Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-12
CRIMINAL

1HE friends Of jailed marander at Allapaha
| Ga, rode into town, fifty strong, on the 9th
and attacked the Jail. The state militia was
| sent from Albany before the rioters could be
dispersed.
A WHISKY wreck named Mcmillan murdered
boy named Thompson, at Huron, O. on the
night of the night Of the 4th, and then poisoned
himself.
JOHN W. HAWKINS, United States lumber in.
spector at Buffalo and private secretary OF
Nelson Holland, q lumber merchant. has en-
bezzled the latter's funds to the extent of $4O,-
O0O. O' WV
Tom WEAVER, colored, stole property valued
at $500 from Thos. Armstrong; house near
Vevay, Ind, on the Sd and in less than eight
hours was on his way to the penitentiary to
serve fve-year sentence.
JOHN MoG1NN1s was executed at PHILADELPHIA
on the morning of the 4th for numbering his
mother-in-law.
A. J. McDEv1TT, of Corning, o., who OBJ
jected to wheel of fortune at Catholic fair
and had the priest of the parish arrested was
waited upon, on the night of the Sd INST, by a
party OF angry par1shlOners, who took HIM to q
piece Of woods, stripped him of his clothing
and sent him forth naked to seek another
place of residence.
VIM. MEYERS was shot dead by his brother-in-
law, at Bouilia, Dakota, on the 4th.
JOSEPH R. RAYoRoFT, Chicago printer and
treasurer of Grace Reformed Episcopal church.
ls snort IN his church account about $1,000.
In street fight in Washington on the morn
ing of the 4th growing out ofa difficulty be-
tween white and colored men, Frank Langston,
son of Prof. John NJ. Langston, United
States minister to Hayti. shot and killed James
Spencer, cOlOred.
DESIRE BoUDo1R, young French Canadian.
returned to Dover, N. H., on the 4th and gave
himself up for q murder for which his father
had been convicted.
LEONARD WE1NDEL, st. Louis manufacture
er, whi4e in a state of intoxication, quarreled
with bis wife on the Sd, and shot her. lnfictine
mortal injuries.
PRENT1ss T1LLER, money clerk for the Pa
cifc Express Company at st. Louis, has disap.
peared with about $4,000 worth of money
packages.
MOSES NJ. E1I1cK, a dry goods merchant at
Richmond. Va, was fatally shot by his son on
the morning of the 80. Domestic trouble was
the cause Of the tragedy.
"A CHICAGO carpenter named Peter Schmitz
choked bis wife to death on the I'd.
JOHN BARNES, a Townville, s. c., negro, bru-
tally tortured and murdered his 7-year-old
nephew on the 3d..
a..
N. j., is short $38, 900 in his accounts.
AT Hazelton, Pa, on the 1st, Edwin B roth
eras fatally shot young man named William
Nichols who had luined Beatrice Rueg. the
niece of Brotheras.
A LEXINGTON, Ky., stone-cutter named James
Campbell was killed on the I'd by Policeman
Gormley in saloon row.
THos. CR1TTFNDEN, grandson Of the noted
Kentucky statesman, was sentenced at Louis
Vile, Ky., on the 29th, to three wears in the
penltentlary for the murder of negro boy,
LUKE and William zones, murderers of An
derson Lackey, were hanged at Jackson, O., on
the 29th.
EDWARD DEI11NaER, cashier of G. A. Ben
nett Co., New York bankers, has defsulted
| to the tune of $4,000.
WILLIAM MOORE, colored, was hanged at
Franklin. La, on the 29th, for the murder Of a
Chinaman.
JAMES O'BR1EN. one of the men arrested for
the murder Of VIM, Pugh, on the night of the
18th inst, at Philadelphia, has confessed that
Mm; casey, another of the prisoners struck the
| JOHN A. RICHARDSON committed suicide at
Lion, Wis.,, on the 28th by taking laudanum.
ONE man was killed and two mortalIy wound
ed IN an ARRAY at Winston, Ky., on the 26th.
WIN. BoNNEL1, of Troy, N. Y, tried to out
hve ieaden spheres into: his Uranium on the
9th, because his inamoruta announced her in
tention of attending masquerade bali in 9
short dress; only one bullet hit the mark.
JOHN ROACH shot and killed his divorced
wife at Rdgeway, Minn., on the 9th and then
| suicided.
MRS. ELIZABETH DUNN, wife Of arich western
miner, was detected shopIifting at New York
| on the 9th.
! SUICIDES on the 9th: George E. Smith, at
torney, Union City, Mich; J. D. Rushing,
book k-keeper, Fort Smith, Ark; Jacob Klein
| jeweler, st. Louis; Walter d. Ash, railway:
clerk, and Paul Schmidt, Chicago.