Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-08-11
Criminal.

Wayne, killed VIM. Howell with rifle,
and shot at a son of the latter.
GEORGE WALKER, who stole young
girl in New York from in front of her
home, was sent to state prison for ten
years.
BURGLARS entered grocery store at
| Muskegon, Mich, and in blowing open
the safe set fire to the building and dam
aged the stock 50 800.
CHARLES PARKER, the Adirondack guide
who was hunted down for an assault upon
lady, escaped from constable at Blue
Mountain lake, and took to the woods.
WILLIAM ASTON and wife of Cohoes, n.
Y, who have ten children, fifteen grand
children and FIVE Observation-Disclosures, got
into wrangle and the old lady was nearly
murdered.
GENERAL NEWTON has called , the gov
ernor of Arkansas for additional troops
for Perry county as friends of the assas-
sins on trial threaten to release them if con
victed.
Ir is now believed that VIM. A. Stuart,
county clerk at San Francisco, started
eastward on Friday last, after robbiHg his
deputies of several thousand dollars.
CHARLES SCHLIEFR, of st. Louis, while
on protracted spree, attempted to shoot
his mother, assaulted Louis Graft with a
Ratchet. and then killed himself with
revolver.
A PARTY of twelve armed tramps forced
Grand Trunk freight train to take them
from Brockville, Ontario, to Prescott, and
there began to pillage the freight-sheds.
The railway employees rallied and drove
them into the woods.
A SON of William George, of Decatur,
Mich. fifteen years of age, was seized by
an unknown man, blindfolded, taken four
miles into the country, tied by the hands
and feet to tree, and left alone. The lad
released himself during the night.
POKE WELLS, Missouri bandit. and
fifteen other armed men, who are believed
TO have robbed the train at Winston, are
said to be hiding in swamp opposite
Atchison, Kansas, and will be pursued by
strong force
ABOUT three weeks ago, at Chica, Cal,
| J. T. Nookt kicked to death an old man
| named A. J. Crum. A large party of
masked citizens took the murderer from
the Jail at Oreville and hanged him to a
| tree.
! Mr.. SULLIVAN, the treasurer of Stark
county, Ohio, was recently found to be
short $l3 900 or more in his accounts. he
was removed by the commissioners, and
since sold off property and paid every
dollar of the deficit.
PETER Crows, of Peoria. H.. who con-
fessed having made the internal machines
shipped to Liverpool, was arrested on the
order of Attorney General MacN eagh.
Bail in $40 900 was rendered, but was de
clined until IN examination can be held
in Chicago.
PATRICK II. O'BRIEN, the Chicago po-
liceman shot on Monday night by Tom
Cahill has since died He was born IN
Vermont in 1S4l, but has spent nearly his
whole life in Chicago. His record as an ON
Ger is highly creditaole. His murderer was
removed from the Twelfth street station to
the armory, to foresetall a lynching.
Burt ANTHONY, of Wabash, Ind, lad
of IL years, was arrested Tor turning
switch wrong at the connection OF the
Wabash and C.. w. 4 NJ. railways. He
did il in the middle of the night. ter
rible accident might have resulted only
for the keen eve of the engineer An
thony is held in bonds of $1,000.
Two men entered the Manufacturers
bank al Cohoes. n Y, and, while one en-
gagged the attention of the cashier by ask,
ing for change. the other calmly foreeG
the door of the directors room, steppeu
TO the safe. drew out package OF slo,oN
in currency, and started Tor the street
The discount clerk sprang after the roo'
her and caused him to drop the money
package. but he escaped to the WOODS.