River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-19
CRIME.

AT the locomotive works at Providence,
3. l., Frederick Glover killed John Don
ovan with file.
AN old feud caused the murder of S. w.
B. johnson, county attorney of Gray coun-
ty, Kansas, by A. j. Shumatte, deputy
sheriff
The safe in the post-office at Martins
vile, Iowa, was blown open and robbed of
$500 in money and 5000 in stamps.
J. R. GAUTHEAUx. formerly sheriff at
New Orleans. while suffering imprison-
NEXT at Toronto, for theft, dangerously
wounded himself by slashing his throat
The police of St. Louis captured Andy
McGinnis, Chicago thief, and four tyros
in the act of burglary, who broke into sew
eral stores.
THE governor of Colorado has been ad-
yised of the murder of a ranchman and
two herders in the La Plata mountains, by
Indians.
THE brewery of Frank May, at Cas-
cade, Iowa, was entered by burglars and
robbed of $1,000. Most of the money was
held in trust, there being no bank in the
place.
EVA LLOYD, who was recently tried in
Chicago for the murder OF Dora Abel, was
picked up by the police of Omaha in an
| intoxicated condition.
AN Irish bailiff employed by Lord Dun
dales, while returning from a wake near
Dokeen, was shot through the lungs by
parties concealed behind hedge.
FIFTY negroes took from jail at Sparta,
Ia, a colored lad who admitted having
committed an outrage on a child, and kill
ed him with shot-guns.
FATHER MAHoNEY, of Erie, Pa, who suf-
fered the exposure of his miracle frauds,
has bee.l arrested for forgery and for OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
DANIEL CARPENTER, negro, residing at
Wilmington, Ill, confesses having killed
a Young man named Wheeler, on the river
bank, but claims to have acted in self-de-
fense.
FOURTEEN captains of European steam
ships have been indicted by the United
States grand Jury at New York for carry
ing passengers in excess of the number al
lowed by law.
! IT has inst been announced that on
April % a pouch of mail from the south
and southwest, containing at least ISL ,2OO
| in money, was thrown off at Milford Cen
ter, O., and stolen and rifed.
A DISPATCH from South Bend, Ind, re-
veals the fact that On Wednesday evening
| Mrs. Davis. of St. Joseph, Mo, was rob-
bed of $500 by confidence operator on a
| Lake Shore train within the limits of chi
cagO.
| Two men named Hart and Register
! fought duel with knives in, Sumter
county, Ga, resulting in the death OF both
participants. Hart was disemboweled and
died instantly, and Register died four
hours after the ARRAY.
CHARLES GREEN, the son of Brooklyn
gentleman, who had been kidnapped, was
recovered by the vigilance of brother
Francis connected with monastery on
the summit of the Allegheny mountains
who forced two tramps to surrender him.
In the Palmer & Sullivan railroad
camp, near Acambaro. Mexico, Engineer
| Sackerider, while laboring under an at
tack of insanity, killed Engineers Martin
| and Jones, when he was dispatched by En-
| gineer Filley.
GEORGE w. STEVENS, who attempted the
| life of his father-ln-law, at Cincinnati, has
been captured. The old mans wounds
are healing, and he has entered suit tor
$4,000 damages, while the wife has APP
piled for divorce.
THE wife, of Christian Rapp.- principal
of the Brown street school. at Cincinnati,
has filed petition for divorce. The couple
eloped when she was Is years of age.
Among other horrible charges is one that
he drove her naked into the street one
winter night. In his cross-petition, Happ
alleges adultry with Frederick G. Schwartz
who replies by suit for $4,000 for defa-
nation of character.