Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-26
TfagiCals

At Atlanta, Ca, on the 22d inst, Carrie
Stokes, colored, was murdered, and her body
partially burned.
An insane man named Kirk Marsh, murdered
Daniel Blake, clerk Of a steamer, Oh board the
boat, when near Memphis Tenn, on the 22d.
Kirk was secured after great difficulty.
On the 22d inst. near Chattanooga, Tenn,
the bodies of two murdered men, named Var
nell and Howe, we're found. Two men named
Brooks and Griffin were arrested on suspicion,
and during the night both were shot dead, pre-
sumably by Yarnell's friends.
VIM. Van Blaircom, farmer living near
Genoa, Livingston county, Mich, shot his wife
dead on the Goth inst, and then killed himself.
Cause, drink and family troubles.
A row occurred in a saloon kept by man
named Tafforty, at Nelsonville, o., on the night
of the Goth inst. Tafforty elected two men
named Altman and Jones, when they broke
through the door and killed him with a chunk
of iron.
At Delaware Bend, Red River county, Texas,
on the Goth inst, Noah Bowling assaulted G..
Barnett with murderous intent and was shot
dead by the latter. At San Angelo, in the
Sixteenth infantry.
Two Lafferty brothers. living near Parkes-
burg, West Va. got into fight on the Goth inst
when the eldest stabbed and killed the youngest.
Two notorious Bodie, CAL, characters, Dave
Bannon and Ed. Ryan, had terrible combat in
| the fray in a playful scufle. At the close they
| had their arms around each others neck at the
| same time shooting each other. Bannon fell
dead and Ryan was mortally wounded.
DR.. De Haven, formerly clown in Dan Mce's
circus, had an alteration with Nat Parish in a
Glasgow Ky, saloon, on the 20th inst, when
Parish pulled out a knife and cut De Haven's
throat.
rge ms Weaz
berry county, s. c., on the 18th inst. The
guilty wretches were arrested, and promptly
| confessed. whereupon an unfuriated party Of
citizens shot Spearlnan dead Oh the spot where
the crime was committed and hung Fair.
From Madison county, Ohio. come the par.
ticulars of horrible and mysterious triple mur
der, on the 18th inst. Ophelia Clark, q spin:
ster, aged 80 and blind, an adopted boy aged
their house, having been brutally murdered
with a huge bluIgeon. The indications art
that Robert Garner, rejected lover Of Maris
Scott, the young lady, outraged her and the1
murdered the entire family to hide the crime
Garner is under arrest.
A dance at Las Mia, a small village in New
Mexico, ended in free fight between Ameri
cans and Mexicans, in which 20 of the forme
and one Of the latter were killed. The names
of the American victims are Doc Hodges ant
Frank Smith.
Vigilantes hung Joseph Daroche at Bodie
CAL, on the 18th inst, for the murder of 'Ehos
A. Treloan, whose wife Daroche had made ad
vances to.
Near Grayson, stanislaus county, Cal, on tn
18th inst, rejected suitor for the hand O
Miss Lizzie Kuene, attempted to shoot her, bu
the plucky girl anticipated the Villains inten
ton and shot him dead.
At Lapeer Village, seventy miles north O
Detroit, Mich, On the 10th inst. Mrs. Bernard
in a fit of religious excitement went to th
house of Rev. E. Curtis, the Baptist minister
overpowered his wife, an old lady IS years o
age, poured gasoline over her clothing and fire'
it. Mrs. Curtis was fatally burned