The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-31

weeks. five negroes, one OF tnein woman
convicted for outragns and numbering white
woman, were hanged by a mob at Elkhart, Tex.
Mrs. Lucille Ybeult Dudley, who made an UNI
successful attempt TO kill the dynamiter
ODonoyan Rosa, was acquitted by a New York
jury the ground OF insanity Andre j. Du-
mont lcoloredl, at one time Naval officer at New
Orleans, suicided because OF domestic troubles.
JULY.
Tramps stole the clothing of an unknown man
who was bathing IN the Missouri River az
Omaha he remained in the water all day, ana
when no came out at nightfall he was found To
be insane, and died few hours later. William
Matthews eloped with the wife OF James Secrist,
of Comanche County, Texas, and when he after
ward called upon Mr.. Secrist for the lady g per-
sonal effects that gentleman shot him dead.
Joseph Taylor was hanged at Philadelphia for
the murder OF penitentary keeper; Taylor be-
gan his criminal career ut the age OF 10 years
by stabbing a companion and during the ten
years preceding his death had stabbed or shot
forty-tve persons. Thomas X. Brantly, of
Bainbridge Ga, arresel for brutality ill-treat-
ing his wife. was taken from jail by his neigh
bors and hanged To a tree In Anderson Count y,
Kentucky, three brothers named Hawkins were
shot by Horace Mullins, whom they had called
TO account for alleged SANDER of their sister:
two OF the brothers were killed one was badly
hurt Mullins escaped unhurt Valentine Wag
ner was tho first criminal hanged under the new
law in Ohio. by which executions are TO take
place in the penitentiary before sunrise, in pres
ence of but few Witnesses Wagner killed his
brother-in-iaw two years previously.
A triple execution occurred at Fayetteville,
n. c., two white and one colored man being
hanged. Maxwell, the alleged murderer of G.
Arthur Prelier, whose body was found in a trunk
at st. Louis hotel in April last, arrived at nSan
Francisco from New Zealand in the custody Of
officers. Pedro Prestan, the leader Of the revo-
lutionists of Panama, who several months be-
fore fired and destroyed the city of Aspinwall,
having been duly tried and convicted, was
hanged Aug. Is. AL Locke who murdered eight
persons and then attempted TO commit suicide,
&.l.. all.
by mob Locke made a confession, saying that
he would have killed more people had his am
munition not given out.
SEPTEMBER.
Chinese miners who had been imported by the
Union Pacific Railway Company were driven
from the pits at Rock Springs, Wyoming by
force of armed white men. the Chinese fleeing
TO the hills for safety; fifteen Of the fugitives
We're shot dead by the mob, and many wounded;
thirty-four bodies were recovered, besides many
more buried in the debris of burned houses. A
mob visited the Pike County Jail at Murfrees-
boro Ark, and made an attempt TO shoot the two
Polk boys confined for murder, but not being
able TO get within range hauled n load Of wood
to the jail piled il around the iron CELL saturat-
ed the wood with coal OIL and roasted both
prisoners alive, nothing standing but the brick
walls; the Folks murdered n peddler in 1884
and had several trials. Near GAINESVILLE
Texas, detectives surprised and killed the two
Lee brothers, who Were regarded as the most
daring roadmen that had ever infested Indian
Territory and for whose capture, dead or alive
q reward of 5000 had been offered perhaps no
band Of outlaws in the United States ever did
such bloody work in brief a period as the
Lee gang; within two years from May /, 1885,
forty-two human lives were taken by this
bloody band of cattle and horse. thieves
Nicholas Snowdon, colored, confined in
Jail at Ellicott City, Md, ON II charge
of assaulting child, was taken out
and hanged by men of his own race
remarkable tragedy occurred at Hilltown
Pa. Mrs Thomas V. Thompson, indignant be-
cause her husband would not accede TO her re-
quest to turn his aged parents into the street
murdered him and subsequently killed herself
1t was estimated that over twenty-four thousand
Christians were murdered in the outbreaks near
Anam. -Four negroes one Of them n woman,
who were accused Of several murders were
taken from jail and hanged by mob in
Chatham County, North Carolina.
