Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-12-16
CRIME.
borough.

THE Hoosac tunnel is to be illuminated
by electric lights. If the experiment
proves successful they will be permanently
continued.
JOE PARRISH, who is suspected of grab
bling 5000 from the hands of Fred Gift
ford, Detroit bank teller, some months
ago, has been jailed at Cincinnati.
AGENTS of the secret service have ar
rested, in New York and Brooklyn, nine
men who have been manufacturing and
circulating counterfeit silver coin. They
were held in $4,000 each.
Mrs. SNYDER, who recently eloped with
j. l.. Card from Woodbridge, Ont, has
returned home, stating that her paramount
deserted her at Chicago, taking $4,000 of
her money.
Mrs. GLAssMA, Il German woman of
Marquette, Greenlake county. Wisconsin,
killed her babe on the 10th ints., by cut
ting its throat 1t IS thought she was in
sane.
In consideration of HE 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 spurious bonds have
been printed, Smythe and Owens are on
bail i'll Brooklyn.
c.. /. LAWRENCE, who was reported to
have been killed by an officer while COM
mitting a burglary at Fort Madison, Iowa,
has been jailed at Rochelle, Ill. a tele-
gram to his wife at Hannibal, Mo, an
nouncing his death, served to raise full
purse for her travelling expenses.
JOHN w. KNAPP and wife, who recently
removed from Oxford, Iowa, to Decatur
ILL.,, have been arrested for forging pension
papers, securing 1888. His aged mother,
residing at Hartland o., was entitled to
pension, for which he prepared blanks,
and her late application in person revealed
the crime.
Ex-LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR FISK, of
Kentucky, who is urged for q place in
Garfeld's cabinet, was in office at the out
break of the rebellion, and it is claimed
did effective work in preventing the seces-
sion of that state He is q warm friend of
General Sherman.
GEN. JOSEPH w. BROWN, of Michigan,
who established the first stage mail route
between Detroit and Chicago, was prom
inent in the Black Hawk war, and during,
his long public career filled many import
ant positions in his state died on the 10th
inst, at the age of 80.
JUDGE hELLE1 > substitute lOf Inc
Wood refunding bill provides for the issue
of 9400000,000 of per cent. interest
notes, redeemable at the pleasure of the
government after one year, and due ten
years after date 1t is further provided
that no more of these notes shall be re-
deemed in any year than to the amount of
the sinking fund.
THE captain of the Mexican gunboat
Democratic, who refused to surrender.
under the extradition treaty, a country
man to San Francisco court has thought
better Of it and given up the man. So
the fury has blown over and the United
States naval vessels at San Francisco will
not be called upon to open fire on the
Mexican craft, and the speck of war LAS
disappeared.
The few demons of Victorias band
still living have devastated the ranches
near chihuahua, Mexico, and murdered
and mutilated thirty persons. When
General Terrasas was marching home
ward with ten men, a band of thirty
Apaches appeared and slaughtered eight
of the soldiers, cutting into strips the
| flesh of one who was riding in Victoria S
saddle.
| An attempt was made on the 10th inst,
to wreck the express-train on the Detroit
Grand Haven & Milwaukee road by
| placing a rail across the track some miles
! from Detroit This was the third attempt
of the kind Detectives were employed
to find out the cowardly perpetrator.
They succeeded in finding him
17-year old boy named Brown, employed
| by farmer in the vicinity. Brow con-
fesses his guilt, but excuses himself by
saying that he was drunk when he laid the
rail across the track