River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-12-25

house on the 10Th and demanded his
surrender. 1t is said that he opened the
door with pistol in his hand, when he
was Immediately shot through the heart.
He was colonel of Kentucky regiment
in the union army during the war.
PossoM REA and Henry Orrell, two of
the Wapella band of desperadoes, who
were arrested about two months since
for stealing corn, harness and other diff.
ferent articles from farmers in that vicin
ity, and for breaking into a store at Wa
pella, ILL.,, were sentenced last Saturday
morning by Judge Lacey, the former for
one year and the latter for two years,
says dispatch of Dec. 10Th. Antonio
Rivers, a young Italian, and Charles Nc
Carly were sentenced to two years each
in the reform school, the former for
breaking into j. w. Day s. Go $ drug
store, and the latter for stealing horse
about two months since.
THE people of New Canton, 20 miles
south of Quincy, ILL.,, says dispatch of
the 18th inst, are greatly excited by find
ing the house recently occupied by man
and his wife entirely deserted, but with
all the furniture intact and blood ON va
rious articles about the place. Cries of
murder were heard coming from the
house on the previous Thursday night,
but no investigation was made until the
18th. 1t was found that neighbor, who
had threatened their lives, had shipped
his goods at the same lime to Lorraine, in
that county. The theory is that he packed
the bodies of his victims in casks and
took them along. The excitement is in
tense in that section and men are scour-
ing the county in search of the remains
OF n ct,nrNnpaA 1rIn
4 DISPATCH from Northern Wisconsin
Dec. 18th gives the particulars of a sad
case at Alma Center, Jackson county,
which has filled two families with grief.
John B. Inskeep, well-to-do farmer,
owning two farms and valuable personal
property in this township, has eloped
with his wife's sister, Miss Davis, a
pretty girl of II years, who for the past
year has been attending school at this
village preparing to teach. Inskeep had
sold all his grain but the seed for the
next years crop; paid all his debts, and
borrowing $500 upon one of his farms
decamped with his victim on the same
evening that he received the money upon
his note and mortgage. He took with
him about $1,000 in cash. The crime is
aggravated by the situation in which
he left his wife. she having babe but
four months old, not being in robust
health, only 10 years of age and woman
of delicate sensibilltles.
IN June last an attempt was made to
murder the Hoskins family in Washing
ton county, Iowa, by gambler who had
been sutton for the hand of Miss Hos
kins. The mother informed the syoung
man that he must cease paying his ad-
dresses to her daughter, wbereupon he
secretly entered the house, assaulted
the old lady and her SO 18th club,
leaving them for dead 0 4e floor He
then attempted to outr the girl, and
subsequently fled fro neighbor-
hood. Every effort was by the Of
Ulcers of Washington Gy to appre-
bend the woulG-be r, but with
out avail. On the 9th il. :. Deputy Sher-
if Cole, of Gratiot, Wis, arrested a man
answering to the description of the gam
bier who assaulted the Hoskins family
in Washington county, Iowa, and who
subsequently proved TO be the same par
ty whom the Iowa officials were in
search Of On the 18th of December the
prisoner was turned over TO a detective
on a requis. tion from Gov. Gear, and ia
ken to Washington county, Iowa. He
came to Grant county, Wisconsin, in July
last, and married girl after an acquain-
lance OF two days, settling down at Blue
River. He is desperate character, and
has served two terms in the penite ntiary
at Fort Madison, for larceny.