Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-20
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In a saloon at Carliville, ILL.,, Louis
Biggs shot John Noatz. T.. dead for r-si...s
a vile epithet. The murerer's father will
be the chief witness on TIE trial.
JOHN ARNOLD, a well-hown stock deal
er at Breno, Ind, was mrdered by Basil
McLane, and the latte was shot dead
while resisting arrest.
DETECTIVE BAUER, of he secret service,
captured on a train Iear Guthrie, KY,
three members of darlg gang of coun-
terfeiters. All were arned to the teeth,
and one was loaded down with spurious
silver dollars,
EARLY Tuesday evenig the farm house
of Ezekiel Perrin, neal Girard, Ill, was
invaded by three mask'd men, who tied
and gagged the family and rode away
with $4,000 in gold.
TUE schooner Triumph, in tow of tn e
tug Success, wilfully crashed into the
bridge at Chicago avenue, on the 18Th
init, tearing away on. hundred feet Of
railing.
A wRLL-ExECUTED counterfeit of an un-
limited ticket from Buffalo to Toledo over
the Lake Shore road has been found in
the hands of Boston scalpers.
EDWARD DENIG, bodkkeeper for the
contractors on the Indiana state-hOuse,
forged warrants to the amount Of 81 800
and disappeared. Orders for his arrest
have been sent to all the chief eities.
A DUEL between Captain Riddleberger
and Hon. George D. Wise took place
about ten miles from Richmond Oct. 18th.
-Four rounds were fired without injury to
the combatants, when an amicahle adjust
ment was reached.
Two detectives of New Orleans, Thomas
DRvereaux and Michael Hennessy, ex-
changed several shots in the streets, in
which both are said to have been mortally
wounded.
A STEWARD and clerk on the Cuban
steamer Saratoga have been arrested at
New York for secreting seven hundred
pounds of gunpowder and board, with the
intention of smuggling it into the port OF
Havana.
DETECTIVE BAUER, of the secret service
made a second raid on the counterfeitinR
gang near Waverly, Tenn, and secured
seven influential p5rsons. on large
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DIR. J. 6. HOLLAND, well known in the
literary world by the title of Timothy
Titcomb," died suddenly in New York or
the 18th inst. He was born in Belcher.
town, Mass, in 1919, and graduated from
the Brooklin Medical college in 1874.
AMAsKED burglar at Wheeling, enraged
at being discovered by lady, forced her
to rise from bed without disturbing her
husband and submit to the clipping of her
luxuriant head of hair, when he took his
departure.
Mrs. FAIRBANK, the lady tied and rob
bed In the farmhouse near Wheaton, ILL.,
was taken to st. Louis to identify Henry
Myer, which she did with perfect certain
tY. The thief turned pale and his limbs
shook.
The wife of DR.. Harper, residing in
Henry county, Missouri, crazed by the
cries of her little step-daughter, cut its
throat with butcher-knife. The doctor
has to be constantly guarded to prevent
his self-destruction.
IT appears that the Arkansas train rob-
bers reside at San Augustine, Tex, where
the raid was planned. Cox and Monroe
are printers. All three of the lads were
in love. and the ventures of the James
boys prompted the Texans TO make a rich
strike with which to marry.
The discovery in New York of forged
paper of a Fort Wavne firm for $4,000
was speedily followed by the development
that spurious notes of J. K. Mcintyre, OF
Dayton, and Stevens, Wood & Tucker, OF
Columbus, had been negotiated in large
amounts. 1t transpires that John Stevens,
Jr., had been the New York buyer for all
three of the firms named, and detectives
are vainlv searching for him.
REV. WASHINGTON, Of Topeka, Kan, a
colored minister. who claims the power of
finding lost property through the aid of
spirits, has been arrested, charged with
aiding a colored girl in iobbing her en-
ployer of 800. The money was missed,
and the girl said if they would employ
the colored minister he would be able to
find it. The reverend Re enleman was en-
ployed and watched He vent to the girl,
got the money, and then pretended to fni
it in the garden. Both parties have con-
fessed their guilt.