Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-17
CRIME.

A BILL to establish the whipuing-post t
for wife-beaters is before the legislature
of Pennsylvania.
JOHN H. DENIBoRN, a printer, has been
arrested at Contocock, n. II. for the mur-
der of Maria L. Crue, at Groton. Mass.
ROBBERS secured 81 800 and silver
watch from passenger in sleeping-car
on the Alton road, near Lexington, Ill.,,
on Saturday night.
A LIvERYMAN of Cincinnati mas caused
the arrest of his former mistress for throw
ing the contents of a bottle of yitrol at
his face.
THE cowhiding case at St. Joseph. Mo-,
ended in E. M. Yates and DR.. w. B. Craig
paying $500 each and costs for an assault
on Herman Garlichs.
3. HOWARD STILLwELL, of Rockford. mar
rowly escaped assassination at the hands
of an unknown man. The bullet grazed
his forehead. Mr.. Stillwell can conceive
no motive for the attempt
THOMAS KING and Robert Smith, both
of Brooklyn, were killed in New York
City by the breaking of swinging ladder
upon which they were standing while
painting house.
The police of Chicago have secured
party of eight young thieves who for
weeks have been Systematically robbing
freight cars on tho lake front of valuable
goods.
In the presence of fourteen hundred
convicts, at Columbus, o., vain attempt
to murder Deputy Warden Dean with a
pair of shears was made by Augustus Can
ton, of Cincinnati.
Four more political prisoners have been
jailed at Kilmainham, Ireland. Boyton
has telegraphed statement of his arrest
to Minister Lowell, who has called upon
the British authorities for the charges
against him.
THE theft of 81, ,745 from the Adams ex-
press company at its Louisville office is
confessed by Frank Brewer and Frank
Rose, two employees, and the money has
been restored. A dispatch had found cir
culatiOn that four masked men had gagg-
ed the watchman and gobbled the cash.
A DELIBERATE plot to burn the insane
asylum at Topeka, Kansas, was frustrated
on Saturday night. Candlewick and pow
der were found in the building. A wan
dering lunatic has been arrested for the
crime.
THE Derance brothers, of New Orleans,
who shot a man in that city some months
ago because he was too attentive to their
sister, have been found guilty of man
slaughter. The Jury recommended them
to mercy.
A COMPANY has been organized in New
York to be known as the United States
Cremation Company (limited), to cremate
human dead in the quickest, best, and most
economical manner. The capital of the
company is $4,000, divided into 200
shares.
On the capture of horse-thief, at Ell
Paso, ILL.,. a cannon was fired twenty times,
and every farmer within five miles drove
in. At one time there were two thousand
people assembled to see the culprit. The
anti-horse-thief society had spent 5000 on
this case.
WELBoRNE CoLQUITT, a clerk in the
postoffice department in Washington; A.
f MCBEE, another government emplove,
and John III. Martin. law student, en-
gagged in dispute Saturday night, which
was terminated by the frst-named stab
bing the either two. Colquitt is the son OF
former United States senator, and broth
er of the governor of Georgia
GEORGE MCBRIDE, man employed by
horse dealer named William B. Simp-
son, was muruereu Dy marry 0lImOfe,
notorious crook, in front of the Wabash
Avenue Pavilion, in Chicago. Gilmore
made his escape, but Ignatius Cook, the
bartender who furnished the weapon
with which the murder was committed.
and Addison Smell. the keeper of the sa-
loon, are under arrest.
A. G. SMITH, receiver of materials for
the government works at Muscle Shoals
canal. was robbed by three men of e.. .5On
Friday, while going from bank at Flor
ence to the chief camp onthe canal. At
ter taking the money the robbers forced
Smith to accompany them through a
dense wood for twenty miles, when he
made his way back to camp, Saturday.
The men said they had been, lurking in
the neighborhood since Christmas to com
nit the robbery.