Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-05-07
CRIMINAL

self in the county jail at Cincinnati, On the
3Oth.
A co1oRED woman, known as Mrs. Doc.
Brown. fatally shot Jack Low, at Jackson, o.,
on the 3Oth.
FOUR robbers killed E. W. Payne, president,
and Geo. Geppert, cashier, of the Medicine
Valley Bank at Medicine Lodge, Kas., on the
30th.
BURGLARS entered the house of farmer
named John Woods, near Charleston, w. Va,
on the night Of the 28th. Woods tried to drive
them out, but was shot and seriously hurt. His
son Albert, met instant death by bullet. The
drove the villains out. Blood marks indicate
| that one Of her shots took effect. ~s*
SHERIFF ADKINS, Of Boon County, w. Va.
was waylaid and brutally murdered by mem
bers of the "James gang " Of outlaws, on the
| 28th.
GEO. BEDELL, proprietor OF carpet cleaning
establishment at Chicago, was shot dead on
the 10th, by Isaac Jacobson, tramp in his
employ.
MRS. CHARLES SQu1REs, wife of La Crosse,
Wis.,, laborer, ended her Life by taking poison.
on the 2sth.
RUaa, the negro who murdered Annie May
bee, on Long Island, is to be hanged June 6.
| ANTONIO MoRENzo, a wealthy Cuban mer
| chant, and Charles Vose, retired cotton mer-
chant, suicided at New York on the 28th.
AT the close Of a Long Branch, Tex, Sunday
school on the 9th, some of the gentlemsnly
teachers and scholars got into quarrel, result
ing in the death of Houston Geary, from pistol
shots fired by Gus Scrutchins.
AN insane man named Max Michael cremated
himself and l-year old child at Philadelphia, on
the 9th.
MuL11cAN and Clark, murderera, were lynched
at Monroe, La, on the 26th.
| CHARLES DALI. q Bradford, Pa, miner was
found murdered by the roadside, on the 9th.
LUKE PH1PPs, who shot his wife dead on a
Detroit River ferryboat last August, was found
guilty and sentenced to be hanged atsandwich,
Ont, on the 26th.
GoLcoNDA. ILL.,, WAS wildly excited, on the
26th, over the fatal shooting of ex-Sheriff
Frank Waters, by an unknown person who fred
through window of Waters house at night.
Charles Morrell, who was paying attention to a
young lady who also accepted Waters COM
paDy, was arrested on suspicion.
AT Easton Pa, on the 26tl, Mrs. Amelia Bar
| net cut the throats of her two children, one
l aged 2 years and the other months, and then
drew the keen blade across her own throat.
MRS. G. 81. MATTHEWS and family, of Gales
burg, ILL.,, returned from Florida, on the 26th,
to fiod their residence plundered of property
valued at $4,000.
ADELBERT KNowLroN, a farmer living near
Whitewater, Wis, hung himself during fit OF
insanity, on the 26th.
AN old farmer named Hiram Jefferson, living
near Audubon, Ia., was dragged from his bed
on the night of the 10Th by four unknown
assassins and hanged to tree.
MRS. MARY MA11oNEY died during debauch
| V,N Vor %l>o ~
the body of her husband, whose own spree had
been so rudely interrupted, was found hanging
from the ceiling near her dead body.
Two specimens Of humanity with more
muscle than brain fought 121 rounds neal
Pittsburg, on the 25th.
! JUDGE BARLOW drew forth universal condem
nation at Lebanon, KY, on the 25th, by releas.
ing cold-blooded murderer named Lawrence
Clayton OH bond Of only 1000.
MOB at Mt. Sterling, ky., on the 25th
attempted to bang murderer named VIM.
Osborne, who had succeetledin getting of with
| a sentence of only five years, but the jailer vel
armed, kept the mob at bay.
WARREN F. MoCHEsNEY, prominent gam.
bling character of st. Louip, was convicted OF
fraud on the 25th, and sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary.
CHARLES RUaG was found guilty Of the May.
bee murder at Oyster Bay, L. l.. on the 25th,
and Frank James was acquitted OF the Musse
Shoals robbery at Huntsville, Ala.
ACH1cAao dispatch of the Oath reports the
suicide in the lake at that place Of an unknown
man aged about 80 years, with dark hair and
brown moustache.
SIX Socialists were arrested at Chicago or
the 24th, for varying the monotony of recent
meeting of their society by attempting to hang
the secretary, John Neitch.
BENN1E WEST, the last of the juvenile Mil
waukee frebugs, was sentenced to the Reform
School at Waukesha, on the Oath.
JOHN WEDMAN, Of Rock Island, ILL.,, wal
fatally injured by robbers on the night of thu
23d.
BURGLARS chloroformed and gagged Mrs
Crawford, an old lady at Davenport, Ia., OF
the 24th, before beginning search for valu
ables.