Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-22
CRIMINAL.

BURGLARS entered the store of
Burch & Clark, at Menomonie, Wis,
on the night of the 18th, but while, at
work attracted the attention of Walter
Clark, who slept up stairs. Clark
opened fire on themen, killing one. The
others escaped.
The election on the 18th was the
bloodiest Cincinnati has ever known.
There was riot in which three men
were badly shot.
CAss1Us CLAY, steward of a steamer
at Little Rock, Ark, killed John Humes,
the engineer, on the 18th, and then
drowned himself in the river. A..
ON the 18th at Harrodsburg, Ky, in
heat ofanger growing out of sport, VIM.
Curry struck DR.. Dillon on the head
with glass, killing. him.
The $4,000 in notes and securities
taken from the store of John Allen, at
Livingston, Grant County, Wis.,, were
recovered in cattle.guard near the
village. lhe thieves escaped with $500
in cash.
MORRIS GARRISON died at Ripley, O.,
on the 18th, from wounds inflicted by
David West the day previous.
Mrs. LOUISE P. MALLORY, wife of the
proprietor of the Mallory Steamship
Line, committed suicide on the 18th
during an attack of melan cholia by
jumping from train while it was
crossing Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana.
The sentence of Charles spurlook, a
West Virginia desperate, who was to
have been hanged on the 18th, has been
committed to imprisonment for life.
The bodies of John Lowry aud his
wife were found in the woods by the
roadside six miles from Marshall, No..
on tho evening of the 18th. Murder.
MRS. MARY G. DAVIS, and G. G. Jones
who boarded at her house in Gayles.
Vile, Ala, were killed by Mrs. Davis
uncle named J. r. Dorsey, and wom-
an named Jane Wade. Jones was
killed by mistake for Mrs. Davis hus-
band.
SAMUEL KEENER was shot dead on
the l1th by Tibbett Triplett, a DIS
euised detective, near McClelland, Pa
| keener was drunk and had attacked
rriplett.
The safe in the general store of J.
Allen, of Livingston, Grant County
was blown open on the night o: the
10th, and rifed of $500 in currencv and
! $4,000 in notes. Safe blowers also
worked the store of Hase & RundalI. at
Rewey, in the same county, but secured
only $12 in silver.
AFTER a quarrel in the saloon OF
John Cramer, in Archer Avenue, Chi
ago, on the evening of the 11th, sheep
butcher named Joseph whitney was
murdered with a knife by a notorious
criminal named Bob Haley. ,,-.
Doc. MARTIN, who killed E. N. Pleass.
ant at Rolling Fork, Va, was lynched
at that place by a mob on the 10Th.
ihe whole party were colored.
| On the night of the 8th inst, the
headless body Of a woman was found in
the cistern on the farm of Peter Bas-
kex, near Troy, Ind. The head was
afterward found some distance away in
the woods. The next day the remains
were identified as those OF Mrs. Hender.
shot, who resided fourteen miles dis
tant. The body was nude, and the
woman's husband was afterwards found
preparing to leave the country with q
valise containing the dead woman's
clothes, ana was arrested. He then con.
Jesse the murder, and was locked up
He was examined at Troy, on the 10th
and during the trial an effort by mob
to lynch him was frustrated with con.
siderable difficulty.
CHAs. W. BUTLER was hanged at Col
umbia, Ind, on the 10th, for the mur.
der OF his young wife at Piercetown, il
September, 1883.