Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-18
CRIMINAL.

OK the 18th Alfred Youngs and two men
named O'Brie,l we're arrested ut Schenectady,
N. Y, charged with wrecking q train on tie
New York Central Railroad in 1878.
On the 10th four harvesters boarded freight
train at Whitehall, ILL.,, and at Greenfield four
tramps boarded the same car. The Cramps
drew revolvers, robbed the haIvesterR and
threw them from the moving train, killing one
of thenl-Patrick Knight. Tho tramps were
captured.
D. N. KENNEDY, a hog drover, of Morenci,
Mich, was fleeced by three card moate-men
on the 1lth, as he was returning home from
Erie, Pa.
The bank at Franklin, N. Y, was burglarized
OH the 10th; the safe was blown open, shatter-
ing the front wall of the building, and setting
papers on fire. Only $500 in silver was secured
by the robbers.
AT St. Paul en- the 11th tramp took the
5-yesr-old daughter of Larry Kelly to the bluff.
She was rescued from the villain by her
mother, and the tramp arrested.
ADAM JocH1M, a much married man is in the
tolls at Chicago. Ill. On the 10th his fourth
wife appeared to give testimony against him.
MAJOR ROBERT SMITH, put ball into bis
brain, on the 10Th, at Davenport, la. He is
expected to recover.
o@>c t'OASOA"AA 0V 10oAVoOuA6S Ou4Os tACkt6U
thrce;men engaged in an attempt to .burglarize
the third was shot dead.
HARRY PEIL1Tz, employed by II. l. G. Fed
der, at Cincinnati, O.. failed to show up on the
10th. An investigation showed that he had
robbed the firm of $40, 1000 and jumped the
town in company with fast woman.
r. T. CL1NaER, q prominent citizea of Polk
City, a.. was assassinated at his home on the
10th, by two men unknown.
THREE seven-year convicts escaped on tho
10th from the guards at the Coal Hill Mines,
near Ozark, Ark.
EMMA BUL1ARD, confessed to tho maternity
of child whose body was found near Vienna.
Ga, an! attempted to commit suicide when
arrested for murder.
T. F. MILLER, charged with being the hus-
band of nine wives, was arrested at Sweet
water, Texas, on the 9th.
CARL RGMER attempted suicide by cutting
bis throat with hatchet on the 9th at Milwau-
kee, Wis. His wife had procured a divorce en-
account If i'll treatment.
PAT DEWITT burglarized the house of J. M.
Harris, at Milwaukee, Wis.,, on the 9Th, and was
seriously shot in the knee by Chas. Harris as he
was escaping.
CRAZY man named Henry Seager, of Swain,
N. Y, terrorized Des Moines, Ia., hotel on
the 9th, by firing revolver, smashing .furni-
ture, etc. He finally made his way to tho roof
where he was captured after lie he'd made fu-
tile attempt to put a bullet into his own
brain.
AN attempt was made on tue 9TH to poison
the family of Charles Lewis, at Mitchell, Ind.
Some one unknown sprinkled strychnine over
the cold victuals. =
POLICEMEN John Donovan and Chas. Rey.
nolls were seriously wounded at New York on
the 9th IN capturing burglar. The burglar
was killed. @le=
GEORGE AYERS, aged 60, ! wealthy farmer
near Batavia, o., on the 9Th shot and killed
his grandson, Charles Preston, then set hie
house and barn on fire, ehot himself and was
burned up in the barn. he was insane.
On the night Of the Th Marshal ensley, Of
Greensburg. Ky., with . posse undertook to ar-
rest James Owen, : noted desperado. Owen
had gathered about fifty Of his friends, and d