Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-05
CRIMINAL.

"A' DoNNELA, OI Troy, N. T., tried to put
five leaden spheres into his cranium on the
27th, because his inamoruta announced her in
| tentlon of attending masquerade ball in a
short dress; only one bullet hit the mark.
MRS. ELIZABETH DUNN, wife of q rich western
miner, was detected shoplifting at New York
on the 9th.
WYATT PATE and William Littlefeld quarreled
| in Randolph County, Ala., on the 26th, and
| succeeded in killing each other.
ONE man WAS killed and two mortaly wound
| ed in an affray at Winston, KY, on the 26th.
RoRERr CRA1aHFAD, wealthy farmer OF
Fulton, No., was assassinated BY unknown per-
| sons On the night of the Goth.
JOHN ROACH shot and killed his divorced
wife at Ridgeway, Minn., on the 9th and then
| suicided.
SUICIDES on the 9th: George E. Smith, at
| torney, Union City, Mich; J. d. Rushing.
| book keeper, Fort Smith, Ark; Jacob Klein,
| jeweler, st. Louis; Walter D. Ash, railway.
| clerk. and Paul Schmidt, Chicago.
| LAND troubles at Elsinor, Kansas, caused the
| shooting of two men named Harclerode and
| Mcfarland, by Hugh Guilland and his three
| sons.
| BURGLARS opened the safe in the postoffice
at Rich Hill, NO., on the 25th and secured
| 81, 900 in cash and stamps.
JAMES Il PARTRIDGE, of the United States
diplomatic service committed suicide at Aiscan.
te, Spain, on the 25th, owing to ill-health.
LIZZIE DEMPSEY suicided near Lockport, N.
T., on the 2Sd., by jumping into Niagara
| klVer, IN consequence of John Hennings' re-
fusal to keep his promise Of marriage.
PETER CONNOLLY had his neck broken al
Milwaukee on the oath. Peter aud his wife
bad been quarreling and the latter helped his
descent OF the stairs by throwing wooden
oucket after him.
AT the Belleville, ILL.,, hospital on the Oath, 8
oonsumptive patient named Jacob Bartt
wounded sister of the institution and the1
sent fatal bullet through his own brain.
AT o'clock on the evening Of the 23d foul
men boarded Chicago street car, and while
three OF them guarded the doors the fourth as.
sau'ted passenger and robbed him of $21O.
CRAcKsMEN robbed the jewelry store of E.
Mark h Son of about $780, 600 worth of goods
at Troy, N. Y, on the Oath.
MRS. ANaeI1oK HA1aHr, 62 years old, was
found guilty Of murder in the first degree a,
Syracuse, N. Y. on the 23d. She killed he,
husband for $15,O 900 insurance money.
SALM MORSE, author Of the ''Passion Plsy'
suicded at New York. His body was found in
the Hudson River on the 21st.
| W. q. FARwELL, aged 29, son of Ex-Gov
Farweil, of Wisconsin, committed suicide or
the night of the 21st at San Francisco.
HENRY ELY, q lunatic near Hartford, Conn.
Left in the care of John Harding, killed hif
keeper on the 21st while they were in the bar
doing chores. severing his head from his bod
| with an Ak.
JOHN RAY and Robert Anderson, two revenue
officers in Mitchell County, North Carolina, arr
fugitives close pressed by wrathv citizens
Ihey hada quarrel with party Of mica miners
and killed three of them On the 22d.
MRS. DUDLEY, milliner from Faribault
Minn., was assaulted in broad daylight on the
22d in her room at the Palmer House. Cbicapo
and robbed of $40O.
SIMON BEAVER, an Illinois farmer, en- route
for HuDbel, Neb., with his family, was robbed
OF $500 in money and $4,000 draft, at Bur
llngton, Iowa, on the 21st.
A WEALTHY farmer named Henry Chappe
was robbed and murdered at Lebanon, Conn,
| on the 21st.
A GANG Of thieves composed of boys and
girls, the oldest of whom Is - years, has beer
discovered at Lowell, Mass.
FIVE murderers were sentenced to be hanged
at Tombstone. Arizona, on the 21st.
Two young German girls were arrested OF
| the 21st at Milwaukee for stealing PRAYER
books. They wanted the books for their ow1
use and had no money to purchase them.
BILLINGS, Montana, DISPATCHES of the 21s
give an account of Piegan Indians invadinf
the Grow reservation and stealing herd Of
ponies. Seven white men assisted the Crow
In fight which resulted in the recovery of th,
stolen property. Two white men killed, tw,
wounded and four Piegsns killed.
JOHN SMITH, the negro who shot Georg'
Doubleday at Whitewater. has been sentenced
to seven years in state prison, and Horace u
Fever. convicted of deadly assault upon hi
sister-in-law at Delavan Lake, to two years
NELLIE BABcocK, once Brooklyn. N. Y.
society belle, has been sentenced to two year
in the penitentiary for drunkenness.
AT NeEcomerstown, O., on the 21st. J. W
fremer shot his son while the latter was de
Tending his mother from the brutal attacks O
the father.
Rugg. the long Island murderer who escapes
from jail, was recaptured on the Goth.
One raftsman was killed and six badl
stabbed in melee in Magofin County, Ky,
on the 18th inst.