Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-07-07
Criminal.

EVERY gambling house in St. Louis has
been closed under the state law making the
business a felony.
KATE FITZGERALD. who stole an infant
in Cincinnati, has been sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary.
DICK WooD, notorious character in
western Texas, was taken from the sheriff
near Cariso, and shot to death.
THE people of Springfield, Tenn. have
made preparations to lynch two negroes
in jail for an outrage on white lady.
In an attempt to rob a bank in San
Francisco, an expert burglar named
Jimmy Hope, fell into the hands of the
police.
| q A PRETENDED German count, DR.. Won
Koehrinp, who has been practicing medi-
cine at Elgin, ILL.,, for the past six months,
has disappeared, leaving debts to the
amount Of $500.
A SMALLPOX patient reached st. Paul
| by the Manitoba train. He was ordered
| to the pest-house, the car was disinfected,
the depot closed, and warrant will be
| issued for the arrest of the conductor who
brought him to the city.
EDWARD MURPHY, an election Judge in
the Seventh ward of Chicago, who was de-
tected in frauds, has been sentenced to one
year in the bridewell aud fined $1,000.
In quarrel near Concord, n. c., Ford
Knox killed Lewis Steele, sutton for the
hand of his sister, against whom he had
strong preiudices.
EDWARD d. PORTER, , rejected sutton
for the hand of Silora knockardt of Pat
terson. N. j., fatally stabbed her father and
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pella, the favored lover.
A PITTSBURGH negro, named Robert
White, got into an alteration with Hugh
Rigney, who was under the influence Of
liquor, and killed him with a stone after
Rigney had fired two shots.
Police OFFICERS READ and Stanton
have arrested John Il. Elliott, an ex-con-
Wet, who is believed to be the murderer of
Officer Tim Mahonev, in Chicago, on Sun
dav, 18th inst. Elliott is held to the
Grand Jury without bail.
The cargo of corn on board the steamer
Nellie Reddington, loaded at Armour,
Dole & Co.'S elevator in Chicago, was
found on arrival at Buffalo to be 1894
bushels less than the invoice. This is said
to be the largest deficit ever reported in
one cargo of grain.
CYRUS SMITH, William j. Ralph, and
John Clark, the criminals concerned in
the match bond frauds on the United
States Government, at Chicago, were each
sentenced to term of one years impris-
onment with hard labor and 81 fine each
in the United States District Court by
Judge Blodgett.
A SHORTAGE of $4,000 has been discov-
cred in the accounts kept by Albert j.
Smith, one of the bookkeepers of the Mer-
chants Loan and Trust company, of Chi
cago. Smith resided at No. 1929 Vim
cennes avenue, is a nephew of the late Sol.
A. Smith and has fled the city.
A BATTLE has occurred in the mountain
of Utah, between the May party of ranch
men and a band of Piutes who had two
hundred head of stolen horses. Eskridge
one of Mays party, killed four reds with
a revolver. The whites lost four men
Reinforcements are on the way from Rico
Col.
TON FINucANE, of Chicago, who pleaded
guilty to participation in the robbery oil
the Souths side rolling mills last January
has been released from Jail, by order Of
Judge Anthony The officers of the roll
ing-mil company say they have not re-
ceived the remainder of the money stolen
and are free to declare that the discharge
of the prisoner is really compromising 6
felony.