Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-04-07
CRIME.

Crow Doc. the slayer of Spotted Tail.
has been sentenced TO be hanged May IL.
FEDERAL and city officers at San Fran
cisco are implicated in a conspiracy to
smuggle opium into that port.
WIN. MITCHELL was shot by saloon
keeper named Stecher in Chicago, and
died of the wound in half an hour.
AT Adrian, Mich, Jewell and Stanton,
who. it is alleged. were in the water bond
conspiracy with Navin, were held to the
| circuit court.
A. c. PATRICK, of Seward, Neb., shot
his wife through the heart, fired at his
two sons, and escaped arrest, but is being
holly pursued.
JESSE G. SHEPHERD, the speculative
| Juryman of Chicago, gave bail in s., 000.
and Vas taken to Milwaukee by his
fatler, reputable hardware merchant Of
that city. T. W. Blatchford was one oi
the sureties.
EDWARD ID. GALE, attorney for the col
! lection of arrears of personal taxes in
New York, who died recently, is now
shown to be in default $4,000 or more,
and suit against his hondsmen will be
brought.
AT point sixty miles west of San An
tonic, on Wednesday night, the FL Paso
stages bound cas-: and west were robbed
by two men.
CHARLES I. BREssMAN, one of the strik-
ing compositors of the World, OF New
York, was sentenced to imprisonme II for
ten days for threatening the publisher.
IL an affray between sporting charac-
ters in San Francisco, James Hamblin
shot John Nj. Massey three times, the
wounds proving fatal.
THos. McEwEN. a special deputy sheriff
at Murfreeshoro, Tenn, has killed his
third mana horse-thief named Bethel
Thompson, who fired upon him while lie
was reading warrant for his arrest.
Two men named Rider, father and son.
were shot and instantly killed at Jasper.
| FIVE miles south of Waverly, Iowa, by a
man named Shropshire The men had
quarreltd about family trouble.
A MAN giving the name of James T..
Jones surrendered himself at Knoxville,
Tenn, as having embezzled 81 600 while
money-order clerk in the postoffice at
Woodstock, Ill.
AT Beloit, Kansas, seven saloon-keep-
ers, two druggists, and brewer were ar
raigned for selling liquors, aud fined from
| 800 to $500 each and costs. All have
now signed an agreement to quit the bust
| ness.
| ARTHUR MUELLER, a teller in the Cen
trail National bank of Indianapolis, has
fled the city. being defaulter TO the
amount of $2,250. He transferred his
| property TO his mother, and left wife
and three children
| A CoLoRED lad was arrested in Balti-
more for attempting to negotiate drafts
| from the treasurer of the United States
and from the Commercial Na'ional bank
Of Chicago. He confessed that he took
them from letters obtained from the post
Office boxes by picking the Yale locks with
| a fiat piece of iron.
DICK LITTLE spent the day in Kansas
City in making an affidavit disclosing all
the operations of Jesse James and his
gang since his connection Herewith.
Little surrendered on condition Of full
pardon and a share of the reward offered
for his head
ON train nesr Medora. Ind. an intox-
icated maniac killed A. c. Wingate. OF
Lexington, Ky, without provocation. The
murderer then leaped off and drowned
himself in the stream. His clothing con-
tsined 1890 in cash and receipts showing
him to be William Haines, formerly OF
West Salem, @.