River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-30
CRIME.

A PACKAGE Of $1,000 in currency was
stolen from the Office of Maher x Bray
toms foundry, Cleveland.
ROBERT MARTIN, an English machinist
of Newark, n j., shot his wife dead and
inflicted mortal wound on his child.
At private residence in Cedar Springs,
Mich, some professional burglars OBJ
tanned $3.50 without breaking lock.
THREE liberal deputies in Bulgaria have
been attacked and mortally wounded by
unknown men.
In duel at Paris, Louis de Cassagnac
wounded Captain Herrisant in the Shout
der
SOME miscreant blew up the store of
DIR. Conkling. at Centerville. Cal, with
giant powder, nearly killing the owner,
AT Newark, n. j., machinist named
| Martin shot and killed his wife and NOR
tally wounded his child, a three-year-old
girl
AT Wilson, N. c.. Manly Ellis ended
quarrel with Wright Newson by shooting
| him dead. Both were in love with the
same girl.
| JOHN II. MAYNARD, of San Francisco,
has been arrested at Ann Arbor, Mich,
for obtaining by false preteEses a sigma
ture to note for $4,000 in 1876.
THE japanese feat of disemboweling
was performed upon himself by Matthew
| O'Donnel, a Iaboring man of East Sagi-
nav, Mich, while suffering from delirium
tremens.
| WHILE walking along street in Erie,
Pa, james Hogan was insulted by John
100000 s@ss A-Oe - sess'
| in the throat with jack-knife.
In an affray at Marshall, Tex, Robert
Hill killed Isaac Verge. The former fled
! TO the canebrakes in Louisiana, where
sheriff's posse riddled him with bullets on
his refusal to surrender.
| Two of the clerks of the outgoing rev.
enue collector at San Francisco prove to
have been embezzlers. and the new APP
appointee hesitates to enter upon his du.
! ties.
! ZACHARIAH Wilson, a murderer, who
broke jail at Carthage. ILL.,, for whose ar
rest reward of 800 was offered, was
nabbed at Schell City, Mo-, where he had
gond to kill B. f. Herrick, the horse-thief
detective.
! CAMILLA VILLERTIA, a Protestant min
lister in Mexico, was fred upon at Tezcu-
co by a Catholic, and is now in Jail on
charge of being the attacking party, but
Bishop Butler is making efforts for his
release
MILTON GARBERRY, town marshal at
Albuquerque, New Mexico, gives the peo-
pie something to gossip over. About four
months ago he killed nephew of ex-
Governor Brown, of Tennessee. On Sat-
urday, he murdered carpenter employed
in the railroad yards.
THR noted Wisconsin train wreckers,
undergone trial at Appleton, Wis, and
the jury spent a whole night in pronounc-
ing them guilty. The law permits their
confinement in the penitentiary for ten
years.
OF the ~ persons arrested at Mar
settles, 60 have been liberated and 10 will
be tried for murder. Two steamship COM
panies rendered free passage to Italy to all
afraid to remain. and 800 have taken adj
vantage of the offer, while 200 more have
petltioned for free transportation.
Nick ROACH, who was shot through the
jaw while attempting to burglarize Chi
cago dry goods store, secured suspension
of sentence on the pledge of Alderman
Hildreth that he should be sent into the
country.
AN investigation, which for some time
time has been going forward at the Keo-
kuk elevator, controlled by Jack Sturges.
shows that 120, 900 bushels of grain have
gone where no trace can be found. Civil
and criminal suits will at once be com
menced.
WILLIAM RYAN, who was arrested at
Nashville for robbing the government pay
master at Mussel Shoals, on the Ten
nessee river, has been fully identified as
one of the party who took $4,000 in gold
from train at Glendale, Mo-, two years
ago.
A MAN named Larkin, deputy United
States marshal. was sent 10 arrest his own
cousin at Rogerville, Tenn, for violation
of the revenue law, and shot him dead |
because he resisted arrest. He is lodged |
in Jail, and state troops are required to
protect him from the deputies of Judge |
Lynch"
Two negro walters employed by the Owl |
club of Chicago, which has rooms in Nc |
Nicker's theatre, INDUCED in a quarre', |
when Luther Ross stabbed Edward Stan |
nard in the left breast with large pocket |
knife. The victim lived but few min |
utes. The murderer, apparently uncon- |
scious of the effect of the blow he had |
given, made his appearance in the rooms /
during the evening, and was taken to Jail.
OK a Hannibal and st. Joseph train, |
near Chillicothe, Mo, j. NJ. K;ser, com
mercial traveller, of Quincy, was fred |
upon three times by stranger. who then /
pulled the bell-cord. stopped the train and
leaped off. The first shot took effect in
the right arm, inficting mortal wounds.
The assassin left a valise which showed
that he was Colonel Keith, of Columbus,
Ohio. who is known to be insane.
MARTIN CoRcoRAN, a striking printer of
the Pittsburgh Dispatch. armed himself I
with billy and laid in wait for ''rat"
printer named McCahill, who was en-
ployed with others in place of the strikers.
He struck McCahill as the latter passed
about o'clock in the morning, whereupon
McCahill drew his revolver and fred two
shots, one of which put an end to Corco-
rams life.