The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-21
MELANGE OF MURDERS.
A Wicked Day..-Butcherles OF
all Sorts Everywhere.
MURDEROUs MEN
Give Free Play to Their VICIOUS
Instincts and Murder In
discriminatory.

MeMrH,s. October 19.-At 1890 o'clock
| tonight unknown parties ttempte "
| assassinate Rev. N. Cuuntee, a prominen1
| colored Baptist minister. He was return
ing from church, where he had held services;
| and on passing the corner OF DeootO anu
Webster streets he was fired upon. inere
were about twenty of his congregation IN
the crowd. and the contents of a shotgun
! loaded with buckshot caused considerable
havoc. The shot struck Counte in the
head, passing through his chin, infictlng
| painful wounds. S. L.. Countee, a brother
| of the minister, was shot in the back ana
| also through the chin. His wounds are
more dangerous. Ellen Wright, a coiored
woman, who was also in the crowd, re-
| ceived a shot in the hip. The ASA 'sin fled
after firing, but threw away his gun, which
| attempt that has been made to kill the
| colored minister. He thinks that his
| would-be assassins are members OF a col
| ored organization of which he wa formerly
| a member himself, but recently renounced
| all obligations to their orders.
TWO MURDERS.
PlrrsBuRG, October ia Uniontown
(Psnnsylvania) special says: Two murders
were committed in this (Fayette) county
last night. Two brothers named Tasker,
while intoxicated, attacked the house &C,
Cupied by Ira Tate at Haydentown and
! threw clubs at Tate's wife, severely injuring
her. Tate fired at them with a shotgun,
| and Hal Tasker was instantly killed. Tate
surrendered himself to the sheriff to-day.
The other murder was also in a house.
Four negroes broke down the door OF a
house occupied by Michael Borrillo on the
outskirts of town. Borrillo resisted and
was shot and killed by one OF the negroes
named Robert Scott. The murderer has
not been arrested.
TWO WOMEN
GALVESTON, October 19.-Aspecial to the
News from Laredo says: A courier who
arrived this evening from down the river
reports that two Mexican women were
murdered about noon to-day On a ranch
sixteen miles from Laredo. He could give
no particulars. Officers have started for
the scene.
DETAILS OF H CRIME.
A special to the News from Laredo says:
Later %accounts from the scene OF tie killing
OF the two Mexican women, yesterday, on
a ranch sixteen miles from there, says the
murdered women were Orazai Perez Gomez
and her aged grandmother. The former
was the wife OF Bumalda Gomez, who COM
nlitted the crime. Sonora Gomez, before
her marriage, which tool place recently,
was famous in the neighborhood as a belle
and it was in a fit of rage that Gomez shot
his wife and grandmother, Killing them both
instantly. The murderer escaped to Mex
ico.
MURDERED BY CHIMES PIRATES.
Hone KONG, October 10. - The British
steamer Greyhound" trading locally in
the Chinese waters, has arrived here, and
her second officer reports that a daring at
tempt wa made by Chinese pirates to cap
ture the vessel. The captain OF the "Grey-
hound" was inveigled on board the pirate
ship, and after being plundered.. was killed.
The pirates attempted to seize the "Grey-
hound" and a desperate fight ensued, in
which the other officers and the en-
gineer OF the latter vessel were badly
wounded. The "Greyhound' put on a full
head of steam and escaped to this port.
THE ASSASSIN IN ARKANSAS.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, October 19.-Near
Longley, Pike county, on Saturday, an old
quarrel was renewed between two promi-
nent farmers, Sylvester Churchill, and a
former resident, Dennis Brooks, whom the
former believed returned to kill him. They
separated after shaking hands, but near
nightfall. when Brooks started away,
Churchill killed him with a rifle by a shotin
the back. The murderer fed to the noun
tains.