Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-25
CRIME.

AUSTIN CASE, of Muncie, Indiana,
night clerk at the United States Express
company, has been arrested for taking a
/ $1,000 package from the safe on Septem-
Der Is.
MARTIN DEMPSEY, the last Of he illics
/ distilers in eastern Arkansas, has been
fined Sc, 900 and sentenced to COntine-
mcnt in the Detroit penitentiary for
eighteen months.
OFFICIALS Of the Western Union com
pany at Chicago have caused the arrest
of c. f. Van Wrinkle for tapping the
wires and receiving board of trade quo
tations A warrant is out for the appre-
hension of William Alkorn. A wire was
found connecting the main line with an
upper room at the stockyarda.
G.. G. WHEELER charged with swind-
ling many ChiCagOans in the piano trade,
was captured in Montreal, and has been
committed to await the arrival of an ex-
tradition demand by the governor Of
Illinois.
EDWARD G. WALKER, the colored law
yer, has entered q libel suit against the
Boston Post Publishing company for
defamation of character, contained in
an article in that paper Monday. The
damages are laid down at $4,000
ROBINSON Brown, a wealthy farmer,
was murdered and robbed in a low sa-
loon, at "a place called Coal Bluff near
Terre Haute, Ind, Saturday night, and
the body placed on the RAILROAD track.
INFLANEp by jealousy, and angry at his
mOther-ln-laW' interference in domes-
tic matters, William Harrison shot dead
his l6-year old wife at Denver, Col, Sat
urday, and then killed himself
Ii. O. PRICE d Co, pool-sellersa at Pitts
burg We're the victims Of bogus dispatch
es from the Jerome Park races, and paid
out over $4,000 on the wrong horses.
The pool-rooms in ST. Louis were caught
to the extent of $4,000.
FLORENCE II. PETERS, cashier for Lyon
81 Healev, Chicago, confessed that his
cash account was $4,000 short, and was
arrested and committed to Jail His at
touoy declares that the books have
been mixed up without any c,ininahty
PATRICK Cox, a saloon-keeper at Bur
, lington, Iowa, while in an intoxicated
condition, killed am umbrella-mender
/ who refused to leave when ordered
away.
ar Oshkosh, nm old man giving tn
name of John Gale was arrested for trav
cling through the country and selling
bogus tickets in the louisiana lottery
which Inc palmed of mt So each. lie
confessed TO having sold over fifty in
Oshkosh.
LEWIS KORAN, Martin Cruise, Patrick
Kelly and James Walsh, have been ar
rested at Scranton Pa, ON a charge of
passing counterfeit money. 1T is heliev-
Ell the principal agents of the gang of
counterteiters are IN Boston
In the Milwaukee criminal court Mon
day, John Hendricks Richard Page aud
sam Woods, the Oh sago crooks. who
were recently arrested for highway rob
berry, were each sentenced 20 six wears
in State Prlsop mt Waupuu John Man
ming, horse thief got three years, and
, Annie Bloug, a female thief. four wears.
CHARLES BUTLER, the son of q rich aud
influential citizen of Columbus. Ohio,
, recently finished "A term Of imprison-
ment for assaulung a policeman His
wife was at Princeton, Indiana, visiting
J relatives. He went thither on his re-
lease. and after "a few words with his
, wife lodged bullet in her brain. from
which She can hardly recover
A SQUAD Of police in Toledo got ON the
track of "a gang of crooks nc a place in
Oliver street and demanded their sur
render Both sides soon commenced
firing, the result being that Robert Day,
q notorious character was shot through
one Of bus lungs and cannot hive, the
rest escaping. Detective Cherry rt-
7 ceiyed bullet iu the tleshy part of tie
/ right arm