Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-10-05
TragicaI Ta,IeS.

In bar room brawl at Philadelphia, Pa, on
the LIST inst, John Kistel, % years of age, was
fatally pummeled by VIM. Johnson.
On the night of the LIST inst, at Aurora ILL.,,
Otto Freez was stabbed to death by Thomas
! Olson. The murder grew out of O. row be-
Ween two squads of young men.
A rural dance on farm near Louisville, KY,
| on the night of the LIST inst, ended in melee
IN which revolyers played ali important part.
David Showers was instantly killed and Zulu
| Walter mortally wounded.
| led Franks, the jailer at Bloomington, Ill.
was shot through the heart on the Goth ult,
! by hOrse-thief named Charles Pierce. Other
prisoners seized the murderer and took the
| revolver from him. Within ninety minutes a
| crowd OF i've thousand persons surrounded the
jail, the iron doors were soon forced and
Pierce was dragged out to locust tree at the
corner Of Market and Centre Streets, and
strung up. The shrieks of the villain could be
heard above the cheers OF the crowd. It was
expected that Patsey Devine the assassin of
Aaron GoodfellOw, who occupied the cell next
to Pierce, would meet the same fate, but he
was spared.
Mrs. Jacob Whitmore, recently married,
died suddenly on the Both ult., at Belfontaine
! o., with commissions Before expiring she said
| her husband, with q drawn revolver, had forced
her to partake of a white powder which caused
| her death.
| At Philadelphia, on the Goth ult., John Ma
| ginnis shot bis divorced wife, seriously wound
| ing her, and afterward fatally shot her mother
brutal and fiendish murder occurred in
Union county, ILL.,, few days since. Samuel
| Hazel without any provocation kicked and
| strangled MOlHe Dalton, o girl six years of age
before the eyes of the child's mother. The
tiend afterwards applied a burning brand to the
| dead childs feet to see whether life was al
| together extinct.
A. ?. Rogers, employed in the Burlington car
shops at Aurora, ILL.,. met his wife on the street
on the night Of the 28th ult., and gave her a
fatal shot in the back, instantly following the
deed by killing himself. They spent twenty
| years unhappiy together.
John and Frank Mcdonald, of Menomonee,
Mich, having served two years in the peniten-
| tiary. returned for vengeance. On the Goth
| ult., they killed William Kittson and fatally
| stabbed his brother Norman On the following
evening mob of four hundred battered down
the door of the jail with heavy timber, dragged
the prisoners to death on the road and hung
their bodies to trees.
A bloody affray occurred in MAGISTRATES
court in Burke County, Ga, on the 10Th ult.,
in which Chas. J. Walker and Arthur Smith
were killed and Mike Smith wounded. The
trouble grew out Of q suit about horse.
James Andrews was shot dead at Orovile
CAL, on the night of the 9th, by E. Il.
Sproul. The latter thought he was shooting J.
B. ESpey, who had seduced Mrs. Sproul.
Two colored men were stabbed to death in a
saloon at Webb City, Ark. on the night Of the
oath, by two white men, Berry HARDWOOD and
George Hughes. One of the murderer,
Rarwood, has been arrested. Hughes is still
at large. The murders were rlnprovoked.
Deputy Sheriff Jere Ward quarreled with W.
t. Boteller at Scanlan's Landing, Ark, on the
Goth inst, over q business transaction, when
Ward shot Boteller dead.
Henry Tate and Joseph Aston, colored,
fought at Newark, N. j., on the night OF the
26th. terrible razor cash ended Tate's
career.
Ike Stockton, noted desperate, was fatally
shot while resisting arrest at Durango, Col, on
the 26th.
shooting affray occurred near Hamburg
Bay, Calhoun County, ILL.,, on the 25th inst, in
which Sheriff John Lammie was killed by Ed.
Maxwell and Lon Maxwell, better known as
'the Williams boys" who made reputation IN
Wisconsin some time since. John II. Church
man and Frank McNeff Of the sheriff's posse,
were slightly wounded. G. W. Roberts. deputy
sheriff of Pike County, Ill.,, with James Hayes
and Mr.. Clendenning, started for the des-
peradoes, but were kept back by steady firing.
The deputy sheriff of Pike County, with posse
of men, are keeping guard of the river near
Cape au Girls and Falmouth.
Thomas Saunders, aged So proposed mar
rage to his landlady, Susan Bromley, aged 81,
at New York, on the 26th and was refused.
Becoming intoxicated, he returned to the house
and engaged the woman in conversation.
While talking he suddenly stabbed her and
then drew the knife across his own throat. Both
will die.