Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-20

Cairo, KY, on the 18th inst, by one Rogers.
owner Of fish boat, they having had quarrel.
One will probably die, but the other is not
fatally injured.
William Oehm, while in an intoxicated con-
dition, went to the residence Of Miss Charlotte
Joiner, at Chicago, Huron County, O.. ;gand de-
manded Abundance. She ordered him. to leave
and on his refusal fred the contents Of a shot
gun into his stomach and breast. He died
shortly after. w.
On the 18th inst, Robert Bird, employed as
track-hand on the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta railroad, at Columbia, s. c., killed his
ao1fe, Hester Bird, at point between Kelhan's
and sharpe's stations. Reports of criminal in
timacy between his wife and another having
reached Birds ears he went home infamed
bis wife down with the butt of ali az, aud then
proceeded 10 cut her head OF with the ak.
Bird fled toa.mill race few miles distance and
drowned himself $685.
An Italian organ grinder named Charles Gar
della, was arrested at Wlkesbarre, Pa, on the
ter with having shot dead her sister, aged five
years: - - ~ =,
William Tomasson, a. seaman belonging to
Boston, killed mate Henry Metcalf, of the bark
Annie Burr, in fight at sea. The ship arrived
at New York ON the 18th inst. with the prison.
er in irons.
Horace Burr shot his wife at Corpus Christi,
Texas, on the 14th: INST. Mrs. Barnard, his
mother-in-law, springing between them, was
shot twice. Burr then struck his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Brewster, over the head With the pistol,
telling her to the floor. Re1oading the pistol he
shot himself dead. Mrs., Barnal ds wounds are
pronounced fatal. The cause Of the tragedy
was enlargement between Burr and his wife
resulting in the latter returning to her fathers
home:s&l. III 81 ~ 4; e
"A negro drowned thezbaby1i Of his paramour
in atstreet cistern at Columbus, Ca, and disap-
peared.e Since then he has Been hiding in the
lattice work of the Western railroad bridge over
place of his concealment, and they appeared at
either end of the bridge and demanded bis sur
render. The fugitive leaped 40 feet into the
river, and, uninjured by the leap, he sought the
deepest water and drowned himself.
A mob of about one hundred masked men
surrounded the Jail at Osceola, No., on the
morning of the 18th inst, took therefrom three
men charged with murder, and hanged them.
Recently hard feelings sprang up between
Henry A. Stocks and John R. Russell, farmers
residing on adjoining places on Eighthmile
PRAIRIE Williamson county, ILL.,, on the 18th
inst. They met on the road and an alteration
cnsued, during which Russell shot Stocks, kill
ing him instantly.
At Parkersb,,rg, w. Va, on the night of the
10th inst, Elmer Bartlett, son of a prominent
merchant, deliberately shot J. P. Tracewell, of
Newport, inficting fatal wound. Cause, do
nestle difficulty.
In a quarrel over a game cards at St.
Louis, NJ, Mack Sanders, a young colored
steamboat man, was fatally shot by a gambler
named Charles Ellis. .,
At lumber camp near Saginaw, Mich: on
the 18th inst. James Farrier and George Wood
engaged i'll an alteration, when Wood smote
Farrier on the head with piece of iron,
inf1icting fatal injuries. 800.
The court having decided in favor of rail-
road company in regard to the ownership of
certain lands in ;Tulare and fresno counties,
California, U. s. marshal attempted to serve
writs of ejectment on the settlers on the 18th
inst, when fight occurred in which seven men
were killed and others wounded. The settlers are
banded together tor mutual protection. :'.'4-
Thomas Horne, school. teacher, and John
D. Tayler had a ,9uarrslsat Arrow Rock, Saline
was shot dead. ~ ii E 5Zs.z, sS1A
! At Dayton, o., on the, 10th. inst, Charles
Britton, {: notorious desperate, was shot and
fatally injured while attempting to rob tie
money drawer of a hotel.
At ,Augusta,:B Butler county, Kansas, on the
been arrested and jaileda for indecent exposure
q his person. The ringleader was shot dead by
the city marshal. ''i% /
i::,lfns A>mistead, foreman of a plantation
her Memphis, Tenn. was assassinated by an
1u,; uown negro op the night Of the 9th inst. -
At Hopkins3ile, Ky:, on the 18th instant, p
murdered his victim: The villain was arrested
by the authorities; but a mob overpowered the
guards and hung the negro: l.! %! - .'1::' Il
:. Two colored children were murdered near
Clarksyille, Tenn, by their father, mother and
aunt, who had become crazed by religious ex-
sEdi7a and, Molhss Wilkins, children, died
.anf1den}v On &has7fR MT 40 ho,,se in R1,chan