River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-03
CRIME

THE grand jury at Louisville has sum
moned twenty witnesses, and propose to
indict the participants in the recent dog
fight. 1t is stated that the remains of the
dog Crib were exhumed and found to con-
tain strychnine.
EDWARD RAINY, formerly of Galesburg,
ILL.,, murdered a man named Young at o.
wego, Kan, end escaped from the officers
who captured him.
r. K. ScoTT, formerly governor of South
Carolina. is on trial at Napoleon, o., for
the murder of young Drury, last Christ
mas.
Two highly respectable citizens Of
Montgomery Ala, named ThomasJ. Cox
and j. w. Crawford, MORALLY wounded
each other in an ARRAY.
A HUGE highwayman, disguised as a
female, closely yelled and riding dark
gray horse, is doing thriving business in
the Boston mountains in Arkansas.
LEMAN LOGAN, who robbed the postof-
fee at Assumption. H., has been sentenced
to imprisonment in the Joliet penitenti-
airy for three years.
AN inmate of the Jail of Milwaukee is
believed 10 be Lon Williams, who MUIR
dered the sheriff of Dunn county, and I'M
being made.
THE people of Seymour, ILL.,, took from
an officer man named Wolf, guilty of an
outrage on a farmers daughter, and fixed
rope about. his neck, but the constable
rescued him. Several pistol-shots we're
fred at the villain.
JAMES +. ANDERSON, who became no.
torious in the Tilden campaign in Louisi-
a.,I h.. Cd doll u
journal in Eureka, New, was beaten over
the head with revolver by w. ]. PEN
rose, and badly injured.
A SALOON quarrel in St. Louis resulted
in the killing of Tim Moran and the
wounding OF Ed. Hardy b. brakeman
named John Mahoney.
NELLIE BUSCH, well known in Cincin-
natl as the proprietress of a brother, died
from a stab inflicted by a hotel thief
named Bob Wright.
SEVERAL conductors on the Great
Western Railway of Canada have been
caught selling unpunched coupon tickets
to scalpers. Edward SAVER has been ar
rested.
Mrs. BRADFORD. a sister OF Jefferson
Davis, died at New Hope, KY, and was
buried in the cemetery at Gethsemane
abbey. at New Haven, KY.
GIRBs and Stanton, editors of The hide
pendent at Sussex, n. j., having pleaded
guilty to libel, were fined 5000 each and
sentenced, respectively, to ten and six
six months hard labor in state prison.
THE men who robbed DIR. Parks bank
at Fieldon, Ill, were seen recently in that
region while cooking chickens on the
roadside One is said to be a Maxwell /;
the other is named Clarke, from Calhoun
county.
THE Garfield monument committee re-
ceives about one thousand letters day.
asking for relics, and has decided to enter
upon the manufacture of keepsakes from
the lumber of the pavilion, for which they
expect contributions.
THE Connecticut regiment which par
tic.pated in the celebration at Yorktown
was escorted through the streets of Co.
lumbia by local militia. and given an ar
tillery salute. The officers were banqueted
at the city hall.
WILLIAM J. SIPPLB, formerly employed
by the Erie railway as a telegraph opera
tor, has been arrested for connection with
a conspiracy to rob the paymaster's train,
near jersey City. An discriminating dis
patch was found in his pocket.
ABOUT midnight on Monday, three men
boarded Fort Wayne train at Bucyrus,
o. The conductor saw them standing on
the platform of a Pullman coach, and
opened the door 10 inform them that the
regular cars were forward. They endea-
vored to force their way in, and one OF
them fired several Shots The conductor
shouted to the passengers, and the robbers
rushed through the coach and sprang to
the ground.