River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-11-15


Mace Jones, Dick Linsey, Ellis Rhodes,
members Of the gang of railroad thieve:
who shot aud mortally wounded William
II Mclean r Waterman of the Western
Union Tel -raph company, for preventing
them robhng cars of the Wabash railroad
at Brooklyn, H., on the 26th of lass July
were each sentenced to ten years in The peni-
teuliaTy by the circuit court at BelIeviIie
HI There is still an Indictment for muir
der in the first degree against Jones for xii
ling Town Marshal Green of Brooklyn
shortly after the shooting of Mclean. anG
he will be tried on that charge.
Williams, editor OF the Logansport Ad-
vertiser, was shot on the evening of the 8th
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 The public
street after dusk and a quarrel ensued
West fired one shot from a revolver at Viii
lisms the bali lodging near the heart. The
victim cannot live West is in jail The
Iatter claims that Williams had threatened
his lie, ana taken a rife with which to kill
him.
At Luring, Texas, one hundred armed
masked men quiet surrounded the house
in which was confined John L. Martin,
who confess cd to numbering, through ZEAL
ousy. his wife, the daughter of Rev New
ton. The guards quietly gave Martin up
on demand All night long previous to
moment the murderer had been protesting
that he ought to hang and he wanted 10
hang; but while being carried away. he
gTosned piteously and prayed for mercy.
Albert Yeiospit, a Hungarian, who on
Aug. 5 cubbad John Lutuski, a fellow
couutrymau, to death in Allegheny county,
Pa, and escaped was captured recently in
Brooklyn. He was working Ia q sugar re-
tnery under 8a 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 kis wife.
Lee White who had been a baggagemas-
ter on the Northwestern road, and who con.
fessei to The robbery OF package of money
in the express office st Oakdeid, Wis, six
months ago, committed suicide al that
place on the night of the 9th. The robbery
had long remained q mystery. White had
borne good reputation, and made full res
htuti0n of the funds.
Ordnance Sergeant Jones, at Fort Sully
attempted to commit suicide the Sth by
stsbbing himself in the abdomen with a
ouiie. He was taken TO the hospital, " here
re attacked IN attendant whom he also
stabbed but net seriously. The wounds
0sicted upon himself are dangerous and
he IS not expected 10 live.
Charles Dix, cashier in a savings bank at
Council Bluds, lows shot himself through
the head recently, and diej instantly He
was twenty-niue years old aud had been IA
the savings bank since 1872. His parents
1--we IN Salem Mass.
A negro preacher named james Hswkins
while eating supper on the night of the 7th
ia St Louis, was shot til he back by some
unknown persous and killed. II is said
that the assassin was dressed ia womsps
clothes
Thomas Fox, seventy years old, wa
dragged at Marshall, Mich. and robbed OF
a hundred dollars. He died from the drug
ging.
Col c. S. UEne and Others have been indie
ted at Grand Forks for the murder Of the
Ma-3 brothers at Devils S nake last April
Rock, who hung the Illinois legisla-
ture last winter, tried TO kill himself the
other day after = spree, but failed.
man named Robert O'Brjen from Iowa.
has been arrested ST Warren, m for an
outrage on q young girl