River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-08-04
CRIME.

A CANADIAN detective has arrested a
farmer named Mccormick, living near East
Saginaw, Mich, charged with the murder
of a man ten years ago.
w. F. GEORGE, machinist of Des
Moines, irritated over some words about
| girl, killed barber named John Epps,
who called himself the Indian doctor.
DETECTIVES from St. Louis, captured at
Braidwood, ILL.,. the negro who shot fell
lO1-la borer lying in hammock on q
steamers deck in the former city.
BURGLARS entered the residence of ex-
Alderman Nary, at Fond du Lac, Wis,
but were frightened away by Mrs. Nary,
who broke a broomstick over the head Of
one Of them.
| HANK KIEFF was followed by two St.
| Paul liverymen, who charged him with
| but at the third shot he received load OF
duck shot in the bowels. and was taken to
| the hospital.
An attempt was made to assassinate the
| collector of customs at Piedras Negras
Mexico but he had changed beds for the
| night, and the bedding caught the bullet.
A PARTY of forty citizens of Sierra Ar
milla, New Mexico, lynched FL. I. Jen-
nings for numbering Abe Lewis to possess
his wife. The latter was IMPLICATED and
is still in Jail.
| ABE ROBINSON, of Chicago. who became
well known to the police as a fre-bug, was
swept away by sunstroke. He was at large
on $1,000 bail, to answer the charge OF
| firing his cigar factory, at Nos. 13 and Is
| Dearborn street.
| The governor of Arkansas offers re-
ward of $3.50 for the recapture of Charles
G. Halpsey, James P. Holland, and VIM.
o. CARLY. who recently escaped from the
| jail al Ozark. They have cost Yell coun-
ty $40 900 since their arrest in 1873.
THE former treasurer of Stark county,
Ohio, is serving term of twelve years
for a defalcatioR OF $50 900. An investi-
CATION Just made shows deficit of 81, :
700 in the accounts of the present treas
urer
REV. w. F. WHITCHER, of Providence,
r. l., summoned the board of the Ma
thewson Street Methodist church, CON
fessed himself guilty of stealing books
from public libraries, and announced his
retirement from the ministry.
DEPUTY Collector Noah, of Columbia,
S. c.. reports that a revenue force raided
the house of Mellow the murderer of
Comm issioner Raum has authorized an
offer Of $500 for the delivery of Mellow
TO Marshal Blythe.
NATH ANIEL STEVENS, of North Andover.
/ Mass. has been detected BY the custom
officers at New York in wholesale Snug
1 CLING operation, involving seven cases of
| bronzes, silks and pictures. He and his
sisters wed with each other in lying about
| their invoices. but TO no purpose.
| In an American boarding house recent
J " opened in the City of Mexico, by an
Englishmau named Carmichael, Biscaino,
, a Mexican employed on the National rail
I road, was shot twice BY the landlord for
| intimacy with his wife. Biscaino is dy-
ing in the hospital; the Carmichaels are
in Jail.
| BISHOP PHILIP KLINGEN SMITH, a par
| ticipant in the Mountain Meadow mas
sacre. whose exposure of that atrocIty
| caused the execution of John ID, Lee, was
| found dead in a prospect hole in Sonora,
/ Mexico. He expected to be killed Oy the
| Mormon church, and the circumstances
indicate that his prediction was correct.
An outbreak has occurred at the Mesca-
lero agency, and two fleeing bands have
\ killed two Mexican families and some
| Americans in Tularosa canon. The near
est troops are at Fort Stanton. In the
hope that Rev. Galen Eastman will be
removed from the Navajo agency. that
1 tribe defers killing him.
| FRRD SINGER. marshal of Dodge City,
| Kan, while endeavoring TO head of a
| burglary of which he had been warned,
was ordered TO halt by a man whom he
saw skulking around house. He an
swered with his revolver, and killed Joseph
Mcdonald. formerly of Topeka, who was
intoxicated, and evidently sought 10 fright
| en- the officer.