Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-14
rHr CRIMINAL nAf.FsnAR.

George W. Trip of Frcvilie, n Y. aged
seventy eight, hanged himself because his wife
was dying OF cancer.
William II. Cooke, once d civil engineer and
worth 500 600, blew out his brains in Pittsburg
recently Booze did ii
Joseph Taylor, the murderer OF Michael
Doran, keeper of the Eastern penitentiary at
Philadelphia, will be hanged July ~.
" Representative Ryren still@el Of Ash
land county, Ohio, has been arrested On COM
plant of Mary n Wiley on a change Of seduc-
ton.
Al Bonito, N NJ, Martin Nelson, ''saue and
a good Citizen killed seven persons and had
to be shot down in the street before he was
pacified,
At Fort Smith, Ark, Mitchell Anderson, q
Choctaw, aged seventeen, was executed ~
shooting. He murdered another Choctaw boy,
named Winchester, for his money.
Adam Bradbender president on the Erie (Pa.)
Savings bank, wGs arrested on a 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 reiative of ex-Gov.
Critienden OF Missouri, is on trial at Taylor
vile, Ky, for killing Mosby, colored nan,
Gov. Lowry OF Mississippi committed tie
death sentence DR.. r @. Penn, convicted Of
the murder Of Rails, to life Imprisonment in
the penitentiary. Penn was 10 have been
hanged May Is at Hazlehurst
The Boston victim OF the Bonito IN. NJ trag-
edy was William H. Finn, a druggist OF Wash
ington village, who was in New Mexico for tie
benefit OF his health. He was post commander
of TAYLOR council Legion of Honor
Miss Hattie Rogers stole horse snd buggy
at Erie, Pa, and was pursued by mounted
men fifty miles before she was captured.
Hattie says il was the best fun she ever had,
even is she has to go to the penitentiary.
Mrs. Lena stebenlanb OF Greensburg, Pa,
died at the residence OF Mrs Louisa Brown in
Pittsburg, from the effects Of an abortion, alfu
DIR. G. L. Hall, a practicng physician was ar
rested and charged with committing the crime
The young son Of Mr.. Hanson Of E,gin, Ill,
discharged q double barreled shotgun into
Mr. Gridley, who .ried to enter the honse while
drunk. Gridley is the son OF Judge Griiley Of
Bloomington and has an income OF $3.50
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 800 against tho
professor,
Frank Miller and William Scott a colorcd
man, got into quarrel about some trivial mat
ter in West Liberty, Ohio, when Scott went 10
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 Louis Weller, their sons. II is
claimed that the sons defrauded their parents
out OF an estate valued at sl75,o00. which,
however, is mortgaged to about half it's value.
The parents claim their sens presented doeu-
ments 10 them which they signed, not know
ing what they were, but which proved TO be
papers transferring all the rights ofthe old
people 10 their sons. The Weller family is
very prominent