Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-09-02
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| ner.
AT Lexington, Mo-, the other night, the
omnibus running to the depot was stopped
! by four masked men and the passenger.
robbed of all their valuables.
ALDERIAS PITTs, a wealthy farmer near
| Murfreesboro, Tenn, was assassinated in
his melon-patch evidentl, because he had
commenced a divorce suit.
JAMES WHALING. burglar, and George
Roach, a horse-thief, escaped from the
Milwaukee house of correction through
the negligence of guard.
Il the case Of the Molly Maguires ar
laigned for the murder OF Healy at
| Uniontown, Pa, one was discharged and
six held in bail of 5000 to $500
| MARTIN F. CONWAY, an ex-congressman
| from Kansas, who once shot Senator Pom
erov, has been released from long con-
finement in the insane asylum.
TBE coiored people of Galveston have
passed resolutions e1coriating Governor
Roberts for permitting the butchery of
| innocent negroes by the mob at Orange.
STEPHEN 0RNAY. who was arrested in
Boston for the embezziement of money
from the German government, has been
placed aboard Hamburg steamer at New
York
THE shooting Of deputy sheri fl at
Benson, Arizona, caused the citizens to
burn the furniture of gambling der and
order the whole party to leave by first
train or be lynched.
Mrs. GEORGE STONE, of Waukegan, ILL.,,
was lodged in Jail for causing the death OF
Mrs. Frank Foster, whom she frightened
into premature confinement by her Jealous
rage.
A FEUD Of long standing resulted in an
affray at Johnston, $. c., in which j. W.
Zimmerman was killed, and j. w. Buz-
zard and his son seriously wounded, with
double-barreled shot-guns.
Tue Indiana, Bloomington and Western
Railway company offers a reward of $500
for the conviction of the man who tied the
boy Cantwell to the track and caused his
death by mutilation.
THE conspirators among the Cornell
crew are said by the Ithaca Journal to
have been led by Shinkel, his partners
being Michael Casey, a saloon-keeper, and
Samuel w. Reed, a wholesale liquor deal
er. Shinkel wrote to Casey from London
To bet against the crew.
LucIus NJ. WIrHAN, who was once po-
lice captain at Lowell. Mass, but who for
sixten years been \ resident of Reedsboro,
VT, was shot dead through a window by
some unknown person at night. 1t is
known that his life had been threatened
by neIghbor named Calvin Fuller.
CHas. SToCKLEY was executed at Ba-
tavia, n. u. for killing John Wilker, who
refused him the hand of his daughter in
marriage. Stockley feigned insanity in
prison, and it took four strong mer to
shackle him. His father has not visited
him since the murder, and his mother left
him with dry eyes after a brief interview
THERE are twenty-five murderers in the
Jail at ST. Louis An addition To the num-
ber was made when a mulatto named q.
w. Sears cut the throat of Sallie Freeman,
a yellow girl, because she started for
church with rival The horrible deed
was perpetrated on the sidewalk on Small
street, and his victim was corpse in five
minutes from the time of his assault.
THE attorneys for the Malleys, of New
Haven, charged with the murder of Jen-
ME Gramer, finding that bail will not be
received. announce that writ of habeas
corpus will be sued out, thus compelling
the prosecution to outline lis case 1t is
reported that a medical examination Of
Jennie's stomach revealed the presence Of
cantharides.