The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-09-10

JOHN HAIKRort and Charles Hites, brothers.
inslu%, quarreled over a trivial money matter
ut Dayton, o., on the lst inst, when tho former
was fatally shot by Hites.
The residents OF Commercial Point, o., rid
themselves, OF the prrscnce of n desperate
named Mcdonald, In a summary manner, on
tho ist inst. They gathered at tho troublesome
customers residence and hung him to q neigh
boring tree.
SAMUEL JOHNSON was shot and instantly
killed. by J. Wheeler, at Oanvillc Junction, Ky,
ON the 3lSt ult. Tho shooting was the result Of
an old frud.
john HAMILTON, q wealthy farmer Of Ionia,
Mich, was shot anu INSTANTLY killed by his
nephew on tho 3Oth ult. Hamilton was 70 years
old, and William fl. MeKnnny, his assailant, il
but TX. The cttinu grew ont III a dispute over
the payment Of $40 due the young murderer.
NEAR Manchester, o., on tho 2sth uit.. n man
killed his wife and child by putting poison In
their coffee. lie then attempted to kill him
self with n revolver, but did not succeed. How
over, u mob satisfied his desire, for they took
him to n neighboring tree and hung him up.
JoHN MuLLENs, OF Silver, Col, married q
daughter Of Moccasin Bill on the 25th ult., and
was shot from a bush and instantly killed on
the 18th. No clue to the murderer.
A DENVER Cob, dispatch Of the Both ult. says:
"Jas. BENNETT, Of Troy, fireman Of an engine
on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, was
shot and KILLED this evening at San Antonio sta
uonby q party % drunken men, who, while Ben
nett was standing In u cab, opened tire. About
thirty shuts were fired. Capt. spoone, Jas.
Cation and James Nichols were arrested and
are now In jail at Conojos. Tn railroad men
have Organized for protection and lynch law il
feared"
REV. d.. NJ. D~ElIuduEs, a Methodist min,
lister Of Cinnaminson, N. j., and publisher Of
the Christian Herald at that place, jumped
from n ferry boat while crossing from Camden
Ia Philadelphia on the night Of the Both ult.,
and WIS drowned,
janis y. MORGAN, n financially embarrassed
job printer Of Cincinnati, suicidcd Mt Cleveland
on the 3Oth ult.. by shooting.
MARY Lou CAMERON. victim of n mock mar
rage which caused her ruin, suicidcd ut At
lanta, Ga, on the 3Oth ult., by taking twenty
grains Of morphine.
MICHAEL CULLEN and Alex. Sweeney and
wife were arrested for countcrfciting ut San
Francisco on the 3Oth. They had been utter
Ing dangerous counterfeit standard dollars for
some months.
Two negroes had q quarrel nj q picnic ut Shan
nondalc, No., on the 2sth ult., when one shot
tho other dead. Shortly after Pat O'Bricn, u
constable, attempted 10 arrest the murderer,
but he resisted and swore that no man could
arrest him or take his pistol, whereupon O'Brien
killed him with n shotgun.
JoHN HACHsrRAssER had n fight with tho
Snoor brothers, John and Perry, at 1T. Wayne,
Ind, on the Goth ult. Perry commenced the
fray, and was in u fair way to he worsted, when
John rushed in and crushed Hachstrasscr's
skull with u club.
On the night of the 18th ult., At Hyde Park,
near Chicago, Henry lIirschman shot and allied
his step father Michael Boylan. Hirschman
says the pistol was accidentally discharged dur
ing an alteration with Boylan, who was drunk.
JONI GRUILER killed n teamster named Myron,
at Fort Wayne, Ind, on the Goth ult.. by strik-
ing him on the head with n club.
JoHN DEMON was fatally stabbed in Brooklyn
on the Goth ult., by James Morgan.
Ar Brooklyn, on the 10Th ult., GeorgeC c. Har
ward was stabbed to the heart and killed by un-
known roughs, while protecting two women
from insult. Peter J. Larkin, Harward's COM
panion was badly cut by the williams.
THEoDoRE MARSH, clerk in the Girard
National bank, Philadelphia, Pa, while ascend
ing the stairway leading to the money.order do
partmcnt OF the poSt-othce, on the 2Sth ult.,
was jostlcd by three men, and a few minutes
later hc missed from his pocket a package con-
tanning Sl,5i3.