Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-21

| University Of Ohio, is being tried by a
Methodist tribunal at Athens for denying
| the trinity, vicarious atonement, the d.
yinity Of Christ, total depravity, and the
resurrection of the body, As to the latter
charge, an attempt will be made to justify
by citing similar views OF Bishop Foster.
JAMES TRACY. who murdered Police Of
6cer Huebner last February in Chicago,
was hung in the Jail Of that city on the
18th. He protested his innocence until
/ the last moment. He died game. The
hangman was very successful.
| CHAs. S. CARTER. of Brooklyn, received
! $4,000 from the Lake Shore road for in
jures received in the Ashtabula disaster,
and KEEP, intoxicated for four years, when
| he shuffied of his mortal coil. Now his
widow sues a saloon-keeper Tor S25 600 for
causing Carter to become drunSard.
TIE stage coach which runs between
| Selgman, on the St. Louis & San Fran
cisco railroad, and Eureka Springs, Ark. ,
was stopped by two masked men heavily
| armed, and the ten passengers in the stage
robbed of about 5000 and considerable
jewelry. The mail pouch was also rob-
bed of registered letters. No clue to the
robbers.
A PLAN to rob a train on the Missouri
Pacific road was communicated to the
officers in good season. The route agent
of the Adams Express company selected
squad of men and boarded the train at
Chouteau. As Vinita was left behind two
robbers caught Conductor Warren on the
platform of the smoking.car and shot him
in the face. The detectives then opened
fire. killing one Of the raiders and captur-
ing the other.
PETER LAUGHLIN, formerly of Jackson
vile, H., has been experimenting the
construction Of courthouse at Palo
Pinto Texas. Saturday night he entered
a saloon, where he found two strangers,
whose invitation to drink he quietly de-
clined ThereupoI one Of the men drew
revolver, which Laughlin promptly
grabbed. Then dirk was whipped out,
which went to Laughlin's heart in a
twinkling. The second party is a brother
of Sam Underwood, the famous train-rob-
her. The butchers were speedily pursued
by force OF citizens, one of whom re-
ceived shattered arm and another lost
his horse.
A MAN named f. c. Reynolds, who was
for a long time citizen and business man
Of Chicago, but who always has been
more or less under suspicion of crooked
ness, was arrested By Pinkerton's detect
ives last week. He had forged two GER
tifcate checks of $40 600 each on the
Chatham \ ational bank, New York, and
deposited them in local banks, raising
quite 4 sum of money on them. The
Chatham bank, when notified of the de-
post, repudiated the checks. Steps 10
arrest him were Immediately taken and
resulted in his capture. There was found
in HE room a forger's fall outfit. Hewas
taken before Justice Mech and held in
$4,000. 1t is feared that that other
banks or corporations have been victia-
i2ed.
THE Chicago Packing and Provision
company commenced suit in the criminil
court against Manson McMullen, james
Shehan, and jeremiah Shehan. on trial
in Judge Moran's court for stealing hogs
from them. The prosecution expect to
prove that the defendants, together with
one Michael Harry, who ia now serving q
FIVE years term of imprisonment in tie
penitentiarY, formed a scheme in Noven-
ber 1879, by which they stole large
number of hogs from Phil Armour at tie
stock yards. Following out this schem.,
Harty had obtained employment at Ar
mour's packing house Tor the purpose ii
finding out how the hogs were kept. He
obtained keys which would open The locks
on the pens, and at night and on Sunday
he and James ShehaD, one of the defend
ants, had stolen n large number Of hog.,
which were sold by the other defendant,
the money being divided among the tuue
The states principal witness would be
III arty himself. BY other witnesses many
evidences of the guilt of the defendants
would be shown. BY the wholesale THEW
ing from Armour the men on trial had
put into their pockets upward of $500 900.
Harry was placed on the witness stand,
and testified to the stealing of the hogs by
himself and the defendants, giving the
particulars of the formation Of the con-
spiracy and how it was carried out He
had got the keys for the locks to Armours
pens and almost every night and Sunday
during the winter of 1873 and 1880 he and
Jim Shehan had driven off from forty to
fifty Of Armour's hogs. The thieving was
finally stopped through the Shehans be-
coming frightened by actions on the part
of Armour's men which led them to think
that they were suspected of committing
depredations on the pens.