Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-23
CRIMINAL

DANIEL CAMPBELL, aged 20 years, climbed
into tree near Millfeld, O., on the 10TH, and
leapmg from height Of sixty feet, was in.
R1oHARD SHEPARD, q farmer in the town OF
Algoma, Winnebago County, Wis.,, hanged him
self on Monday.
q. j. PIERCE, living near Asotin City, W. T.,
bad quarrel with James Curtiss' on the 10th.
during the course of which he shot Curtisss
dead. He was lyncbed by mob.
NEGRO named Gibbs brutally murdered
the wife of i. P. Moore, prominent farmer in
Burelson County, Tex, on the 18th, because
she would not allow him to sit at the supper
table With the family. The whole community
turned out, and after q long search found
Gibbs, took him back to Moore's place. chained
him to post and burned him to death.
A BAND Of masked men took Henry Kilburu
JACKSON, KY, on the 10Th, and hanged them. i
J. r. B. DANFoRrH killed William Lands,
burg, one of his employers, at Macon. Ca. on
the 10th, because OF disagreement in regard
to wages. - :
THos. l.. SHIELDS, q murderer, escaped from
Jail at Charlotte, n. c., on the 18th inst.
IN quarrel on farm near Carrollton, No.,
| on the 14th, Jesse Glover shot and killed his
| uncle, Humphrey Bunch.
FERDINAND GRozMANN, was arrested al
Menasha, Wis, on the 18th, for an ATTEMPT to
utter forged draft on Milwaukee bank.
REV. j. A. REYNOLDS, Of Rock Island, ILL.,.
| was assaulted and robbed at Monmouth. ON the
18th, by footrpads. He will lose the sight OF
| one eye.
Gov. RUsK has pardoned Lewis Iverson, Of
stoughton, Wis.,, who was sentenced to Wan.
pun for three years, last May, for assault with
intent to commit great bodily harm. .-,-
JUAN b. PATRON, ex-member and speaker Of
the territorial Legislature, was murdered at Pu.
! erto de Luna, N. NJ, on the 18th, by Texas
cowboy named Mitch Nancy. = =.
CHARLES B. F1NLAYsoN, aged II, who wa
found guilty of numbering his grandmother
hanged himself on the 18th. in the jail .ai
| Portland, Ore. - - .s ), = -
ABAND of gypsies of Metropolis, Ill.,, were
trader, on the 12th inst.
ALoNzA BIRD, living near Moreanton. N. c.,
quarreled with his wife on the It'll. and sbe
IN her angry talk revealed the fact that Bird
| had murdered q suitor Of hers, named Can't
! Raphael Livingston, seventeen years a9o.
Blrd is now under arrest. -
! WOMAN named Ursury, at Stewardson. III ;.
quarreled with her husband, on the 18th. and
IN her anger saturated her clothing with kero.
and lsnted It, dying in great agony.
HENRY CARR, q Howard County, Ark, rioter.
was convicted Of murder second time. on the
1Oth, and will be hanged on the 25th of June
P. h. BUCKLEY, Of Whitewater, was mur.
| dered by unknown persons at Leadville. Col.
on the 1lth. His body was found in an alley,'
| AN old lady named Bush was foully mur.
| dered by some unknown persons at Federsls.
burg, Md, on the 1lth inst.
| JOSEPH AGATE, New York millionaire
suicided on the 11th. >
| FOURTEEN criminals escaped from the Des
moines, a., jail, on the 11th. $50
DOUBLE murder was committed near Rari.
dan, ILL.,, on the night Of the 9Th. An aged
| couple named Fleetwood were found in their
| beds, with their threats cut, -,
! THOMAS VEDDER's body was found on Luna
Island, Niagara Falls, on the 10th, with bullet
hole through the head. Clothes belonging to
| his brother. in-law, N. r. Piersou, were also
found on the ice on the shore OF the island and
the superstition is that he Jumped into the
| rapids. Thought to have been case Of mur.
der and suicide.
| B. I. 0. HUBBARD. cashier Of Monmouth,
ILL.,, bank, departed for parts unknown ON the
10th. A warrant for his arrest charges hin
with appropriatlng 811A,3O0 Of the banks
GIoRam BowERs. apretty young woman Of
Mt. Pleasant, n. y, suicided by cutting he,
throat on the 10th. Cause unknown.
MARGARET STuEssY, found guilty Of the mur
der Of her husband. at Monroe, Wis.,, was sen
fenced, on the 10th, to life imprisonment q
Waupun. $sS q,