Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-12

enteen years in the penitentiary. His
dissatisfaction led to a new trial, which
has just concluded with a sentence Of
nlnety-nine years.
TIE east snd west-bound stages were
robbed near Tabinal, Texas. by two high.
waymen when the dispatches call the
notorious tai and short man"
EDWARD J MORGAN, bankrupt shoe
dealer of New York, shot four times at his
assignee, John hopkins, for retaining
funds
JERSEY justice has caused the indictm ent
of five directors of the First National bank
of Newark 70. conspiring and aiding the
Justification If books.
A VERDICT of guilty of murder in the
first degree was found at Harrisburg
against Henry and Frank Runberger, for
killing Daniel Troutman.
A MESSENGER bow in the employ of
Scranton, Willard x Co.. stock brokers, cf
New York. i suspected of having stolen a
check for Sl27 900.
ADAM ROVE, of Monroeville, Ind, beat
Mrs. Peter Eio with hop-pole and fatally
injured her Her ofiense was marrying
Peter kio tie day after her first husbands
funeral
Nh. MARIN. OF White COUNT. Ill.,, a
member OF The legislature, was held up
and robbed .f his money and passes at
East St. Louis as he was boarding the
train for Springfield.
RED Fox, a noted counterfeiter, and his
partner, Samuel Ringer. were captured in
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, by
federal detective, and jailed at Pittsburg.
Two men named George Brooks and
Scott Love fought duel at Orbiston, near
Logan, Ohio and the result was that both
were mortaly wounded.
JAMES VI. ScoyEL, of New Jersey, who
sought nomination for independent
on the ticket with Horace Greedy, has
been convicted of obtaining $3.50 on false
pretenses. lie made an appeal for mercy.
THREE of The leaders of the mob which
last December attempted TO lynch the ne
gro murderer Hicks, at Covington, Ky
were sentenced to three months impris-
onment and fined 800 each
BEN DoUGIAs and Henry Turner, two
negroes, quareled over game of cards, at
East Carondelet, H., when Douglas whip
ped out a pistol and sent ball through
Turner's body, killing him. The muir
derer then jumped into a skif and escaped
down the river
In the case of Delaware negro SEN
fenced to death for rape, the United
States supreme court reversed the iudg-
ment on the ground that colored men
were wrongfully excluded from the grand
and petit juries by which he was tried,
On the arraignment of Schwingel, the
fratricide. at Erie, Pa, the entire jury list
was quashed, at the demand Of the pris-
oner's counsel, for the reason that the jury
box had not been sealed with wax, form
imperativeiy required by the law.
4 TRAMP entered a bar-room in Terre
Haute at an early hour with a brick in
his hand, and demanded a drink from the
barkeeper, Joseph Montgomery. On be-
ing refused he attempted to throw the
brick, and was instantly shot through the
head by Montgomery.
.IoHN H. HoLENsHADE, of Chicago,
made desperate attempt To murder his
sister-in-aw, Mrs. Martha Boswell, mil
liner, residing at No, 1929 State street
He fired two shots, both of which took eff
feet, and may prove fatal, Domestic
trouble was at the bottom of the affair.
JOHN B. CAHIIL, a horse-shoer, residing
in Second avenue. New York, is charged
with having hanged his wife to a door in
their apartments, whence her corpse was
cut down by the neighbors on the appeals
of the children. Cahill has been commit
ted for murder. lie is a native of LINER
lex, has been twenty years in this country,
and has brother residing in Chicago.
THOMAS DEJARNKTTE, the Virginia
Young man Who killed his sister because
she refused To abandon her disreputable
mode of life, and who has just been ac-
quilted of her murder on the ground of
emotional insanity, has been Tilted by the
Young woman TO whom he was betrothed,
and who was unremitting in her attentions
to him before the trial. She has elOped
with another man.
T. G.. MARLEY who sle- ps in :. r. San
derson,s drg-goods store AT Plano. H., was
awakened by crash OF falling glass, and
getting up discovered a burglar inside one
of the show windows. The burglar, upon
seeing Mr. Marley, beat hastv retreat
before a shot could be fired at him. In
the morning il was found that Mr.. Ed
wards, carpenter, had been robbed of
about $50 worth OF tools, and tools had al
so been taken from a wagon-shop and a
blacksmith shop.
JONI WELKER, prominent farmer re-
siding two miles north of Batavia, Gene
esee county, y. Y, was shot by a young
man in his employ named Charles Stock
ley, in the field blowing. The wound re-
suited fatally in few hours. Some time
age Stockley made overtures for the hand
of 16-year-old daughter of Welker, and
the later refused TO entertain. the propo-
sition. Stockley was persistent, and there
had since been frequent quarrels between
the two men.