Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-01
CRIME.

Two negro murderers were taken from
Jail at Monroe, La, and lynched.
A JRwELRY store at Atlantic CITY, n J. .
was robbed of goods valued at $4,000
while the proprietor was absent for din
ner.
AT Lexington, Mo-, the other night, the
omnibus running 10 the depot was stopped
by four masked men and the passengers
robbed of all their valuabes.
ALDERIAN PITTS, wealthy farmer near
Murfreesboro, Tenn, was assassinated in
his me lon-patch evidently because he had
commenced divorce suit.
A NEGRO river guard at Laredo, Texas,
has several times been fired upon. it is
believed by Mexicans, on account of his
color.
The colored people of Galveston have
passed resolutions excoriating Governor
Roberts for permitting the hutchery Of
innocent negroes by the mob at Orange.
STEPHEN ORNAY. who was arrested in
Boston for the embezzlement of money
from the German government, has been
placed aboard Hamburg steamer at New
York.
THE shooting of d putty sheriff at
Renson, Arizona, caused the citizens to
burn the furniture of gambling der and
order the whole party to leave by first
train or be lynched
Mrs. GEORGE STONE, of Waukegan, Ill,
was lodged in jail for causing the death OF
Mrs Frank Foster, whom she frightened
into premature confinement by her Jealous
rage.
OrwAY E. ZANTzINGER, a young mer-
chant OF Baltimore. a nephew OF Mrs. Ad-
miral Farragut, has been arrested and
sent TO st. Lohis for obtaining under false
pretenses 81, 600 worth of -four.
A FEUD of long standing resulted in an
affray at Johnston, S. c., in which J. w.
Zimmerman was killed, and J. w. Bnz-
zard and his son seriou-ly wounded, with
dOuble-barreled shOt-guns.
Tue Indiana, Bloomington and Western
Railway company offers a reward of $500
tor The convection of the man who tied the
boy Cantwell to the track and caused his
death by mutilation.
GEN. MORTON, the swindler, has reached
Richmond, AMI the police are anxious to
prevent a lynching. Miss Turpen, the
victim of one of his big tmous marriages.
lives liz strict seclusion in that city with
her widowed motl.er.
The conspirators among the Cornell
crew are said by the Ithaca Journal to
have been led by Shinkel. his partners
being Michael Casey, saloon keeper, and
Samuel w. Reed, wholesale liquor deal
er. Shinkel wrote to Casey from London
to bet against the crew.
LUCIUs NJ. WITHAM, who was once p0-
lice captain at Lowell, Mass, but who Tor
sixten years been resident of Reehsboro,
VT, was shot dead through a window by
some unknown person at night. 1t is
known that his life had been threatened
by neIghbor named Calvin Fuller.
GEN. MORTON, the bgamist and swir
dler, was taken from the train on the out
skirts of r chmond, Va, and quietly
placed in jail. His appearance has under
gone a wonderful change in few weeks,
but the detectives say it is simulated. A
Snowman offers 5000 for the privilege of
exhibiting him for one night.
THE attorneys for the Malleys, of New
Haven, charged with the murder of Jen-
ME Cramer, finding that bail will not he
received, announce that a writ of habeas
corpus will be sued out, thus compelling
the prosecution to outline its case. It is
reported that medical examination Of
Jennie's stomach revealed the presence of
cantharides.