Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-20
CRIMINAL

IN Mayleld Township, ILL.,. on the 14th,
Florence Mitchell, aged II years, was shot dead
by hired man named Louis Taylor, aged %
years. Taylor completed tie tragedy by putting
bullet through his own head.
WILL H. ROBERTSON, Cleveland 'fdrummer," "
and young man named Staples, fought q duel
at ten PAGES, at Emory Gap, Tenn, on the 18th
inst. Both were killed.
GREEN MCCULLOUGH, q murderer, was hanged
by mob at Cotulla, Tex, on the l4th.
THREE c0Dvicts escaped from the Frankfort,
KY, jail on the 14tb.
NEpuNNAcK ENDERs suicided at Chicago on
the 18th, leaving wife and four children in
New York. =,
EDWARD BURNS, burglar, escaped from the
Milwaukee Jail on the 18th.
PETER FoLGER, q married man under arrest
at Boscobe], Wis.,, for clipping with IA year
old girl, suicided on the 18th.
CHRISTIAN HAAS, farmer at South Belleville.
ILL.,, committed suicide on the 18th, by shooting
himself through the head. Cause. financial
trouble. He leaves wife and four children.
On the 18th inst, man named Daniels, re-
siding in Platte County, Kas., blew out his
wifes brains, and, after in1ictiug serious
wound on bis daughter, sent bullet through
his own head.
TROUBLE at Chicago, on the 18th inst, be-
tween union and non-union iron mt ujders .cul-
minated in a riot. A Pittsburg moulder named
Heck WAS killed and several others injured.
w. H. BAILEY, prosecuting lawyer in q suit
against two brewers, was tarred by a drunken
mob, at Iowa City, on the 18th, and the prinoi-
pal witness narrowly escaped death at the
hands of the crowd.
Rev. b. NJ. COLLINS, Presbyterian minister,
Chicago. on the 18th inst, sent bullet through
bis wife's brain and Immediately after another
through his own. HIS mind had become m
settled from brooding over church troubles.
WILLIAM KURT, farmer living near Foun-
tain City, Wis.,, killed neighbor named Joseph
Keller, on the 18th, in quarrel over cattle
trespass.
NELLIE WELoH suicided at Albany, N. Y, on
18th. by setting fire to herself.
MARCUS MCLEAN, of Montana, was arrested at
Pittsburg, on the 18th, on charge of forgery
preferred by General Superintendent Fort,er of
the Northern Pacific Express Company.
On the 18th inst, vigilance committee
forced family named Meyers to remove from
the vicinity of Lumberton, o. After the
Meyers had vacated their home, the house was
torn down and the debris burned. Recent in
cendiary fires were charged against the expelled
family. :
AT Switz City, Ind, on the 10th, George
Rankin, aged 10 accidentally shet his brother
1ames and then sent bullet through his own
brain. :
PRAIRIE CHICKEN, Indian chief imprisoned
at Miles City, NJ. T., for cattle stealing, was
shot and killed by the sheriff, on the 18th inst.
while attempting to escape.
AN attorney at Parsons, Kas., decamped on
the 9th. with $15, 600 which he collected from
the Missouri Pacific Railway IN the settlement
OF suit brought by Mrs. Hampton. whose
husband was killed by an accident on the road.
The rascal also took the $4,000 life INSURANCE
| on the widows husband. = -
JOHN HAYTT was killed at Hope, Ark, on the
9Th inst, by Monroe Taylor, for defaming his
| wife. -
CONRAD HANS quarreled with Geo. Mills, at
Bellevue, Ky., on the 9th, and mortally wounded
| him with an earth pick. - ~, = :
In a quarrel at Kewaskum, Wis.,, on the 9Th.
Frank Rossie, aged "a, shot and badly wounded
John Zunder, young man of about the same
age. Rosie then committed suicide by shoot,
ing himself through the brain.
HORACE MONROE, of Alamo Township. Ks]a.
mazoo County, Mich, killed himself With q
| dose of Trough on Rats, " on the 9Th inst,