River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-01-06
CRIME.

by the academy records, are not so low as
to Justify his expulsion.
CRIME.
JAMES KNOWLES and George Owen were
drowned in the canal at Holyoke Mass,
Dec. %, while drunk.
JONATHAN MOVER has been convicted Of
participation in the murder of John kintz-
Ter and wife, at Middleburg, Pa.
ANDERwERT, the mewly-elected presi
dent of the Swiss confederation, shot him
self dead on the street at Berne, last week.
FIVE men who pleaded guilty, in the
courts OF New York, to sending lottery
tickets through the mails have been fined
$500 each.
FRANK MICHAEL, who murdered Alice
Becker ten days since, was sentenced Dec.
rs, at Galveston, Tex, to 90 years in the
penitentiary.
PETER NANDERHooF, one of the gang
who attempted to wreck the passenger
train on the Wisconsin Central road, last
week, was arrested in Fond du Lac Dec.2S.
OFFICER MUM, of La Sale, H., shot
and dangerously wounded John Mcclure.
The officer tried TO arrest Mcclure, who
resisted. The ball entered the mans thigh.
CHIEF HAYES, of the Ansonia, Conn,
police, was shot dead Thursday night by a
rufiian named Chip" Smith, whom he
attempted to arrest.
A DETROIT ok-keeper, named H. ID
Wright poisoned himself because Cana
dian lady to whom he was engaged had
changed her mind and refused to marry
him.
/ MASKED burglars entered the residence
of John f. Kirby, deputy sheriff in ST..
| Louis, chlorOformed that officer, and held
his wife prisoner while they deliberately
ransacked the rooms,
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., of Montreal
/ named Gustave Cherol, has been arraign-
/ ed on charge of maintaining den into
which Young girls are inveigled, debauch-
/ ed and shipped to the states.
THREE men, named John Shea, Chester
4 Morse ard John Bruce, vile attempting 10
/ cross the b. Il A. railroad tack, in a wag-
on, near Walkers Grove, Mass, were
struck by the train and al, instantly killed.
THE authorities at Sheboygan, Wis,
4 have Jailed Mrs Peter Vanderbilt and her
sons and sons-in-law for stealing wheat.
A search of their premises revealed large
amount of plumber.
/ CHARLES WHITAKER, who has gone to
the Massachusetts penitcntiary for seven
wears, for burglary in which he obtained
81 800 worth of silver plate, was in July
last discharged from prison at Joliet, Ill.
AFTER Christmas eve fight at the rail-
road town at Franklin, Mo-, Andrew Beal,
a young negro. killed Henry Speers, an
engineer, with razor. The murderer
fled in the direction of St. Louis, followed
by a competent lynching party.
Ex-Governor SCoTT, at the close of the
coroner's inquest at Napoleon, o., was
taken back to Jail at Defiance. His coun-
sci will demand a rehearing before an ex-
amining court.
THE investigation into cruelties prac-
ticed at the penitentiary at Syracuse re-
veals terrible inhumanity toward the in
mates An ex-convict, named Cuslck,
has sued Superintendent Spaulding for
$1,000.
CONGRESSMAN VOORHEES,, of Hackensack,
n j., was arraigned in Bergen county
court Dec 50, for trial on the charge of
embezzlement. The case was set down for
| the next term of the April court. 1t is
the impression this ends the matter
UNDER the provisions of the law of
Michigan forbidding the sale of liquor on
holidays the temperance agitators OF De-
l
the most wealthy and influential saloon
keepers, as practical test.
AN unknown fend fired shots into a
smoking-car on the Iron Mountain rail-
wav. at Neeleyville, Mo, on Friday night,
and escaped into the forest. DR. }. II;
! Paine, of Carroll, Tex, was killed and
p. 2. Jones and wife, from Pennsylvania,
mortally wounded.
IN
suicides were committed in St Louis dur,
ing the past year OF the persons muir
dered, five were women and two were in
fants. There are now eighteen murderers
confined in Jail, awaiting trial
THE Denver Republicans special says
that on SATURDAY. night during a drunken
row in dance hall at Robinson's Camp,
a man named Neatly was shot through
the breast Policeman McElhany, in at
tempting to arrest the disturbers, was shot
in the foot Several others had bullet
holes in their clothing.
The mutilated bodies Of Jacob Google
and wife, residing near Bethlehem, Pa,
having been found in their bed, on Dec.
%. Joseph Snyder, who boarded in their
family. was lynched for the crime by Il
mob. He made a detailed confession.
from which it appeared that he had been
refused the hand of their daughter bv his
victims, and thought 10 possess her after
their death.
A DISPUTE arose on the oath at a supper
| table at boarding house in New Alexan-
dria, Ohio, near Steubenville, and DR..
| Henry. dentist, attacked Dr. Schooley, a
| prominent Young physician Of Mount
Pleasant. \ wealthy farmer named Buck
ingham took Henry's part, when Schooley
drew a revolver and put ball through
Buckingham's head, inhicting a probably
fatal wound Henry seized a shovel and
beat Schooley about the head, wounding
him so that he cannot recover. They are
all Of the best citizens of Jefferson county.
THE railroad to the city of Mexico be-
gins to look like sure thing. A banking
house in New York has advertised that it
| will receive bids for seven and a half mill
lions in bonds and seven and half in
shares for the proposed construction of a
railroad from the city Of Mexico to Laredo,
on the Rio Grande, where it will meet the
American system The distance is $50
miles. The route is generally favorable.
and il could be constructed for that sum if
there IS no stealing on the part of the Off
GERS and the contractors.
A LEADING Boston dry-goods house will
doubtless be made to suffer for the blunder
of Its private detective. A day or two ago
wealthy lady, wife Of an iron manufac-
turer of the city, was in the store making
purchases when she was suddenly accosted
BY the private detective who asked for the
things she had stolen Notwithstanding
her protessations Of innocence ard her
offer 10 prove her responsibility, she vas
arrested and searched, and handed over TO
the police Il seems that cheap collar,
worth 30 cents, had become attached to
the fringe on her cloak sleeve and on this
the arrest was based. 1t is understood