Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-01-26
WAYS OF THE WICKED.

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Three kansans suspected of murder
were lynched.
A sixteen year-old colored boy was
lynched In Ohio for a double murder.
Robbers fired upon passenger train
in Kansas.
Patrick Collins has been convicted
at San Francisco for the murder of
his wife Oct. 8.
1t is stated that Dugan, one of the
men arrested in connection with the
Harris murder In Minneapolis, has
made confession.
Hugh Higgins, the assailant of Eu-
gene Finch, at Decatur, Mich, will be
tried for nanslaughter.
Patsy Duffy was arrested at Rich
mond, Ind, for shooting Mike Sulli-
van at Muncie last August.
Three masked men held up l.. D.
Vandoren at Elkhart, Ind, and took
his pension money, which he had just
drawn.
Two notorious desperadoes, brothers,
were killed III Il fight with officers in
West Virginia.
Burglars raided Courtland, Ala
Every business place was broken into,
wagons being used to carry the plund-
CT.
H. S. Foss was killed in Guthrie, O..
T., by George Deer, for the murder
Of whose father he was on trial
Near Pleasantville, Iowa, boys dis
covered Il robbers den in which was
! jcwclry, silyerWare and money.
| While drunk Robert Simmons clean
ed OUT the Mullen Hill district Of
Petersburg, Ind. Three men were seri-
ously injured.
William Gay, Green Burton and John
Gay, suspected murderers, were taken
from the Russell Qkan.) Jail and hang
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! William Hildebrand was arrested III
/ Fort Wayne and confessed to cash
ing forged checks, but refused to tell
who forged them.
! New bailiffs were put i'll charge Of
the Coughlin jury. Detective Flynn
has testified to finding Cronin's knives
on C0ughlin.
The grand jury at San Francisco is
reported to have dropped the charges
Of jury bribbing in connection with the
/ trial OF Actor Curtis for murder.
An attempt was made to wreck a
Baltimore and Ohio express train near
Bremen, Ind, last night, but was
! frustrated by the vigilance of the en-
gneer.
George II. Painter, who was to have
been hanged in the county Jail at Chi
cago for the murder of Alice Martin,
has been reprieved until the Goth by
Gov. Altgeld.
In the trail of Banker koetting
at Milwaukee the introduction of the
semi-annual reports Of the condition
of the bank made up the bulk of the
testimony. The state expects to prove
that several of the later statements
were dOctoreu.
Judgments were rendered in the
federal court at Lincoln, Neb., against
ex-Bank President C. w. Mosher, now
in the Sioux Falls penitentiary, for
sums aggregating 100000.
John Is. Strodeman. the banker who
recently assigned ut st. Petersburg,
ILL.,, has been arrested at the instance
of Andrew Schurman, who deposited
money with Strodeman within 80 days
of the time he became insOlvent.
Samuel Welsor was hanged at ST.
Louis yesterday for the murder Of
Clementine Manning August 4, 1890
Ed Dansy, colored, was hanged at
Ocala, Fla, for the murder of Deputy
Sheriff Binnicker. The execution was
private.
George 4. Roeth, who on November
Is fired several pistol shots into Del
monicos. at New York, was sentenced
by Judge Cowing in Part 1 of the court
of several sessions at New York to
two years imprisonment at hard la
Dor.
Judge Pardee sentenced Louis Red
wing, defaulting assistant cashier Of
the Gate City national bank of At
lanta, Ga, for a term of six years In
the Columbus penitentiary, he having
pleaded guilty to embezzlement of
sos, 900.
1t is reported from Fort Yates, N
D., that Iron Thunder, the Indian
courier, was murdered recently by a
deaf and dumb son of White Black
bird. Iron Thunder was the scout who
gave valuable aid to the government
troops by a daring ride of % miles
through Sitting Bulls camp during
the Sioux was three years ago.
dude" Charley Williams, the al
legged missing accomplice of James and
Edward Murray, NOW in Jail at Clay
ton. Mo, charged with the murder of
Street Car Motorman FitzWiiams,
whom he robbed) and who is suspected
of the murder nearly year ago of
Banker Benjamin McCulloch, has been
located in the Missouri penitentiary.
Leonard T. Flaherty, hitherto a
| trusted agent of r. F. Haffenreffer,
the brewer of Boston, employed by the
latter in collecting rents, etc, is miss
ing and his employer is said to be out
considerable sum, yariously placed