Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-15
Deeds of Blood.

Mrs. Mary @. Davis and grocer named Jones
were murdered by j. R. Dorsey, an uncle of
Mrs Davis, and woman, Jane Wade
Samuel Keener, while drunk, near McOielland,
Pa. on Che 18th, ass 4ulted a detective named
Tibbett Triplett, and was ehot dead by the
latter.
After quarrel in saloon at Chicago, on the
night of the 18th, between Bob Healy. noto-
rious criminal, and butcher named Whit aey,
the former fatally stabbed his Antagonist.
Doc Martini who killed E. N. Pleasant, near
Rolling Fork, Ia, was lynched by q mob at
that place on the 18th. Murderer, victim and
lynchers were colored.
Chas. W. Butler WIS hanged at Columbus,
Ind, on the 10th, for murder of his young wife
at Pierceton. in September, 1885,
Ex-Ald. John Gerhardt of Neenah, shot
himself fatally on the 9th, because his wife
had instituted proceedings for divorce. He
was a hard drinker and when in his cups was
very abusive to his family.
A stay of proceedings has been granted at
Cincinnati, in the case of Joseph Palmer, to be
hanged for the murder of Kirk. The lesson of
the great riot is being forgotten.
Near Roaring Creek, Pa, on the morning of
the 9Th, two farmers named James Casson and
Henry Bower we're found on the road. Both
were filled with buckshot and died In few
hours. neighbor named Heilner was arrested
on suspicion, and confessed, saying he only in
tended to kill Boyer. Jealousy was the cause
of the crime.
Joseph earle was stabbed in the side In an
affray at Westboro Taylor County, on the 7tb,
and will probably die
Lee Ladd and Charles Mckinney had a go-as-
you-please duel at cambridge, KY, on the 9Th.
Ladd was killed and Mckinney badly wounded.
Masked men entered the house of john
Sherry, at Edenburg, Pa, on the 9Th, and after
gagging the inmates, drove off with 5000,
which they took from safe and bureau.
woman named Gusta McKisson killed
Patrick Forbes with shotgun at Edenburg,
Pa, on the 9Th. The murder resulted froh an
old feud.
Minor Mention.
While Willie Aldrich, youth, was oiling the
machinery at The Republic Iron Works, Pitts
burg, on the 18th, he fell between two heavy
cog-wheels, and WAS ground to pieces.
Burglars turgled the store of J. Allen, in
Livingstone Grant County, Wis.,, on the night
of the 10th to the amount of $500 in money
and $4,000 in notes.
Charles Bertrand, of Crystal Falls, while out
hunting near Florence, Wis. on the night of
the 10th. was mistaken for deer by compan-
ION named Galbraltb, and fatally shot.
By the upsetting of boat at Halifax, n. s.,
on the 18th, four people lost their lives.
Wilson & McGill's tobacco factory at Peters
burg, Va, suspended on the 10th, owing to a
scarcity of tobacco. The suspension throws
$50 colored people out of work.
D. W. Carroll & Co., boiler makers of Pitts
burg. Pa, have cut the wages of their skilled
workmen 10 per cent. The men quietly ac-
cepted the reduction.
Five masked men robbed farmer named
Joseph Gates, in White Township, near Johns
town Pa, on the night of the 9th. They took
over 81, 100.
Four men were killed and two wounded on
the 9th, by the explosion of powder mill at
Cumminsvllle, Ont.
Forty tin cans billed as lard were seized on
the steamer City of Washington at Havana on
the 9th. They contained opium.
Frank Rice, fireman on ferry steamer at
Muskegon, fell from the fantail on the 9th, and
was fatally mang!ed by the wheel.
William Vetter of Forest, Fond du Lac
County, died on the 18th, from a kick from q
horse.
Steng Bros grocery, at Fond du Lac, was
tent of $400,
An express train struck carriage at Gray
lock Crossing near North Adams, Mass. on the
9th, killing George and Alice HUI, of Stamford
vt.
Sure Oleman and Peter Severson, two whisky
picked Norwegian farme s, were struck by
train while driving across g track near Madison,
Wis, on the night of the 7th. Severson WAS
slightly hurt, one of the horses killed and the
other severely injured. Oleman escaped IN
jury.
Sanford Lacy was killed and two others badly
injured by the fall of derrick at Adamsville,
Pa, on the 7th.
A foreign syndicate has purchased $40, 000,-
900 worth of the stocks and bonds of the Louis
vile & Nashville Railroad.
W. W. Cotteral, ex-auditor of Henry County,
Ind, who is missing, is $3, 700 short in his ac-