Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-06-07
MurderOuA Deeds.

The bodies of O surveyor named Washington
and Fred Febrack, his assistant, were found
near Red Eye, Mipn.. on the Sd inst. The
former was shot back Of the ear with charge
of blckshot and Febrack had his throat cut, q
bullet IL his cheek and a cash over the eve.
Washington resided at Bay City, Mich, and
Febrack at Perbam, Mimi. John Frebbett of
Perha1n, a youth of 15 is supposed to have
committed the murder, as he had spoken of
joining the cowboys in Montana, and was seen
at Perham with plenty of money and revolver,
now known to have been Washington's. The
crime is supposed to have been committed q
week previous to finding the bodies.
Ned Foster was killed in drunken fight at
st. Paul, Mimi, on the 4th inst, by John
Donaldson.
At Leesville, Conway County, Ark, on the
4th inst, a colored desperate named Wade
Beed, shot and killed Capt. John Reeves, be-
cause Mrs. Reeves repremanded him for leav-
ing the gate open. This is the second or third
man Beed has slain.
Near Lamberton, N. c., a. feud between Jane
McKeller and Frances McNair eliminated in
desperate fight, the former being killed with q
bowie-knife. Miss McNair tainted on COM
hitting the deed and was found lying across
her victim body. Cause of the tragedy,
rivalry over young man.
A cold-blooded tragedy is reported from Yell
County, Ark. Lazarus Brooks and James
McGhee were opponents IN q land suit, which
it was thought Brooks would win. McGhee
met Brooks and bis boy in field, and in his
rage shot his opponent dead. Young Brooks
fled and was fired on by the fend, the charge
of shot breaking the boys arm. He escaped.
however, when McGhee returned to his fallen
victim and shot another charge through the
head of the corpse. He was still at large at
last accounts.
In Leadville, on the 31st ult., in a crowded
street, Robert Dartamass and ID. w. Fresher
shot each other. and died almost instantly.
The latter was a penitentiary bird, and had
been arrested for robbing Bartamass.
A horrible story comes from Asheville, N. c.:
While t. Eastman, Il farmer, was on a spree,
bis little daughter, aged years, secured the
whisky bottle and got drunk. The father be-
came Infatuated, and, dragging the child from
bed, notwithstanding her piteous cries of "Pa,
don't kill me now, I'm drunk, wait till / get
SOBER" beat her to death.
Finland sailor named Charles Nelson killed
companion named Charles Kalyg in quarrel
at Philadelphia, Pa, on the 3lst ut.
On the 31st ult. Thomas Halls returned to
Calhoun County, Ark, from a trip to Texas.
He entered the house of a man named Har-
bours, former enemy, when an alteration
occurred in which Halls was shot dead.
Fred Waite, a hotel thief in jail at Franklin,
Texas, killed Jailer Wiser with a bar of iron,
stole his pistol watch, and money, and made
his escape.
Peoria dispatch of the 29th ult., reports
that at Lancaster Landing, Milton Clifford
strangled his newly-born twin children, and
made coffin of their cradle, abandoning bis
wife in her hopeless condition. A strong force
of neighbors is searching for the fiend.
man named KitzmiIler, in Springfield, o.,
forbade his daughter to receive the attentions
of a man whom he disliked. The girl refused
to obey and on the 29th ult. the father shot
her.
A LONG standing enmity between Thomas j.
Merriam and Frederick Jackson, residents OF
Olmsted Falls, O., eliminated on the 18th ult.,
in the murder of Merriam BY Jackson.
Thomas Rector, prominent citizen Of New
Tacama, W. T., shot his wife on the goth ult.,
while laboring under fit of temporary insanl-
ty. and then blew out bis brains.
In grove near Belleville, ILL.,, where -four
young ladies were selecting a site for Sunday
school picnic Miss Annie Geyer accidentally
met rejected lover, named Phillip Matthews.
He compelled her to listen to his sentiments,
and then shot her dead. The murderer is Is
years of age. He voluntarily appeared at the
police station.
Quincy, ILL.,, was startled on the evening OF
the goth ult. by the murder of DR.. Hoffman.
editor of the Germanla, by Gus. Asholmakel
and Casper A. Baker. The Germania contained
an article on an attempted suicide by Miss
johanna Helholke, sister-in-law of the muir
derers, hence the deed.