Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-10-26
ID. L. Lowe, who in publication impeached

ID. L. Lowe, who in publication impeached
the virtue of a young lady who had just been
married to Mr.. Lower, at West Point. Miss,
was killed by Lower on the 21st inst.
Sanford Noe murdered his wife while she was
at the washtub at Greenville, H., on tie 21st
inst. - He stabbed her three times with dirk.
Noe had maltreated her the day previous at
which time she took refuge at neighbours.
A Mckinney, Tex, special of the Goth says:
MIR. NOVEL;, well-to-do farmer, was murdered
at bis residence by negro named Zach. Lind
say and an unknown man. Cause, quarrel
over business transaction.
Kit funston was fatally stabbed at Hillsboro
Texas, on the Goth inst. by James Averett.
Havana dispatch states that band of cut
Threats, whose chief is Sarduy, have murdered
a Spanish captain and nine soldiers and partly
burned q village and, unless he is bought off,
threatens to burn the fields of sugar-cane.
At Prescott, Arizona, on the 18th inst.
Deputy Sheriff Briant was killed while in the
discharge of his duty.
Three negroes arrested at Old Town Bridge,
Ark, charged with the murder of an overseer
named McGrath, were captured by a masked
mob. James Cunningham, one of them, was
shot and left for dead; bit turned mp alive and
was handcuffed, tho next day, denying his
guilt, and duplicating white men in the murder.
A posse is after the mob.
ajor Jordan, commanding at Fort Missoula,
reports that three Flathead Indians were killed
near the that post by citizens. Chief Charlo de-
mands the surrender of the murderers, and has
sent runners to JACKIE agency for aid in enforc
ing his call. .-
On the 14th inst, Charles Seigel miner
IN the Pinto Mountains, California, was found
dead with three bullet holes in his BODY
Tom Herbert, a discharged employee, was ar
rested and charged with the murder. On the
night Of the 18th inst, Deputy Sheriff Ben
Mitchell was killed while defending Herbert
from mob. A man supposed to be Tim CARLY,
was mortally wounded.
Near Breckner, Texas, on the 18th, a horrible
outrage was committed by family of negroes.
who were visited with swift and terrible ven
geance by an enraged community. 1t seems
that quarrel has existed between family
named Sloan and negro named Lum. On the
18th inst, Mrs. Lum enticed Miss Sloan, aged
Is, TO deep ravine where her husband was in
waiting. While his wife held the girl the negro
fiend ravished her and then with his pocket
knife, disembowled his victim and slashed her
entrails to pieces. He then cut the girls throat.
The body was found and at the inquest Mrs.
Lum confessed the awful crime, which so en-
ragged young man named Hart that he shot
the prisoner dead in court. A posse with Mrs.
Lum and negro man who boarded with her
started for Carthage, but a crowd overlook the
escort and shot both prisoners.
J. H. Robertson, formerly sheriff of Sharkey
County, Miss, who killed Judge Clark in 1873
got into difficulty with Hugh Carson, steam
boat captain. at Vicksburg, on the 18th inst,
and shot him dead.
The wife of DIR. Harper, residing in Henry
County, Missouri, crazed by the cries of her
little step daughter, cut it's throat with a
butcher-knife. The doctor has to be constantly
guarded to prevent his self-destruction, so great
is his grief.
Mrs. Dora Beyland, 65 years of age, residing
at Newport, o., became enraged at her two-year-
old grandson, Harry Gould, on the 18th inst,
and struck the child over the head with stick.
She then nearly cut the head from it's body with
a butcher knife. Mrs. Beyland is widow and
for years was an inmate of an insane asylum.