Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-09-30
CRIME.

DR. HENRY G. COLE mayor of Kokomo
Ind, was shot dead by a sheriff s posse
while stealing -four from the Spring mills
His friends allege that the whole affair is
damnable conspiracy, in which he met
his death at the hands of bitter foes
Four comets are now visible. the last
one being observed at Rochester at the
very moment President Garfield breathed
bis last.
SUPERVISOR COATES, an influential citi-
zen Of Cranston, n. T., dropped dead
while reading the headlines announcing
the demise of the president.
THE trunk lines have begun to negoti-
ate for settlement of the ticket war. 1t
is said that Vanderbilt and the Erie man
ayers are in accord as TO the basis.
Two men building a ranch near Raw
Inns. Wyoming, were murdered by Indians,
and their lumber burned. Colonel Van
Vliet has gone to the scene with a com
pany of cavalry.
A. +. BRYANT and wife, of Muskegon,
Mich. have been arrested by treasury de-
tectives for eounterfeiting. Money and
implements were found in their posses
sion
Born houses of the Georgia legislature
passed a resolution empowering the COVER
nor TO call out the militia of Savannah to
luell a riot. 1t appears that about 600
men are on a strike; that tkey are well
armed, and twice repulsed the police,
there being several killed and wounded.
FooT-PADs stopped the carriage OF Mvron
Press near Champion village, n, H., early
Sunday morning, fred several shots and
cut his coat with dagger, but he escaped
By whipping his horse. The highwaymen
are believed to be those who perpetrated
the outrage on the Glen house stage, who
have since been steadily pursued by
officers
FIVE desperate men confined in Jail al
Las Vegas, New Mexico, having secured
pistol and burst the locks off their cells.
made a bloody charge on three of their
guards. One of the officers blew out the
brains of Thomas Duffy, and the others
were soon secured. The leader of the
revolt was Dave Rudenbaugh, of the gang
of Billy the Kid.
ARTHUR STERN, of Chicago, who recent
ly confessed to Police Captain O'Donnell
that he had murdered his wife at q lonely
point on the prairie, has at last pointed
oGt the corpse to the officers, after searches
extending over three days. The remains
ID Oii lHC kTOuHu, IldH mile northwest
Of Lawndale, with bullet hole in the
left temple. Stern states that they agreed
70 die together, but after seeing her blood
he had not the nerve to kill himself.
The national board of health has learn
ed that George Ambrose, an employe of
bar-room at Key West, Fla, died of vel
low fever august q. On the following
day DIR. Green, of the marine hospital
service, who was present 1T the autopsy
on the body of Ambrose, expired from the
same disease. The truth was suppressed
by the local authorities, and the health
officer was removed for refusing to grant
clean bills to outgoing vessels.
john b. FURAY. epostoffice inspector,
caused several arrests to be made for star
mail frauds on the Black Hills route. Sol.
Starr, postmaster at Deadwood, and Fred
+. CIeary, postmaster at Sidney, made
written confessions that they had signed
false reports. The grand jury at Dead
wood failed to indict the former. Furay
brought Corbin, superintendent of the
Black Hills stage line, before the United
States commissioner at Sidney, who re-
leased him. II is believed that all con
cerned will be indicted at Omaha next
month.