Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-18
JUDGE LYNCH AT WORK.
n SOUTHERN PRACTICE TRANS
FERRED TO ILLINOIS,
A Hundred Masked Men Raid the Winches-
ter, ILL, Jail-The Door Battered In and q
Murderer Shot to Death-Arrest Of q Bos-
tonian for Defalcation and FOrgery-Mur-
ders, Suicides and Other Criminal Deeds
The Casualty Record.
LYNCHING IN ILLINOIS

LYNCHING IN ILLINOIS.
WINCHESTER, ILL.,, March r.-At l o'clock
this morning one hundred masked men boldly
rode up to the county Jail, battered in the door,
disarmed the guard and jailer, and with revolt
vers in hand compelled them to give up the
keys. They then opened the cell Of Joseph j.
Fields and dispatched him with number Of
pistol shots. Fields who was lynched, was in
generated for the murder of James Padgett on
the 25th ult. He has wealthy connections.
DEFAULTER AND FoRaER.
BOSTON, March 17.-Homer Wellington,
lately withdrawn from the firm of Utley d
Boynton, commission merchants, has been ar
rested at the instance of his father-in-law on
charges of being defaulter and ferger. Wei
ington's family has been seriously sick at
times, the disease being called gastric fever.
An infant son and his wife recently became i'll.
She received some porridge her husband had
prepared for her, and analysis showed arsenic
sufficient to kill ten persons. In possession OF
Wellington, when arrested, arsenic was also
found. He is said to have made q confession.
The police say his infatuation for another
woman was the cause of bis crime.
STAY OF EXECUTION.
NEW YORK, March ia stay Of execution
has been granted in the case of Edward Rhein-
hsrdt sentenced to be hanged on Staten Island,
April and, for the murder of his wife. The
case will be reviewed by the court of appeals
June next.
ROBBERY AND SUICIDE.
LYNN, Mass, March H.-Wm. A. Baker .
tinsmith, was probably fatally beaten and
robbed yesterday by Augustus G. Lindsay,
who later killed himself in Boston Lindsay
was believed to be insane.
DOMESTIC TROUBLE ENDING IN SUICIDE.
MADISON, Ind, March 17.-Mrs. Julia Bren-
nan committed suicide this morning by hang
ing. She was insane, her reason having been
FRUSTRATED on account of domestic trouble,
She was tho wife of James Brennan, late trus-
tee of this township.
KILLED HIS WIFE AND HIMSELF.
CHICAGO. March 17.-Martin Power, of 200
West Fulton street. in fit of insane despond-
ency, shot bis wife Bridget, probably fatally,
tais morning, and then fred two shots into his
own head, causing instant death.
B1aAM1sT DAVIS HELD FOB TRIAL.
CHICAGO, March 17.-Clarence Davis, the
bigamist, who appears to have had five or six
| wives in various parts of Amerca, having one
or two in Canada, was held to bail by the police
justice in $8, 600 bail to appear at the criminal
court.
SHOT BY A STEAMBOAT CLERK.
MEMPHIS, March 17.-John @. Wyckoff sec
ond clerk of the steamer Hard Cash, this morn
ing shot and fatally wounded Lewis Taylor. q
colored drayman. The difficulty originated in
Taylor refusing to sign for cotton which he had
put on dray. Wyckoff was arrested.
ON FIRE AT SEA.
NEW YORK, March 1.-THE ship N. B. Palm
| er reports that on February Is, latitude 80,
longitude 80, she spoke the steamer Derwint
| from Glasgow for the Island of Trinidad The
cargo in the after hold was on fire four days.
The steamer hoped to be able to reach Trini-
| dad.
BRUTE HANGED.
Pontiac, ILL.,, March 17.-Johonnes Deboer
was hanged here to-day. His crime was the
attrocious murder of Miss Ella Martin, girl of
IL, whom he first attempted to outrage az she
| was going home from church, and failing in
| that kicked and beat her 30 severely that she
died next day. The body hung seventeen
minutes, when life was pronounced extinct.
KILLED BIS son.
MANITowoc, March 17.-Fritz BrewmaH, of
Mishicott, returned home intoxicated, and
threw his son to the ground, causing bis death
in short time. The father has been arrested,
but it is supposed he is insane.
BALTIMORE THUGS.
ANNAPOLIS, March 17-Michael Farrell, of
Baltimore, was shot in the face to-day during
political quarrel and seriously injured. The
shooting was the elimination of political
fued between the roughs of two factions of the
Democratic party of this city, who. the past
few days, have been attending lobbies of the
legislature for the purpose of influencing votes
of city members on pending bills.
INCENDIARY FIRE
BRANCHvILLE, La, March 17.-This town
was set ON fire in two places simultaneously
about o'clock this morning. Among many
other valuable buildings destroyed was the
postofice. Most of the government property
was saved.
UNPRovoKED MURDER WHEN DRUNK.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. March 17.-Emery Phillips
entered the room of Thos. J. Snyder, at Grand
view, last night, and kicked in the head of
bass drum belonging to Snyder, who upon in
curing the cause of the act, was shot Just
above the eye with revolver and died Instant
ly. Phillips had been drinking all the fore
noon and swearing that he or Snyder would
die before night. 1t is not known if Phillips
was arrested.
PARDONs REFUSED.
HARRISBURG, March 17.-Tha board of par
dons to-day refused pardons for VIM. Scott,
Lackawanna county, and VIM. Young, Cam
bria county, convicted of murder. Applica-
ton for communication of the death sentence in
the case of Henry Wise Lebanon county, one
of the Raber murderers, was also refused. The
case of Frank Small, Allegheny county, con-
victed of murder, was held under advisement.
No action was taken in the riot bribery cases.
Railroad Meeting and Earnings.
COLUMBUS, O., March 16.-The annual meet
ing of the Pittsburgh, Chicago & st. Louis
railroad company, was held here to-day, at
which the report of the directors for last year
was received. 1t shows that the gross earnings
were s36O, 3l2, 276; expenses $2O0356, 101; net
earnings $l59.956,275 out of which was paid
interest on bonds, including second mortgage,
1886, 625: other items of interest and rents,
8l6Q. 457 20 leaving a nrofit of A6l5 Aal 66