Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-08-22
CRIMINAL.

On the 18th, farmer named Heacock, near
Columbia, S. c., having lost heavily in melons,
staked off burial lot in his field, made
his will, gave directions as to his interment
and took dose of laudanum. He died within
q few hours.
ON the 18th, at Cincinnati, O., James
McDonough was shot and killed by John W.
Day. McDonough accused Day of robbing
him and the quarrel resulted as above.
Two female convicts at the Nashville, Tenn,
prison, engaged in a quarrel on the 18th. One
Of them used pocket knife, and cut the other
to the heart.
-FOUR horse thieves were overtaken in Mis-
sissippi by exasperated Georgians, on the 18th.
and strung up together.
A ST. PAUL real estate dealer named G. NJ.
Dittman was arrested on the 18th for making
duplicates of notes. His forgeriea, it is said,
will amount to $150,000.
FRANK N. RuDDooK smcided by shooting on
the 18th, at Chicago, III.
GEO. W. VAN ARNOLD, o well-known Upper
Mississippi lumberman, ended dissipated
career at Brainard, Minn., on the 18th, by
shooting himself through the head.
AT Indianapolis, Ind, on the 18th, Edward
schessler shot and killed Margaret Kaufman,
his divorced wife, and then suicided.
Mrs. H. N. PARISH was arrested on the
18th at Chicago for smuggling. She has made
twenty trips across the ocean, purchased
secondhand dresses from the nobility Of Eu-
rope, and succeeded in passing her trunks
free Of duty, explaining that they contained
wearing apparel.
AT Austin, Minn., on the 18th, Lawrence
Denman put four 44-caliber bullets into Rev.
R. s. Sewel, who expired in few minutes.
The postmaster at Tishoming, I. T., was
driven from his Office on the 18th by gang of
Indian desperadoes.
MARSHAL MURRAY, of Helena, Ark, was
assassinated on the 18th.
PATRICK KIRBY, a young man still in his
teens committed suicide with revolver at
New York, on the 18th.
On the 18th Hans Harnason handed his coat
to companion and jumped from Van Buren,
Street bridge, Chicago. He was drowned and
the coat-holder Is under arrest.
:. AT Pueblo, Co.., on the 18th, q gambler
named Frank Hutchinson, slashed his wife's
throat with razor and then cut his own
throat from ear to ear. The woman escaped
~ jumping from o second story window.
CHARLES SHELTON and Will Keye, two
wealthy stock and ranchmen of North Park,
Wyo, engaged in duel with Winchester rifles
distance 10 feet-on the 10th, over some
| trifing dispute. Keys was killed and Shelton
seriously wounded.
A MAN named Emerson, alias Texas Bill, shet
and killed without provocation, . baker named
EDger, at Hutchinson, Kas., on the 18th.
J. W. PEARSON was assassinated on the 18th,
at Jackson, Miss, by parties unknown.
The wife of United States Senator Allison,
of Iowa, suicided by drowning at Dubuque,
| Ia., on the 12th. She had been suffering from
| and been treated for mental disease for several
years past.
| FRANK VAIL and August bunker quarreled
over gsme Of cards at St Louis, NO., on the
! 11th. bunker fred three shots into Wall,
killing him, and then suicided.
| CHARLES McDoLE, of Green Bay, Wis, as
saulted his wife and attempted to brain her
| with an axe on the 18th, because she refused
to let him pawn her gold watch for gambling
| money.
A YOUNG man named Sklenar was burned to
death in barn near Racine, Wis.,, on the 18th.
It appears the young man and his mother had
q quarrel the evening previous and he went to
the barn to sleep. She had threatened ven
geance and investigation showed that the doors
Of the barn had been blockaded from the out
side, presumably by Mrs. Sklenar.
NEAR Chattanooga, Tenn. on the 18th, -four
men were found dead in railroad camp. II
is supposed they fought over q game Of cards.
On the 10th at Marion. s. c., Nelson and
Isaac Edwards quarreled and Nelson stabbed
Isaac with knife. and when he fell stamped
upon him, inficting fatal injuries.
A SHosHoNE Indian, who had brutally muir
dered his squaw, was lynched by members Of
his tribe on the 10th, near Salt Lake, Utah.
L. E. WATKINS, charged with cattle stealing
was lyrched at Canon City, Co.., on the nth
A PAINTER named King fred wagon fac
tory at Centralia, and then put bulle
though his brain on the 10th. The flames were
extinguished and the suicides body dragged
out.
The decomposed body Of VIM. Froman wal
found on the 9Th, in hollow log in Jefferson
County, Mass. A father and son named Sulli
van were the perpetrators Of the horrid crime
TIE barn and outbuildiDgs of Charles Hutte
in Lexington County, South Carolina, wer'
burned on the 9tt, by opponents to the Law
compelling the fencing Of pastures. The same
night gang went to John G. Hutte's place
took him out, beat him and threatened to xii
him unless he removed his pasture fence anG
agreed to fence his crop instead. Several were
arrested.
In q barroom fight at Baltimore on the 9th
Bernard McNally stabbed James Carr through
the heart with an ice pick. Carr had q bat
reputation.
WV. WALKER; merchant Of Dayton, O., ab
seconded on the 10th, leaving notes to the valu
Of $4o, 900, many Of which are forged.
The body Of q woman named Andrews wa
discovered on the 9th in the closet Of tene
meut at Minneapolis, MINI. 1t is believed sh
, was murdered for money.