People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

Thirty-two sticks of dynamite, enough to blow up the whole city, •were found secreted under the steps of the Methodist church at Deadwood S. D. J. M. Frazier quarreled with T. J. McMullin and son James about a business transaction at Jackson, Tenn., and tried tp shoot the former. The father escaped and Frazier shot the sori twice, inflicting fatal wounds. Frazier gave himself up. ▲ dispatch from Athens says that the Cretans elected a provisional government, decided to proclaim the union of. the Island with Greece, and ex-

pressed the hope that autonomy will be granted the island under the surveillance of the powers. • Alonzo Walling, accomplice of Scott Jackson in the murder of Pearl Bryan, was to day sentenced to hang Aug. 7. Walling, smiling and defiant, was taken from the Covington jail by Sheriff Plummer and Jailer Bltger, and driven in a surrey to Newport. On their arrival they found a crowd of several hundred surrounding the courthouse, but there was no demonstration. An unknown man assaulted C. BrolUer’of Ollie, a small town near Ottumwa, lowa, while he was sitting on his porch. His skull, four ribs and shoulder were broken. Mr. Brollier is 75 years old. He is still unconscious and is not expected to live. Walter Thompson, a stock dealer, shot and instantly killed himself at his home in Burnside, a small town twelve miles west of Laharpe, 111., at 9 o’clock this morning. It is reported that he was mixed up in some trouble resulting from a sale of some stolen cattle and the thing preyed on his mind until he took his life. Ashford Brothers’ store at Homer was entered by burglars early Saturday morniug, the safe blown open with giant powder, and about $375 stolen. The store was also robbed Friday morning and $l4O and valuable papers taken. Early Sunday morning while Night Watchman Loomer was placing a man in jail at Chadron, Neb., tw r o occupants of the place made their escape and have not yet been captured. One was a tramp and the other was Barker of Crawford, awaiting trial on a charge of perjury. Officers are in search cf tbs fugitives.