River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-01-13
CRIME.

JAMES KNOWLES and George Owen were
drowned in the canal at Holyoke, Mass.
Dec. 2S while drunk.
| Ben. LUMPKIL, colored, was killed on
| the Sth inst, at Danville, Va, while at
tempting to arrest a chicken thief
ABOUT 1000 coal-mners of Wheeling,
| W. Va. have struck for an advance in
wages. The mine-owners say they will
not accede to the demand.
| PETER VANDERHooF. one of the gang
who attempted to wreck the passenger
| train on the Wisconsin Central road, last
week, was arrested in Fond du Lac Dec.2S.
A CONVICT in the Missouri penitentiary,
named Charles G.. Staunton, killed himself
with kuife which the warden and guards
| sought to wrest from his hand.
Ara late hour on New Years night
two armed men robbed the Laredo stage
near San Antonio, cutting the mail-bags
into shreds and securing 81, 900 in cash.
| MIS-. THERESA REIMANsCHNEIDER, when
arraigned in a New Jersey court, pleaded
guilty to the charge of marrying twelve
men within six years, only one of whom is
dead.
A MOB of three hundred persons forced
the prison doors at Entire Rios, in the Ar
gentine Republic, on the Sth inst, and
cut to pieces four slaves charged with muir
der.
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., of Montreal,
named Gustave Cherol, has been arraign-
ed on charge of maintaining den into
which young girls are inveigled, debauch-
ed and shipped to the states.
IT seems that Captain Cooper, W no was
recently appointed consul at Cadiz, on the
application of Senator Ferry, Is the man
who whipped that gentleman at the Ma
tioual hotel, in Washington.
THE wife of Christian Matthiessen, a
shipping merchant of Baltimore, commit
ted suicide on the 4th inst. with a razor.
She had recently been discharged from
| lunatic asylum, but it was the intention of
Ter friends TO send her back for treatment.
A THIEF who had robbed the daughter of
| VIM. p Sheldon. banker, A Remsen
street, Brooklyn, of a wedding gift. was
found unconscious and dying on the parlor
floor of an unoccupied house adjoining.
having fallen from the roof through the
sky light.
President HAYES recently ordered the
removal Of Foreman Cook, OF the Charles
/ town navy yard, for illuminating en-
/ ployes at the polls. Three naval officers
/ will convene as board to investigate the
/ charges.
! LORD" PELHAM. the English swlndler,
/ has been arraigned at Salt Lake, and
/ pleaded not guilty The name he used on
/ the alleged forged checks was Marcus La
/ Pere Beresford, and he dehes the prosecu-
/ ton 10 prove that false cognomen. He
I acts az his own attorney.
| THE mutilated bodies of Jacob Gogle
and wife. residing near Bethlehem, Pa,
/ having been found in their bed, on Dec.
/ %, Joseph Snyder, who boarded in their
I family, was lynched for the crime by a
+ mob. He made a detailed confession.
/ from which it appeared that he had been
refused the hand of their daughter BY his
/ victims, and thought TO possess her after
/ their death.
/ WHILE eating breakfast at the Bonn
mersheim house, Three Oaks. Mich, the
/ gripsacks OF Henry H. Porter and c. II.
/ Long, both travelling men, were rified by
! a boarder who took them from behind the
/ bar. Sixty dollars in silver was taken
/ from the latter. The suspected party was
seen to leave an old. unoccupied building
/ near the house. Search was made, and
1 the silver was discovered under pile of
j rubbish The otfe der escaped.
| A TERRIBLE tragedy Is reported from
the region of Otis. Ind. Henry Augustine
/ returned from Chicago, on Friday even
/ ing, to the home of his uncle, and made 4
/ vain attempt 10 induce members of the
family TO partake of whisky and candy.