Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-04-29
CRIME.

NEGRO woman was lynched at Martin )
Depot, ). g., for attempted arson.
A CoLoRED assassin was taken from Jail
at Quincy, Fla. by disguised men, and
hanged to tree.
EIGHT lads escaped from the reform
school at Waukesha. Wis, by cutting a
hole through the roof
kENNEE BRENTs, Of Elleson, H., was
shot and probably mortally wounded by
his brother George
A MICRO burglar at Butler. Ca, on be
ing sentenced to ten years in the state
prison, punched out his eyes.
By the finding of "a coroner's jury at
New York, Detective Campbell was justi-
fled in killing Sagert, the blackmailer.
A NEGRO, charged with the murder of
white citizen of Florida. was taken from
the Jail at Quincy by disguised men and
hanged.
RUMoRs are afoat that in the southwest
that G. G. Nelson, president of the Neosha
County Bank. at Usage Mission, Kansas,
has absconded with $4,000.
jim DsvINE, an escaped convict from
California, was lynched at Las Vegas for
an attempt TO murder.
THE rooms OF M. O. Waggoner, an at
torney Of Toledo, were entered by bur
glars, who carried away iewelry valued>a.
81 900.
On the statement of a dying woman at
Reading. Pa, three well known citizens
have been committed to Jail for the MUIR
der of Il soldier fifteen years ago.
Two brothers named Nichols, aged re-
spectively IA and II, got into quarrel at
Oakwood Township, near Danville, ILL.,,
Monday night, and the older fatally shot
the younger.
l.. Il. REDMOND, noted North Carolina
moonshiner, has been captured by internal
revenue officers after a deperate fight, in
which Redmond was wounded.
WM. HOPKINS, formerly of Chicago, is
wanted for bigamy. lie deserted his wife
and child. and married Miss Anna Echles.
of Aurora, Ind.
Il. II. LoCKHART, an employe of the city
treasurer of st. John, n B., is defaulter
for ten thousand dollars to the municipal
ity, and is short $25 900 in his accounts as
All executor under will
THE man with the iron law" other
wise known as John w. Blanchard has
been arrested in New York for stealinr
81 ,00O worth of diamonds from Mrs. j. ID.
Sweet
MONTREAL detectives are quietly inves-
tigating mysterious losses of wooden
goods by large mercantile firm, and ex-
pect to find the thief employed in the
house.
IT has been discovered that Joseph Bitt-
man, chief salesman of a grocery house
at Saginaw City, has for years been steadily
embezzling money, until the defalcation
reaches into the thousands.
AT Dayton, Cal, Henry Swearingen
killed his mother-in-law, his wife, and
himself with revolver The ladies
were the widow and daughter of State
Senator Boucher. of Butte county.
LEWIS AULDJo, cashier Of the Hudson
Bay Company at Montreal, being de-
faulter for $4,000 or more, has fed to
Plattsburg, n. Y, where he is safe against
| extradition.
A JUSTICE of the peace in Jersey City
named T. n. w. Flynn, has been locked
IN jail. lie served as a judge of election
and. while the votes were being counted
WAS caught putting a package of ballot.
in the box, while others were found con
cealed in his coat-sleeve.
THE business community Of Denver
must have received shock from the ex
posture of the Commercial Bank made b,
a newspaper in that citv. President Var
Woert is said to have served six years il
the penitentiarv for counterfeiting. TIL,
cashier is his wife. Director Pliny S. Ric,
| has been indicted at Leadville for obtainin,
money on false pretenses