River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-05-04
CRIME.

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torney, named A. d. Mason, was fatally
shot by son of Judge Roberts.
MoLLIE HoLBRooK, pickpocket. well
known in Chicago, has been sentenced to
FIVE years in the New York prison.
THE accounts of Governor Churchill,
of Arkansas, while serving as state treas
urer, are found to be short about 1926, 600
In the United States court at Grand
Rapids. Mich, Rev. Mr.. Koehler was
fined $500 for sending indecent letters to
his wife after they had separated.
A MOB at Brookville, KY, took William
and Bradford Courts from Jail and hanged
them to limb of a tree, side by side, for
shooting James Smith.
ONE HUNDRED masked men at Lake
City, Col, took from Jail George Belts and
Jim Browning, the murderers of Sheriff
Campbell, and hanged them to bridge.
As the rope was being placed arou nd his
neck, Belts asked for a chew of tobacco.
THE mayor of ST. Joseph, Mo-. has or
derea suit to be brought against the bonds
men of Register RiEgo for $4,000, to
cover deficit in his accounts and defray
the expenses of recovering the stolen
bonds.
WILLIAM STULL, farm laborer near
Georgetown, o., killed Mrs. Calvin Sum-
mers with a revolver. The sheriff of
Columbiana county and a posse of depu-
ties followed him into the woods near
New Franklin, where he shot himself
dead.
SEVEN students of Bowdoin college were
sued by a freshman for So 900 each ior
damaging his eye by hazing. The case
occupied four days in the supreme court
of Maine, and President Chamberlain was
called as witness, but the jury dis
agreed.
IN the surrogate's court in New York,
one of the counsel in the Yates will case.
named John Strachan, was forced to
admit that he swindled client in Scot
land out of 81 900 and fed to the United
| States.
THE family and body of Minister Hurl-
| burt have arrived at New York from As
pinwall. George H. Hurlburt states that
| his father was personally instructed by
President Garfield to bring about an early
peace between Chill and Peru, and &C
cepted the mission for that purpose be-
| lieving that in six months the work could
be accomplished.
| A PACKAGE of watch-jewels, valued at
1000, was recently sent from London to
the agent of the Elgin Watch company in
New York, to be forwarded to the factory.
Between the customs officers and the ex-
press messengers is divided the RESPONSE
bility for the mysterious disappearance of
bundle representing one-third the con-
segment. The matter has for several
days been in the hands of government de-
tectives in Chicago.
| In the senate the river improvement
bill. giving 100000 for the Mississippi
and 81 ,000,00 for the Missouri, was
passed without objection. The anti-Chi-
nese bill then came up. The 18th section,
prohi biting the naturalization of Celes-
tials, was retained by vote of 81 to 20.
| The 18th section, relating to skilled labor
ers. was stricken out when an adjourn
ment was effected.
| THE latest social sensation at st. Louis
! is the elopement of the wife of CONNER
cial traveller, the mother of three children,
with John Curtis. not quite IL years of
age, whose father is bucket-shop keeper
| in the chamber of commerce. Mrs. Dixon
sent word to her mother to take care OF
her little ones. The police are on the
trail of the fugitives.
JOHN A. WILL, of Shelby, o., put a
| bullet through the brain Of Thomas
Kelly, at Chicago, who had staggered
against him. The murderer walked
across La Sale street and threatened to
shoot young man whom he met. Loud
threats of lynching were made and Will
drew his revolver and kept the crowd at
bay until the patrol wagon reached him
at Market street. The police were COM
PEELED to club him to unconsciousness be-
fore they could secure him. Will says
he shot JEFF Mickey, at Vernon, o., eight
years ago.
AT the ST. Lawrence hotel. in Chicago,
a drug clerk named Andrew Moffat, %
years of age, shot Mrs. Clara Stanton in
the mouth, and then put bullet behind
his own right ear. Neither will die
The lady is Al years old, and the case is
one of unrequited love. The youth will
be sent home to friends in Toronto.