Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-12-30

ing house in Cincinnati, on Dec. 23d.
an Ohio farmer was robbed of $1,000.
JoNAT.- AN MoYER has been convicted of
participation ia the murder of John Kintz-
Ter and wife, at Middleburg, Pa.
ANDERwERT, the newly-elected presi-
| dent of the Swiss confederation, shot him
self dead on the street at Berne, last week.
FIVE men who pleaded guilty, in the
courts of New York, to sending lottery
tickets through the mails have been fined
$500 each.
r. G. WALDEN, chief engineer of the
fire department Of North Adams. Mass,
has been held to bail for attempts to burn
the town.
Bob THURMAN (colored) was mortally
shot at Versailles, KY, Dec. 24, by James
Ashmore, while he was robbing chicken
roost.
OFFICER MUM, of La Sale, H., shot
and dangerously wounded John Mcclure.
The officer tried to arrest Mcclure, who
resisted. The ball entered the mans thigh
CHIEF HAYES, of the Ansonia, Conn,
police, was shot dead Thursday night by a
ruffian named ''Chip" Smith, whom he
attempted to arrest.
THREE men, named John Shea, Chester
Morse and John Bruce, vile attempting to
cross the B. & A, railroad tack, in a wag-
on, near Walkers Grove, Mass, were
struck by the train and all instantly killed.
GEO. JOHNSTON, one of the parties ar
rested for plundering the baggage on the
Council Bluffs road, was acquitted in the
courts of Kansas City, Dec. 24 There was
no evidence to convict him.
road town at Franklin, Mo-, Andrew Beal
young negro. killed Henry Speers, an
engineer, with razor. The murderer
fled in the direction of st. Louis. followed
by competent lynching party.
An unknown fiend fired shots into
smoking-car on the Iron Mountain rail
way, at NeeIeyville, Mo-, on Friday night,
and escaped into the forest. Dir. J. II.
Z. T. Jones and wife, from Pennsylvania,
mortally wounded.
a DISPUTE arose on The 9th at a supper
table at boarding house in New Alexan-
dria, Ohio, near Steubenville, and DIR.
Henry, dentist, attacked DR.. Schooley, a
prominent young physician of Mount
Pleasant. A wealthy farmer named Buck
ingham took Henry's part, when Schooley
drew a revolver and put ball through
Buckingham'S head, inflicting a probably
fatal wound. Henry seized a shovel and
beat Schooley about the head, wounding
him so that he cannot recover. They are
all of the best citizens of Jefferson county
THE railroad to the city of Mexico be-
gins to look like a sure thing. A banking
house in New York has advertised that it
will receive bids for seven and half mil
lions in bonds and seven and a half in
shares for the proposed construction of
railroad from the city of Mexico to Laredo,
on the Rio Grande, where it will meet the
American system. The distance is $50
miles. The route is generally favorable,
and 1t could be constructed for that sum if
there is no stealing on the part of the Off
GERS and the contractors.
A LEADING Boston dry-goods house will
doubtless be made to suffer for the blunder
of its private detective. A'day or two ago
wealthy lady, wife Of an iron manufac-
turer of the city, was in the store making
purchases when she was suddenly accosted
by the private detective who asked for the
things she had stolen. Notwithstanding
her protestations of innocence and her
offer to prove her respectability. she was
arrested and searched, and handed over to
the police. It seems that cheap collar,
worth 80 cents, had become attached to
the fringe on her cloak sleeve and on this
the arrest was based. 1t is understood
that the husband has instructed a LAWYER
to proceed with a suit against the house.
All names are withheld at present.