River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-09-21
CRIME.

FREDERICK KRITZER committed suicide
at Metropolis, Ill. Whisky.
GEORGE DYNE has been arrested in
Chicago for the murder of Joseph Baker
THE postoffice at Huntington, Ind, was
burglarized and $1,000 worth of property
taken.
The society for the protection of ami.
mails will take steps to prevent fox hunt
ing at Newport.
CAPT. ]. E. HATCHER. late chief of pc.
lice, who was shot by Mayor Johnston on
the 9th inst. died.
THE safe in the Office of the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois road at Danviile was
blown open and robbed of 81, 1872.
II. H. DANIELS was killed near St
Louis by farmer named Thesis, while he
and two drunken companions were pur-
suing three respectable women.
ARTHUR BROOKS, prominent stock
broker of Richmond, Ind, was arrested
for the murder of DIR. Thomas Yause, al
the former place. in August last.
THE assignee's report of the Santa Anna
(Cal.) bank shows that the proprietor has
fraudulently converted at least $4,000
since November last.
MAYOR JOHNSON, on trial at Danville
Va, for the murder of John Il. Hotcher
late chief of police, was honorably dis
charged.
Two sisters nsmed Merriweather eloped
from Huntsville, Ala, to Chattanooga
with their beaus. One of them fatally
shot her husband in self-defense, as he at
tackled her.
A PROMINENT citizen of Columbus,
Ohio, missed 81 coo secreted in writing
desk, and placed the matter in the hands
of detectives, who forced a son TO confess
and restore nearly all he money.
WHILE OWEN McSorley, of Staten L.
land, was driving. strangers called at his
residence and informed the serving man
that the coach had broken down. The
man hurried to the assistance of his EN-
ployer, and during his absence the house
was robbed of $4,000 worth of bonds.
THE police of Chicago have captured a
girl of IA who, within the past year, has
stolen over $1,000 worth of goods from
private residences. Last Sunday evening
she took jewelry valued at 1896 from a
house on North Clark street, and secreted
it at home. Her mother has spent seven
years in the peRitentiary and two in the
county ia ii. Large amounts of the stolen
property were identified and restored TO
the owners.
EAST ST. LOUIS is greatly excited on the
question of permitting negro children to
attend schools in which white children
are taught. The schools have been closed,
because negro children presented them
selves, but were refused admissions. The
site chosen for the negro school is OBJ
iectionable to that people, hence the
trouble Street fights have occu FRED be-
tween both the children and their parents.
JOHN B. DAVIS, president of the recent
" suspended Richmond Banking and In
surance company, made deed of convey
snce of his property for the benefit of
creditors of the bank. The deed was
signed jointly by Davis and wife. The
property relinquished is valued at over
100000 States Acknowledgement Blair
has given notice of suit on bond of
$500, 600 for the security of state deposits
in the suspended bank above $4,000.
A HEAVY robbery occurred ON the 5.h
inst.from the Adams Express company,
involving the loss of nineteen $1,000
bonds of the Lesvenworth City and Fort
Leavenworth Water company. The bonds
were in transit from Dannell. Lawson &
Simpson. of New York. to the Massaehu-
sets Mutual Life Insurance company of
Springfield. They were stolen in Spring
field. The bonds were folded in such =
way that they looked like a package of
bank notes, and the value was inscribed
upon the package. They were numbered
from 152 TO ITO inclusive. and had been
receipied for at that value by the Adams
Express company, upon whom the loss
falls.
SOME time ago. H. A. Ely, editor of the
Oak Park Alert, suburban Chiesgo paper
which has been attscking gamblers. dis
either absconded or was under an hallu-
cination. His friends recently received a