Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-10-05

A rural dance on farm near Louisville, KY,
on the night of the LIST inst, ended in melee
in which revolvers played an important part.
David Showers was instantly killed and Zulu
Walter mortally wounded.
Ted Franks, the jailer at Bloomington, Ill.,,
was shot through the heart on the 3Oth ult,
by horse thief named Charles Pierce. Other
prisoners seized the murderer and took the
revolver from him. Within ninety minutes
crowd Of five thousand persons surrounded the
jail, the iron doors were soon forced, and
Pierce was dragged out to a locust tree at the
corner of Market and Centre Streets, and
strung up. The shrieks of the villain could be
heard above the cheers of the crowd. 1t was
expected that Patsey Devine, the assassin of
Aaron Goodfellow, who occupied the cell next
to Pierce, would meet the same fate, but he
was spared.
Mrs. Jacob Whitmore, recently married,
died suddenly on the 3Oth ult., at Belfontaine,
o., with commissions. Before expiring she said
her husband, with drawn revolver, had dforced
her to partake of white powder which caused
her death.
At Philadelphia, on the SOth ult., John Ma
ginnis shot his divorced wife, seriously wound
ing her, and afterward fatally shot her mother.
brutal and fiendish murder occurred in
Union county, ILL.,, few days since. Samuel
Hazel without any provocation, kicked and
before the eyes of the child's mother. The
fend afterwards applied a burning brand to the
dead child's feet to SEQ whether life was al
together extinct
A. P. Rogers, employed in the Burlington car
shops at Aurora, ILL.,, met his wife on the street
on the night Of the 2Sth ult., and gave her a
fatal shot in the back, instantly following the
deed by killing himself. They spent twenty
years unhappily together.
John and Frank Mcdonald, of Menomonee,
Mich, having served two years in the; e;peniten-
| tlary. returned for vengeance. On the 26th
| ult., they killed William Kittson and fatally
| stabbed his brother Norman. On the following
evening mob of four hundred battered down
| the door of the Jail with heavy timber, dragged
| the prisoners to death on the road and hung
| their bodies to trees.
A bloody affray occurred in a magistrates
court in Burke County, Ga, on the 29th ult:,
were killed and Mike Smith wounded. The
| trouble grew out of a suit about a horse.
| James Andrews WAS shot dead at Orovile,
| CAL, on the night of the 27th., by E. r.
| Sproul. The latter thought he was shooting J.
| B. Espey, who had seduced Mrs. Sproul.
Two colored men were stabbed to death in a
oath, by two white men, Borry Harwood and
George Hughes. One of the murderers,
| Harwood, has been arrested. Hughes is still
| at large. The murders were unprovoked.
| Deputy Sheriff Jere Ward quarreled with w.
| T. Boteller at Scanlans Landing, Ark, on the
ZbCl lnSL., over business CransacuOn, Whcl
Ward shot Boteller dead.
Henry Tate and Joseph Alston, colored,
fought at Newark, N. j., on the night of the
26th. A terrible razor cash ended Tate's
| career.
! Ike Stockton, a noted desperate, was fatally
shot while resisting arrest at Durango, COL, on
the 26th.
A shooting affray occurred near Hamburg
Bay, Calhoun County, ILL.,, on tho 25th inst, in
which Sheriff John Lammie was killed by Ed.
| Maxwell and Lon Maxwell, better known as
"the Williams boys" who made reputation in
Wisconsin some time since. John H. Church.
man and Frank McNeff, Of the sheriff's posse,
were slightly wounded. G. W. Roberts, deputy
sheriff Of Pike County, Ill.,, with James Hayes
and Mr.. Clendenning, started for the des
peradoes, but were kept back by steady firing
The deputy sheriff of Pike County, with a posse
of men, are keeping guard of the river neal
Cape au Girls and Falmouth.
Thomas Saunders, aged so, proposed mar:
riage to his landlady, Susan Bromley, aged 81
at New York, on the Goth. and was refused
Becoming intoxicated, he returned to the house
and engaged the woman in conversation
| While talking he suddenly stabbed her ane
then drew the knife across bis own throat. Bott
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