Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-08-26
CRIME.

A. ID. WHEELoCK, the New York embez
zler, was captured on his arrival in Len
don.
THE police of New Haven have Jailed
James and Walter MalIey for the murder
of Jennie +. Cramer
ARTHUR BRUCE was arrested in Cincin.
natl for passing counterfeit silver coins,
and found TO be a notorious criminal from
/ Detroit.
EDWARD $. RANsDELI, letter-carrier
Of indianapolis, has been arrested for
| opening letters, and has made a full CON
| iession Of his crime.
LAWSON, the janitor Of the United States
court, at Little Rock, has been arrested
for passing counterfeit money which he
stole from prisoners.
/ The frequent murders in st. Louis have
| forced the police commissioners to order
the strict enforcement of the law against
carrying concealed weapons.
A DUEL has taken place in Indian Ter
ritory between T. o. Carpenter, a
| Choctaw chief, and Colonel AMOS Price. a
| prominent Creek. The latter was killed.
and the former fatally injured.
AN alteration arising at CHEYENNE
! from words passed at variety theatre
ended in the murder of George Dawson,
in the street, by party of unknown men.
Five arrests have been made in connection
with the affair
CHARLES STEWART, a negro, killed his
wife with a hatchet at Bay st Louis, Miss,
and was taken from the Jail and lynched
Ills father-in-law prayed for him and then
helped 10 hang him.
MARRIOTT BoswELL, clerk Of the BaIti-
mG.v police board has been dismissed for
an attempt to swindle a New York firm
by ordering cloth for police uniforms and
selling il Tor his own benefit.
The federal officials in Texas have
nearly broken up gang of stage-robbers
who have been very bold in their opera
tIons. Jack Harris, a former companion
Of Billy the Kid, and twelve others are in
Jail ut Austin
The coroners jury at New Haven was
IN session all night taking the testimony
OF Blanche Douglas a. TO the murder of
Jennie Cramer. The citizens of Orange
township voted a reward of 81 900 for in
formation which would lead 10 a conviction
of the murderer.
WM. CAMPBELL has served nearly five
years in the Wisconsin penitentiarv for
the assassination of Dan O'Mara at Chip
pewa Falls G.. W. Chase, life prisone
IN that institution, now confesses that he
perpetrated the crime for which Camp
bell was incarcerated.
THE mystery Of the robbery Of the Citi-
zens bank Of Paris, Ky, by which $4,000
was obtained, is in process of solution.
The wife Of a tailor named Cooper, who
was one Of those suspected Of the crime.
was on yesterday at daylight seen to dig
mp large tin box in her back yard, and
she soon after left for Covington to Join
her husband. The telegraph intercepted
them, and the missing bonds were secured.
WILLIE CANTRRLI, a lad residing near
Pekin, ILL.,, while carving some potatoes
along tie road, was seized by a middle
aged man and tied to the railway track
with rope. An Indianapolis train soon
came round the curve, and the boy was
struck by the pilot, breaking his ribs and
foot. The man then cut and threw away
the rope and fled into the woods, being
seen by the passengers
GUERILLA work has commenced on the
Arizona border. which demands prompt
attention on the part of the United States
4 Mexican train recently sent out from
Sonora to purchase supplies at Tombstone
was robbed by Arizona cowboys and two
of its men killed. In retaliation, a party
of American butchers who went to the
border ranches 10 purchase cattle were
surprised BY Mexicans, while asleep, and
SIX Of the number put TO death