Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-11-25
CRIME.

THE grand jury at Yankton is unwilling
numerous fraudulent homestead entries in
Dakota.
AN inmate of the insane asylum in Essex
county New Jersey, hanged herself with
a rope made from her stockings and
garters.
CHARLES HAYWARD is in the Tombs at
New York on suspicion of being one of the
party who robbed the banl, of Middletown,
Conn, of $3S, 500, on the 18th inst.
JOHN RILEY, of Stevens Point, was ar
rested in Winona, Mimi, on the Goth inst.
charged with the attempted assassination
of Judge Sherman Page, at Austin, Mimi,
last summer.
JOHN DREW, private soldier of the I'd
artillery, under arrest at Fort McHenry
for sleeping at his post, blew out his brains
with a rifle which had been carelessly left
at the door of his cell.
A PENNSYLVANIA farmer, named Daniel
Troutman, residing near Uniontown, fired
at two burglars on the 18th inst, one Of
whom returned the shot, with fatal effect.
In his last moments Troutman identified
his murderer as Henry Romberger, who
was promptly arrested.
AN Arkansas man, named Ford, sec1 eted
himself in some bushes, on the Goth inst,
near Texarkana, and killed DR.. Caldwell
as he rode by. A horse trade had pre-
viously made trouble between the assassin
and his target.
INSUFFICIENT evidence in the perjury
cases of Kemble, Salter, and Crawford,
the PennsvIvanians charged with bribing
Legislators, caused the court at Harrisburg
to order vote of not guilty. They had
previously pleaded guilty to corrupt
solicitation, and been sentenced to the
penitentiary, but were pardoned out.
J. &. w. HossACK of Odell, ILL.,, Lave
made an assignment on the 22th inst, to
Jno. McWing and P. w. Kenyon. This
is the heaviest failure ever known in
Livingston county, the liabilities being
from $25O,O0O to 100000 The Hossack
Brothers were large grain dealers and owe
nearly everybody in that vicinity, and
their failure causes great dismay. 1t is
estimated they will not pay over thirty
cents on the dollar.
THE official report OF the investigating
| committee, which has been examining the
accounts of the defaulting city cashier,
Woodward, of Boston, places the total
| amount of the defalcation at $S9, ,234. 1t is
also shown that when Woodward was pro-
NOTED from clerkship to the cashiers po-
SItIOII III <AuSuSl. 1OIC3 Ills dCCOuIIS
were short S4,S79 The committee
| finds that neglect on the part of the treas
urer to personally examine Woodward's g
accounts, gave Woodward his opportu-
mites, and while expressing confidence in
the treasurer, it holds him responsible for
the amount stolen.
JOHN BERRY, treasurer OF the Bergen
| County Savings Bank, and cashier of the
Bank of Bergen County, at Hackensack,
\. J :, both of which institutions are con-
trolled by the same parties, has been ar
rested at that place, on the charge OF en-
| bezzling $50 900 to 300, 600. Both banks
are ruined, and have suspended. 1t is
stated that most of the money was lost in
| Wall street speculations and in breeding
fancy fowls Berry has turned over to the
banks property valued at $4,000. Berry
is prominent citizen, aged So, and has
heretofore been considered perfectly re-
liable. 1t is rumored that he attempted
to commit suicide with poison.
A DISPATCH from Dallas, Texas. of the
18th inst, says: This city was thrown into
great excitement to-day by the arrival of
a squad of forty armed farmers, bringing
the body of a dead man, and recounting
the hnldest robbery ever enanted in this
section. Marion johnson, planter, was
met twelve miles out by two masked men,
knocked down, and robbed Being over
taken by party in pursuit, he joined