Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-05-06
CRIME.

Two robbers stopped the FL Paso stage,
about sixty miles west of San Antonio, and
secured seventy-fve cents.
STRENGsoN's jewelry store in Detroit,
was on Tuesday night robbed Of goods
valued at over $1,000.
In quarrel over bill of five cents for
garden seeds. at Milton, Ga, b. w. Hext
shot John Conner through the heart.
W. l.. PAYsoN, of Holliston, Mass. has
confessed the preparation Of forgeries
amounting to $4,000, and fled to Canada.
LOUIS WHITAKER. negro murderer,
was taken from jail at Gadsden, Fla, by
thirty masked men, and hanged to tree.
Mrs SARAH Z. HowE, president Of the
Ladies' Deposit bank at Boston, has been
convicted of the frauds with which she
stood charged.
A. ii. PATTERSON, an agent of the Hall
fax Banking Company, at Truro. =. s.,
has absconded, with what amount is not
known.
IN breach of promise suit at Patterson,
\. j., Mrs. Julia Sampson obtained iudg-
ment for $1,000 against John Hinclitfe a
wealthy brewer.
JUDGE MORAN, of the Chicago criminal
| court, has decided to release Lesser Fried
berg on 800 bail, the supreme court hav-
ing granted a supersedeas
Cook HALL, a member of a leading
| family in Pittsburgh, shot Emma Foster
in a house of prostitution, last December,
for which offense he has been sentenced to
imprisonment for twelve years.
NICHOLAS Roach, the burglar who was
shot in the jaw by clerk in Poole's dry
goods store on West Madison street. Chi
cago, some months ago, has been captured
in Milwaukee at the home of his sister
THOMAS HARRAGAN, Boston barber,
was sent to state prison twenty years for
| rape. In order to escape labor. he de-
| liberately cut off his right hand with a
revolving saw.
AT the Jail in Paris, XIV, on Wednes-
day night, John Winn, who was charged
with murder, was shot dead in his cell by
an armed mob, who forced the keys from
the jailer.
ELLEN NJ. FREEMAN, who threw pepper
in the eyes of Howard S. 1ngersoll. of
New York, because ne refused to give her
employment, was fined $3.50 and sentenced
to the penitentiarv for one year
EZRA q. SANGER, who died penniless at
Peoria, H., received $60, 900 blythe death of
his father in 1873. This sum he layished
upon the disreputahle class, in Chicago
and elsewhere, causing his mother to take
her own life three years ago. His ambit-
ion was to be chief OF a gang of thieves.
GOODS valued at $1,000, which were
stolen from the Case Plow Company, OF
Racine. Wis. were found boxed prepara-
tory to shipment, on the premises of 4. 7.
| Getfert, who worked in the company :
blacksmith shops. The property consisted
of plows, plow-shares, p1ow-handles. street
car springs, etc. Since the discovery Gef-
fert has disappeared.
WHILE Mrs. Will. S. +. Harrington
was walking the New jersey street pave
M ent. near Massachusetts, avenue at In
dianapolis, Ind. she was seized bv two
gentlemanly- looking foot-pads, one OF
whom overpowered and threw her down,
while the other wrenched her portemon'
anie from her hand. The robbery was
witnessed by several, but the rascals elud-
ed pursuit.
a RUNoR prevails that Gov. Overton, of
Indian Territory, north of Dennison,
Tex, was killed on Sunday The rumor
is discredited, but owing 10 the fact that
the governor has been in the field with
his militis for some time driving out tres
passers. and thereby incurred the enmitv
of large number of cowboys and others,
ii is thought BY some the report may be
well founded 1t is known that party
in few days for the territory with the
ayowed purpose of giving battle to Over
tons troops.