Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-11-18
CRIME.

ALBERT MADDEN, mail agent on the
Rock Island road. was arrested at Des
Moines for purluininY eight hundred let
tars. ard gave bail in 5000
THE police Of Cincinnati have locked
up Hebrew with. three different names,
who perpetrated bankr lpt frauds IN that
city, Chicago, and Davenport, soyering
the past ten years.
The other morning dozen masked
men broke into the Jail at Shakespeare,
Arizona, and lynched two cowboys con
fined for stealing stock.
THE sheriff at Meridian, Miss, states
that Edward Vance, the coIored man who
led in the election tragedy, had in his
house three kegs Of powder and large
quantities of buckshot.
JOSEPH GREEN, Young lawyer Of New
Orleans, attempted TO fight duel with
Gutheim,a ssn of the leading rabbi of that
city, in the lower park, but the principals
and seconds were bagged by the police
and locked up.
AT Scandia. Kan, Dr. w. II. Wood
ward was mortally shot by j. G. Hum
phrey, editor OF The Telescope The affray
grew out Of local political contest, and
there are threats Of lynching.
Two adventures whose fathers are mer-
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through mail car at Steubenville, @.
They fought vigorously against being ar
rested. bat were finally slowed away in
all.
w. j. FULLER, a moOnshiner in llaber-
sham county, Georgia, killed Taylor Love
for furnishing information to the revenue
officers Commissioner Raum has ordered
the utmost vigilance in securing the ar
rest of the murderer
THE man captured at Grand leland,
Neb., and believed to be Edward Maxwell,
alias Edward Williams, has been identi-
fad by DEPUTY Sheriff Knight, Of Pepin
county, Wisconsin, and two brothers of
the murdered Sheriff Coleman, who have
anplied 10 Governor Vance Gar reauisition
A NEGRG who committed an outrage on
Mrs. kunkel. near Adrian, ili, confessed
his guilt, and was ordered taken to Jail at
Carthage. Neighbora of the unfortunate
woman endeavored 10 take the prisoner
from the officers and lvnch him, failing
In whlah, several shots were fired AT him,
fatal wounds being inflicted a large
posse got the bleeding brute into box
ear and conveyed him to iail.
lpR- j. LAY MADDOX, Of Baltimore.
while repclling an attack on the election
| inspectors. was shot dead by some person
in the crowd behind him. As a surgeon
in the confederate service he uuarreled
with General Beauregard, lie had street
aiiray with a journalist in Richmond,
killed physician Of Alexandria in a
due, and had beer tried for committing
an abortion.
DETECTIVES in the employ 81 tie wis
consin Central railway have captured
| three more passenger conductors for com.
/ pliciiy il the frauds recently discovered
on that road. T, H. Rhoadcs aud l.. +.
Mead were veteran employees, ana we're
arrested ii Stevens Point, and $. :. Weller
was apprehended ri Green Bay. Each
gave bail at Milwaukee in the sum OF
/ $500.
J. HowARp WRLLRs, who attempted to
extort iafQrmation from jaw Gould about
| the stock market, is a nervous wreck. lie
occupies cell H. the Tombs, and begged
! hard TO be allowed t. retain his penknife
| So peculiar is the case ,hat il is believed
he can only be punished with a years i'm
prisonment and fined $500. = Chicago
gentleman writes to the Times that melles
was a commissary of subsistence at Balt
more during the war, and bled the con
/ tractors mercilessly.