Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-16
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

A Brace of Sensational Elopements-Twc
| Women Run or With Couple 81
Tramps, One Of the Latter Being Killed
by One of the Deserted Husbands-Sui.
eide Of Prominent Chicago Bushes.
Man-Fires and Other Casualties.
/ coLp-BLoopED MURDER.
| LARAMIE CITY, April 15.-Early this fore
noon Laramie City was the scene of cold
blooded, cruel, and revolving murder. Chas
Pierronet, q freight conductor on the Lara
mie division Of the Union Pacific railroad
murdered the roadmaster, G. 81. Groves, at the
corner of the telegraph office. Both men
were married and had q pleasant home, with a
wife and one child Pierronet called Groves
out OF the telegraph Office and shot him dead.
Inc murderer was promptly arrested, and
LOGGED In Jail. Excitement is running very
high, and threats Of lynching are indu1ged in.
Ihis, however, the law-abiding citizens will
try to avert. The evidence is so overwhelm-
ing that the law is bound to take speedy action
on the case.
ELoPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.
CINCINNATI, April ia Times and Star
special says: week ago two tramps who
had been living some time with Ben Davis and
son, on the st. Francis river, seventy five miles
/ south Of Memphis, persuaded the wives of the
| two Davis, in the absence of their husbands,
| to elope. They started down the river on
| fat boat. The younger Davis, returning,
armed himself with shotgun and took pas
| sage on steamer in pursuit. He came up to
the party, who were encamped on the bank.
Prevailing on the captain to slow up, he shot
He got off at the next landing, came back, and
found the dead man deserted. From papers in
his pocket he found the mans name was
Clark, an Illinois convict.
MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE.
CHICAGO, April 15.-L. R. Ramsey, Jr., a
member of the firm of Ramsey g. Co., doing
business at the stock yards, suicided at his
residence on Emerald avenue, town Of Lake,
near Forty-fifth street, at an early hour this
morning. He returned home from the organ
ization and installation Of officers of the
Abraham Lincoln Lodge, G. A. R., shortly
after midnight, and after kissing his wife and
boy good night, retired to another room.
Shortly afterwards his wife heard the report
him breathing his last, having shot himself
through the heart. No cause Is assigned for
the rash act.
WISCONSIN BOY STABBED.
CHEYENNE, April ia fatal stabbing af
fray occurred on the west bound immigrant
train at noon to-day, near Pine Bluffs station,
Wyoming. man named Black quarreled
with boy passenger, and Evan Lewis inter-
fered to protect the boy. Black stabbed Lewis
with dirk knife in the abdomen and then
jumped off the train running across the plains.
Several passengers are engaging in the pus-
suit, and Black will probably be lynched If
was bound for Butte, Montana. Physicians
say he will die within twenty-four hours. He
lies in the Cheyenne hospital.
FIRE AT BUFFALO.
BUFFALO, N. r., April 13.-A disastrous
fire broke out in the hat mandatory of
Stafford & Co., at midnight, situated in
firm, amounting to $4,000. insured tor
$4,000. The buildings were owned by j. n.
Mathews, editor of the Morning Express, and
are valued at $4,000; insured. The estab-
lishments of E. Herschfeld & Co., and Hiram
Estern adjoining were injured by water to the
amount of $4,000 Both were insured. The
cause of the fac is unknown. Several fire
being carried down three floors, but were
rescued with only few bruises.
KILLED FOR A TURKEY.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, April 15.-George Wa;
lace and JAS. Goodloe went turkey hunting in
the vicinity of Newport. They separated to
meet at a given point, and Wallace arrived
first, and, mistaking Goodloe, who wore red
necktie and was making his way through the
uhderbrush, for a turkey, fired upon him, the
ball entering his throat aDd resulting fatally
Goodloe was prominent merchant, and a na
tive of Kentucky Wallace Is a telegraph op
orator.
NAIL RoBBERT.
CINCINNATI, April 15.-J. G. UnsoD, dis
patch clerk in the Cincinnati postofice, was
arrested this morning for re 1bing the mails
of letters containing money. Mr.. Burt, the
superintendent of mails, set ardecoy for him,
hid, watched, and discovered him. He admits
this case of stealing, but denies having stolen
previously. For several months valuable
packages have been stolen from these mails.
He was held to answer and is in jail.
HUNG.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, April 15.-Henry Duer-
son, the negro who killed his wife in 1879, was
hanged at Desarco to-day in the presence of
several thousand people. He acknowledged his
guilt in brief speech to the crowd. When the
trap was sprung he fell fifteen feet and died
almost instantly and without struggle, his
neck being broken.
SUICIDE OF A VETERAN.
DAYTON, o., April ia German veteran,
Fred Hartman, committed suicide by hanging
himself with handkerchief at the Soldiers
home this evening. He was from Springfield,
Mass, and served in the Huntsville, Mass,
regiment. The suicide was occasioned by
temporary arrangement.
REMAINS REMOVED.
The remains of Rowland Hill were trans
ferred from Surrey chapel to Newman Halls
church and deposited at the foot of the tower
erected to commemorate the abolition of
slavery.
RETRIEVE REFUSED.
Boston, April 15.-The governor and coun- N
sci have refused the prayer of Stearns X. Alb
bott, sentenced to be hanged the 22d inst. for
the murder of Mrs. Crane, January Sth.
swINDLING ELoPERs.
RALEIGH, N. c., April ia special to the
Ne,cs and Observer says W. j. Munden, a
member of the lower house Of the legislature,
eloped with the wife of j. A. johnson. They
carried off large amount of money.
NEW YORK FIRE.
NEW YORK, April 15.-The six-story build
ing, 145 and 147 Mulberry street, occupied by
many manufacturing enterprises, was destroyed
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