one
hundred dollar national bank notes, conn
terfeiting one thousand coupon bonds ofthe
issue of 81. Smith confesses he engraved
a plate from which the bonds were print
ed. The counterfeit bonds are in the pos
session Of Doyle in Chicago. He also
states he engraved plates for several eoun-
terfeit one dollar notes which recently ap-
peared. The last engraved was on the
Pittsburg national bank. Owens vas the
printerof these notes and bonds. Smith
claims in addition heengraved the plates
eounterfeiting 7-50 bonds which we're put
on the market in 81, about s., 900 of which
had been taken by Jay Cook & Co., before
their character was discovered. The ex-
animation Of the arrested parties is sci
down for Tuesday next. "A number of
bonds taken from Doyle III Chicago will
be forwarded TO Brooklyn to be used as
evidence.
GENERAL NOTES.
. The epizoot has penetrated to Nash