Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-06
CRIMINAL.

AT Chicago, ILL.,, on the 29th, Robert Wolf,
aged -, was clearing the sidewalk of SNOW and
threw shovelful on Mrs. John Stove, who was
passing. She demonstrated and he hit her
with the shovel cutting her nose off.
QUARREL between three workmen at st..
Louis, NO., foundry on tie 30th, resulted in
the murder of Charles Meyer and Albin Ber-
ger by Charles Koebel.
The safe in the Blue Island station of the
Chicago postofice was robbed by burglars on
The 28tb. They secured about $12, 900.
THEoP1L CoPATzK1, who has been partially
insane for some time, suicided by shooting at
Milwaukee, Wis, on the 28th.
On the 28th Msrtin Sellers, of Kendallvil;e,
Ind, killed himself rather than testify against
friend in q murder trial.
ON the 25th Hlden g. Abbott. cashier of the
Union Market Bank, Watertown. Mass, ab-
seconded With $32.0O0 Of the banks funds
FEUD between three brothers named Viii
burn and man named Webb at Shattesboro,
Tenn, on the 28th, resulted in the killing Of
the three bro hers.
Ar Rosita, Colo., on the 2Sth, masked mob
Gray, charged with the murder of Orion Kultz,
and hanged them.
On the 25th Anderson and Snyder were
legally hanged at Mt. Vernon, Ind. for the
murder Of companion last August.
AT Fort Worth, Tex on the 28th, J. F. Fog
Was beaten to death by VIM. Wood. his partner
in the saloon business. In q gambling quarrel
Jesse Hitson shot and killed Jim Foley
On the morning of the 9th, while the street
was crowded, enterprislng burglars went
through the jewe]ry store of E. B. Hayden on
Fulton Street, New York, and secured $500
worth of jewelry.
A DISPUTE about debt Of So between VIM.
Ball and VIM. G. Austin, in Mcpherson County,
Dak., on the 9th, resulted in the fatal shooting
of Ball by Austin.
AT Rainey's coal works near Wheeling, w.
Va. on the 27tb, John Craft, q miner, was mur-
dered by Stephen Morris. Whisky was the
cause.
AT Rosta, CAL, on the 27th o. Kurtz, a
mining boss was shot and killed by Frank VIII
liams and John Grey, miners. A row At q
dance held few days previous was the cause.
NEAR ElgiD, ILL.,, neighbors found Mrs. VIM.
Coombs terribly wounded in the neck and
arms and the dead body Of her husband. Mrs.
COOm0s was conscious and stated that her hue
band thinking he had killed her, suicieed.
AT Bangor, Me-, on the 25th, John Spauld.
ing. blacksmith, murdered his wife and sui.
cided by shooting. Domestic difficulties.
JAMES B. SnKMAN, 60 years of age and q
widower, on the Gath, brought suit against his
brother-in-law, Darius Crosby, at Yonkers, N.
Y, for $4,000 damages. The allegation is
that in order to procure important papers beld
by Sllkman, Crosby engaged detectives who
kidnapped and after wards imprisoned him in
the Utica Insane Asylum, without due process.
Of law.
GEN. DANIEL McCAuLEY, ex-mayor of Indian
apolie, Ind was prisoner in New York city
on the 25th, charged with violating the lottery
laws.
On the 25th Selah sprague, a well-to-d do
farmer of East Meadow, L. l., while attending
to his stock was attacked and murdered bv a
! negro named Charles A. Smith. Smith the1
| went to the house and attacked Mrs. Sprague
who succeeded in escaping. After robblng tn,
house the negro left, but was soon afterWarc
| captured and identified.
At Chicago, ILL.,, on the 24th Henrietta Ched
wick, wife of travelling salesman. suicided b,
taxing poison. Domestic difficulties.
AT Troy, N. Y. on the 24th, Joseph Ksssler
| wealthy resident, suicided by shooting.
Ar Ellston, Mo-, on the Path, Mrs. William
Hall attempted to kill herself and her six littl
| children by poisoning with arsenic. Povert
was the cause.
| AN old feud between the Hardison and Bron
son families at Richlieu, Ky., was renewed b.
Harry Bronson and George Hardison, who en
| gagged In duel with knives on the 24th. Bot
were killed.
AT Wyandotte, Kas., on the Gath, Mrs. Jaco
Hartmann, aged 81, while alone at her resi-
dence, was assaulted by an unknown person
| fatally beaten and robbed.