Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02
CRIMINAL

| ", living near Pikeville, Ky., was assaulted in
his house and fatally injured, on the 27th, by
one James Stewart, who had craved and been
| granted lodging for the night. Robbery was
the object Of the assault.
| AT Comstock, Mich, near kalamazoo, on the
27th, an insane man named Frank 8. Sleeper
get ire to q hay stack, crawled into it and was
burned to an unrecognizable mass.
| ALEX ROBERTS, young New York bookkeep-
er, sulelded on the 9th. Cause despondency.
! HE citizens Of Lincoln, ILL.,, have politely
requested Orrin A. Carpenter, acquitted of the
| murder of Fora Burns, to leave Logan County
at once and forever.
WOMAN living with Orrin Farrell, at Wells
| vile. n. Y, as his wife, shot her son and
daughter, on the 9th, and then killed herself.
GEO. M. RILEY, q dissolute st. Louis pilot,
| fatally shot his wife and then blew out his own
brains, on the 25th.
| oN the 10Th Geo. Russell, Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
in jealous fit, shot and seriously wounded his
| wife and then fatally wounded himself.
GEO. NJ. RUPERT, treasurer and secretary of
| the Pennsylvania Mutual Insurance Company.
OF Chester, and also treasurer and secretary of
| the borough of West Chester, Pa, was found
on the 25th to be short in his accounts to the
extent Of between $14, 900 and $4,000.
PARTY Of young bloods returning from q
| charivari near Coleman, Mich, on the night of
the 24th commenced to raise q racket in
| front OF the residence Of an old German named
| van Valkenburg, whereupon he fred into the
party, killing Charles Cleave.
MARY RILEY, aged 13, on trial at Worthing-
ton, Minn., for being accessory to the murder
of her own father by her brother William IRE
Gently sentenced for ife) was acquitted on the
25th. ~ '-~ ''---O
EDWARD ELLIS. young Wilkesbarrre, Pa,
| lawyer, essayed the role of peacemaker between
| two quarrelsome married ladies on the oath. and
| received q fatal bullet wound from q pistol in
the bands of Mrs. Thomas which that lady had
| aimed at Mrs. Reese.
In fight between two oil factions at PETROL
ia, Pa, on the Oath, a. man named Bowser was
frghtiuily cut with razor, and q yonng man
named Andre, who CHANGED to be passing ut
the time, fatally stabbed in the back.
A THIEF entered the house of Oliver Nc
Mahon, at Clinton, Ia, on the 24th, and stole
| $500. w
HE trial Of Orrin A. Carpenter for the mur-
der OF Fora Burns, at Lincoln, ILL.,, last October.
was brought to q close at Petersburg. ILL.,. on
| the morning of the 22d, by verdict of not
guilty. NV
A MASKED mob took Samuel Prayer, a mur-
derer, from the Jail at Marysville, Ks., on the
night Of the 21st and hanged him.
AT Toronto, on the 22d, lad named
| Lamont, whose weak brain had been turned
by dime novels, dramatically rushed upon n
comrade named Charles New and fatally shot
him.
On the 22d, Mrs. John Smith, of Jackson
County, Ga.. heated pot of water to boiling
point and then plunged her head into it. Shee
was SO badly scalded that she died in short
time.
A BANK book-keeper was relieved of $2.700
by sharpers, in Augusta, Ga, on the morning
of the 22d.
YOUNG woman named Lizzie Sheeban. at
| tempted suicide at New York, on the 23d bv
covering herself with oil and then igniting il.
CHARLES HouLDEN, q farmer living near
Petersburg, Ill.,, murdered his wife in the most
brutal manner, on the 22d. The neighbors
verdict before committing the deed. p~''0-
J. B. JOHNSON. a druggist and preacher of
the Christian order, was detected in purloininp
? goods from wholesale drug house at ST.
Joseph. NO., on the 21st. He acknowledged
his guilt and offered to make restitution.
THIEF entered the First Presbyterian
Church, at Lockport, N. Y. on the 2Cth, and
robbed it of $3.50, the SUNDAY school collec
| tions for the past three months.
AT Watertown, Wis, on the night of the
2Oth, John Hogerty and James O'Neil were
fatally stabbed by VIM. McGraw and Michael
Tracy, in drunken quarrel.
CHEYENNE INDIANS robbed and burned Alder
| sons cattle ranch, on Lame Deer Creek, Mont.
| on the 2Oth.
A GERMAN wood sawyer named WestwiD.
committed suicide at 'Neillsville, Wis.,, on the
| 21st. Wv
SHERIFF DAVIDSON, of New York, and four
OF his subordinates were indicted for extortlon
grand larcency, perjury and forgery on the
! 21st.
AT Warrenton, Pa, on the 2Oth, Chas. Pope
threw stone at John Crochran and ran away.
Crochran commanded him to halt, and the
order @ not being obeyed, he fred five times,
killing Pope. -. - y
E. ID. EBERHART, wealthy Dayton, O., far
mer attempted to kill his wife on the 20th,
because she refused to live with him, and then
suieided by hanging. ="