Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-06-08

vile, Kansas, was rODDed or several thousand
dollars.
john Graham, a convict in the Kentucky
penitentiary, hired negro convict for thirty
cents to cut his (Grahams) hand off, so he could
not be made to hackle hemp any longer. The
negro cut off the hand with a single blow with
an axe.
Dr. Mar6en, the superintendent of the county
hospital, at Milwaukee, was suspended by the
county board for alleged criminal intimacy with
weak;minded inmate, and the attempted rape
of another. 1t is thought the charges are
trumped up to displace Marden.
DR.. J. G. Bennett, the Wausau murderer,
convicted at La Crosse, has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for life When asked if he
had anything to say Bennett replied that his
lawyers had said all that was necessary, but he
would say that he had no recollection of ever
shooting anybody.
At st. Lonis, the jury in the case of Edward
B. Rickert, who has been on trial several days
for shooting Mrs. Selma Wilson at her resi-
dence, and with whom he boarded last Novem-
Der, returned a verdict this morning of murder
in the first degree. The defence was that the
shooting was accidental. TX .la
At Charleston, West Virginia, j. G. Nunley
challenged George Nunley, his nephew, nine
teen years old, to fight duel. They met on
Campbelps creek and George Nunley was shot
in the mouth before he fired shot It is thought
he cannot recover. Both are miners in good
circumstances The quarrel arose about FAM
lily matters. #
A double murder was committed at Bridge
port, Ala, twenty miles from Chattanooga. A
tramp named Mehan, while bathing with some
young men, became angered because they
spattered him with mud. He rushed for his
knife and cut VIM. Copeland in the neck caus-
ing instant death. The tramp was seized and
bound. While in prison Sam Reese, cousin
Of Copeland, stepped up and shot Mehan dead
Some months ago Patrick Enright of Bos-
cabi, Wis, AM. Lis wife rented his property to
Jchn Phillips. There was a pig pen Oh the
premises which Phillips wanted to tear down,
but Mrs. Enright forbid him. He presiste9.,
Hughes with an Ak to protect the pen. Hughes
drove Phillips away, and was pursuing him
with an Az when Phillips turned and shot hum
dead with revolver.
John ". Follansbee of Fond du Lac, Wis, is
in jail at Atlanta, Ca, charged with bigamy.
ter of the sheriff of the adjoining county, who
was quite a society belle. Follansbee has wife
and five children at Fond du lac The wife,
upon the arrest OF Follansbee, denounced the
scoundrel in the strongest terms for having
ruined her, but afterwards rallied and begged
piteously for his release, but with no success.
An organized band of horse thieves is said tc
exist in Blue Earth county. Mr. H. L. Brown
farmer living west of Willow Creek, lost .
valuable team of horses, two sets of harness
and lumber wagon. The horses are described
as ''span of light dapple gray mares, three
and five years old; the three year old willweigl
1000, being part Norman; the five,-year ole
marked with black spot on heel and one white
hoof"
At Black River Falls, Wis, George Thompson
and Kelley Houghtel!ing took it into their heads
to skip, but thought it better not to start on
ntothe world alone and empty handed. Thomp
son (who, by the way, is no green hand in TIL
ways of the wicked) induced Mrs. A. Brockwa,
to share the joys and sorrows of his lot, ant
Houghtelling beguiled into his confidence
girl named Lizzie CASTOR. Not wishing to in
cur the expense Of railroad fare, and not carin,
to take their bridal tour on foot, the groom
stole one horse from A. Brockway and anothe
from John Higgins, borrowed a vehicle from G
G. Oleson, and purloined a set Of harness be
longing to another man on the east side of tn
river.
FIRES AND OTHER CASUALTIES. j
George Reed and ]. Thomas lost their live
in the coal bank of the latter near Cleveland
from suffoeation by gas.