The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-04
RECORD OF CRIME.

James Mu|lisan, near st. Louis, stabbed and
killed VIM. Hall, negro.
Mrs. George W. Turner of St. Paul drowned
herself last week. Insanity.
DR.. Thomas N. Cream, noted cbortonist
in Chicago and other places, has been ar
rested
Ruben A. Caldwell, town pauper of VIII
berham was killed by Morris Monahan. The
murderer was arrested.
LAST week Welch's feed windmill, at Mar
shall, Lyon county. was destroyed by fire, with
warehouse attached. Loss, $3, 500: insur-
ance, $4,000.
D. c.. Cass, carpenter of Witoka, Winona
county, suicided by taking laudanum on Fri
day afternoon, his body being found in tho
barn of Mr.. Beban, near Sugar Loaf.
man named Hyde thought he had q mis-
sion to kill Governor Cornell of New York. He
had an old unloaded gun on his shoulder and
after avowing his intentions was arrested.
The store Of P. G. Burke, at Garry Owen,
sixteen miles from Dubuque, was broken into by
burglars. The safe was blown open and pack
age containing $1,000 stolen. Two horses
were then stolen and the rasca]s rode to town.
W. r. Dickinson and Joel Van Arsdale, law
yers, of Philadelphia, were convicted of fOrg-
ing the will of R bert Whitaker, by which it
was proposed to divert the estate, worth $780,
900, to their own ends.
AtPittsburg, G. W. Nelson, land broker, D.
L. South, stock broker, and a man named
nearly $4,000 worth of stolen bonds, the
property Of William Connors of Catfish, Clarion
county.
A special from Edwards, Miss, reports the
killing of Henry Cole by Deputy Sheriff Cor
nelius of Isaquena county. Cornelius went to
Edwards to arrest Cole and some other negroes
for violating contract with planter up the
Mississippi river.
Chas Parker, guide in the Adirondaeks,
while guiding Mrs. George Bull from Forked
lake to Long lake, where sha was to be the
guest of ex-senator Plat, made dastardly
assault on the woman. All the guides in the
Adirondacks are hunting Parker, swearing to
capture him dead or alive.
At Peoria, ILL.,, p. W. Grove of Internal ma
chine notoriety was arrested Monday by the
United States authorities on an order from at
torney General McVeagh. Grow disposed of
his business here last week and was preparing
to 20 through the country raising recruits for
the Irish cause. Members of the leading Irish
citizens gathered and bail to amount of $40,
900 was rendered, the marshal simply replied
to ali inquiries that he could take no bail and
that Grove must 80 with him to Chicago.
Grove takes the affair very coolly.
Deputy United States Marshal Garrins has
brought into Denton, Texas under arrest James
Tyler. charged with completely in mail robber-
les committed by the notorious Sam Goss gang
in 1878. He was arrested at Aloka, l. T.
There are now but three of the Goss gang at
large. Davis who was in the Union Pacific
| railroad robbery at Big Springs. Neb, and il
| now in New Orleans; Harry Underwood, the
mott desperate Of the band, who is running a
cattle ranch on the Pan Handle of Texas, and
Frank Jackson, WHO'S now in Arkansas.
At East Saginaw, Michigan, on Tuesday 10Th,
fire caught and spread to Wylie Bros. mill
premises, burning barn, Office and several
hundred cords OF wood, involving q loss OF
So, 900; partially insured. From there the
fire spread to j. II. Pearson l. Sons saw mill
| and Gault block, and in a short time the prop
erty consisting of saw mill, Harding house,
store, seven tenement houses, 1900 feet Of
| tramway, 8, 900 feet of docks and 4, 100000
feet of lumber thereon, were consumed. Total
! loss, 8 1 sc, 900; insurance about x75 900.
s. B. Jackson, sheriff of Woodbury. county
To-, has gone to Sioux City in charge of a crook
known as Capt. Jack, charge with robbing the
fur warehouse of O'Bern, Hosick & Co., al
Sioux City, some four weeks ago. Sheriff
jackson has been on the fellows track evel
since the commission of the crime and over
| took him at Fort Pierre several days ago, where
he caused his arrest Capt Jack, the prison
or, has been operating in the west for ten years
and is not unknown among Deadwood crooks
He is thirty. two years of age, short, dark com
plexion and weighs about 40 pounds.