Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-28

for whose maintenance she was paid $40
month. She was sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment and fine Of $l25.
The COroners Jury in the case of the recent
collision on the Chicago IL st. Louis Railroad,
near Chicago, after a patient investigation and
the examination of large number of wit
nesses, have rendered decision that the vic
TINS of the disaster came to their deaths from
extensive scalds and the inhaling of steam on
the occasion of the collision; land we the jury
find from the evidence that said collision was
caused by the criminal carelessness of Edward
Beane, conductor, and Joshua Puffenberger,
engineer of said coal train No. %, in violation
of the rules and regulations of said railroad
company, governing the movement of trains
on said railroad" The company has offered
reward OF $1,000 for the apprehension of
Beane.
Kellar, the murderer of his wife and Mrs.
boyd and her two children, near Twin Springs,
Kansas, was arrested and locked up in Jail at
La Cygne. On the 10Th party of four hun
dred TO five hundred men assembled at the
jail and demanded that the Sheriff should de-
liver the prisoner to them The Sheriff refused
them Abundance to the Jail, but was over
come, and 1t was discovered that the prisoner
was not in the building, as he had been previ-
ously removed to escape the mob The
Sheriff was threatened with death unless the
place of concealment was told All authority
was put down, and the Sheriff told the place
where the prisoner had been taken to. Kellar
was then searched for and found eight miles
east OF La Cygne, and was taken back to the
town. The crowd was appealed to in behalf
OF law and order, and committee of twelve
was appointed to decide whether Kellar
should be hung or held for trial.
Inc vote was seven for hanging, and
the crowd proceeded deliberately to execute
the verdict. Boyd, the husband and
father OF the murdered family, put the moose
on hellar's neck, and the wagon ON which the
prisoner stood was driven from under him.
and the wretched man was thus executed
NO doubt existed as to kellars guilt. All
The lynchers were undisguised citizens Of the
heishporhood and county, some of them the
wcalthiest and best residents.
Fannie Bush (colored), convicted of the
murder OF an infant child in Harrison County.
kentucky, has been sentenced to be hanged on
the l4th of November. 1t is said the mother
and her children were starving, and the moth
er, half crazed, drowned one that she might
provide for the rest.
A Washington dispatch of the 21st to the
New York Times says the Secretary of the
lrea sury had authorized an explicit denial of
all published statements regarding an alleged
deficit in the Treasury 1t was claimed that
there was and had been no deficit of dollar
recent int Ia. oil.
tude and abuse, in New York city, of Italian
boys, has developed the fact that such outrages
have existed. In two houses one hundred and
nifty children were found, and in each room
ten or twelve boys were tied by the wrists
with cord. A man was in charge of every
room. In some cases the children were
marked by the padrones by branding on the
cheek, lip, or ear.
A thirteen-year old girl in Petersburg, H..
made successful attempt to kinde a fire. a
few days ago, by the use of kerosene oil She
died soon after. In St Louis, the other even.
ing, Hortense Elder used oil for fuel in the
stove. Her funeral took place the following
day.
A gang of ruffians boarded a PASSENGER
train on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, near
Holden, Mo, on the evening of Au-
gust 20. DISTINCTIONS were placed upon
the track, and while they were being
removed they came upon the train
under the pretense of searching for horse
thieves. The conductor thought they were
thieves, and called upon the passengers for
assistance. Immediately fifteen revolyers, in
the hands of fifteen determined men, were
int cd of no
quiet, and left the car at Holden On the plat
form at the latter place one of them was shot
and one severely wounded.
On the evening of August Goth a bold at
tempt was made to capture the pav-car of the
Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad, between
Cameron and Kansas City. The engineer.
when few miles out from Cameron, saw a
gang of men piIing ties on the track Revers-
ing his engine at once, he put back into Cam
eron.
An attempUwas made on the evening of the
18th to capture or damage the train of the At
lantic " Pacific Road north of Leayenworth
There were several shots fired at the engineer,
and nearly every window in his cab was bro
ken by bullets.
\ few days ago, while the Board of Super
fiSOi1 VI NiiJ SouIty, ilhduetS, were III
session at Perryviile, one Means, the former
Clerk of the County, backed by four or five
friends entered the Court House, and attacked
Matthews, an attorney, AID broke up the court
Matthews retreated into a store and there was
firing on both sides, during which Mathews
was wounded, though he managed to escane
The friends of Matthews, to the number of
49, entered the village in the evening and kill
led a man named Trice. Warrants were issued
for the arrest of Names and his party. Suisse
quently he and his followers, to the number
of thirty, entered Perryyille and took Bosses
sion of the Court House. 1t was understood
that the State militia had been detailed TO IRE
serve order
Information has reached the Bureau of Edu.
cation at Washington that Chicago and Cincin-
natl each received from the Vienna Exposition
the grand medal of progress for system of
education, teaching a d instructions and CIeve-
land and Jacksonville, ILL.,, are awarded
diploma Of merit in The same department In
this one department of education, teaching
and instruction, twenty-five prizes were award
ed to United States exhibitors
Gold closed in New York on the 2od Of
1l6%.
A Cincinnati dispatch of the ed eiycs the
following particulars of the recent collision ON
The Marietta 4 Cincinnati Railroad:
The HillsborO and Loyeland acrommod,-
ton, to which the accident occurred. left the
Montgomery station on time. The freight