Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-04-14

for an attempt to assassinate Judge
Page, has been acquitted.
n. PERMEMEN, a highly educated Eng
lishman, WAS shot dead in a hotel al Grass
Valley, Cal, hv Mrs Herman Austin.
Ar Princeton, Ind, the safe of T. NJ.
Weiborn was blown open and robbed Of
$1,000, mostly belonging to farmers who
had left it for safety.
TIE grand jury In Erie county, Y. Y,
has indicted the keeper Of the county
house, Fred Busch, for furnishing liquors
to his friends at the expense of the coun-
~.
THE prisoners in the debtors depart
ment OF The Cook county Jail kicked a hole
in the ceiling, but it was discovered before
any Of them had escaped.
THE Araucanian Indians now on the
war path, engaged a squadron of CHILEAN
cavalry, and killed twelve troopers The
savages have committed all manner Of out
RACES.
II. w WRIGHT, a graduate OF the Al
bany medical school, was murdered bY
gang of roughs at Newtown, Conn. Three
persons suspected have been arrested
The governor of West Virginia has par
doned Elihu Gregg, who was sentenced to
the gallowa for burning the courthouse
at Preston, in 1863, and who absolutely
refused to accept Communication Of his
sentence TO imprisonment for lite.
AT Phillips Bayou, in Lee county. Ark,
a negro named George Washington got in
to quarrel with a man named Cullen,
Both drew pistols, but Washington shot
and killed Cullen before the latter could
use his weapon. The murderer escaped.
Two murders occurred in Cincinnati on
the same block and only half an hour
apart. Tom johnson, a saloon-keeper
put bullet in the breast of "A notorious
character named Tim tonnors. Lafayette
Coffee shot John Howard in the head.
Both the latter are colored.
4 GANG Of legislative blackmailers
have been unearthed at Albany through
the efforts of Representative Raines,
of Ontario I'm attack was made
on the Adirondack survey
by a bill for an investigation, and then its
superintendent was notified that it could
be defeated by money. Owens, a report
er, and lie Fever, a correspondent, have
been arrested.
4 BLOODY fracas occurred in st. Louis
between some negro roustabouts. Pistols,
knives razors, and bricks were freely used.
One man was stabbed in five places and
probably MORALLY wounC ed, and two men
were shot.
A DESPERATE named Reddy Mcdonald,
one of gang of sixteen thrown into jail
at Sidney, Neb., was detected in plot to
escape. and was hung on a tree in the
courthouse yard. Two of his companions
are threatened with the same fate.
IL the case Of the slaughter on the st.
Paul and Manitoba road, the coroner's
jury find criminal carelessness on the part
of Conductor Calvin and brakeman
Pearce The former is in Jail.
THE municipal officers of Dodge City
Kan, having refused to surrender to their
successors, a body of seventy armed men
proceeded TO break the locks from the Jail
doors, and have issued notice to all thugs
to leave within twenty-four hours.
4 DESPERATE attempt to escape from the
Michigan state prison was made by four
convicts, who knocked down and held
keeper, and tied three ladders together
and rushed for the wall An alarm being
raised, guard shot Lynch, the leader,
dead, and the others were soon locked
up.
ALARGE number Of election-fraud cases
are on the docket in the federal court at
Charleston, : c.. but rs District Attorney
Northrup was recently requested to resign,
and the nomination of :. w. Melton has
not been confirmed there is little chance
Of trial at this term.
AT Irving, Mich, Martin Texter was
visiting at the house Of neighbor named
Benjamin Trego, when the latter stepped
from the room, returned with an AK, and
split Texter's head to the chin. Jealousy
was apparently he cause, although lnsan--
itv is suggested. An ugly mob followed
the prisoner to Jail at Hastings.
EIGHT tramps armed with pistols and
razors, boarded an Erie uain near Great
Bend, n. Y, tie other day and refused to
be put off. Near Binghamton they jumped
off but four Of them were subsequently ar
rested. All the railroads in that direction
are troubled with tramps.
Mrs. Polly HAsKINs, of Delhi, \. Y,
has been acquitted of the charge OF mGr-
dering her husband. The defense was
that the deceased administered poison to
himself, after conlessing to his wife hat
he had forged pension papers, and had
heard that a United States detective was
after him.
\ HARTFORD dispatch reports that a
lecture 10y Bishop Mcnamara, Of the In
dependent Catholic church, in that city,
was broken up, and doors, windows, and
seats of the hall smashed MacNamara
was escorted to Lis hotel by the police, fol-
lowed by mob of several hundred per-
sons, and was struck twice by stones that
were thrown at him Renewed disturb
ance was expected a. a second attempt Of
the bishop TO speak.