River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-14
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

George w Trip of Freville, N. Y, aged
seventy eight hanged himself because his wife
was dying of a cancer.
William H, Cooke, once civil engineer and
worth $500, 900, blew out his brains in Pittsburg
recently. Booze did it.
Joseph Taylor, the murderer of Michael
Doran, keeper of the Eastern penitentiary at
Philadelphia, will be hanged July To-
Representative Byron Shllwell of Ash
land county, Ohio, has been arrested on COM
plant of Mary r. Wiley, on change of seduc-
ton.
At Bonito, N NJ, Martin Nelson, 'sane and
a good citizen, killed seven persons and had
to be shot down in the street before he was
pacifed.
At Fort Smith, Ark, Mitchell Anderson,
Choctaw, aged seventeen, was executed by
shooting He murdered another Choctaw boy,
named Winchester, for his money.
Adam Bradbender, president of the Erie (Pa)
Savings bank, was arrested on charge Of con-
spring to defraud the depositors He was
placed in jail in default of $4,000 bail.
Thomas Crittenden, grandson of the noted
John J. Crittenden and a relative of ex-Gov.
Crittenden of Missouri is on trial at Taylor
vile, Ky, for killing Mosby, colored man
Gov Lowry of Mississippi commuted the
death sentence of DR. r. G. Penn, convicted of
the murder of Rails, to life Imprisonment in
the penitentlary. Penn was to have been
hanged May IL at Hazlehurst
The Boston victim of the Bonito On. M. trag-
edy was William H. Finn, druggist of Wash
ington village, who was in New Mexico for the
benefit of his health. He was post commander
of Taylor council, Legion of Honor.
Miss Hattie Rogers stole a horse and buggy
at Erie, Pa, and was pursued by mounted
men fifty miles before she was captured.
Hattie says it was the best fun she ever had,
even is she has to go to the penitentiary.
Mrs Lena Stebenlaub of Greensburg, Pa,
died at the residence of Mrs Louisa Brown in
Pittsburg from the effects of an abortion, and
DR. c. L. Hall, a practicing physician,
rested and charged with committing the crime.
The young son of Mr.. Hanson of Elgin. H.,
discharged a double barreled shotgun into a
Mr. Gridley, who trled to enter the house While
drunk Gridley Is the son of Judge Gridley OF
Bloomington and has an income of $500
month.
The jury in the case of Prof. Hjalmar HART
Borjeison, charged with having slapped the
child of David w. Touey, of Westhampton, L.
l. , in 1888 and thereby caused the boys deaf
ness brought in verdict for $500 against the
professor
Frank Miller and William Scott a colored
man, got into quarrel about some trivial mat
ter In West Liberty, Ohio, when Scott went TO
his home and procured revolver, and return
ing met Miller and fired two shots, one of which
went through his heart
A sensation was created at Buffalo by an ac-
ton brought by Peter Weller and wife against
Adam and IOuis Weller their sons 1t in
claimed that the sons defrauded their parents
ont Of an estate valued at s175,0 which,
however, is mortgaged to about half its value.
The parents claim their sons presented docu-
mcnts to them which they signed, not know
ing what they were, but which proved TO DC
papers transferring all the rights of the old
people to their sons. The Weller family is
vary monument