Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-08-05
CRIME.

A CANADIAN detective has arrested a
farmer named Mccormick, living near East
Saginaw, Mich, charged with the murder
of a man ten years ago.
W. +. GEORGE, a machinist of Des
Moines, irritated over some words about
n girl, killed barber named John Eppa,
who called himself the Indian doctor
DETECTIVES from ST. Louis. captured 1T
Braidwond, H., the negro who shot fell
loS- -labarer lying in hammock on 4
steamers deck in he former city.
BuRGLARs entered the residence II u
Alderman Nary, At Fond du Lac, Wis,
hut were frightened away by Mrs. Nary.
who hreke u hroomstlck over the head of
one ~ them.
HANK kIEFF wGs followed by two St
Paul GVervmen, who charged him with
horse stealing He opened fire ON them,
but at the third shot he received 4 load of
duck shot III the bowels. and was taken TO
the hospital.
Az attempt was made to assassinate the
collector of customs at Piedras Negras.
Mexico, hut he had changed beds for the
night, and the bedding caught the bullet.
\ rARTS Of forty citizens Of Sierra Ar
milla. New Mexico, lvnchcd H. T. Jen-
nings for numbering Abe Lewis 10 possess
his wife The latter WAS implicated and
il sill III jail.
ARE RoRiSsoN, Of Chicago. who became
we'll known to the police as u tirc-hug. was
swept away hy sunstroke. llewas AT large
on 5000 bail, to answer the charge If
firing his cigar factory, At Nos. Is and Is
Dearborn street.
The governor of Arkansas oilers re-
wari Of SaaO for the recapture OF Charles
q HslpScy, James +. Holland. and Wm
o. CARLY who recently escaped from the
iall at Ozark They have cost Yell coun-
tv $4,000 since their arrest in 1873
Tux former treasurer Of Stark county.
Ohio, is serving 4 term Of twelve wears
for 4 defalcation OF So GOO. An investi-
cation Just made shows 4 deficit OF Sll,-
200 in the accounts Of the present treas
urcr.
REv ". f. WHITcHKR. ~ Providence.
Il. l., summoned the board of the Ma
thew>on Street Methodist church, con-
tessed himself guilty of stealing books
from public libraries. and announced his
retirement from the ministry.
DErvTY Collector Noas, of Columbia.
). C., reports that revenue force raided
the house Of Mellow the murderer Of
| Deputy Brayton. and found il deserted
Commissioner RSum has authorized IN
offer of $50 for the delivery of Mellow
to Marshal Blythe
NATHANIKI. STEVENS, Of North Andover
Mass. has been detected bv the custom
officers at New York in a wholesale Snug
| Cling operation, involving seven cases of
hronzes, silks and pictures. He and his
sisters We'd with each other in living about
their invoices, but 70 no purpose.
IL an American boarding house recent
| " opened in the City of Mexico, by ar
/ Englishman named Carmichael, Biscaino
i Mexican employed on the National rail
| road, was shot twice by the landlord FOL
| intimacy with his wife. Biscaino is dy
ing in the hospital; the Carmichaels arr
in Jail.
| BIsHoP PHILIP kLISGSN SMITH, par
ticipant in the Mountain Meadow mas
sacre. whose exposure of that atrocIty
caused the execution of John d. lee, wa
found dead in prospect hole in Sonora
Mexico lie expected 10 be killed oy tn.
Mormon church, and the circumstance,
indicate that his prediction was correct
AN outbreak has occurred at the Mesca
lero agency. and two fleeing bands hav,
killed two Mexican families and som,
| Americans in Tularosa canon. The near
est troops are at Fort Stanton. In the
hope that Rev. Galen Eastman will b
removed from the Navajo agency, tha
tribe defers killing hir.
FRED SINGER. marshal of Dodge City
Kan. while endeayoring 10 head of 4
| burglary of which he had been warned
was ordered TO halt by a man whom h,
saw skulking around a house He an