Fearful Crimes

MUEDEBED IN A SA VAGE MANNEE. Dubuque, la., July 18.- John Elkins, tenant on the farm of Allen Porter, In Clayton County, about seven miles northeast of Edgewood, and hls wife were brutally murdered In their sleeping-room about 8 o'clock Wednesday mornIng. Klkins was killed with a rifle which he had in the house, and which after being used had been huns back in its place on the wail. Mra Elklns' head was battered to pieces with a heavy stick, and her body horribly broken and mutilated. Suspicion reste strongly on two gons of Elkins by a former wlfe with whom Elkins has had frequent! quarrels. The eider of the boys, about 23 years oíd, has been living away from home a great deal, and the other, aged about 11, Blept in the barn Tucsday night, contrary to hls usual cUBtora. Elkins was suppoeed to have had about Í3U0 In the house, which has not yet been found. TBAOÏDT AT ST. LOUIS. St. Louis, July 21.- Four pistol-shota flred in rapid succession and the form of a young woman leaping from a Recond-story wlndow on Fine street created a great engation shortly after 9 o'clock Friday night The woman was picked up and carried into a drugf store across the street, where it was found that Bhe was shot througa the muscles of the right arm; but otherwise unlnjured, save being badly shaken up by her falL The would-be murderer appeared at the open wiudow wtth the smoking revolver in his hand, pecred out, and not seeing his victim etepped back into the room and another Bhot was heard, followed by the fall of a body, and when the pólice burst open the door they found their prisoner on the floor weltering in his own blood. The would-be murderer and suicide proved to be a well-known g-ambler and all-round sport, James T. Daly. HU victim is Lillie Davis, an inmate of a notorious house on Chestaut street Daly committed the deed because the girl had pawned a valuable diamond which he had given her. A TBIPLE TBAOEDT. Cleveland, O., July 22.- At Edgerton, O., Bunday morning Hiram Hoadley, Jr., shot Rnd killed his wife and her father, a farmer named Newman, and then killed himself. Hoadley's wife had applied for a divorce and was living with her párente. Hoadley lay in walt for hi wife as she went out to the barn to milk the cows, and shot her down. Newman, hearing the report, ran to his daughter's aid and received a bullet in the breast Hoadley then went to the house and tried to klll his mother-in-taw, failing in which he returned to the barn, lay down beside his wife's body and put a builet in his head. He had three revolverá on hls person, and it is he intended to kill the entire Newman family. KILLED THEIR BABE. Wabkaw, Ind., July 2ü.- The authorities of this county on Thursday took into custody Martha Danks, charged with murder, and her husband, Daniel, as an accessory. Danks recently became a crank on the subject of religión, and it is said, compelled his wife to strangle their 15 months old ohild as a sacriflce, assertlng that the Almighty hadpromised to resurrect the clnld on the third day. When Danks was arrested he had been carrying the dead infant in his arms for two days.