Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-05-13
CRIME.

his wife and four children and cut then
in pieces.
lsADoRE LEVI, a crockery merchant ot
New Orleans, was tried on charge of arson
and &C quilted.
old citizen, was shot dead by p. G. Ran.
som, the defeated candidate for mayor. for
commenting on the recent election
ToURNIE, the tenor OF the Beauplan
French Opera Company, eloped from New
York with Nine. Ambre, wife of the
manager, and Beauplan has also disap-
peared.
WILLIAM BoNNEY, who killed two dep
uty sberiffs and escaped from Jail at Lin
coin, New Mexico, has threatened to kill
governor Wallace Tor signing his death
warrant.
IL. L. CALAIS, alias Henry A. Challis
yardmaster of the INDIANAPOLIS. Bloom
ington and Western Railway, in Indian
apolls. is under arrest for bigamy He
has one wife with him, and it is alleged
that he left another in Joliet, Ill.
REBECCA RoTHsCHILD, of Indianapolis,
has recovered SO, 600 from James M. Dick
son for breach of promise, and filed a shit
claiming $25,0 900 for seduction Her faith
er also threatens criminal proceedings.
The coroner's jury at Elgin, finds that
the sunken ferry boat was wholly unfit for
the purpose for which it was intended and
was managed in reckless manner, and
that Mayor Bosworth and Alderman
Jencks were guilty of negligence.
JUST outside the limits of st. Joseph,
Mo, are encamped several families emf
grating to Iowa. At bedtime, William
Wise. formerly Texas cowboy, rode up
to the tent of William Wilson, and shot
him dead, for some unknown reason.
The wife of Rector Vandoburg. of
Springfield, Ill, becoming enraged at her
husband, cut is coat, vest and shirt into
shreds and then turned upon him with
the knife, when he ran out for a warrant.
STEARNs X. ABBOTT, under sentence of
death at Boston for the murder of Mrs.
Crue, will probably escape the gallows by
Communication, Governor Long having
been led TO believe that Crue killed his
wife,
A BOY in Dublin, named Farrell, was
dangerously shot for giving information
IN regard to the storage of arms in a
house where he was employed. The city
has been proclaimed TO be under the arms
act.
THE order that keno games must cease
In Chicago was sometime since given out
by Mayor Harrison WalpoIe, in south
Clark street, paid no attention to the
warning, and the police escorted eighty
men from his rooms to the armory.
BILLY, THE KID. noted outlaw of New
Mexico, who had been sentenced to death
for three murders, escaped from jail at
Lincoln, by shooting dead Sheriff Bell
and Marshall Olinger. The day set for
his execution was May Is. Governor
Wallace is determined to retake him. dead
or alive.
S. STEINAM, one of the oldest merchants
of La Crosse, Wis, is charged by pseudo
dete tive with having murdered his
hrother-ln-law, ID. Seigbert, q merchant of
Prairie du Chen, two years ago The lat
ter was found in the rear of his store with a
bullet hole in his head, and the coroner's
jury rendered verdict of suicide. Ssein-
ANS neighbors are indignant over the
charge of murder.
THE preliminary inquiry into the death
of the late Sultan Abdul Aziz has been
concluded, and twenty persons stand com
mitted for trial for completely in the muir
der. 1t is said that Mahmoud Pasha and
Noury Pasha confess their guilt, and iusti-
fy their crime on the ground of necessities
of state. Among the other persons sup
posed to be implicated are Midhat Pasha,
Mehemet Ruchdi Pasha, Sueliman Pasha,
and the ex-Sultan Murad.
HAYES WHITE, the Crittenden county
murderer, was brought up for sentence,
before Judge Cypert. at Marion. Ark. He
seemed depressed, but perfectly calm.
When asked if he had anything to say why
sentence of death should not be passed up
on him, he only remarked: II am sorry /
killed Sheriff Beattle If 1 had known it
was him, / wouldn't have done it." Judge
Cypert sentencted him to be hanged on
the 10Th of next month.
BURGLARS made a raid on Moline, Ill,
and effected an entrance to the residence
of Henry Fanclaugh and secured a gold
watch and other valuables. The house of
Mr.. Downs was also entered, but The in
truders were frightened by Mrs. Downs,
who happened to be about the house at
tending a sick child. John Deweese's
smoke-house was also visited and about
$50 worth of smoked hams stolen. There
is no clue TO the burglars.
MAYOR MARIAN. of Sieubenville. Ohio,
suspended Chief of Police Cahill for neg
lectiDg to arrest man whom he saw COM
init an assault. The superintendent pub
lished card branding the mayor as an
ignoramus, whereupon the latter caused
the chief to be locked mp over night for
contempt. About midnight Cahill was
taken out on a writ of habeas corpus is
sued bv the probpte judge, and gave bail
for appearance on Thursday
IT is not usual in the south Tor the
courts 10 take cognizance of shooting af-
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ton has been made at Shreveport. La,
where a jury convicted Captain s. NJ
Thomas Of manslaughter. for killing his
brother-in-law, NJ. H Dickson. the Sc
ducer of his daughter. The jurors united