Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-04-27
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Eliza Pope, aged 80, was brutally murdered
at Boston, Mass, on the 23d inst, by James
Tracy, who entered her room and attempted to
Outrage her person.
VIM. Brown and James Benson. farmers,
quarreled near Falmouth, KY, on the ed inst.
Benson threw rocks at Brown, who shot him
dead with revolver.
In a quarrel over bill of five cents for gar
den seeds, at Nlillen, Ga, B. W. Hext shot John
Conner through the heart.
| George Irish, grocery keeper, doing business
at Buffalo, n. Y, fatally shot a burglar named
Dennis E. Murphy, on the night of the 23d.
notorious smuggler named Redmond, has
been killed by revenue officers in North Caro-
| lima.
A horrible tragedy was enacted in the town of
Trio, Edwards county, Texas, on the 10th inst,
when a band of armed men rode up to the
house of a man named McLarens and deliber-
atey murdered McLarens, his wife, and a
young man named Lease, residing with them.
Plumber was not the object, evidently, as moth
ing in the house was disturbed The affair re-
mains mystery.
Frederick Smith was shot and dangerously
wounded by John Finnick, near Daleville, Ind.
IN quarrel over the possession of field. Smith
wife then knocked Finnick down with hoe and
chopped his head into slivers.
Thomas W. Cunningham, was killed in a
quarrel at San Francisco, CAL, on the 21st inst,
by J. A. Chandler, who was himself wounded.
W. HSs
has killed three men within five days, and four
9th ers have been killed in fights with him at
various times.
The body of a stranger supposed to have been
murdered, was found on a railroad track near
Fort north, Texas, on the 22d inst. card with
the name "F. Hatherman" written thereon,
was the only thing on his person calculated to
! identify him.
| At Cincinnati, o., on the 18th inst, John
Mooney hacked his wife to death with hatchct.
Jerry Leacrat, OF Little Rock, Ark, was MUIR
dered on account of an old grudge arising from
the location of some land.
JOHN McEnlcc II years of age, killed his un-
Gle, Peter NlcEnlec, aged 70, near Bath, Stevens
county, N. Y, on the night of the 10Th, by
shooting him. The boy says his uncle was crnel
to him.
Rcv. Robert Mattock, who had been tried and
acquitted of the charge of numbering Thomas
Miller last August, bya Lawrence county, Mo-
court recently, has been pursued by party of
Ailllcrs friends since lis acquittal. On the Goth
ly having met his death at their hands.
A feud Of long standing between the families
OF Genera! J: r. Baylor and Mr.. Gillhcrst, re-
siding at Uyalde, Texas, eliminated on the 10th
inst in shocking tragedy. A fight ellsued be-
tween Baylor and ono son on one side, and Gill
horst and two sons on the other. The older
Ci1llherst was killed, one of his sons mortally,
and the other seriously wounded. Young
Bayler was slightly hurt.
Two brothers named Nichols, aged respect
lively IA and II, got into quarrel at Oakwood
township, near Danville, H., on tho night of
the 18th inst.
A colored woman named Sallie Childers was
murdered by James H. Edmonson, near
Pleasant Hope, Polk county, NO., on the 18th
inst. The murderer feared the woman would
e expo him for visiting hef for immoral pur-