Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-12-09
CRIME.

THE MondeII House, at Prairie du
| Chien, burned on the 4th inst Nothing
was saved. Loss $4,000.
CHARLES HENDERSON, colored, wa.
hanged at Friar's Point, Miss. on Friday
| for the murder of Thomas King, a white
man.
THE residence of William S. Ridgway
of Cincinnati, was robbed of 81 POO worth
of Jewelry and plate while the family wa:
at supper.
Mrs. CASEY, of Toronto Can, was found
in bed, with her two children roasted tC
death. The mother is not injured, and is
held on the charge of murder.
Mrs. LITTLEFIELD, of East Stoughton
Mass, in a fit of insanity, poisoned hel
husband and son, and then killed herself
wieh a revolver.
VIM. BARRY, only sixteen years of age
goes to the Indiana penitentiary for seven
years for shooting Conductor Whitaker
of the Wabash road, in the mouth.
THREE men broke plate-glass window
in a iuweler's store on the main thorough
fare of Pittsburg, on the 4th inst, took
out 81, 900 worth of booty, and disappeared
in the darkness.
HARDWOOD, the Minneapolis bankrupt,
now schedules liabilities of over 81 900,
600. 1t has developed that his wife was
paid S9S, 900 on confessed judgment from
funds collected before the assignment, and
has disappeared 18th her children.
In consideration of hiS discharge on his
own recognizance. Brockway, the famous
counterfeiter. has, it is alleged, surrender
ed to the secret service bureau twenty-five
plates from which swurious bonds have
been printed, Smythe and Owens are on
bail i'll Brooklyn.
Mrs. ELIZABETH METCALE, Of Lexing-
ton, Mo, aged rs years met with most
awful death on the 4th inst In endeavor-
ing TO light fire her clothing was in some
way ignited, and before assistance came
was entirely consumed, burnt her flesh into
a crisp from head to foot. She lived two
hours after the accident.
A MAIL pouch for Chicago, containing
about seven hundred letters, was stoler
from the Grand Trunk platform at Mount
Clemens, Mich, on the 2nd inst. The foot
prints of the thief were followed to 3
swamp, where the rifed pouch wa:
found
A. c. WILLIAMS formerly postmaster
at Darlington. Indian Territory, has beer
tried at Fort Smith for robbing the mail
Having pleaded guilty to twelve counts o
the Indictment against him, and restol ed
$500 taken from registered letters, he was
find 800 in each case.
A SERVANT girl ofDetroit, Mich, named
NiIheImina Spindler, undertook to kindlt
slow fire by pouring OF
kerosene oil. The oil ignited and an ex
plosion followed, setting the girls cloth
ing on fire. When discovered she was one
mass of flames, and every shred of hel
clothing was burned from her body. She
survived in terrible agony but few hours
when death came to her relief.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass, is much aroused
at the discovery of an organized system ri
robbery among the clerks in the various
stores. The boys have been living fast
and it is found they have bean receiving
all the goods they wanted from each
others stores without pay. Ten or ;
dozen young men have already beer
caught. 1t is thought there will be many
others. The thefts aggregate a large
amount, how much is not known definite
". Many youths from the best familie
in town, are involved.