Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-10-23
c,RIMKs ANn CASUALTIES.

CRIMES ATp CASUAIJIFs.
at Allegheny City, Pa, the EXTENSIVE
slaughtering houses of w. G. Kimberlll
were destroyed by fire. Loss, $1,000, full.
covered by insurance.
A saw mill boiler exploded ia Hudson
county, n. J killing j. G. Rogers, proprie
| tor of the mill, James Eson and Bud ReOr
dan, and wounding several persons.
At Milwaukee, the residence of Alex
Mitchell, President of the Chicago, Mil
waukee d St. Paul Railroad. was entere'
| ny burglars at an early hour Ia the morn
! ing. Mitchelrs and his wife's elegant gOlt
watches, q quantity of jewelry and small
amount of money were taken. No clue.
Burglars made a raid on the stores o
| Hughes & Rundell, at Reway, and Johl
Allen, at Livingstone, on the Chicago
North western Railway, in Illinois. Safe
were blown open at both places. Hughe
& Rundell lost small amount of none.
and number of securities, while Allen los
$500 in money and $4,000 in securities.
John Lowry and wife, cattle feeders 70
W. ~.
farm near Marshall, Mo. Lowry was fount
at the barn, with bullet hole in his bead
and his wife was near the house, her skull
having been crushed with an axe. Tn
crime is mystery, though it is suspected i
was committed by party of tramps seen il
the vicinity.
At Taylesville, Ala, double murde
was committed. Mrs. Mary G. Davis and ,
boarder named G. c. Johns. were assassin
ated at her house by her uncle, j f. Dorsey
A prostitute named Jane Wade Jones wa.
killed by mistake, it being thought she wa
been arrested. An attempt having beer
made to lynch them, they were secretly
carried out of the county.
Edward Williams, butcher, was shot
and killed by Joseph Crane at Fort Robin
son, Neb. Williams had been quarrelline
with saloon keeper, and fired his pistol in
the air TO brighten him. Crane jumped up
and saying, stop that shooting" shot Viii
liams in the left breast just above the heart
Crane is an eastern man, and new arrival
at the fort. After the murder he rode Oft
and no effort has been made to capture him
as the county is unorganzed, and there are
no officials.
At Youngstown, O., detective by the
name of Triplett shot and killed Sam
Keener near ClellandtOwn, nine miles from
here. Triplett had been hunting game and
was returning when be met keener, who
was intoxicated and bantered him to fight.
Triplett told him to keep of, but the latter
paid no attention to the warning, and when
be attempted to close on him Triplett raised
his shotgun and fired, the discharge taking
effect in his assailants neck, killing him
instantly. Triplett was working up some
barn burning cases here, and was disguised
as miner. 1t is believed that keener sus-
pected his real business, and thought he
was trying to convict him. Triplett gave
himself up and was lodged in Jail.
Mrs. F. M. Hammond, the noted Confed-
crate spy, known as Belle Boyd, who has
within the past few months figured con-
spicuously in several sensational scandals
in Dallas, Texas, is again in another which
eclipses all former ones, and is the absorb
Ing topic of the day. She mas daughter,
Miss Grace, aged about sixteen years, whom
she claims was seduced on the 23d Of last
June by prominent young man named
Cation, clerk in banking house in that
city. He called at the Hammond home
and Mrs. Hammond shot him in the left
arm, alleging that he refused to repair the
wrong done the girl by marrying her. The
wound is not dangerous. Mr.. Cation de-
mics ever having had any Legitimate rela-
tionship with the young lady, and declares
it to be case Of attempted blackmail. The
sympathies and confidence of the commun-
ity appear to be with him.
At Fairbury, H., Walton Brothers grist
mill took fire, and the wind caused the
flames to leap across the street and catch in
a large mercantile block, owned by the
Walton Bros. But while the fire ragged
furiously in the territory named it was also
sweeping eastward on the opposite side of
the street, destroying the stock yards and
buildings of Counts 81 Mcdonald, the dry
goods house or warehouse of the Walton
Bros, containing large quantity of grain,
and the blacksmith shop of Geo. Westervelt.
From this point the fire crept along against
the wind to the southVard first burning a
box car standing on the track near the mill;
from there to several corn cribs south of the
and thence west to the planning
mill, the lumber Office of John Decker and
the commission store of ]. r. Smith, both
in the Arcade block, just across from the
mill, which was also completely destroyed.
Walton Bros. loss on the stock and build
ings was So, 900; insurance $2S, GOO; loss on
$4,000; other losses will aggregate about
$12, 600; insurance, 81, 500.
T. Moynahan, proprietor of large sec
ond-hand store and machine shop, one OF
the oldest and best known residents of
Leadville, was center figure in q startling
sensation. He has been married about ten
years, and lived unhappily with his wife of
late. She has had charge of the Windsor
Hotel, one of his numerous pieces of prop
erty, and last Wednesday, unable to longer
stand his brutality, moved out and rented q
house on State street. Moynahan called
there and in violent quarrel he hit her over
the head with a piece of two-inch scantling.
He kidnapped their two children, who were
with their mother, and placing them in a
hack drove to Malta. He has not since been
seen. Mrs. Moynahan has become crazy
rom the effect of the blow on her head
With the ecantling and endeavors to commit
suicide. 1t is learned here since that Moyn- |
.han had assigned his entire business to
George Bettinger, q we'll known business
nan of this place. Mrs. Moynahan has
applied for q divorce on the ground of long
continued cruelty. The parties are very |
prominent in the Catholic church, and the |
flair produces great excitement.
At La Crosse, Wis, F. A. Burton, :.Presi-
lent ofthe Blaine and Logan club here, was
hot dead by q ruffian known as ''Scotty," /
While the Republicans were forming in pro-
ession on Main street. Seven shots were
ired in quick succession. The murderer
vas arrested and hurried to Jail before the
immense crowd could realize what had oc-
urred. As soon as the fact was made
nown, there was the most intense excite
aent and hundreds of men in uniform and
arrying their torches, hurried to the court
ouse yard and demanded that the prisoner
e handed over to them. Lynch him!
ynch him!' is the general cry. Mr.. Bur
IN fell to the pavement, and the murderer
,llowed with six shots into his body and
cad. He then threw the revolver at his
ictim and gave him kick, saying: THAT
J the s-n of b-h that knows me, and
lat have been looking" or words to that