Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-08-30
Murderous Deeds.


lies at Knoxville, Tenn, eliminated in bloody
fight on the 26th, in which one of the susbys
was killed and q Mabry wounded.
At Leland, Ill, on tho 26th, F. N. Stratton
was shot dead by bis wife, who then took her
own life.
A freight train on the Santa Fe road ran over
a man lying between the rails at Alamillo. In
vestigation showed that it was q wealthy stock
raiser named Fiije Chares, who had been mur-
dered, robbed, and placed on the track.
Mrs. Maggie Copeland was brutally murdered
at her home near Kewanee, ILL.,, on the 28th.
She was shot twice through the body and her
skull was crushed. The crime was committed
for the purpose of robbery, as about $500 in
notes and money are missing.
At Athens, Texas, an aged negro, while
laboring under fit Of insanity, beheaded his
two grandchildren.
At Mountainsburg, Ark, on the oath, three
men became involved in dispute. One of
them stabbed his two companions fatally and
was taken in charge by mob and hanged.
VIM. Chap nan was killed at indianapolis.
Ind, ON the 26tb, by bis insane wife. She cut
his throat.
mob lynched Leouard Coker, negro, who
outraged Miss Haines near Cowles Station, Ala.
A band of unknown men boarded train OF,
| which were two co]ored murderers, at Madison,
| City Marshal West, of Cynthiana. Ky, killed
| q rough named Kearns on the oath.
In dispute over bet at st. Joseph, Mo-,
| grocer named Horace Donnelly was killed by
| a salesman named William Toole.
A visilia, CAL, dispatch, 2Sd. Ben Harris, a
colored man living near here, shot and mortal
ly wounded his wife. killed his ep-daughter,
IA years old, and severely wounded another
! step daughter, aged 10, with an axe. Harris
escaped before the news of the tragedy reached
town. Thirty men are in bot pursuit Of the
murderer.
Henry Hayes, a boy six years old, became en-.
ragged at his sister, aged 8, at Bonneville, N.
| Y, and cut her SO severely with knife that
she will die.
! A negro entered the bedroom of Miss Cunard
at Covmgton, Ga. The girl called her father,
Lucius Cunard, who shot the negro dead.
Robert Furnam, of Syracuse, n. Y, shot
Matte Thompson on the night of the 23d, and
then shot himself. The woman will recover
he cannot.
The body Of negro, who rented farm nea.
Athens, Tex, and raised fine crop, was found
headless and handless, with three bullet-holes
in the Uranium. It is supposed the landlord,
named Lghtfoot, killed the negro to get pos
session of the crop.
Philip Etting. rich and eccentric farmer
living near Port Jervis, N. Y, killed Jesse
Manderville with rife for taking an apple
from his orchard.
| Prof. Brown was killed at Ell Paso, Texas, OF
the 22d, by a man named Bostwick. The pro
fessor had chastised Bostwick's son at school
Robert Aiken was killed by hunter named
Gibbon, at Rock Greek, W.T.. Citizens prompt
ly hanged the murderer.
Stage robbers killed two express messengers
in Arizona on the Goth. The murderers Sc.
cured $5, 900.
Maurice Ward was shot and killed by Mrs
Sarah Reed, at Sullivan, Ind. Ward was raw.
aging the lady's grape vines.
A band of masked men took one Rymer
who murdered Mr.. Garvey, near Fort Lyon,
Col, recently, from the jail and lynched him.
Great excitement was caused in Chestnut
Logan County, Ill.,, on the Goth, by the dis:
covery that Charles McMahon, wealthy
farmer, and his two hired hands-John Car
lock and Robert Methany-had been murdered
The bodies were horribly gashed with some
sharp instrument. A discharged farm hand il
suspected.
Five masked robbers raided the farm house
of Louis Cox, near Ashland, III. The old maj
gave them $40, all he had in the house, bu
was brutally beaten, shot in the head, ant
strung up three times, his injuries beins
mortal.