Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1887 — CRIMES AND CRIMINALS. [ARTICLE]

CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

■ 2..- ' -, A number of prominent citizens of Erie. Fa., have beeu arrested for violating the pension laws, __ _ -WiU Guess shot and killed Miss Irene Fann. a Chattanooga iTenn.) school; teacher, because she whipped his little sister, and fled. A farm laborer named Britden was killefi at Williamstown.Ky., by yonng De Jar..sette, because he. refused to.ilrink.with- Da Jarnette. ~ J. Kelly, serving a term for murder, has brought thi ee suits at Cincinnati ; against the Enquirer, each for S2O.(XXt : damages, for libel, alleging that the latter paper charged him with crimes he did not j commit. - : At Philadelphia, Robert G. Hail, poet | and actor, murdered his paramour, Mrs. j Lillian Rivers, and then cut his own throat.

The wommH was the wife of an actor known to the profession as James Reynolds, who-attempted to kill her April 19, and then ..shot himself, tint recently rel Covered. j- At Cleveland, Ohio, Assistant City Clerk ; ofbott lias been arrested, chnrged with ■ forgery. Ho is prominent in the Knights [of Labor, is editor of a paper, and something of a politician. - Dispatches from Nogales, Arizona, say i that the Indians are threatening trouble. ■ A number of persons have been killed, i Troops haves beon. sent after the marau i ere. A special from Ozark, Mo., says: About I 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the 7th inst., Mob Meadows, an old citizen of Christian county, was shot und instaqtly killed by nn unknown assassin secreted in 'the woods.