Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-03-14
every one of them is under water. Only thirty
are habitable, and those only in the upper
stories.

every one of them is under water. Only thirty
are habitable, and those only in the upper
stories.
GRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
U11AH MAYER was hanged at Middleburg,
Pa, on the 7th inst, for the murder OF Gretch-
en- Kntzler in 1877. Mayer stated that the
murder was committed on Friday evening, by
him and Emanuel Ettinger; that he and his
burned the body and premises on Saturday
evening. He said his brother Joseph WAS not
present.
AxosT horrible double crime was committed
on the night of the 5th inst, near Hubbard
City, about thirty-fve miles east of Waco,
Texas, by Tom p Vardell, son of prominent
stockman of Still County. A ball or dancing
party was given at tue house OF respectable
farmer named landa, a newcomer from Wis
consin, to which Vardell had been invited.
About midnight Vardell induced one OF Landa's
daught ers, young woman of about 10 years,
to take 8 short walk with him away from the
house. AS soon as be thought they were safe
distance he drew pistol and forced her to 60
further, and finally committed a brutal outrage
upon her person. When the two returned the
young woman's sister, learning what had oc-
crime, when Vardell drew pistol and made an
assault upon her. At this point the father,
Mr.. Landa, made bis appearance and ordered
the girls into the house, when Vardell turned
upon him and shot him through the heart. and
shot him again as he fell dead. Vardell inn
mediately made his escape in the darkness, ac-
companied by one Walker, who seems to have
aided and abetted the crime.
AT $50 o'clock on the night Of the 7th inst,
the east-bound passenger train on the Little
Rock and Ft. Smith Railroad was boarded by
forty men two miles west of Mulberry Station,
Crawford County, 40 miles from Little Rock.
They ordered the passengers to throw up their
hands and began firing pistols. Conductor
John Cain was in the rear ana was fatally shot.
The robbers rushed for the engine, but before
reaching it, Engineer Rogers pulled out and
prevented the robbery: Brakeman Lester was
alsoshot during the firing. The robbers jumped
of the train while in motion. A reward of
So, 600 has been offered for the capture of the
robbers.
AT Cleveland. on the 7th inst, VIM. Lyon,
IS years old, went to the dwelling occupied by
woman divorced from him some years and
asked her to make bowl of soup for him.
While she was preparing to comply with his re-
quest he drew a revolver and shot her in the
face, inflicting severe, perhaps fatal, wound,
then yelling, "Tve settled you, now I'll settle
"feoiA, uo put Iue pbtJl W uiS TlSut touple
and fired, killing himself instantly. Lyon had
been drinking heavily of late and was under
the influence of liquor at the time.
A. L. JOHNSON was shot dead on the 7th
inst, in the Miller County courthouse, Tex
arkana, in the presence of the judge, jurors,
attorneys and over a hundred spectators, by
C. E. Dixon, sheriff. The trouble was caused
by Dixon making war on gambling institutions,
in which johnson was silently interested.
PETER GoFF, Henry Thompson and James
Spiney, at Somerset, Ky, quarreled over Goffs
wife. Thompson made remark which in
censed Goff. who shot Thompson dead, and
was threatening Spiney, when the latter shot
Gof, killing him instantly.
GADsDEN FELTUs, q prominent citizen of
Wilkinson, Miss, was murdered on the night
Of the 9Th inst. Circumstantial evidence caused
the coroner's jury to order the arrest of E.
Feltus, the murdered mans brother. The
.samily is one of the most widely connected in
Mississippi.
AT La Pasteria ranch, near Ures, Mexico,
fifty Apaches killed all the people but one wo.
man. They also killed mule driver on the
road, and near Los Vallecitos attacked q family
and killed two persons.
julius MARCUS, New York liquor broker,
has absconded with $4,000 belonging to mer-
chants who had entrusted him with the sale
of liquors.
JESSE WILLIAMS, of Orange County, New
York, was robbed of a satchel containing
g., 900 in gold and gold watch and chain, al
station on the Pennsylvania Railroad, on the
4th inst. Williams was on his way to Delaware
| to buy land, and laid the satchel on q bench
while eating.
DR.. NJ. A. RANDALL, q prominent physician
Of Roseville, Muskingum County, Ohio, was
called from his house on the night of the I'd
inst. He has not been seen since. His hat
with hole in it, has been found, and 1t il
thought he was shot and thrown into the
creek.
HARVEY N. FoLLANsBEE, treasurer of the
Boston Police Relief Association, is under ar
rest for the embezzlement of $780, $50 of the
funds.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, on the Sd inst, George
Magee fatally shot his wife and then tried tt
commit suicide; cause, jealousy.
The safe Of J. G. Kaholt, matchmaker ant
jeweler at Springfield, ILL.,, was barglarizet
early on the morning Of the 4th inst. Watches
and diamonds to the value of 100000 wer'
stolen.
| AT Paris, Texas, prominent dry good
merchant was shot and killed by B. W. Gum
pert, the same ball killing a bootblack ant
wounding travelling agent named Hoffman.
EDWIN A. CoND1r, of Orange, N. j., was ar
rested at New York on the I'd inst, at the in
stance of a number of lstock brokers, VIII,
charge him With having swindled them out o.
about $15, 900 by means of worthless checks
He is 38 years of age, we'll educated, and pos
sessed of good looks and keen wits.
ABOUT 11:30 on the morning Of the I'd inst.
while John s. Brown, the treasurer of tn,
Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company
Philadelphia, was in the Office of the presiden
Of that corporation, Thomas Cochran, sneak
thief, entered q small private apartment con
nected with the treasurer Office, and made hi
escape with $7O,0oO OF consolidated per cent
bonds of the Peoples Passenger Railway Com
pany. The market value of the bonds is $S2,
GOO.