The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-08-04
CRIME.

A CANADIAN detective has arrested a
farmer named McCormick, living near East
Saginaw, Mich, charged with the murder
of man ten years ago.
DETECTIVES from st. Louis, captured at
Braidwood, ILL.,, the negro who shot fel-
low-laborer lying in a hammock on a
steamers deck in the former city.
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 H. T. Jen-
nings for numbering Abe Lewis to possess
his wife. The latter was implicated and
is still in Jail.
The governor Of Arkansas offers re-
ward Of $3.50 for the recapture of Charles
G. Halpsey, James P. Holland, and VIM.
0. CARLY. who recently escaped from the
jail at Ozark. They have cost Yell coun-
ty SAC. 900 since their arrest in 1878.
The former treasurer of Stark county,
Ohio, is serving term of twelve years
for defalcation OF $4,000. An investi-
CATION Just made shows a deficit of $l1,-
700 in the accounts of the present treas
urer. +y
REV. W. F. WH1TcHRR, 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.
WILLIAM HARTLEY, a Chicago thief now
confined in the penitentiary in Brooklyn.
has for a week abstained from food, and
threatens to starve himself to death, but
the prison officials will admin lister nutri-
ment by force.
THE Williams bandits, who are being
tracked through the Wisconsin woods,
tied stolen horse to tree and left it to
starve. When found it had been several
days without food or water, in which con-
dition it was turned over to Sheriff Ander-
son. of Henderson county, Illinois.
DEPUTY Collector Noah, of Columbia,
s. c., reports that a revenue force raided
the house of Mellow. the murderer Of
Deputy Brayton, and found it deserted.
Commissioner Raum has authorized an
offer of $500 for the delivery of Mellow
TO Marshal Blythe.
NATHANIEL STEVENS, OF North Andover,
Mass. has been detected by the custom
officers at New York in wholesale snug
Cling operation, involving seven cases Of
bronzes, silks and pictures. He and his
sisters We'd with each other in lying about
their invoices. but to no purpose.
In an American boarding house recent
ly opened in the City of Mexico, by an
Englishman named Carmichael, Biscaino,
Mexican employed on the National rail
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 KL1NGEN SMITH, par
ticipant in the Mountain Meadow mas
sacre, whose exposure Of that atroclty
caused the execution of John D. Lee, was
found dead in prospect hole in Sonora,
Mexico. He expected to be killed by 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
tribe defers killing him.