Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-06-23
Criminal.

A QUARREL between Denver gamblers
resulted in the killing of James Moon by
Clay Wilson.
The Chicago council has offered re-
ward of 81 900 for the arrest of the MUIR
derers OF policeman Mahoney.
As the result of coroner's inquest Pc
ter Magnus was released from arrest for
the killing of William Gordon at Chicago
on Sunday.
w. l.. BEARDsLEY. of lineup, Col, who
obtained s., 800 worth of goods in Chicago
under false pretenses, has been captured
at Denver.
Two 'tages running between Alma and
Fayetteville, Ark, were stopped by armed
men, who robbed the passengers and
mail-bags
w. ii. PRIEsToR, who killed his father
at Barnwell, s. c., has been acquitted, for
the reason that the crime could have had
no origin but temporary insanity.
A COMMERCIAL traveller from New York,
| named w. H. Massey, was robbed of 500
900 in currency and drafts by pickpockets
at the Michigan Central depot in Detroit.
WHILE engaged in peeling bark in the
woods near Coopersville, Mich, Augustus
Allen was arrested for grand larceny in
New York, on requisition from Governor
Cornell
Ar a saw mill fifteen miles from Hot
| Springs, Ark, X. l.. Justice was shot with
| rifle by man named Gregg, who had
also recently killed negro.
HAYS WHITE, who killed Sheriff Beat
tie, was hanged at Warsaw, Ark. in pres
ence of two thousand persons. His neck
was not broken by the fall and he slowly
strangled to death.
| SOME unknown villain made an attempt
to assassinate Hen. John McSweeney, a
lawyer and democratic politician of Woos-
ter, O.. by striking him on the head with
an iron bar.
ISAAC HAwoRIH, the Indiana counter
] fe;ter, who turned states evidence against
| Rittenhouse, has forfeited his bond by ne
glecting to appear for sentence.
AT the close Of the inquest into the Vic
toria disaster, at London. Ont, Captain
| Rankin and Manager Parisi, was arrested
on complaint Of Postmaster Jones, WHO
lost a daughter by the calamity.
In the suit brought by Mrs. Elkins, wife
Of the Chicago artist, to recover s-o,ooo
damages from liquor-dealers, the Jurors
| WE'RE equdlly uiNiie" an NPi'H'''i "' w"
discharged.
For their connection with the return OF
the iewelry stolen fran Salesman Morrow,
at the door Of the Clifton house, Chicago,
Charles Aldrich and Pawnbroker lsaacs
have been sentenced to one year each
in the penitentiary,
ISAIAH LARKIN, Tennessee moon
sinner, resisted arrest at the hands of his
cousin, Deputy Marshal George Larkin,
and was shot dead So great is the fear
OF lynchinp that Governor Hawkins has
sent the Knoxville rifles by special train
to guard the Jail at Rogersville.
SlLAs Nj. WAITE, ex-president of the
First National bank of Brattleboro, VI,
pleaded guilty to the charge of making
false returns, and was sentenced to six
years imprisonment in the house of cor
rection.
| A CcLoRBD roustabout appeared before
Commissioner Lane, at New Orleans, and
made affidavit that Charles Hancon, mate
of the steamboat u. Stein, killed three
deck hands with brass knuckles and bur
led their bodies ander tree.
1wENrY-FIyE armed men went 10 the
Jail at Dover, Ark, to capture and lynch
Cal Embry, the wife murderer, whose
death sentence had been commuted BY
Governor Churchill. The prisoner resist
ed seizure, and was shot in the head and
then hanged.
CLYDE ERsKINE son of a wealthy citi-
zen of st. Louis, has been arrested on
Icharge of enibezzling slS.io0 from the