Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-21
of the 18th. Beatty suspected the doctor Of
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of the 18th. Beatty suspected the doctor OF
intimacy with his wife.
John Hooten, marshal Of Corning, Holt
county, Mo-, was killed on the 18th inst,
while attempting to arrest drunken man
JEFF. Williams.
At Okoloono, Miss, on the nig ght Of the 14th
inst, Gen. W. T. Tucker was called to his door
by an unknown party and deliberately shot
down. Houston Parish, negro boy, who has
had trouble with Tuckef, is under arrest.
James A. Smith, ex-county clerk of Por tland
Oregon, was shot and instantly killed by Frank
Howard, while they were drinking together IN
saloon at San Francisco, CAL, on the 18th.
At Nashville, Tenn, on the night OF the 14th,
inst.,. Michael O'Hallahan shot David Hunly in
the ann and the latter stabbed O'Hallahan to
the heart with shoemakers' knife, killing him
instantly.
A duel was foughton the morning Of the 18th
inst, at Terrene, Miss, between the Hon.
Leland Leatherman, mayor OF Arkansas CITY,
and James Rucker; q prominent attorney OF
tho same city. The difficulty grew out of Ger
tain rulings made by Leatherman in case in
which Rucker was engaged professionally:
Both combatants we're wounded at the first
fire. Leatherman receiveda slight flesh wound
Rucker was struck in the left side. lntlctlng
what is supposed to be fatal wound.
In Canthron township, Arkansas, near Boone
vile, on the 18th inst, two young men, Robert
and William Hanbey, brothers, riding home
ward from town, while passing down the south
side of Petit Jean Creek were fired on by an
assassin. Robert was killed. two buckshot pen
etrating his heart. William was fatally
wounded, having received two buckshot through
his intestines and two in his lett breast. He
rode half a mile before falling from his horse
from exhaustion and loss of blood. The assas-
sin was concealed underneath the bank of the
creek and got away unseen. Two negroes are
under arrest, and it is strongly suspected that
| they know something of it.
Frank O'Reilly superintendent of the EN-.
pire mine, Utah, was killed by the engineer. G.
W. Scopt, in sef-defense, on the 18th inst.
! O'Reilly, at the time, was assaulting with
knife.
ADallas, Texas, special dated the 18th, says
that DR.. B. G. Cantrell and his son. "Bud
Cantrell, got into quarrel near Weatherford
which resulted in bloody tragedy, Cox killing
both the Cantrells and being seriously wounded
| At St. Louis, Mo-, on the 18th inst, Joe Ed
wards and Al. Gafin, two negro tremen on tn
steamer Porter. met in a broad, open space a
| the bridge entrance and renewed difficult.
that existed between them. Gafin drew |
knife and Edwards pistol, which he discharged
stomach, inficting a mortal wound. and an
ather penetrating the shoulder Of Mrs. Garrity
an old lady passing along the street. Great ex
| citement ellsued, and a crowd of enraged cltl
zen attempted to lynch Edwards on the spot
but four policemen rescued him from the mol
and escorted him to the station.
Two hundred men rode to the jail at Dar
danelle, Ark, on the 10th inst, and took there
from two murderers named Taylor and Bruce
The prisoners were dragged through the street
with ropes around their necks to a clump o
trees, where they were left dangling.
At Marshall, Texas. on the 18th inst. Arch
Whitman was fatally stabbed by his wife.
Sam. Ramsey was lynched at OWingsville
Me-, for numbering John Smith.