Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

Cf Waldron ran away two weeks ago,
with a girl twelve years old, his wife's
sister.
JULIA BROWN, 10 years of age, who
claims to live in Green Bay, Wis, was ar
rested in Milwaukee, Wis, on the 2Oth
inst, for shop-lifting.
PATRICK KING, of Des Moines, Iowa,
while escorting two young women home.
was shot through the stomach by a man
named Wallace. The latter and several
girls are under arrest. Kings recovery is
doubtful.
Two lads named respectively Wellin and
Ray, the former aged Is and the latter IA
wears, living near Danv;lle, H., began
throwing clods at each other in cornfeld.
Ray got mad" and hit Wellin with a
club on the back of the head, killing him
almost instantly.
JAMES CLARK, who came from the east
and purchased a farm, was murdered in
the woods near Clinton, Henry county,
Mo-, some twelve years ago. 4 man named
John c. Williams, alias Patterson, was ar
rested for the crime, but broke Jail at
Within few days the fellow has been
has confessed his crime.
Two prisoners confined in the Minnea-
polls, jail broke out on the 18th inst. and
have not since been apprehended. They
were VIM. Scott, in for burglary and
Steve Golden, held for larency. Scott is 26
years old, five feet and eight inches, and
dark complexion Golden is % years DID,
light cOmpleXioned, brown hair, blue eyes
and stands five feet eleven and one-half
inches in height.
A SPECIAL to The Commercial from Bed
ford, Ind, says that trouble in the Catholic
church there led to an affray, in which
Emil Gaussein was stabbed ten times by a
man named Gertzel. The priest refused
to baptize Gaussein's child, and the father
cursed the priest. His friends took up
the quarrel, and this is the result. This
is the same priest who made everybody in
the place angry last Sunday by preaching
a strong sermen against the saloons.
An elegant gold watch was stolen from
the residence of T. G.. Wright, of Racine,
Wis, the number of the watch was posted
in different jewelry establishments of that
city. At ) p. m., on the 18th inst, a
women entered the store of. w. Spence and
produced the Identical watch. Mr.. Spence
kept the woman in conversation while he
dispatched boy for Chief Mills, who eff
fected the arrest promptly. The crook
proved well known woman of the town,
named Kate A. Anderson.
On the 18th inst, at Ft. Scott, Kansas,
some fifty men rode to the Jail and called
up Sheriff Rucker, and OH a pretext of
having a prisoner for him induced him to
unlock the jail. They then seized the
sheriff and locked him in cell, took out
Thomas Watkins, confined for horse steal
ing, and departed, since when no trace of
the party or Watkins has been discovered
One theory is that Watkins has been
lynched and another that the mob were
his friends and took this means to rescue
him.
j. G. WALKER, a son of DIR. Walker, of
indianapolis, Ind, shot and killed the
notorious burglar. Rodifer, in his fathers
residence, on the 18th inst Rodifer has
served several terms in the penitentiary,
and was recently pardoned out for good
conduct. Mrs Walker was awakened bya
noise in the house, and discovered that
some one was under the bed where her
husband slept Mrs w. quietly L"tified
her son in an adjoining room. Ia the
meantime the robber finding he was dis
covered, attempted to escape, and fired
pistol at Df. walker, missing MN. lie
was backing out of the house, covering the
doctor with his pistol and knife, but before
reaching the door young Walker came to
the rescue and fired, killing him instantly.
A SHOCKING affair occurred near Keo-
kuk, Iowa, on the 21st inst. An alterca-
tion arose between farmer by the name
of Thomas Horn and laborer by the
name of Wilson, relating to the tres passes
of COW owned by Wilson on Horns farm
Horn claimed that the COW had been in
his field for two weeks, and upon Wilson's
reply that he knew nothing of it, he said
"You must not dispute my word" at the
same time striking him over the head
with chair, fracturing his skull. He
then choked him to the floor. The attend
ing physicians say that Wilson can not re-
cover. Horn was arrested, and his bond
fixed at $1,000.