Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-04-15
.ys after having been shot through the

days after having been shot through the
brain.
JOHN NJ. Ross, under life sentence al
the Albany penitentiary California, for
the murder of the second mate of the ship
Bullion, was delivered into custody to be
| taken to Albany, where a writ will be sued
before the United States court to decide
the validity of the action of the Uuited
States consul at Yokohama who sentenced
him.
JAMES w. COOPER attaked his brother.
in-law, jeremiah p Cooper, in the ex-
change Of the Grand Pacific Hotel in Chi
cago, striking him on the head with the
butt of a revolver, and intiicting some
serious wounds. A family difficulty led to
the assault.
JOHN MILLER's hardware store, at
Champaign. ILL.,. was robbed bv thieves.
After yainly endeavoring to break the
door with an iron bar they broke out the
front glass. The loss was consid erable
$50 worth of revolvers being one of the
items. Detectives were placed on the
track of the thieves.
A DUEL is on the tapis here between t n
fire-eating editor of an Irish national Or
gan at Montreal, Cnnada, named Fleming,
and Hiram b. Stevens, correspondent OF
weekly paper, who pitched into the
Irish peasantry for being idle and lazy.
The Irish champion says he takes up the
cudgel on national grounds. The affair
is causing more amusement than anything
else.
PAT COLLINS, while trying to eject some
customers from his saloon, at GAINESVILLE,
Wis, it being after closing up time, re-
ceiyed a stab in the left chest Just above
the heart, and entering the lung. Harry
Z. Main, banker, has been arrested,
charged to be the slasher Collins woun,.
is not thought to be Immediately danger
Gus.
Much interest is manifested in the city
of Hillsdale, Mich, especially the College
hill portion, over the arrest of two stu
dents, charged with breaking into L. r.
Penfield's bookstore and stealing about
5000 worth of gold pens and opera glasses
The burglary was committed last Friday
night, and the parties have been arrested
and lodged in Jail to await examination.
News i az been received Of the killing
Of Richard Welch by his son, Montgomery
Welch, at the little village of Derby, Per
ry county, Ind The father had previ-
ously fired several shots at one of his sons,
and at the time of the killing met his son
and his mother, who were returning from
"A visit to lawyer for the purpose of
prosecuting Welch. He drew a revolver
and said one must die The son shot first
and the father fell dead The deceased
was farmer in good circumstances
A POSSE of United States revenue of
ficials, detailed some days ago by United
States Collector Davis 10 raid an illicit
distillery in Somerset county, Pa. return
ed with four prisoners, named John
Rochester, William Miller, Samuel Rye
and Joseph Nicklaw, whom they captured
together with two stills and $50 barrels of
whisky. The moonshiners were surprised
while ut work in a ravine, about fourteen
miles from Somerset, Pa. and offered no
resistance
JOHN CARBON, a ruffian - years old,
who enjoys the reputation of being the
toughest character in the South Cove dis
trict in Boston, was collared by two officers
and in the fight which ensued clubbed
Officer Frank Dudley so badly that his in
iuries may prove fatal Carbon has seri-
ously injured two other officers within a
year, and is rough of the worst kind.
He was brutally kicking his daughter
when the officers attempted to arrest him.
He was finally dubbed into insensibility
BY Officer Gallagher and dragged to the
station-house.
THE United States supreme court has
reversed the decision of the supreme
court of Utah, which found Miles, the
Mormon, guilty Of bigamy The latter
tribunal made an error in admitting the
testimony of Miles second wife in rela-
ton to his first marriage, whereas Utah
law bars wife from testifying against
her husband, or husband against his
wife. Nearly all authorities agree that so
long as the fact of the first marriage is
contested, the second wife cannot be ad-
mitted to prove it. The case is remanded
for new trial.
ISAIAH HooTs, a young man was arrested
in Hendersonville, near Edneyville, for
the murder of his brother, young man
named Elias Jackson. The two men got
into dispute about some trifling matter
when, Hoots threw Jackson down upon
the ground, and while he had him in that
position he drew knife and stabbed him
in the chest, from which he shortly after
ward died. The murderer was taken in
charge and committed TO jail to await an
investigation.