Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-06
A Bloody Record.

Adam Waggoner, an old man living on a farm
in Gala county, O., was shot and killed in his
field on the first inst, by his nephew Phil.
Waggoner. They had quarreled about lands.
At Paterson, N. j., on the 3D., as the German
societies we're making pilgrimage to tile crest
sun, as usual on the first Sunday in May, one
Dalzell, a farmer, refused permission to|a party
to cross his premises, and upon their persisting
to do so, he shot Joseph Van Houten dead. The
excited Germans Immediately fired tho build
lngs on the premises and vera about to hang
Dalzell when he was rescued by detachment Of
police.
Frank Burke was shot dead at PHILADELPHIA.
on the night Of the 30th ult., by Policeman
William Shields. Burke was hurting stones at
the officer having been ordered off the corner.
Mrs. William Stokes, living apart from her
husband with an aunt in Brooklyn, was shot
dead on the night of the LIST inst, by Edward
Kennedy, who boarded in the same house. Mrs.
Stokes refused to marry Kennedy. Kennedy
also shot himself, but not fatally; he had shot
himself on a previous occasion, when rejected
by Mrs Stokes. -.
Henry Long was fatally shot by mob at
Esquire Bosten's Office, Blue River township,
Harrison county, Ind, on the 3Oth ult.
III In q quarrel at Farmington, N. H., on the
30th ult., between ". Kennedy and bis wife,
mother, the father seized butcher knife and
| stabbed Samuel, killing him almost Instantly.
An orphan girl named Meeker was poisoned
by her uncle, Altman Meeker, who was also her
guardian, at Duxbury, VT, on the 23d ult. The
wretch piloted the officers to where her body
was buried, on the 30th ult He confessed that
the CIR! being cross she was given dose of
strychnine and started to the Waterbury River
valley. On the road she died and was buried in
a swamp .~z, -.. -r--
J. j. Hoover, who killed saloon keeper
named Bennett, in April, 1878, was taken from
Mrs. Houston, living in the neighborhood of
Austin, Texas, in fit of insanity on the 27th,
attempted to murder her five children by driy.
ing. knitting needles into their brain through
their ears. One was killed and two others seri-
ously injured. s>'s *-'s >,r.# III zeF
James Loomer shot and killed George De-
camp at Lawe's ranch. opposite Rosebud land
ing. on the Missouri river, on the 26th. Cause,
undue familiarity with Loomer's wife. :.
Policeman Tom Perkins was fatally shot at
Buena Vista, Cal, on the 9th, by three bunko
stesereps, , Mho% he was trying u ag 70 arrest;
Smith and beat him terribly, when Smiths son,
q lad of 18. shot Kane dead.
Hiram Kelley. IN inmate of the state tunatc
asylum, at Columbia, s. c., killed his room
mate, man named Calabacher, by fracturing
aus 81, skG ta with stone 3S @ SSx On the 2sh
! VIM. CASTOR and Thomas Wright had fight
about divorced wife, who was living with Gas
ton in adultery, and Gaston was badly beaten.
next morning CAST hunted up Wright and
shot him dead. ~ . s=S -
At Norbo.ne Station, No, On the 2sth, one
Lynch, saloon keeper, became involved in
difficulty with man named Worth, and shot
him dead. 3, I,
John W. Phillips, police officer, was fatally
stabbed at Kalamazoo, Mich, on the 9th. by.
DAVID .: Mason, whom ha Mas arresting.