Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-06-03
CRIME.
boy, Ill, committed suicide by cutting
h is throat

boy, Ill, committed suicide by cutting
his throat.
PFEILHAUER, the murderer Of Hoch,
was arrested at Warsaw, H., and will
be taken to Peoria at once.
A SHOOTING affair at Sidney, Neb., re-
suited in the wounding Of Patsey
Walters, bartender, by detective Smith.
The latter was shot in the left hand.
ADRIAN RYNARD and wife were lodged
in the penitentiary at Nashville, Tenn,
to serve term Of five years for the MUIR
der of an adopted child. The father
and mother were accompanied by two
young female children.
GEORGE GossMAN, a German, of De
troit, came to Cincinnati a few days ago
in search of work. Not finding any, he
pawned his watch and chain for
$3.50, with which he bought a pistol
and shot himself through the brain.
HARTMAN, alias Heyman, alias Henry
Levy, arrested on a charge of forgery, IN
| Chicago, to the amount of $1,000, is
held to await the arrival Of a requisition
of the governor of Illinois. Levy was a
LAWYERS clerk in New York and de-
f-auded his employers out of several
thousand dollars by collecting their fees.
| EX-aLDERMAN h1BAhIOo IhlNS 9dOI
himself through the head standing in
front of a looking-giass in his room at
the fremont House, Dubuque, Iowa,
diving instantly. Domestic troubles and
too free indul gence in drink brought him
10 want and despair. For the past year
. or two he has lived stranger from his
: family, and in dire necessity
IT is announced that the friends o.
| po1Nn rhni iE n q
l at Greenville, Ohio, in July. have threat
2 ened to burn the city to the ground if ht
e is executed in public. Such action wa:
!. contemplated by the authorities, but they
J., will probably accede to their demands
inasmuch as they constitute very bat
;, crowd.
+ GEORGE CARPENTER, a convict IN tn
S penitentiary at Joliet, H., made bolt
e dash for liberty. He was at work ou
G side the walls, nd while the guards a.
l. tention was called the other way h
y slipped from the gang, jumped into tn
canal, swan across and jumped into tn
e river, and succeeded in crossing thi
e but the guard put after him in boa
v and he being exhausted by his lon
} swim, was easily captured and returne
'e to the penitentiary.
Ie SIX men aud boys, named John Flcar
le John Moore, Charles Milla, Mathis
Drace, John w. Ladyks, and Anto
h, Semred, were arrested in the town I
a, Cooperstown, Manitowoc county Wi:
" and taken to Manitowoc for trial. The
Il. are the crowd who were engaged in Il
I'd charivari party few weeks ago, wher
I'd bv an old man named Heting got in
in trouble by shooting into them when the
In refused to leave, after being order'
lg away.
A BOLD robbery occurred in the cas-
of room of theU. s. Treasury fresuling
lis the loss of 2,700. A messenger from t
ife Congressional Library presented Or;
pc at the paying teller's window for Il
mt above named amount. The money W
ch paid over to him, and he turned for
en- moment 10 get package of papers
en- the counter, when his money mysterio1
by ly disappeared There were seve
Ii persons in the cash room at the tin
in but the money was taken so adroitly
'pe to excite no suspicion. The case
,dy been given TO the secret service for
WI who express the opinion that it was
be putup job.
,ot. DURING a fight between roughs