Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-07-21
Criminal.

FOUR negroes a! Greenville, ;. o., who
fired the opera-house in that city, will be
executed in September for Arson.
THE people of Des Arc, Arkansas, took
negro ravisher from Jail, -nged him
to tree, and threw his body into the
river.
The pension com missioner recommends
the discharge of one hundred clerks and
a reduction in the salaries of over sixty.
The unadjusted claims number 10000.
AN ARRAY between convicts in Clinton
prison, New York, originating in polit-
ical discussion, ended by Henry King kill :
ing Michael Hamilton with an ak.
In Milwaukee,, at midnight, John
Schmidt shot Emile Haberle, and then
put three balls into his right temple. 1t
is thought that both will recover.
In the libel case of Miss Mabel Wilber-
force against Captain Phillips, of London
Judgment was entered for defendant, and
the lady was ordered to leave the court
room.
MICHAEL HAzELToN, for nine years pri-
vate servant to Adam Forepaugh, was
killed in an alteration at Dubuque by
William Clark, constable, who was in
toxicated.
E. B. BEcHTELnEIMER, formerly Aus
trian consul at st. Louis, has been jailed
at Galveston for embezzling $4,000. De
tective Mcdonald awaits extradltion pa
pers from Governor Roberts.
THREE roughs from Waukega invaded
the camp-grounda at Lake Bluff, III :. and
made disturbance. They were promptly
knocked down, tied with ropes, and sent
out toward the Jail at Waukegan, but were
released by gang of their comrades
A wRoNGED wife caused the arrest Of
John B. w. Davis at Hamilton, o., for
bigamy, and his transfer to Indianapolis.
On arraignment he pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to two years in the peni-
tertiary.
Two young rutfiaps named Ralph T..
Richards and Edward +. Gross, the one
| fourteen years of age, the other eleven,
drowned companion, Willie Carr, boy
of ten years, near Portland, Me-, because
he refused to give them % cents which he
had.
| ONE of the most outrageous train rob
berries ever perpetrated in this country Is
reported from Rock Island. The villains
murdered the conductor and one passen-
ger, and then only obtained about hve
thousand dollars.
Four men rode quietly into Riveriton,
Iowa, and made their way to the bank OF
| Davis 4 Sexton. While one of the party
engaged the attention of the cashier, he
Others leaped over the counter, took
81 900, and invited the crowd to follow as
they rode away. e 4YrE
Mrs. JOHANNA SULLIVAN, termagant
of Great Darlington, Mass. was taken
from her bed by four brave Yankees and
treated to dressing of tar and feathers.
Tive Of her assailants have been held IN
$500 each, and the other pair have fled
THE true names OF the williams who
murdered the Coleman brothers at Durand
Wis. are Edward and Alonzo Maxwell.
and both have served terms in Joliet
prison. The governor of Wisconsin has
been requested to forward two thousand
cartridges to Menominee.
AN office-boy in Philadelphia, years
of age, while walking along Marshall
street was seized by two men. who sPr ang
out of a covered wagon. They enveioped
/ him IN blanket. flung him into the We,
hide. and we're driving of, when ne leaped
out, The villains were captured, ana
proved 10 be noted criminals.