River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16
CRIME.

Wis, who has been serving a term in
Madison Jail, escaped again.
JAMES HOGAN. of Monticello, Iowa, fred
a revolver six times at his wife and then
put a bullet through his own temple.
AT Edgewood, Pa, William Murphy
nearly killed woman from whom he had
been divorced, and then made two attempts
to blow out his own brains.
FATHER MALoNEY. of Erie, Pa, the pre-
tended worker of miracles, has been ar
rested for obtaining money under false
pretenses.
THREE steamship captains were ar
rested in New York and held in bail of
from S., 600 to $25 5000, for carrying an ex-
cessive number of passengers.
ROBBERS took bunch of keys from the
pocket of the county treasurer at Pawnee
City. Neb, and obtained from his safe cur
rency to the amount of 81, $50.
FRANCIS j. KENNETT, of Chicago caused
the arrest OF William L. Hall, at St. Louis,
for the fraudulent removal of grain from
an elevator at keokuk.
MooNsHINE" stills are being rapidly
suppressed in the state of Georgia. The
leading newspapers are espousing the
cause of the government against the illicit
distillers
REvENUE-CoLLECToR Clark, of Atlanta,
Ga, reports that in a recent encounter
with moonshiners his dupty, Mr.. Bolton,
was wounded. Two moonshiners were
also badly hurt
A Judgement for $4,000 has been enter
ed at Cincinnati against the bondsmen for
Thomas Ambrose, the defaulting court
clerk, The fugitive was last heard from
in Manitoba.
In the criminal court of Chicago, mo-
ton for chaage of venue in the case of
John Lamb aggravated Judge Halves to
give Attorney Forrest whitening re-
bube as a perjurer.
DR.. SYLVESTER RANKIN. who was surgeon
of hit Carson's regiment and afterward in
the Mexican army. was murdered at Vic
toria City, Mexico, on May %, and robbed
of his money and jewelry.
In the matter of the railway disaster at
Cedar Rapids the coroner's jury found
that two deaths occurred from the crimi-
nal negligence of Charles B. Lewis, night
operator, and he has been arrested.
A LAwLEss gang in West Virginia, cali
ing themselves Red Men," recently took
DR.. Danil Cain, of West county, from his
house at midnight and gave him a severe
Touring mill.
THE brewers of New York have at last
found the thieves who have been engaged
in stealing barrels and shipping them to
other cities. James J. Rooney has grown
rich in the business. One firm lost $4,000
by these thefts last year.
DWIGHT KIDDER, ir.. fatally shot his
half brother at Springfield, Mass The
xub oh Tod urit he L
about statement made by the murdered
man that his mother was DESTROYS of his
fathers death, that she might obtain
5000 on his life. The murderer was
held in $4,000 bail
SAMUEL H. GAINES, who was imprison-
ed at Thomaston, Me-. for the murder of
a guard, attempted to escape and was shot
dead. DIR. Bail, who is imprisoned at
Tyler, Tex. on charge of muruer, at
tempted, in company with six others, TO
break Jail. Ball and three of his COM
panions were recaptured. The others
made good their escape.
THE regular monthly mail robbery has
occurred to puzzle the postal authorities
at Chicago. 1t seems that a pouch made
up at Grafton, w. Va, destined for points
in Western Iowa. was taken from the mail
wagon between the Baltimore and Ohio
depot and the postoffice, on Tuesday even
ing. notwithstanding the driver and guard
in charge.
GEORGE GoRHAM. a lawyer in Buffalo,
kept 100000 worth of bonds in the Erie
County Savings Bank vaults. One day he
called, clipped off some coupons. and left
the bonds on the cashiers desk, whence
they were stolen. 4 Baltimore lawyer
named Whyte, agent for the thief, coolly
off-rs to return the ''swag" for bonus of
$4,000 This is the golden age for thieves.
TIE laws of Wyoming forbid the inter-
marriage of whites and Chinese. There
fore Lee Chin and Mrs. Eva IL. Lee went
to Denver to be married. Now they have
been indicted at Cheyenne tor miscegena-
ton, and the Chinese consul at Denver
has engaged counsel for the accused and
will attend to their defense. A statement
ofthe case is being prepared for the Chinese
ambassador at Washington.
IT has been discovered that bonds of the
value Of nearly 100000 were recently
stolen from the Erie County Savings bank
at Buffalo. Some of them have already
made their appearance at Baltimore, where
$4,000 is demanded for their return.
They were the property Of George German
a prominent lBwyer, who left them on the
cashiers desk after clipping the coupons.
AN affray at Fayetteville, Ark, resulted
in The killing of George T, Reed by City