River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-14
CRIME.

For an assault on a soap peddler follow
ing his show, Adam Forepaugh was fined
$24 .65 by justice at Black River Falls,
Wis.
WILLIAM RILEY, a rough character, was
killed at Rockton. ILL.,, while resisting ar
rest, by Constable b. B. Hall.
A DUEL was fought near New Albany,
Ind, between VIM. Willis and Robert
Burnett, in which the former was danger
ously wounded in the face.
OTTo TooKRR, a Boston youth of Is,
shot and killed a companion, Gustave
Buettner, boy of Is, with a toy pistol.
The boys had a quarrel.
A REPORT from Piedras Negras states
that several American engineers have
been killed in Mexico in consequence of
disputes regarding right of way.
WILLIAM McMULLEN, a desperate of
Newport, KY, was killed by Police Officer
Sauerbrey for a desperate assault. The
patrolman is in critical condition.
MANSFIELD, who was stabbed some three
weeks ago bv Chinese laundryman in a
dispute over the price for washing shirt,
is dying at the county hospital, Chicago.
CAPTAIN THoRNsBY, of the schooner
Eustace, from San Francisco, was killed
by his cook off the coast of Mexico.
While in chains the latter fired the ship,
and only four sailors escaped.
MIKE KREIsENDoRFER, of Pittsburgh, a
burly nail-cutter, shot Katie Smith, a
dining-room girl, and instantly killed
himself, They had lived unhappily to-
gether.
Two of the Missouri land swindlers,
Robert l.. Lindsey and John F. Norris,
have been handed over to the sheriff of
Jefferson county, Ohio, where they were
recently indicted.
A NUMBER of Lalallee (Tex) horse
thieves were overtaken at Fordillo by
party of citizens, some of whom had suf-
fered from the thieves operations. A
fierce fight took place. The thieves were
badly worsted, and retired, leaving one of
their number killed and another seriously
wounded.
THE sequel of quarrel between Hugh
Bigney and John White, at Pittsburgh,
Pa, was that the latter, colored man,
knocked Bigney down with payer, and
then pounded him on the head, ini1icting
injuries from which he died soon after
ward.
A PASSENGER on the Chicago and East
ern Illinois road was on Saturday night
robbed of 81 300 by two colored men. One
of them confessed the crime, and stated
that he threw the money from car win
dow just north of Watseka. Search was
made by the victim, and about 5000 found
scattered along the track.
A MASKED burglar kicked at the door of
the house of the Rev. Mr.. Stewart, of Min
neapolis, Mimi, and frankly explained
what he wanted. The minister made
sturdy fight, but as his wife. in the dark
ness, made mistake, and pounded him
instead of the burglar with an Indian
club, he had to give it up, AID the burglar
ransacked the house without getting much
plunder.
GIUsEPPI EsPosITo, a remarkably hand
some Italian, the sole survivor of a famous
band of brigands, for whose arrest re-
ward OF %, 900 lire was offered, was caught
in New Orleans, where he had been quiet
iy running a fruit schooner. he is in
irons on board steamer bound for New
York, where an Italian war-vessel is wait
ing to take him home.
GLEN GALLON, who butchered Thomas
Dilley and wife in their bed last Deem
Der, has been convicted. and will doubt
less live in history as the first man hanged
in Henry county, Illinois. The sole mo-
tive for the crime was the possession of
two old watches. which he could have
stolen at any time. The brute is utterly
Indifferent as to his position.
AT the sand hills, about forty miles
south of Ell Paso, the decaying bodies of
thirteen men of the Mexican Central sur
veyins party were found by some Ameri-
can tourists The news was at once car
ried to Ell Paso, from which point strong
detachment of troops was sent out. 1t is
believed that the massacre was the work
Of the remnant Of Victoria's band of
Apaches, who for months have been COM
hitting depredations in the Sierra Can
deleria.
THE Talbot boys of Marysville, Mo-,
have made confession in presence of
several lawyers and some personal friends.
Edward. the younger, states that his par
ents were engaged in war of words
when he entered the room, and he picked
up doubie-barrel shot gun and fatally
wounded his father, who made diving re-
quest that the facts be suppressed. The
elder son then took the gun and broke the
window, to make it appear that the Crime
was the work of an assassin outside. The
doctor sent for an attorney and made his
will. dividing his property among his
family.