Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-02
MANY TRAGEDIES.
Tales Of Cruel Crimes Told by the
Telegraph.
A Lover Kills His Sweetheart and
Himself Murder at a Church
Door-Other Bloody Deeds.
JEA1oUsy's VICTIMS.

Rauseh, aged "A. shot and killed his
sweetheart, Maria Burckett, aged
Is, and then shot himself through the
head, dying Immediately. Rausch
had been paying attention TO Miss
BurclSett for some time and was ex-
tremely jealous lie called at her
fathers house Monday evening and
quarreled with the girl, leaving the
house in a rage During the morning
Rausch called the girl out from the
Everett mill. where she was at work,
and after few words shot her through
the heart and then put bullet through
his head
TOOK HER OWN LIFE.
ST.. Louis, July /. The dead body
of Kate Hussey, aged 81 years, a
domestic in the employ of Mr.. +. H.
Jones, was found in the yard of the
family residence at No. 447l Pine
street. The girl slept in the nursery
with a little child, and the fami-
" was awakened at 3 o'clock
a. IN. by the child crying.
The girl was missing and,
a search being made her body was
found lying on a plank walk in the
yard. The supposition is that the
young woman jumped from a window
of her room in the third story of the
residence and landed on her head,
| causing concussion of the brain
and probable fracture of the
| skull which resulted in instant
death. 1t appears the young woman
was engaged to be married to a young
man named Pat Tracy and was afraid
he would break the engagement, She
left pathetic letter in which she asks
| forgiveness for her rash act, and asks
that the sum of S400 which she leaves
to her lover, be used in procuring
masses for the repose of her soul.
SAVAGE STAB.
| NASHVILLE, Tenn, July l. - A
| shocking tragedy was enacted in the
quiet village of Germantown, Tenn,
! Monday night where "a negro boy
named Pugh Prewitt was instantly
killed, The killing occurred in front
of negro church, about half mile
east of the town, and though
there were 200 negroes in the church
| and, as usual, number congregated
about Vhe door, no one was found who
| could identify the murderer. Prewitt's
| body was found with a butcher
knife nearly a foot long sticking in
his breast. Coroner Stockland essayed
| to pull it out, but could not. A small
line was fastened to the knife. but still
| it could not be Withdrawn, and it was not
until loop was made in the rope and a
strong stick passed through it with two
men pulling at it that the knife was fin
ally extricated. The knife had passed
through the breast bone and had been
embedded an inch deep in the verte-
bra There was no actual eye wit
ness to the killing. Suspicion attaches
to negro named Nose Johnson, with
whom Pugh had difficulty earlier in
the day.
MISSISSIPPI PLANTER MURDERED.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, July l. - News
has reached this city that Mr. L. Mann,
manager of the Shelly plantation, near
Shelly Station, Bolivar county, Miss,
was murdered Saturday night He was
eating supper and the assassin shot
him through the window. a negro
tenant with whom Mann had quarreled
is suspected. The negro has run away
KILLED his WIFE AND BROTHER.
MOBILE, Ala, July l. - From the
backwoods of Baldwin county, Ala.
comes the report of a tragedy in which
Jesse Cartwright killed his brother
John William Cartwright. with buck
shot and afterward cut his own wife's
throat He was iealo1fs