River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-05
CRIME

| L WO robbers stopped the I'll fasO stage,
abou sixty miles west of San Antonio, and
secured seventy-five cents.
! SrRENGsoN's jewelry store in Detroit,
was on Tuesday night robbed of goods
valued at over $1,000.
! In quarrel over bill of five cents for
| garden seeds, at Milton, Ga, B. w. Hext
shot John Conner through the heart.
| w. l.. PAYsoN, of Holliston, Mass. has
confessed the preparation of forge-ies
amounting to $4,000, and fled to Canada.
LOUIS WHITAKER. a negro murderer,
was taken from Jail at Gadsden, Fla, by
! thirty masked men, and hanged to a tree.
Mrs. SARAH f. HOWE, president of the
Ladies Deposit bank at Boston, has been
convicted of the frauds with which she
stood charged
| A. H. PATTERSON, an agent of the Hall
! fax Banking Company, at Truro. n. s.,
has absconded, with what amount is not
known.
In breach Of promise suit at Patterson,
! n. j., Mrs. Julia Sampson obtained iudg-
ment for $4,000 against John Hinclife,
wealthy brewer.
JUDGE MORAN, of the Chicago criminal
court, has decided to release Lesser Fried
berg on S., 800 bail, the supreme court hav-
! ing granted a supersedeas.
! THE threat to enforce the Stubs law
caused the closing of every theater IN Gin
cinnati on Sunday. although one German
| place gave free concert, and doubled its
bar receipts.
| Cook HALL, member Of a leading
| family in Pittsburgh. shot Emma Foster
! in house of prostitution, last December,
! for which offense he has been sentenced TO
/ imprisonment for twelve years.
| NICHOLAS Roach, the burglar who was
| shot in the jaw by a clerk in Poole's dry
goods store on West Madison street, Chi
| cago, some months ago, has been captured
in Milwaukee at the home Of his sister.
| THOMAS HARRAGAN, a Boston barber,
was sent to state prison twenty years for
| rape. In order to escape labor, he de-
4 iberatelv cut off his right hand with
revolving saw.
! AT the Jail in arts, Ky, on Wednes-
day night, John VIM, who was charged
! with murder, was shot dead in his cell by
an armed mob, who forced the KEYS from
/ the jailer.
ELLEN M. FREEMAN, who threw pepper
/ in the eyes of Howard S. 1ngersoll, of
/ New York, because he refused to give her
employment, was fined $3.50 and sentenced
~ Inc iOI one year.
/ LUCINDA FAwKLEs, colored was hanged
at the Luenberg court house for the muir
der of her husband in January last. Only
the necessary officers, one minister and
three other persons interested in the ex-
ecution were admitted.
A FARMER in the vicinity of Quincy,
H., discovering three men at work trying
TO break the Lima lake levse. procured
| gun and shot one of the party. The fell
| low tumbled into the pit he was digging,
but was carried by his companions to a
boat and taken away.
THE manufacture of silver dollars and
halves has for some time been in progress
in the penitentiary of South Carolina, a
leading spirit in the enterprise being one
of the guards. The United States com
missioner will give the facts an airing.
EZRA G. SANGER, who died penniless at
Peoria, H., received $50, 600 blythe death of
his father in 1873 This sum he lavished
upon the disreputable class, in Chicago
and elsew here, causing his mother to take
her own life three years ago. His ambit-
ion was to be chief OF gang of thieves
GOODS valued at 1000, which were
stolen from the Case Plow Company, of
Racine, Wis, were found boxed prepare
tory to shipment, on the premises OF. A. p.
Geffeit, who worked in the company's
blacksmith shops. The property consisted
of plows, plow-shares, pillow handles, street
car springs, etc. Since the discovery Gef-
fert has disappeared.
A BAND of armed men rode up to the
house of man named McLaurens, living
in Littleton, Frio Edwards county, Texas,
last Tuesday, and deliberately murdered
McLaurens, his wife and a young man
living with them named Lease. No cause
is given for the horrible act, and the
perpetrators of it are unknown, Plumber.
evidently, was not the cause of it, as moth
ing in the housewas disturbed.
WHILE Mrs. Will S. K. Harrington
was walking the New Jersey street pave
ment, near Massachusetts avenue. at In
dianapolis, Ind, she was seized by two
gentlemanly-loo (oot-pads, one of
whom Overpowered and threw her down,
while the other wrenched her portemOn
ane from her hand The robbery was
witnessed by several, but the rascal' elud-
ed pursuit.
A RUMoR prevails that Gov. 0verton, Of
Indian Territory, north Of Dennison,
Tex, was killed on Sunday. The rumor
is discredited, but owing to the fact that
the governor has been in the field with
his militia for some time driving out tres
passers, and thereby incurred the enmity
of large number of cowboys and others,
il is thought by some the report may be
well founded. 1t is known that a party
of cowboys left Cook county, Texas, with
in few DAYS for the territory with the
avowed purpose of giving battle to Over
tons troops.