Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-09-21
GRAND RAPIDS, WIS., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 81, 1892

with their beaus. One of them fatally
shot her husband in self-defense, as he at
tackled her.
| The Des Moines people propose to clear
out the gang of cut-throats that infest
that city even if it takes mob law to do it
The man Harris, who attacked and fatal
| lY beat Mr.. James, merchant, would
nave been hung in the streets if the sher.
! 1T had not secreted him.
JAMES II. ELLIOTT, a New York at.
! torney, has been arrestsd for entering
| through a window the house of an actress
named Amelia Laurent and abstracting a
| deed for property valued at S25, 900. Ii
would seem that the woman had locked
herself up in order to starve to death.
WHILE OWEN McSorley, of Staten L.
land, was driving. strangers called at his
residence and informed the serving man
that the coach had broken down. The
man hurried to the assistance of his en-
ployer, and during his absence the house
was robbed of $4,000 worth of bonds.
JOHN B. DAVIS, president of the recent
ly suspended Richmond Banking and In
surance company, made deed of convey
ance of his property for the benefit of
creditors of the bank. The deed was
signed Jointly by Davis and wife. The
property relinquished is valued at over
100000 States Attorney General Blair
has given notice of suit on bond of
100000 for the security of state deposits
in the suspended bank above 100000.
EAST ST. LOUIS is greatly excited on the
question of permitting negro children to
attend schools in which white children
are taught. The schools have been closed.
because negro children presented them
selves, but were refused admission. The
site chosen for the negro school is oh
iectionable to that people, hence the
trouble. Street fights have occurred be-
tween both the children and their parents
THE police of Chicago have captured a
girl of ii who, within the past year, has
stolen over $1,000 worth of goods from
private residences. Last Sunday evening
she took jewelry valued at 1886 from a
house on North Clark street, and secreted
it at home. Her mother has spent seven
years in the peaitentiary and two in the
county jail. Large amounts of the stolen
property were identified and restored to
the owners.
A HEAVY robbery occurred on the 9th
inst. from the Adams Express company,
involving the loss of nineteen $1,000
bonds of the Leavenworth City and Fort
Leavenworth Water company. The bonds
we're in transit from Donnell, Lawson &
Simpson. of New York, to the Massachu-
setts Mutual Life Insurance company of
Springfield. They were stolen in Spring
field. The bonds were folded in such a
way that they looked like package of
bank notes, and the value was inscribed
upon the package. They were numbered
from 152 to 40 inclusive, and had been
receipled for at that value by the Adams
Express company, upon whom the loss
falls.
JAMES TRACY. the murderer of Police
Officer Huebner, expiated his crime on
the gallows in the Chicago jail. Long be-
fore the appointed time, there was large
crowd about the Jail, and the throng in
creased at the appointed hour. Only 200
persons, however, were admitted to wit
ness the execution. Tracy walked firmly
and unassisted to the gallows. At 1:47
and other priests, the sheriff and Janitor
COLI, walked up the steps of the scafold.
The moose was adjusted, the black cap
pulled over his head, and the sheriff gave
the signal TO spring the trap, and the body,
with drop of six feet, swung off into the
air. On the scaffold he said: 81 have
nothing to say except that l am an limo.
cent man. Though / meet nay maker
soon, can but declare my innocence.
Truth is mighty aud will prevail. l die
an innocent man." At 2:0S o'clock the
pulse was 40; at Pill the heart puIsation
stopped; at 2:25 he was pronounced dead,
and at 2:28 the body was cut down.