Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-07-14
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put on trial in the Chicigo Criminal

put on trial in the Chicigo Criminal
Court.
Two of the Missouri land swindlers.
Robert l.. Lindsey and John F. Norris,
have been handed over to the sheriff of
Jefferson county, Ohio, where they were
recently indicted.
JOHN DENNIS, a market gardner in the
lower part of New Orleans, grew weary
of losing melons by thieves. and sat up
with shotgun. About > o'clock on SAT
urday morning, h3 killed Robert Gurien.
neighbor. in the act of robbing his
patch.
The sequel of quarrel between Hugh
Blgney and John White, at Pittsburgh,
Pa, was that the latter, a colored man.
knocked Bigney down with paver, and
then pounded him on the head, infiicting
injuries from which he died soon after
ward.
A PASSENGER on the Chicago and East
ern Illinois road was on Saturday night
robbed of 81 800 by two colored men. One
of them confessed the crime, and stated
that he threw the money from car win
dow just north of Watseka. Search was
made by the victim, and about 5000 found
scattered along the track.
n MAShhD DuIkldT klCheu AT the door OF
the house OF the Rev. Mr. Stewart, of Min
neapolls, Mimi. and frankly explained
what he wanted. The minister made q
sturdy fight, but as his wife. in the dark
ness, made a mistake, and pounded him
instead of the burglar with an Indian
club, he had to give it up, AID the burglar
ransacked the house without getting much
plunder.
GIUsEPPI EsPosITO, Il remarkably hand
some Italian, the sole survivor of a famous
band of brigands, for whose arrest a re-
ward or 1000 lire was offered, was caught
In New Orleans, where he had been quiet.
iy running fruit schooner. He is in
irons on board a steamer bound for New
York, where an Italian war-vessel is wait
ing to take him home.
GLEN GALLON, who butchered Thomas
Dilley and wife in their bed last Decem-
Der, has been convicted, and will doubt
less live In history as the first man hanged
IN Henry county, Illinois. The sole mo-
tive Tor the crime was the possession of
two old watches, which he could have
| stolen at any time. The brute is utterly
indifferent as to his position.
AT the sand hills, about forty miles
south of Ell Paso, the decaying bodies of
thirteen men of the Mexican Central sur
veying party were found by some Ameri-
can tourists. The news was at once car
rled to FL Paso, from which point a strong
detachment of troops was sent out. 1t is
believed that the massacre was the work
of the remnant of Victoria's band of
Apaches, who for months have been com
mitting depredations in the Sierra Can
deleria.
THE Talbot boys of Marysville, Mo-,
have made a confession in presence of
several lawyers and some personal friends.
Edward. the younger, states that his par
ents were engaged in a war of words
when he entered the room, and he picked
up double-barrel shot gun and fatally
wounded his father, who made diving re-
quest that the facts be suppressed. The
elder son then took the gun and broke the
window, to make it appear that the crime
was the work of an assassin outside The
doctor sent Tor an attorney and made his
will: dividing his property among his
family