Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-10-16
GRIM LIE.

AT Albany, Texas, Saturday night, j.
| Ill. BiRgs, Il saloon-keeFer shot and kill
ed A. l.. Williams, proprietor of sta
tiOnery store.
AT the Continental hotel, Philadel.
| phia, George Leonard, an actor, was
skot and seriously wounded by Abram
Erlanger, n theatrical manager, who &C
Cused Leonard of estranging his wife's
affections from him.
ARTHUR NETTLEToN, who killed Clar.
cnce White, one of charivari party, at
Pawpaw recently, was found guilty of
manslaughJer at Dixon, Ill.,, Tuesday.
and sent snced To twelve years impris-
| onment.
FIVE white men and two Indians
who were engaged in the recent anti
Chinese riot near Seattle, Washington
territory, have kcen iEdicted Tor muir
der in the Arst degree.
ALEX. GRAY and Xalman Snyder,
farm hands employed by g. Ii. Harrison,
near McIIenry, H., quarreled, and Gray
stabbed Snyder to tie heart with a
| pitchfork.
TWENTY FIVE convicts in the peniten-
tiary at Saute Fo made an attempt to
escape. The guards fired on them, and
remaining two were captured after
having been wounded.
| TIE murder of John Douglas, a farm
cr near Newark, Ohio, who had $4,000
on his person, has been followed by the
arrest of his son and sou-in law. The
latter was once tried i'll kentucky on a
charge of murder.
THE safe of lIitcncok & Barrett, drug
gists at Wyantt, Iii. was blown open
carly Thursday morning and 81 800
worth of notes, a gold watch, a lot of
iewelry and $50 in money stolen. The
burglars made good their escape.
| MEXICAN robbers attacked pack
mule train carrying bullion, near Par
raj, u STATEN on the Mexican Central
Railroad, killed four of the escort and
! drove off with the treasure, the amount
of which has not been determined.
! AT his examination in Marshfield,
| Ohio, Wedm, sday, John Cromer, con.
fcssed that his companion James Win
ans, killed Miss Clara Hough, whom he
first attempted to outrage. CromGr
and Winans are not over l6 yeaIs of
ag!
! +. ii. GOULD, alias Bassett, mine time
ohu FhANhhN ub
Mountain, Mich, left three weeks ago
for Chicago, and has not been seen
since. He ewed $1,000 to Italian min
ers. and left beside wife and two chill
dren, but $40 assets.
| ROBERT h. 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.
| Four men entered the car of pas
sengcr train, near Allegheny Furnace,
| Pa, Tue"day morning and while three
! threatened the occupants the fourth
mau robbed whom he pleased. a pas
| senger and the conductor, who attemptG
ed to resist, were beaten and wounded.
After securing all the booty the robbers
pulled the bell-rops, ju@ped eff, and
escaped to the WOODS
THE youpg highway man who held
up the San Angelo, Texas, stage few
days ago was arrested at FL Paso, in
| that state. He confessed his guilt and
says that he had no money, and was
obliged t. rob somebody, he attacked
the stage, thinking that the United
States Government could stand the loss
better than any individual. The youth
gives his name rs Jessie Jones, and says
that he is only 16.