Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-03-26
CRIMINAL

II. II. FIERCE was arrested for forgery at
Ashland, Wis.,, on the 18th.
BENNETT, who was recently convicted of ar
son, made desperate effort to kill himself IN
the Milwaukee county Jail, on the morning of
the 10th.
MRS. THOMAS SLAY, an insane woman, COM
mitted suicide at Wautoma, Wis, on the 10th,
by cutting her throat. Her dementia dated
from June last, when daughter took her own
life for some unknown cause.
MRS. SQUIRE ALsoP, living near Louisville,
Ky., gave her four children opium by mistake.
on the 10th. Two of them died.
W. M. DANE, Of Bentonville, Ind, and his
13. .year-old sweetheart attempted suicide on
the 10Th. They took overdoses of laudanum.
The father Of the girl then swore out a warrant
for Danes arrest, whereupon the young man
shot himself fatally.
GEORGE McFADDEN, Tillel's alleged accom-.
plice in the Pacific Express ROBBERY, made q
desperate attempt at suicide at st. Louis on
the 10Th.
BURGLARS robbed the Bay View, Wis.,, post
office of $l35 on the 18th.
JOHN RYAN, railroader, was found lying in
pool of blood, at Racine, on the 18th. Sand.
.baggers are said to be responsible.
T. s. KIRKLAND, Neillsville, Wis.,, lawyer,
and agent of Michigan spectators in timbe,
land on the northern shore of Lake Superior,
was arrested in Toronto, Ont, on the 18Th
for an alleged attempt to bribe members o1
the Ontario legislature.
FIVE negro children were murdered at Au
gusta, Ga, on the 18th, while their parents
were out in field.
AUGUST BEST, of Milwaukee, committed
suicide in Chicago on the 18th.
c. CRINsuB, appointment planter, was killed al
Camden, Ark, in an affray with Capt. L. M
| Cobb on the 17th.
FREDERICK GAGow and wife, who came t.
Chicago month ago from Leipsig, Germany
committed suicide by hanging on the 18th.
HOMER DEAvEs, of West Bethlehem, Pa.
suicided at Baltimore, Nd, on the 18th, becans
| he failed to pass the examination in the denta
| class OF the university.
| On the morning of the 18th, two prisoner
confined in the Sandwich, Ont, Jail for robbin,
the Harrow postof6ce, shot and killed Jailo]
Leech, fatally wounded Turnkey Davis. anc
| escaped.
| VIM. G. SMITH, aged 90, committed suicid.
with morphine on the 10th, at San Antonio
Tex, on account of domestic troubles.
| A DEATHBED confession has cleared tn
mystery of Christina Kett death, at Dayto,
O., in 1867. Her mother struck and killed he
In fit OF anger.
J. R. BENTLEY, who recently embezzle,
tickets of the Cleveland, Akron & Columbu
road was arrested in Logan, o., on the 18th.
MATT LEWIS, colored wife murderer, wa
hanged atSt. Louis on the morning of the 14t]
inst.
FRANK SLAaLE, who was convicted of
double murder, was hanged at Somerset. XIV.
on the 18th inst.
MAGGIE GARR1TY,, Chicago girl, aged /
years, took Paris greea on the 18th, becaus
her mother scolded her, and died from its ei
fects.
MRS. BL1NZLY was arrested at Norwalk, O.
on the 12th on a charge Of cruelty to q chill
named Maggie Montgomery, adopted som
time ago from q charitable institution nes
Cleveland. The girls skull was fractured an
her scalp torn loose as though from hair pul
ing. Her feet were in horrible condition fro1
burning or freezing.
PRENT1ss TmLER, the clerk of the Pacific E,
press Company at st. Louis, who stole 500, 90
and ran of two weeks ago, was arrested j
Milwaukee on the morning Of the 18th.
A TERRIBLE tragedy which took place i
Robertson County, Tenn, on the 10th came t
light on the 18th. The crime was discovere
by peddler whe entered farm house an
found the bodies of John Martin, his wife an
two grown daughters, and q 12-year-old 90
laying on the floor with skulls crushej. A far1
hand named Geo. French was arrested, an
confessed the crime, duplicating two negroe
named Jim and Doc Carter. The three me
were Immediately hanged by q mob.
FREDERICK J. D1ETR1cHs. teller of the I
Clede National Bank, st. Louis, is q defaultt
in the sum Of $4,000.