The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-07-19
The Oeviiment of One Day.

The telegraphlc summary of rrlues
thruu -hout the country aud published on
Saturday was startling Il number. Near
81. Louis d lad ut thirteen years, enrl ged
at deserved punishment, seized a revolver
aud mortaiy wounied hls father. AZ 81
Lou. negro roustab0ut stabbed To
death another negro ruusta bout Iu a Ioal
Gus quarrei about courte>du. At the
little town of Elsah, Il Jealous husband
shot down mas wife and i man suspected
vi being her paramour. the two Victims
having been met walking together. AT
Alton, ILL.,, photographer was arrested,
dire lily after his marriage. on charge
OF bastardy. At Denver blind man
and his companion shot aud killed two
other men, and lynching party soon al
ter started IN pursuit 0t the murderers
At Hornsbridge, Ala husband fatally
shot his wife for threatening to report a
quarrel between them. At Davenport,
Iowa, a rough character was arrested Tor
highway robbery aud stabblng assault.
At lenna, ILL.,, the men who recently
tortured and then murdered an old man
with an ak tor his m0uey we're taken IN
to custody. At Little Rock. Ark, pro
fesslonal crook was arrested tor chloro
forming and outraglng slxteen>year old
daughter of a worthy widow. At the
same city mau was arrested on the
charge OF robblng po>tOlfcc. Near
Cumberland, Md, unknown persous at
tempted 10 wreck tram by placing rocks
on the track At Newberry, OHIO,
shooting atfray took place in consequence
OF expert testimony at "a criminal trial.
no IhX 10 t.ln trta cd
dent OF national bank surrendered him
sell t, answer charge Of swindling
Near Dallas. Tex, horse thief was kill
ed while resisting arrest and after
putting a ball through the neck OF
constable and shooting two tin-
gers off another man hand. At
Camden, South Carolina, two politicians
had street brawl, resulting In the death
of one by three rifle balls through his
body. At Springfield, Mass, the City
Marshal was arrested on complaint OF
taking from the postoffice of a neighbor-
ing town a letter directed to lady and
opening it to get a copy taken OF the IN
closed of her husband At Appleton,
Wis, druggist was arrested tor viola
ting the internal revenue laws. At Jack
son, Mich, an exconvlct burglarlzed a
saloon on Thursday, being caught IN
the act, pleaded guilty, and on Friday
was sentenced to the penItentiary for
two years. At Milwaukee, Wis, a
middle aged lady was seized by three
masked men and repeatedly outrag ged.
At LaGrange, Mo, colored roustabout
was drowned under circumstances which
strongly indicated foul play. At Williams
vile, Mo-, man fatally shot another for
an otfense of which the victim was limo
cent. At Jersey Landing. on the Mis-
sissippi, a farmer murdered man out OF
jealousy and attempted to murder his
wife. At Vandalia, ILL.,, two thieves
cana, Texas, a railroad conductor was
shot through the heart in quarrel over
dog. At St. Louis, three lottery mer
were convicted, two being sentenced each
to two years in the penitentlary. and one
to six months in Jail Near lredell
Texas, a negro was lynched for an out
ragged committed on the person of a far
mer's wife. In the Indian Territory a
minister was wayaid and shot to deatl
for severely Furnishing some unruly boys
in his school
This is fearful list, but sometimes
shorter, sometimes longer, it is repeated
iD different forms day after day. Crime
appears to have become epidemic and it
perpetrators are distributed through al
classes of society. Chicago Herod.