OCTOBER.
After numbering his mistress n retired British
artilleryman living at Tangier, Morocco, ran
amuck in the streets, stabbing many persons.
two of them fatally; he was finally captured
and lodged in jail. During the execution Of
John w. Coffee, double murderer, at
twice but on the third endeavor the
victim was worked off" satisfactorily
Frederick Grenier was hanged at Columbus, o.,
for the murder of his sweetheart; he stepped on
the scaffold with smile, arrayed as il attend
ing an evening party, and smoking cigar. At
Indianapolis the brother OF a white girl, who
had been criminally assaulted by n negro, shot
the assailant in the court room. A mob at Muir
freesboro, Ark, set fire to the wooden Jail in
which one Churchill, murderer was confined /;
he appeared ut a grated window, and piteously
begged the mob TO shoot him, but the flames
soon reduced the victim and the building to
ashes. Near Starrucca, Pa, John Howell, =
farmer, shot his four children, varying in age
from three 20 eleven years and then killed him.
self. man named Brandt, at Waco, Neb., be-
coming irritated by lad Of 13, flung him into
n thrashing machine, where his head was in
stantly torn from his body. George Miller was
the first murderer legally hanged in Dakota; he
was suspended ut Grand Forks, and life was not
pronounced extinct until after the expira-
ton OF 23R minutes he had killed the
wife and son Of Rev. c. II. Smell, on n farm near
Inkster. Ferdinand Ward, the financial sharp
of the late firm of Grant & Ward, was convicted
of larceny and sentenced to ten years in the
State prison at hard labor
NOVEMBER.
A colored lad Mt Button, Ga, was tried by n
lynch court for stealing pair OF boots having
been convicted he was given one hundred
lashes, his step-father swinging the whip. Cy-
rus w. Yandes, OF st. Paul, Mimi, committed
suicide partly because he dreaded the RESPONSE
bility of settling up an estate giving him half a
million. A party of four girls and two boys went
into the woods of Webster County, Kentucky, to
gather nuts; they were assaulted by tramps,
who nearly killed the lads and bore the young
ladies 10 n thicket and murdered them
all; citizens who turned out in search
identified and killed two of the tramps.
At Fannin, Clay County, Texas, n lad of thirteen
years, named Valentine Sanford, killed his
mother with n rifle he confessed having
intended to murder his father, sell the planta-
tons and organize n band of stage robbers. In
the Criminal Court Mt London n verdict of GRIM
inal assault upon Eliza Armstrong was rendered
against Thomas Stead, editor of the Pail Mall
Gazette, and he WIS sentenced to three months
imprisonment In the Criminal Court at Otta-
wa, Ontario, n gang Of five ruffians We're SEN
fenced TO imprisonment for life for q brutal as
sault on Miss Truman, lady Of good family,
who was promenadng with her lover when
seized by the villains. Fred Townsend, aged 49,
killed Willie McCallster, aged 8, vt Troy, N. Y,
by burying him up to the neck in bank OF soft
white clay, where the child fingered twenty
hours before death relieved him. Three Ital-
ians were hanged at Chicago for the murger Of II
fellow countryman; the victim was getting
free shave at the room OF ono OF the culprits,
and while his face was covered with lather n
rope was passed over his head the guilty trio
pulled the cord, while an accessory guarded
the door S130 was the incentive. Eight of the
Indians who were concerned in Riels Canadian
rebellion were hanged at Battleford Northwest
Territory. The hangman ut Norwich, England,
severed the head from the body of Robert Good
ale as though il had been done with razor
many spectators sickened at the sight the drop
was six feet, and the weight used was fifteen
stone.
DECEMBER.
William Stevans, of Detroit, confessed the
murder of his affianced, Bertha Duckwitz, say
ing that he drew a across her throat only
in a playful spirit. Joseph o. Roles, noted
Democratic politician Of Boston, killed himself
because of disappointment in regard TO
deputy revenue collectorship. The College OF
the Propaganda at Rome announced that up to
November 1, in Cochin China, "a, 900 Christians
were massacred, 10 converts destroyed, and 225