River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-21
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

An elderly man named Rassln was murdered
for his money at Libertyville, Ill
Chris Christensen of Racine, Wis, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself through the
heart
Police Sergeant Crowley of New York was
convicted recently of grossly assaulting Maggie
Morris in a bar room of ball room
The steamer Lake Huron, at Quebec from
Liverpool, reports that Mrs. H. E Spanson, a
passenger, drowned herself and child on the
night of April 80
Cecil Beebe, charged with altering the
books of Schneider & Co. of Portland, Or,
and the ENLIGHTENMENT of $4,000, has been
committed at Toronto for extradition.
Gertrude Seibert of St Louis was shot and
killed mysteriously at an early hour, while in
bed Her husband was arrested on suspicion,
but he claims his wife shot herself accidental
ly. Her life was insured for $4,000.
NJ. McLauren, prominent attorney of Roll
ing Fork, Miss, and L r. Shelton, chancery
at Rolling Fork with shotguns. Shelton was
instantly killed. His gun was not dschar-
ged
J. D. Blansett, of Garfield, Ark. was shot
and MORALLY WOUNDED by Jasper NARROW.
MARROW had insulted the wife OF Blansett and
was knocked down by the latter when the
killing followed. NARROW has not been cap
tured
Daisy Simmons, a beautiful brunette in Sa-
vannah, Ga, aged seventeen, picked up her
lovers revolver recently, and fired bullet in
TO her heart and a second later fell to the floor
a corpse in pool of her own blood. A quar-
rel with her lover was the cause.
At Youngstown, Ohio, a negro called at the
residence of W. f. Lyon, and finding Ruth
Hanson there alone, knocked her down and
placed a cloth saturated with chloroform over
her face, intending to commit a further out
rage, when he was frightened away The girl
was found shortly after unconscious, but was
finally restored.
Charles Primrose, pressman of the Chicago
Tribune, was arrested recently, charged with
circulating obscene literature and presenting a
vile book to a respectable young girl at the
skating rink The girls father was the com
plainant Primrose is said TO be only one of
gang engaged in this disreputable business.
Two boys fourteen years old, named Charles
Smedburg and Charles Rumwall, living near
Gotha, Carver county, were returning from
hunting, when Rumwall ordered his compan
ion to stop or he would shoot him. Semburg
did not obey, whereupon Rnmwan fired, the
shot entering Smedburg's body and he will
p1ObdDl1
Charles Wright, supposed to be Charles
Rhodes, or Dutch Charley, the hotel desperate
now in jail at Miles City, charged with the
murder of Frank Redmonk at CoulsOn, is
found not to be the noted desperate at all. He
has been arralgned on charge of the murder
of one Mitchell in the northern part of the
county three years ago.
In New York City, an alteration occurred
between LARRY" O'Brien, well known broker
and politician, and George Truman, asporting
character belonging to Chicago. The former
was probably fatally stabbed The latter was
shot twice. The affray was the outcome of a
quarrel O'Brien declined to take an anesthet-
ic while his wound WAS being sewed up, and
both men INDUCED in recriminations while
their wounds were being dressed in the same
ward in the hospital
William Allen Story, who ran away with the
wife of Charles Atchlcy, a farmer near Alton,
Ohio, six years ago, has just returned from
Nebraska He is consulting an attorney for
the purpose of bringing suit against number
of citizens, who took him from Jail, where he
was confined at the tlme to railroad bridge,
fastened rope about his neck, gave him thir-
ty-five feet slack and then three him over.
The rope broke, and he managed to escape the
vengeance of the mob