Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-15
CRIMINAL.

ed on the 7th by placing coil of wire around
his neck as it was being drawn through the
rolls. The machinery was instantly stopped,
but 1t required q file to get the wire of his
neck.
On the 7th some 80 wires of the Western
Union Company's line were cut near New York.
c. W. VANsrREM, assistant postmaster at
Vincent, Minn., was arrested on the 9TH for alb
stracting money from letters.
A NEGRO woman near Austin, Tex, was ar.
rested on the 9th for numbering her s-year-old
daughter.
L. 8. CONRAD, = prominent lawyer of Balti-
more, Ml., was shot dead by his wife on the
9Th. She was insane.
On the 9Th at Walla walla. W. T., mob
lynched Mcpherson. imprisoned for murder.
MAJOR BEEBE, who served with distinction
during the war Of the rebellion and was
member of Greeley's polar expedition, suici-
ded at Washing, D. c., on the 9Th.
GEORGE JEEFR1Es is under arrest at Smith
town, N. Y, for cruelty beating and brutally
numbering fve-year-old child. The details,
as stated BY his wife, show he beat it with .
strap, beat and kicked it, and occasionally
would Lift by the hair and douse it in bucket
Of water.
NEAR Raleigh, N. c., on the 5th, Frank
OVOoES NOAOAONS Woo 64AOV oAN 0AhAVu ny VCo-
ley, Bum, white. Bum was arrested but re-
fuses to give details.
EDWARD WALLACE, white, was murdered on
the 9Th near Edonton, N. c., by negroes, for
$50 in money he had carelessly shown. His
murdere1s fed to the Dismal Swamp.
On the 2d Matthew Beck in fight killed
negro, and ON the 5th was assassinated by par
ties in ambush, at Jackson, MISS.
Ar Baton Rouge, La, on the 5th, negro
named Clark fred into house occupied by
Mr.. Early and family, killing one child and
fatally wounding another.
On the 4th John Simmons, of Deep Greek,
Va, shot and killed his wife and suicided.
AT Vinal Haven, on the 4th Patrick Kane, in
/ lit of temporary insanity, brained Murdoch
Campbell with an iron bar.
AT Taylor Ridge, ILL., so the 5th, the wife of
Rev. A. B. Allen suicided by drowning.
PARTY Of roughs returning from beer
picnic near Mont Claire, Ill.,, on the 5tb, made
| . rad on tho orchard of Mr.. Lowell, and on be-
ing warned off, stoned him to death.
STEPHEN r. TA1NTER suicided iu the lake at
Milwaukee. Wis, on the 9Th.
! A MAN named Mckay called on Constable
Geo. Hartman at his home in Chicago, Ill.,, on
the Sd, and after few hot words both pulled
weapons, Mckay being slightly wounded in the
shoulder and the constable seriously if not
fatally wounded In the breast.
Two sons Of Isaac silney, of McDufie, Geor.
gia, engaged in a peach-stone throwing pas
time on the Sd. An elder brother wanted
| them to stop and received fatal kniiu fro m
ono Of the throwers.
E. NJ. VAsEY shot and killed Frank Rose at
Denver, Col, on the Sd, in quarrel over a
gaming debt.
THEoPH1Lus ABARE was killed by his wife Oh
the Sd near Peru, NJ Y.
A CHILD belonging to family named
Eschenbacher at Wonewoc, Wis, was mur-
dered on the Sd.
In Alaska recently Rennie and Martin, two
whisky sellers, pursued Indians for stealing
| whisky and were killed. Citizens in force then
arrested three Of the Indians, and placed q
guard over them. They murdered the guard,
went to the house of Maj. Given, murdered
him, and started to flee. They were pursued
by miners, one being killed, one escaping, and
one captured. The latter was hung. Col.
Barry ordered the surrender of the third. The
order was complied with and he was hanged.
A PARTY of picnickers discovered at Pewaukee
Lake, Wis.,, on the 4tl, the body of Ed. Harrin,
= colored waiter. Harm had been picnicking
the day previous with boon companions and il
supposed to have engaged in fight as his
skull was crushed
GOVERNOR NoRDEN, closely connected with
King Oscar, of Sweden, suicided at Engle
wood, ILL.,, on the I'D.
ED FAULKNER resisted arrest in Cicago, ILL.,,
on the I'd and was fatally shot by an officer.
NEAR New Salem, W. Va, on the I'd, John
Cayton and Henry Rice quarreled over strir
of land. Both were armed. Rice was killed
his body being filed with lath nails used BY
Caytop in his gun.
JOHN SCHULTZ, shoemaker. at Cincinnati
O.. let his life out at the wrist on the I'd, BY
opening an artery with piece Of glass.
AT Rocheport, No., on the 31st, Marsha
Childers undertook to arrest Green Wilhite
The latter put hand in his pocket and III,
marshal drew his gun and killed him.
JOHN PHILLIPS, colored, was stabbed to dealt
in an endeevor to apprehend chicken thief q
st. Louis. Mo.
OK the 1st, at Hayersville, La, crowd tool
TD. W. Pressel from tho Jail and lynched him.
WM. SM1TH shot and killed his wife, and sui
c,ded ut Baltimore on the 1st.
GEORGE KoTrERoL committed suicide b.
hanging. in barn near Waterford, Wis.,, o,
the I'd.
| CHARLIE FORD was arrested at Kansas City
Oh the 81, for participation in the Blue Cut
la, robbery, several years age.
GENERAL.