Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-25
CRlMlNAL.

EARLY on tho morning OF the 18th Charles
Donovan. a noted Chicago crook, was cap
tured while engaged in burglarjzing q second
hand store in Milwaukee, Wis.
BRIDGET Fox, an old Irish woman who hos
led a secluded and miserly life at Burlington,
1a., was robbed on the 18Th of 1,5U0.
MATILDA HAND, aged 10, was overpoworcd
and outraged on Division Street. Chicago, Ill.,,
on the evening of the 18th
JOHN FLYNN, q farmer in Ozark County,
No., was robbed Of 800 on the night of the
18th by three men who claimed to DO cattle
buyers. Flynn and his two daughters we're
badly wounded by pistol shots.
JOHN HABERcoM, of Joliet, ILL.,, being unable
to pay his debts, became despondent, and on
the 18th suicided by taking strychoine.
MARSHAL GEORGE BRA1NARD, of Wellington,
O., gave chase to two suspicious characters on
the night Of the 18th, and received fatal
wound in the neck. The duo were afterwards
captured and proved to !be two professional
thieves.
CHARLES SE1Tz was fatally shot on the 18th
by DR.. G. W. Langfe]t, in Allegheny City. Pa,
because Seltz, who was engaged to Langfelt's
sister, broke the engagement without cause.
COWBOYS and state rangers exchanged shots
at Toyah, Colorado, ON the 18th, one cowboy
being killed and another mortally wounded.
JAMES Bu1sER, indicted at MaysEille, KY,
for raping little girl, confessed on the 17tb,
and asked protection from mob violence. The
punishment for his crime in Kentucky il
death.
FRANK JACKSON, a negro Iaborer on4he farm
Of Joseph Schmfer, near st. Peters, NO., con-
fessed on the 18th to having been criminally
intimate for the last two years with two daugh-
ters Of sch@fcr, aged IL and 13 years.
At Helena, Ark, on the 4th two negroes set
tied dispute with duel. One used a: ::old
musket and the other rifle; distance twenty
paoes; both were killed.
G. W. AvERETT made some remark which 4
man named Russell didn't like, at Richmond,
Va, Oh the 10th. The code was resorted to
aud Averett was mortally wounded.
FRANK THAYARD, dissipated sculptor, sui
cided in New York on the 14th.
On the 18th q man gained admission TO the
house of family named Spein, near the capi-
tol, Washington, D. c., on tho claim that ho
was a water inspector, aud brutally assaulted o
the time. lie chokci hor to iuscusibility, aud
accomplished his purpose. Tie woman Is
serious y injured and may die.
on the 18th in Chicago, the wife of disso-
lutte c:garmaker named Roichter dressed herself
IN her blilal robes, took dose OF poison, lie
down and died. Her husband wrote . Lotto
saying Nv vito has poisoned herself and l
am off to Paris"
On the 18th at Chicago Daniel Billings, a
ship carpenter, clme home drunk, and after
abu ing his wife, wound up by throwing her
| from the second etory window, where sho vas
found by her son Who bad gone in search of an
officer. Her injuries are +. rious and Billiugs il
| e0bering up behind tho bars.
PHILIP CBERHAUsER. was Murdered withou,
provocatiou At New Albany, Ind, on the 18th,
| by Jack Rourko and 1hos. Luecke, who were
arrested.
LEVI McCoNNLEY, living near Port Henry,
N. Y, on the 18th, shot and killed his wife and
wounded his mother -in-law.
A BLOODY melee occurred at picnic in 8
beer garden near Cleveland, O.. on the 18th
participated IN by about 200 men and women
Beer glasses. knives. clubs, ETC., were used q,
| weapons and about Q dozen were scriously
perhaps fatally injured. -. L. .5az>. y,
F.. NJ. kerr, who deoamped several month,
ago with $55, 900 belonging to Preston, Kean
Co, brokers-his employers arrived in Cbica
| 60 in charge Of detective, on the 10th. HI
| was caught in South America. y .s@-
On the 18th the murderers ef Clingan o.
Polk City, NO., were surrounded by the sher
IFS posse, near Elkholn Grove, Mo-, and i.
the fight one Of them was killed and the othe
captured. ...z
JOIN ME1ssEN and Joseph Ochs were jaiie.
at Fond du Lac, Wis, on the 14tb, charge,
with outraging Mary Jenner. e