Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-04
Deeds of Blood.

The trial of Mrs. Ellen Long began at Dart
ford on the 31st, for the murder of the boy
Harvey hittemore, at Princeton, in October
last. Her testimony duplicates the boys
father, who has been placed under arrest.
William Thayer, clerk in the Marathon
County Bank, Wausau, shot and killed fellow
clerk named Fred. j. Beales, of Bonneville,
N. Y, on the 31st. The tragedy was the result of
trivial quarrel.
In a street quarrel at Batesville, Miss, on the
31st. 81. W. Thater, editor of the Batesville
Blade, in self defense shot and killed julius
Porter a lawyer.
Julius Dietrich shot his wife and himself at
San Francisco on the night of the 31st. Diet
rich died the next day, but his wife will re-
cover.
News was received on the LIST inst, of the
fatal shooting at Sherwood Forest, Clark
County. Wis, of Isaac Meddaugh, postmaster
of the village of .Popple, by Hugh Perkins,
owner of sawmilI. Perkins CLAIMS that he
fired in self-defense.
VIM. Brown, (colored) who murdered poor
crippled Russian peddler named Layigne, at
Cohokia, ILL.,, in February, was hanged at Belle
vile, ILL.,, on the morning of the Both.
Mike Harris, alias Wild Bill, who brutally
murdered farmer named Viercke, in Wau-
paca County, in March last will be sentenced
to state prison for life. He confessed the
crime on the goth and pleaded guilty to murder
in the first degree.
Wesley Johnson, aged "a years, who bru-
tally murdered farmer named Williams and
his wife, in October last, was hanged at Napo-
leon, O., on the 10Th.
John j. Nelson, a prominent Waukesha
business man, hanged himself in his barn on
the 28th. The loss of several thousand dollars
by the BOOrman failure had rendered him in
sane.
Frederlka Baker, a young girl, drowned
herself in the river at La Crosse on the 28th.
An old feud eliminated on the 28th in the
murder of John G. Garrett by John Turner in
Madison County, KY.
Neal McKeague was acquitted on the 28th
of the charge of numbering tie aged couple
named Wilson, at Winnetka, ILL.,, near Chicago.
The trial lasted three weeks.
Half pound of dynamite, with long fuse
attached, was found under printing office at
| Xenia, Ind, ON the morning of the 28th.
John Gooding, bachelor farmer in DeKalb
County, Mo-, was brutally murdered on the
| 28th, by an unknown person, whose object is
supposed to have been plumber.
The body of Nellie D. Cooley, the wealthy
heiress of Wilkesbarre, Pa, who disappeared
in December last, was found in the Susaue-
hanna River, near Manticoke Pa. on tie 28th.
John Trumbo, while on a fishing jaunt near
Joppa, ILL.,, on the 9th, was murdered by un-
known parties.
Although guilty of murder, James Russell.
! Is years old, was, owing to his youth, allowed
| to plead guilty to charge of manslaughter at
Roseburg, Ore, and was sentenced to seven
years in jail.
Two men having IN their possession internal
machines and quantity ofdynamite, were ar
| rested at London on the Goth.
John Carpenter. an ex-convict, fatally stabbed
| his wife and sister-in-law, in a New York sa-
| loon, on the Goth, and then made an unsuccess-
| full attempt at suicide.
At Mehee. Russell County, Ga, on the Goth.
q negro butcher named Tony Halstar cut the
throat of Glenn VIM with razor. VIM died
in few minutes.