The Record Of Crime

Footpads waylaid a justice of the peace, Daniel Tanty, Canton, Ohio, Thursday at midnight, beat him frightfully, and robbed him of his money and watch. He may die.
Thursday night, in Bald Knob township, Missouri, Thomas Waltham found Jim Blakeney in Mrs. Waltham's bed-room. In trying to escape the intruder shot Waltham three times and also shot one of the latter's children. , Waltham then shot his wife's paramour dead, and fell to the floor covered with bood. He is not expected to recover.
L. F. Lindslay, clerk in the land office at Denver, committed suicide because he was $5,000 short in his accounts.
At Kokomo, Ind., Monday morning, Charles Rusk, aged 17, shot and killed Wesley Adams, who leaves a wife and four children. There had been a dispute between the murderer and a man named Nichols, touching a statement that Rusk bad been intimate with Mrs. Adams, and when Adams interferred the fatal shot was fired.
Joseph H. Whipple, who organized the Pembroke Knitting milis at Battle Creek, Mich., two years ago, and was president and general manager of the company until Feb. 8, disappeared a day or two later, and investigation shows that he was a defaulter to a large amount.