Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-05-15
CRIME,
about $43,Ol

| HARRISON ana hIley SlOle, TWO UTOln-
ers, and desperadors who have been
! known to the police for twenty years
were ca ptured at Terre Haute, Ind, on
Friday the 9th inst.
| A DISPATCH from New York city of
the 10th says this morning tramp de-
manded the money in possession Of
Frank Carter, station master of Bogota,
on the New Jersey Midland railroad.
Being refused, he fatally shot Carter.
AN Albany, n. Y, dispatch of May
18th says while Leonard Chamberlain,
deputy sheriff of the county, was serv-
ing process to dispossess John Freder-
eek, at East Berne county. ne was shot
down and fatally wounded; he was
acting in the interest of Col. Walter S.
Church who mas charge of the lands.
A WHEELING, w. Va, dispatch OF
May 18th says: At O'clock tonight
Sessy Ross a notorious gambler robbed
an inmate of house of ilI-fame of a
gold watch valued at 5000. Officer Nal
Ioney attempted to arrest Ross when
the latter fled; Malloney fired three
shots, one taking effect infiicting dam
gerous wound.
In the criminal court of Chicago, Sat
urday, the 10th, Mark Gray, was, after
hearing of the full testimony, declar-
ed insane. Medical experts testified
that his attack on Edwin Booth was
simply an outbreak of lunacy which
will eventually develope in epiliptic in
sanity. He will be sent to the Elgin
asylum.
A LOUISVILLE, KY, dispatch of the
10th inst. says John Manley was shot
and is supposed fatally wounded late
this afternoon, by II. II. Littell, super
intendent OF the city railway. Manley
was discharged from his position as
driver for injuring a mule some days
ago. He has followed Littell ever since
and today endeavored to upset Littelrs
buggy when the latter drew pistol and
fired on him. The second shot took eff
feet in the left breast near the nipple
and is thought to be fatal.
AT Little Rock, Ark, on the morning
of the 9th inst, on going to work, the
workmen on the Catholic cathedral, a
new and imposing structure of native
granite, the walls Of which are more
than two-thirds up, discovered that
thieves had cut and carried off several
hundred feet of the guy-ropes to the
derricks, endangering the whole struc-
ture as they swayed in the wind. For
tunately all was made safe without acci-
dent. The ropes were discovered in a
secondhand junk shop, and the propri-
etOr was arrested on refusing to tell how
he got them.
AN indianapolis dispatch dated May
9th says. Geo. 2. Harding, editor of the
Herald, who attempted to assassinate
Col. Light, of the Times, is still in the
county JAIL His bail was fixed al
$1,000. Several physicians have visited
him during the past two days, and have
agreed that he is suffering from mental
arrangement. 1t is thought that he
will be committed to the hospital for in
sane tomorrow.
a PoCAssET special of the 9th says the
people there are again excited over an
insane freak of the fanatic vis,which
stamps him as a dangerous man. He
stopped two young men in the road
near his house, drew a dirk-knife
snatched from them some fishing nets
which he cut to pieces, and forbade
them to come near his dwelling. The
young men were alarmed, and. not
waiting for a second warning, quickly
left the vicinity. The man is doubtless
insane, and the slow-m owing authorities
are severely condemned for not sooner
locking him up. The Advent minister,
Charles Brown, is expected to address
the first meeting, to be held on Sunday,
but the people say if he puts in an ap-
pearance he will be given coat of tar
AMI feathers and ridden from town on
a rail. An effort will be made by the
authorities to prevent the meeting be-
ing held.