The Record Of Crime

Footpads waylaid a justice of the peace, Daniel Tanty, Cantón, Ohio, Thursday at oiidnight, beat him frightfully, and robbed bim of his money and watch. He may die. Thursday niglit, in Bald Knob townsbip, Missouri, Thomas Waltham found Jim Blakeney in Mrs. Waltham'3 bed-room. Iq trying to escape the intruder 9hot Waitbam three times and also shot one of the latter's cbildren. , Waltham then shot his wife'a paramour dead, and feil to tbe floor eovered with bood. He is not expected to recover. L. F. Lindslay, clerk in the land office at Denver, committed suicide because he was $5,U00 short in his accounts. At Kokomo, Ind., Monday morning, Charles Rusk, aged 17, shot and killed Wesley Adaras, who loaves a wife and four ebildran. There had been a dispute between the murderer and a man named Nichols, touching a statement tbat Kusk bad been intímate with Mrs. Adama, and when Adams interferred the fatal shot was fired. Joseph H. Whipple, who organized the Pembroke Koitting milis at Battle Creek, Mich., two years ago, and was president and general manager of the conipany untll Feb. 8, disappeared a day or two later, and investigation shows that be was a defaulter to a largo amount.