Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-05-02
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

"THE Center of the World" is the name of
small town in Ohio, and was the scene Of
terrible tragedy on the 25th. John DeLong has
for some time past annoyed Mrs. Griswold,
widow who formerly kept house for him, by
his attentions. On tho above date, enrdgea by
her repeated refusals to marry him, ho shot
her twice through the head aud then committed
suicide.
ELISHA KIRBY, rough character living in
Carbondale, ILL.,, murdered his brother-in-law,
Isaac Pulls, by shooting him through the head
on the street on the night of tho 25th. The
affair grew out of a family quarrel.
DISPATCHES from Albuquerque, N. NJ, of
the 25tb, give details Of the capture and prob
able death of Professor A. F. Ba delier, of
the Smithsonian Institute, at the hsnds of
band OF Apache Indians. near the village of
San Chrlstabol, in the state of Sonora, Mexico.
Professor Bawdelier was making archeologi-
cal explorations in the mountains.
THOMAS SHINE, a painter, was stabbed in the
neck and almost instantly killed in a quarrel
in bagnio on Pacific Avenue, Chicago, early
on the morning of the 25th, by James McDer-
mott. The latter was arrested, and claims
that he did it in self defense.
ANTONIO TRuTRANE and Cassenio Barbado.
two Italian 1ongshoremeu, engaged in duel
of the old school in vacant lot IN Brooklyn,
N. Y, on the morning of the oath, caused by
the refusal Of Trutrane to fulfill his engage
ment with Barbados sister. The two men
we're placed twenty PAGES apart, and armed with
five shooters of large calibre, but after wasting
their ammunition without injuring each other,
the affair was indefinitely postponed by the
police.
WM. T. DoDsoN, who was arrested at FranL-
lin Junction. on the 23d, for the murder of .
70 hirrurv fxxo 70 br;ro
him body for dissection, pretending to be a
physician. He took the body to his house,
wrapped it in bedclothes, which he saturated
in Kerosene. He then fixed q lighted candle on
it and went away. He cut the candle too long,
and the scheme failed to connect. He wanted
it to appear that it was his own body burned
with the house, so his family could secure his
life insurance.
The suicide of Alexander Ka]nitz, German
music teacher of Loomis, ILL.,, was caused by
the ruin of his sister.
BECAUSE young lady refused to marry him,
W. B. Staley, of Knoxville, Tenn, after three
trials, succeeded in shutting off this mortal
coil on the oath. He had reached the mature
age of 20.
A FIRE at Dexter, Me-. on the oath, DESTROYED
property valued at $22,O
JOHN D. CLARK was shot and killed on the
22d by James T. Frank, near williamsburg,
Whaley County, Kentucky. No cause has been
assigned.
AT Augusta, Ga, on the 23d, o. V. Lambert,
white, yesterday shot Sam Carter and Joe An.
derson, negroes, the former seriously. A negro
mob threatened to lynch Lambert, but the
police prevented them.
The Coleman County (Tex.) courthouse was
broken into on the night of the 21st inst, and
all the criminal indictments DESTROYED. Nc
clue to the perpetrators.
In fight over game of cards, at Harris.
burg, Pa. on the 21st inst. T. Harrison was
| shot and mortaI]y wounded by Sid. Ward.
Ward is IN Jail.
PETER RArEL, French Canadian coach
driver, aged % years, was shot and almost in
stantly killed, at saloon at the corner oil
| Seventy-frst Street and Third Avenue, New
York, early on the morning OF the 22d Inst
Two brothers named Martin have been arrested
for the crime.
O'BK1EN's circus was attacked by a mob al
Dover, Del. on the evening of the 22d inst.
| and several of the employees seriously injured
A L1ME-BURNER at Utica, Ind, named Lewis
! while intoxicated, murdered his infant chile
with club and struck his wife with III axe, in
| f1icting fatal injury. Lewis was arrested and
| taken to the Jeffersonville jail.
A FIVE THOUSAND dollar package deposited
in the American Express Office at Indianapolis
Ind. by the Meridian::N National Bank for Kan
SAG, Ill.,, was missed, &nd the express clerk
Frank A. Vaughn, was accused OF the theft
and admitted his guilt.
| EXAMINATION shows that the thieves Wit
broke into the vault at Havana, where the gov
| ernment deposits its stamps, secured postag,
| and telegraph stamps and stamped paper t,
the amount of $3.50, 900.
| AT the house of German named Anto,
Pfeiffer, at McDade, Texas, his son William
shot his cousin, Mary Deinhardt, aged Is
three times, killing her, and he then ki]le'
himself. It is supposed that he was insane.