The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-11-15
DOings of CI4nlnals.

Mace Jones, Dick Linsey, Ellis Rhodes,
members of the gang of railroad thieves
who shot aud MORALLY wounded William
81. Mclean, a Waterman Of the Western
Union Tel graph company, for preventing
hem robb1ng cars Of the Wabash railroad
at Brooklyn, ILL.,, on the 26th of last July,
were each sentenced to ten years in the peni.
tenuary by the circuit court at Belleyille,
Ill. There is still an indictment for MUIR
der in the first degree against Jones for Kill
ling Town Marshal Green of Brooklyn
shortly after the shooting of Mclean, and
he will be tried ON that charge.
Williams, editor of the Logansport Ad-
vertiser, was shot on the evening of the 9Th
by a young man named George West. The
trouble Arose over William claiming that
West had been too intimate with the ed
itor's wife. The men met on che public
street after dusk. and a quarrel ensued
West fired one shot from revolver at Will
Jams, the ball lodging near the heart. The
victim cannot live West is in JAIL The
his life, and taken rife with which to kill
him.
At Luring, Texas, one hundred armed
masked men quietly surrounded the house
in which was confined John L. Martin,
who confess I'd to numbering, through Jeal-
ousy, his wife, the daughter of Rev. New
ton. The guards quietly gave Martin up
on demand. All night long previous to
that he ought to hang, and he wanted to
hang; but while being carried away, he
groaned piteously and prayed for mercy.
Albert Velospit, Hungarian, who on
Aug. dubbed John Lutuski, a fellow
countryman, to death in Allegheny county,
Pa, and escaped, was captured recently in
Brooklyn. He was working in sugar re-
finery under an assumed name. The muir
der excited great commotion at the time it
was committed. he confesses the crime,
and says he killed Lutuski because he in.
suited his wife.
Lee White, who had been bsggagemas
ter on the Northwestern road, and who c N.
fessed to The robbery o. q package of money
in the express Office at Oakheld, Wis, six
uoDths ago, committed suicide at that
place on the nigh of the 5th. The robbery
hau long remained mystery. White had
borne good reputation, and made full res
titution of the funds.
Ordnance Sergeant Jones, at Fort Sully,
attempted to commit suicide the 9Th BY
stsbbing himself in the abdomen with
KulIe. IA was TAKEN TO tno QOSplC8l, Wherc
he attacked an attendant whom he also
stabbed, but not seriously. The wounds
il dlcted upon himself are dangerous and
he is not expected to live.
Charles Dix, cashier in savings bank at
Council Butts, Iowa, shot himself through
the head recently. and die1 instantly. He
was twenty-nine years old aud had been in
the savings bank sihce 1872. His parents
1--we IN Salen. Mass.
A negro preacher named James Hawkins,
while eating supper on the night of tho 9TH
in St Louis, was shot tn the back by some
unkno sn persons and killed. It is said
that the assassin was dressed in womau's
clothes. :;
Thomas Fox, seventy years old, wa
drugged at Marshall, Mich, and robbed of
q hundred dollars. He died from the drug.
ging. s. Ed,
T. Col. G. s.. Uline and others have been indie
ted at Grand Forks for the murder of the
Ward brothers at Devilss Dake last April.
Rock, who chung" the Illinois lesisla-
ture last winter, tried to kill himself the
other day after spree, butfailed.
A man named Robert O'Brien from Iowa,
has been arrested ct Warren, Ill, for an
outrage on ssyoung girl
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