Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-06-02

one Of two men arrested at Decatur for
robbing German on the highway.
| CHARLES MCCARTHY, one of the men
wf>, assassinated Professor Crowley in
| Cincinnati, twenty-one years ago, lately
made death-bed confession at Nashville
/ SEVEN Texas rangers and band of
thirty outlaws had a desperate battle near
| Fort Ewell One soldier was killed but
two OF the cattle-thieves were captured.
| SNEAK-THIEvEs took from the office Of
Fahnestock d Co.. brokers at Baltimore,
package of 80, 800 in bonds which lay
behind screen.
/ In front of the city buildings in Cincln-
| natl, James Mclean, scavenger, fatally
shot Michael Lorentz, formerly a lieuten
ant Of police. The affait originated from
business troubles.
| THE robbers known as Billy Leroy's
| gang have been captured in the vicinity
of Lake City, Col. They killed Frank
! Bartlett in a stage last Wednesday night
| ABRAHAM SELLERNs, book keeper for the
receiver of the Third Avenue Savings
bank of New York, confesses having
forged check for $4,000 and passed it on
the Nassau Savings bank
T. l.. SAGE had dispute with H. r.
Lott, Jr, son of Col Lott, at Floyd, La,
which ended by Sage fatally shooting Lott.
A brother of the victim became engaged in
the trouble soon after, and was also shot.
The wound will probably prove fatal.
SIX citizens of Eagle Pass, Tex, who
crossed the Rio Grande to attend a circus,
were surrounded by the Mexican garrison
I'D l,l ,nI
where they remained all night, but were
released by the alcade in the morning.
| Two young men at Cedar Ark, named
| Austin and Brannon, having quarreled
about lady, engaged in duel and fired
| six shots at each other. Brannon was
MORALLY wounded. Austin was arrested,
but escaped from the officers.
SAMUEL TELLER and sons, Franklin and
| Charles, were shot at WATERFOWL, n. Y,
| by David Angsbury All are still alive,
| but in a critical condition Augsburg is
! in Jail. He is over 20 years of age. Ielser
| is 81, and his sons, Franklin and Charles,
20 and II, respectively.
Il. NJ. PAISLEY, superintendent of the
| Stewart coke-works at Uniontown, Pa,
while carrying a sachel containing $4,000,
was knocked senseless by three men, who
took the mo.ey and drove off with his
| horse and wagon.
| EDWARD w. GAsKINs, a substitute letter
carrier in the Chicago postoffice, was
caught in the act of stealing letters, and
| sent to Jail. As an employe' of various
newspaper offices he bore high charac-
ter. Consumption drove him to the use
of morphine, which caused his fall.
THE wife cf Frank Mordaunt, the
actor, was called to the door of her resi-
dence in Brooklyn, by loud knock, when a
man who had been crouching near the
| fence filled her eyes With red pepper.
James Campbell, police sergeant, was
arrested on suspicion, and enough evil
dence was developed to cause his i'm
prisonment.
On an order from from the United
Ststes marshal at Cincinnati, a deputy
tied no the steamer Salt Valley at Steuben-
Vile, o.. for debt of 5000 81. The cap
tain swore out warrants for the officers for
attempting to provoke a breech of the
| peace, and the mayor caused their arrest,
whereupon the steamer started for Pitts
burgh.
THE three deserters who murdered the
proprietor of danee-house near Fort
! Niobrara, last week, soon reached Pierre,
Dakota, and were locked up, They have
since been identified by a squad of Indian
police as the men of whom Lieutenant
Cherry was in pursuit when he was muir
dered by Thomas Locke, one of his sol
diers. They will be tried by the civil au-
thorites.
AN officer from Texas has reached
Jefferson City, Mo-, with requisition for
the arrest of Colonel John T. Crisp, a
well known politician, on the charge OF
having killed Felix Patrick, at Sulphur
Springs, in 1868. The papers were i'm.
perfect and Governor Crittenden refused
| to issue a warrant. While protesting his
innocence, Colonel Crisp offers to go ,tc
Texas if an impartial trial can be
guaranteed.