Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-01-06
CRIME.

JAMES KNOWLES and George Owen were
drowned in the canal at Holyoke, Mass,
Dec. 2S, while drunk.
PETER NANDERHOOF. 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 IS
OFFICER MUM, of La Sale, H., shot
and dangerously wounded John Mcclure.
The officer tried to arrest Mcclure, who
resisted. The ball entered the mans thigh.
A CONVICT in the Missouri penitentiary,
named Charles G. Staunton, killed himself
with a kuife which the warden and guards
sought to wrest from his hand.
A DETROIT book-keeper, named II. D..
Wright poisoned himself because a Cana
dian lady to whom he was engaged had
changed her mind and refused to marry
him.
MASKED burglars entered the residence
of John +. Kirby, a deputy sheriff in st.
Louis, chloroformed that officer and held
his wife prisoner while they deliberately
ransacked the rooms,
A Observation-Disclosures, of Montreal.
named Gustave Cherol, has been arraign-
ed on charge of maintaining a den into
which young girls are inveigled, debauch-
ed and shipped TO the states.
Ex-Governor SCoTT, at the close OF the
coroner's inquest at Napoleon, O., was
taken back To Jail at Defiance His coun-
sci will demand rehearing before an ex-
amining court.
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 "a
| lunatic asylum, but ii was the intention of
her friends to send her back for treatment.
THE investigation into cruelties prac-
ticed at the penitentiary at Syracuse re-
veals terrible inhumanity toward the in
mates An ex-convict, named Cusick,
has sued Superintendent Spaulding for
$1,000.
CONGRESSMAN VOORHEES,, of Hackensack,
n. j., was arraigned in Bergen county
| court Dec. 30, for trial on the charge of
the next term of the April court. 1t is
the impression this ends the matter.
TWENTY EIGHT murders and fifty-seven
suicides were committed in st. Louis dur
ing the past year. OF the persons muir
dered, five were women and two were in
fants. There are now eighteen murderers
confined in Jail, awaiting trial.
TIE Denver ReDuUicdns special says
that on Saturday night during a drunken
row in dance hall at Robinson's Camp,
a man named Meallv vas shot through
the breast. Policeman McElhany, in at
tempting to arrest the disturbers, was shot
in the foot. Several others had bullet
holes in their clothing.
THE mutilated bodies of Jacob Google
and wife, residing near Bethlehem, Pa,
having been found in their bed, on Dec
20, Joseph Snyder, who boarded in their
family, was lynched for the crime by a
mob. He made detailed confession.
from which it appeared that he had been
refused the hand of their daughter by has
victims, and thought to possess her after
their death.
4 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 a
vain attempt to induce members of the
family 10 partaAc of whisky and candy.
He rose in the night shot his uncle
through the breast, his aunt through the
lungs, killed one cousin, and perforated
the shoulder of another, lie then fled
from the house. but re turned and was dis
armed, when he again left, and is at large.
There had been a feud in the family over
the distribution of property. There was
81 900 in the house, which the murderer
| thought to secure,