Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06

aged Is months, and years respectively and
threw them down a well. He immediately fol-
lowed. All were drowned, although there was
but thirteen inches of water in the well. The
man was probably insane.
A Mr.. King, in Westmoreland County, Va.
dOSed some watermeIOns with strychnine to
catch troublesome thieves. Two of his neigh
boris children parto0k of the fruit and were
fatally poisoned.
Col W. D. Waits, a prominent stock raiser
of Arkansas, WAS murdered in New Mexico,
whittier he went to purchase some sheep.
Dave Kemp quarTeled with his nephew, Henry
Kemp, at Bloomfield, I. T. Both received
fatal wounds.
A dend named Alfred Utter, residing at Mar
shall, Texas, decoyed his wife into thicket
and then Drained her with an axe.
Dr. Isaac b. Clayton, who was recently &C
quilted OF the charge of numbering Freeman
Lester, at Goodman, Miss, was assassinated
on the 31st ult. His body was riddIed with
buckshot.
DR.. Cruise was shot and fatally wounded by q
man named Baker, at Washington, Ind, on the
Both. Cause, jealousy.
At Haverhill, Mass on the 30th, Geo. Rog-
ers, aged so, shot his wife and then killed him.
self. No cause known.
A profound sensation was created at Chicago
on the 29th, by the announcement that A. G.
Hes1ng, prominent German publisher and
politician, had been murdered and robbed in
Mexico. at point about $50 miles from Tucson,
Arizona. Subsequent Investigations developed
the fact that the report Of Hesing's murder was
a canard. It seems that a nephew of Hesng s
and companion we're murdered and robbed,
hence the first report.
James Kelley murdered his brother-in-law,
Robert Desmond, III Long Island City, on the
2Yth. Both bad been drinking, but the quarrel
arose from the fact that Desmond had been
beating his wife.
Two rival legislatures of the state of Zacate-
cas-, Mexico, had a fight for power on the 28th.
One of the hostile parties was in sympathy with
the present national government, and the other
In the interest of a presidential aspirant. The
latter was worsted, after the killing of one of
its party and three government soldiers The
spirit of discomfort and revolution is becoming
general throughout our neighboring republic.
At Mitfin Township, Pa, Anton Strouse had
Wordy war with Mrs. Strausser about some
trivial matter. The woman struck Strouse in
the mouth, Whereupon the enraged man shot
her dead.
Sylvanus K. Malsinson has confessed to the
murder of Mrs. Maggie Copeland. at Kewanee,
Ill.
Officer Hugh Burns was killed at Indianapolis
by j. J. Jater.
James McGinnis, aged o. delivered himself
up to the authorities at Brockville, Ont, on the
18th and confessed that, five years ago, while
serving as waiter In the GrosvenOr Hotel, Lon
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of five men.
A Scotch mechanic named Richard Wilson
shot bis wife and then shot himself at Chicago
on the 18th. He had been insane from jeal-
ousy for some time. He i5 dead. and his wife
Is IN a precarious condition, having received
two bullets in her head.
Jonathan NJ. Stratton, lawyer at Leland,
ILL.,, was murdered by his wife on the 26th. He
had been engaged to defend a saloonkeeper
which so enraged Mrs. Stratton, who is a recog-
nized temperance leader, that she shot her has
band dead Mrs. Stratton then committed sui
eide. Three children were thus orphaned.
freight train on the Santa Fe road ran over
a man lying between the rails at AlamiIlo. In
vestigation showed that it was a wealthy stock
raiser named Filije Chares, who had been muir
dered, robbed, and placed on the track.
Mrs. Maggie Copeland was brutally murdered
at her home near Kewanee, ILL.,, on the 26th.
She was shot twice through the body and her
skull was crushed. The crime was committed
for the purpose Of robbery, as about $500 in
notes and money are missing.
At Athens, Texas an aged negro, While
labering under fit of insanity, beheaded his
two grandchildren.