Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01
CRIMINAL.

Four negro prisoners, charged with
rape and murder, were taken from the
jail at Brook Haven, Miss, on the night
OF the 24th, by mob, and hanged.
This makes six hangings in that county
in the past eighteen monehs.
J. A. McLA1N, d farmer living near
Cooperville, Mich, on the 25th, was
murdered by an unknown tramp.
BARNEY Collins, a farm laborer,
living near Whitewater, Wis.,, made a
probably successful attempt to SUBTLE
off this mortal coil on the 25th.
ISAAC NEWTON, chief engineer of the
Croton water depa ment, New York,
committed suici ou the 25th by cut
ting his throat.
AT Cleveland, on the Oath, Darwin
N. Gardner shot and badly wounded
his wife in the temple and then fatally
shot himself.
AT Tuscaloosa, Ala., negro named
Short, who assaulted well-known Ia
dy, was captured ton the oath by a
posse of indignant citizens and riddled
with bullets.
MARY WE1NsTE1N, a Jewish widow of
high social standing at St. Louis, died
on the Oath from a dose of morphine
taken with suicidal intent.
AT Ottawa, Kas., on the oath, Carrie
and Bessie Waterman, aged IL and IA re-
spectively, deliberately murdered a
half-brother, aged 6 years, by putting a
rope about his neck and dragging and
beating him to death. The rope nearly
severed the head from the body of the
boy. The girls said they hated him and
wanted him dead.
Mrs. PHILIP FRITZ committed sui.
eide at Belleville, Wis, on the Oath.
Two bodies, labeled "Horse Thieves,' y
we're found hanging to tree near Vir'
ginia City, ont, on the morning o1
the Oath. This makes string of thir.
ty-seven lynchings this season at the
hands of the vigilantes.
The house of a wealthy farmer named
VIM. Jelloway, near Brownstown, O.
was during his absence on the 22d
entered by burglars, who took $2,7OC
in bonds, $500 in currency and lot ot
valuable deeds and documents.
JOSEPH SARvER, aged 18, who mur
dered his father in cold blood, yea,
ago, was hanged at Indiana, Pa, on the
23d.
Jim" BosEY, prominent sporting
character, threw himself from q third.
story window of Cincinnati hotel, on
the 23d, and was fatally injured.
HENRY N. DUNLAP formerly of San
canon County, ILL.,, was assassinated by
an unknown person near his home al
Beaver Point, Ark, on the 23d.
MICHAEL MURRAY, who murdered
John Hancuff, a year ago, was hanged
at Evansburg, Pa, on the 23d.
OvERwoRK caused L.. j. Brown, 6
prominent dry goods merchant o.
Fitchburg, Mass, to cut his throat, or
the 23d.
MAJ. IRWIN HENRY was shot dead al
Haysville, Tenn, on the 23d, by Capt
E. T. Johnson.
The trial of John Stagg and wife, a
Ft. Atkinson, for poisoning their child
closed on the 23d with a verdict o.
guilty.
RICHARD LANE, known in crimina
annals as ''old Dick Lane" was cap
tured at Chicago on the 22d, with $3O(
worth of the silk stolen. from the dry
goods store of julius Zehnter & Co., O.
Madison. He says he took only $1,000
worth of goods, while the firm claims
the stolen property is valued at $1,000
Lane is an old state prison bird.
| VIM. KLuaE, Milwaukee cabine
maker madea murderous assault on hi
wife with an axe on the morning of tn,
22d. Her skull and several ribs wer,
fractured. She cannot recover.
| MARGARET J. LASEARs, of GAINESVILLE
committed suicide on the 22d.
AFTER family quarrel on the morn
ing of the Goth, John Lange, labore1
aged So, shot his wife and then himself
at Dubuque, La.