Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-06-25
CRIMINAL

On the 10th inst, s. Waldo sibley, a promi-
nent New York merchant in good financial cir.
cumstances, cut his throat with a razor to escape
the pangs of dyspepsia.
AN examination OF the accounts of Robert G..
Morgan, deceased treasury clerk, developed q
shortage Of $12, 900. His bondsmen will make
mp the loss.
IHE embezzing manager OF the Cantonial
Bank, at Neufshatel, committed suicide OF, the
18th inst. t.----,.-.-.. = -.
J. F. CEoHuRA, living in the suburbs Of st.
Pau, Minn.. in fit of rage, on the 18th ihst..
stabbed to death his two tenants, Katharine
Messerchmidt and her daughter, because thew
paid their rent to his wife.
The safe of John Collins, in Sanilac County,
Mich, was raided by burglars on the night OF
the 18th. The lunar artists secured $4,000.
On the 18th, prohibitionists at Upton, Ia.,
on the Missouri state line, crossed into Missouri
and demolished saloon in which liquor was
being sold in defiance of the Iowa law. The
ruins OF the saloon were fired. Women ap-
plauded the act.
MRS. THOMAS SHELTON was found dead at
her residence in Owensville, Ind., on the 18th
inst. .,lhaving been murdered by some unknown
person. Her husband left her ten days preyi-
GUS, in consequence OF quarrel.
Dr.. M. AaELBRow, of Minneapolis, was
robbed of $4,000 on q West Shore train near
Syracuse, N. Y, on the 18th.
ISAAC JACOBSON, who murdered George Be-
dell, IN Chicago, last April, has been sentenced
be hanged April 29.
CHAs. Il. CAMBRIDGE, in q fit of jealousy,
murdered bis wife and suicided at Whitehall,
Mich, on the 18th.
JOHN P. KENNEDY murdered his wife be-
cause Of her infdelity, at New London, Ont,
on the 18th inst.
On the 18th friends of James Clifford, Q
murderer, who was confined in the Jail at New
Lexington, O., drugged the jailer and released
the prisoner, who made his escape from the
county.
G. G. MORRIS, q prominent citizen of Green's
burg, Ky., was mysteriously assassinated on the
18th INST. His body was found on q road near
the city, pierced by six bullets.
LUKE PH1pHs was hanged at Sandwich, Ont.
on the 18th inst, for the murder of his wife
on ferry steamer at Detroit on the 2Oth of
last August. :
L. D. LEFF1NawE11. the largest plate-glass
manufacturer west Of New York, was found
dead with bullet-hole through his head, at
Cleveland, on the 18th. Supposed suicide.
cred" MORRIS was fatally stabbed in .
drunken row at Bromley, Ky., on the 18th.
A GEhMAN named Shemlick committed sui
eide by shooting at Portage, Wis.,, on the 10th
inst.
JoHg LOWRY, who two years ago embezzled
SAG, COO from the Hecla Mining Company. was
arrested near Moorhead, Minn., on the 18th.
HUNTERS near Buffalo, N. Y, found the
skeleton of man hanging to tree on the
10th inst. 1t had apparently been swinging
in the wind for years.
SAMUEL MCDOWELL stoned Hiram Wier's
residence at McCoy's Station, O., on the 10th,
and was fatally shot by Wier.
AT Oconto, Wis.,, on the 10th inst, Mrs.
Charles Ritter. aged 80, in fit Of insanity,
struck her husband with an az and then took
Paris green. Both will die.
NICHOLAS DEGRoAT, cashier Of the Union
Mutual Life Insurance Company, at Portland,
Me-, committed suicide on the 18th.
GEO. HUGHES, clerk in the Central Hotel 4,
Bardstown, Ky., was fatally stabbed by q
worthless negro on the 18th inst.
The wife of Geo. Wilson, now in the Michi.
gan penitentiary for numbering Policeman Bal.
| lard at Detroit, died of broken heart on thf
18th.
TIE body of young man named TAYLOR. Of
Bordentown, Ky, was found in the river neal
Santa Fe, Mo-, on the 18th, with arms bound
! and neck broken.
ALEX. JEFFERSON, negro, who murdered
Mrs. Emma Jackson and Henry Hicks, at New
York, is to be hanged August 1.
HANaNGs on the 18th: Reclo, colored Gu
ban, for murder, at Key West. Fla; Llewellyr
Robinson, colored. at Montgomery, Ala, alst
| for murder, ~ =