Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-10-09
GRIM E.,

DIR. W. w. MEYER, 3 Pittsburg ply
sician, was arrested Wednesday night
for forgery, and for raising promissory
note for $l25 to 1895.
Governor Ogleshy has issued his proc
lamation offering a reward of $500 for
William FINLEY, who .r:urdered his
wife in White County.
STEPHEN HAMILTON, well known in
Muncie Indiana, was sentenced to two
years in the ponitentiary for criminal
assault.
AT Albany, Texas, Saturday night, j.
III. Birgs, a oon-keeFer shot and kill
ed A. l.. Williams, proprietor of a sta
tionery store.
PATRICK Fox while sleeping on the
river bank near South st. Louis, was
approached by Charles Kimmerlln and
William Brewer, whose skiif he had
stolen, an. shot and lied.
ROBERT b. POLLARD, the Indiana
township bond swindler, who is now
living in fine style" in Canada, denies
that he forged any orders, claiming
that he could get all he desired to dis
pose of without dealing in any spurious
paper.
DiRs. DIR. HUDSON, the notorious ad-
ventures who has just been released
from Black wells Island, LAS been taken
to Boston to hc tried for larceny. She
il charged with victimiZjng trades peo-
pie and boarding house keepers in that
city out of $4,000
In Quincy, IL, Mrs. Hall, who pre-
viously bore n good reputation, ana
| Henry Schooley were sentenced TO the
penitentIary for fourteen years for in
| ianticide. The otfense was committed
last spring, when Lovella. Mrs. Halls
| daughter, gave lirth to an iIlegitimate
child, winch was killed and thrown in
u vault. Lovella Was acquitted.
For thg 8, cond time Lewis Webster,
q Young man, was convicted Monday,
at Warren, Ohio, of the murder of Per-
ry harrington, a farmer living near
| Geneva. In December last Lewis en-
tered Harrington's house intent upon
robbery, killed the proprietor aud badly
woun. ed Mrs. Harrington, brt she re-
covered, aud was the principal witness
| against Lewis, whom ske identified as
the murderer of her husband.
! In Wayne county, Indiana, Monday
! George w. Ranck was shot and danger
ously wounded while gathering corn.
! The injured man claims that his brother
| Jefferson, who has been arrested, did
the shooting, but the latter denies the
| charge. The father of the RIncks died
intestate about eighteen months ago,
and since that times there have been
discussions i'll the family regarding a
division of tie property.
| AT Austin, Texas, Sunday night, four
! cotOred servants, one male and three
| female, were attacked with an AK while
| sleeping in their rooms, two of them
being KILLED end the others dangerous
! iy injured. One OF the women was out
| ragged while lowering between life and
death. Tbs coroner's jlry rendered a
verdict charging the crime upon ne-
| gro known as Doc Wood, who has
! been arrested.
4 WARRANT is out for the arrest of r.
| de Bartoio, keeper of an Italian board
| lng-house. on the charge of ahducting
Gaetano M"linaro, fellow-couutry-
man. The latter says that, while ill,
he was taken by De Bartolo ill car
riage to an out cf-the-way place, where
| he was left iii charge of three young
mea who, after Inc tfectual attempts to
| force nauscouS draught upon him,
stabbed him repeatedly in the back,
and left him alone for two days, when
he was released by an Italian who took
is credited sy the police. whose theory
is that De Bartolo sold him to medical
| students, who sought to murder hiss
for the sake of his body. De Bartolo
has left Chicago.