The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-07-21
CRIME.

Gov. TARRvsAs, of one of the Mexican
states, while en- route to Ell Paso with a
force OF troops, was attacked by Indians,
thirty of his men being killed.
Don G. MACLEOD was killed in mine
near Yuma, Arizona, by German named
Billick, who claims to have acted in self
defense.
AT public gathering at Young Amer
lea, Ind, William Green killed Enoch
Brumbaugh for endeavoring to keep him
quiet.
SHERIFF. T1NBERLAKE, of Kansas City,
is out with thirty men after the train-rob-
bers. 1t is thought the latter divided near
Lawson, aiming for Clay county.
AT St. Louis stay of execution has
been granted in the case of Charles T.
Krug, the murderer, who was to have
been hung the other day.
DELLA PORTER. a religious monomaniac
incarcerated in the Tongue Point asylum
at Montreal, killed her cellmate, Gertrude
Roberts, under the delusion that she was
a dragon.
PROF. J. R. WARNER, of Menominee,
Wis, was fred upon three times by his
wife, but escaped dangerous in iuries.
She was captured behind the door of q
law Office, where she had fled for safety.
A NEGRO roustabout, named Antoine
Valley, while asleep in a hammock on
board the steamer Lady Lee at the St.
Louis levee, was shot dead by Emmet
Jones, deck hand on another steamer,
who made his escape.
The paymaster of the Mexican Central
of oc
families at the capital. was shot dead by a
guard at Nopala, from an old feud diff
Guilty in regard to horse. The pay
masters servant was also killed.
AT Leesburg, Fla, ]. J. Dickinson, Jr.
recently shot saloon-keeper named
Beach, inficting dangerous wounds. Be-
fore daylight on Friday band of dis
guised men took Dickinson from jaiI and
riddled him with bullets.
THOMAS K. PUGH, q son of the ex-sena-
tor from Ohio, who was taken bv the rem
nant of Victoria's band from atage near
Ell Paso. wrote and left on the roadway a
note stating that he was prisoner. His
mutilated corpse was afterward found by
scout OF Mexican troops near Carrezal.
A BAND of swindlers operating at Ge-
neva has within twenty years shipped to
Egypt and other eastern countries from
10000, 600 to 10000, 900 francs Of false coin.
Seven prominent personages have been
arrested in connection with the swindles.
The factory of Adams, Westlake & Co.,
on the corner of Ontario and Franklin
streets, Chicago, was invaded by burglars
the other morning. They gagged the
watchman and tied him to the leg of a
table. Then they drilled hole in the
safe and exploded it with dynamite, secur-
ing $500 in currency, and fed.
AT Jerseyville. Ill, Mrs. Joseph voor-
hees attempted suicide by taking strych-
nine, but her life was saved by her ply
sician. The next evening her uncle, Tru-
man Landon, called on her husband at
the store where he was employed, and had
a protracted conversation with him, when
voorhees, shot Landon dead. There are
grave family troubles behind the deed.
Landon was an exemplary Young man,
and highly connected in that region.
TuE Williams brothers, fugitives from
Justice in Illinois, killed Deputy Sheriff
Coleman, of St. Croix county. Wisconsin.
and Charles Coleman, formerly Sheriff Of
Pepin county, in the same slate. The
slaughter occurred at Durant, twenty-five
miles south of Menominee, Wis, while
the officers were attempting to arrest the
outlaws. Governor Smith offers $500 re-
ward for their capture, and has authorized
the use Of the Ludington guards in run
ming them down.