Mower County transcript., 1884-11-19
CRIMINAL.

OF Waukesha County, Wis, committed
suicide on the afternoon of the 10Th by
hanging himself at Stone Bank, where
he was engaged in running a -four
mill. He was 60 years old.
The murderer of Farmer Atkins of
Waukesha, was arrested on the 18th
and is now in jail at that place. He
proves to be George Colgrove, dissi-
pated son of Hiram Co]grove, a Justice
of the peace at Mukwonago. Colgrove
was arrested at Saylesville, Waukesha
County, and Immediately confessed the
deed. He claimed that he acted in
self-defense.
JEFF. B1aGERs, a farmer living near
Columbus, Ca, and two employees,
were taken violently i'll at breakfast on
the 18th. The doctors succeeded in
saving Mr.. Biggers, but the other VIC
Tins, Mr.. and Mrs. Burgess, died in q
few hours. Several employees about the
place have been arrested.
ALFRED CHAPMAN disappeared from
Schenectady, N. Y, October 19. Jacob
Mohr, farmer, is supposed to have
been drowned at HoffmannIs ferry. In
searching for the latter's body. the re-
mains of Chapman were BROUGHT to the
surface OF the Mohawk River. on the
llth, by the explosion of dynamite
cartridge. Both cases are wrapped in
mystery. Chapman he'd $500 on his
person when he disappeared, of which
sum only $39 was found.
SIMON WEST attacked Geo. Fl, Smith
with knife at Wischer's Ferry, Sara
toga County, N. Y, on the night of the
10th. Smith opened fire with q re.
volver, putting three bullets into West.
MORALLY wounding him.
RUFUS R. L1sHNEss, a policeman of
Augusta, Me-, was fatally shot by Harry
burns, early on the morning of the
llth, while attempting to make an ar
rest in tenement house where Burns
lives.
THOMAS JOINS, SR., an old resident of
Iowa County, Wis, cut his throat at
Dodgeville and was found dying in the
street, on the morning of the 1lth.
CHARLES r. PARKER, aged 36, cashier
OF the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York,
shot and killed himself in his house
early on the morning of the 18th. His
mind was deranged by overwork.
A. d. SLY, who robbed the American
Express Co. in St. Joseph, No., year
ago, of $1O,S00, pleaded to embezzle-
ment and grand larceny, and was SEN
fenced to four years in the penitentiary.
VIM. BARNETT (colored) was assassi-
mated on the night Of the 11th in his
kitchen, at Marietta, O., by shot fred
by an unknown person through the
window. Trouble about a woman is
supposed to have led to the deed.
AT La Crosse, Wis.,, on the evening of
the 10th inst, Charles W. Bum mistook
Margaret Ecker, who came to his house
to call on one of the domestics, for a
burglar, and shot her dead.
Mrs. W. S. HOWARD, an aged and in
sane lady, burned herself to death at
Detroit, on the 10th. She saturated
her clothing with kerosene and ignited
it.
AT Bryant Station, Tex, on the 8th,
the bodies of Bernard Schiller, an old
Bohemian, and his wife and child were
found. They had been dead several
days. There was no clue to the mur-
derers.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, on the night of the
9th, in a fit Of jealousy, Frederick
Bose shot his affanced wife, Mrs. Louis
Bork, and then committed suicide.
DURING the absence of the family, on
the 8th, a tramp ransacked the house OF
John Atkins, at Waukesha, Wis. On
the return of Mr.. Atkins, the man was
discovered in the kitchen. Seeing
his escape cut off, the villain shot Mi
Atkins dead.
A STORE in Lancaster County, Pa,
was broken into and robbed on the
night of the 9th. It is thought the
Buzzard gang are at work again.