Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-05-04
CRIME

THE accounts of Governor Churchill,
of Arkansas, while serving as state treas
urer, are found 10 be short about 1926, COO.
GENERAL FoRsYTHE. with seven COM
panies Of in fantry, is on the trail of the
Apac ches, and proposes to follow it into
Mexico.
The 9TH infantry, commanded by Gen.
John Gibbon, with headquarters at Fort
Smelling, is ordered to hold itself in readi-
ness to proceed TO Arizona
A PRIZE Eight of seventeen rounds was
fough ht Tuesday morning in the outskirts
of Philadelphia, between Hop Anderson
and Tony Green, the former winning.
In the United States court al Grand
Rapids, Mich, Rev. Mr.. KoehIer was
fined 5000 for sending indecent letters TO
his wife after they had separated.
A MOB at Brookville, KY, took William
and Bradford Courts from Jail and hanged
them to limb Of q tree, side by side, for
shooting James Smith.
THE Sunday parade OF socialists in New
York was prevented by eight hundred po-
lieemen. In small parties the agitators
made their way to Brooklyn, and laid the
cornerstone of monument to Froebel.
ONE HUNDRED masked men at Lake
City, Col, took from Jail George Belts and
Jim Browning, the murderers of Sheriff
Campbell, and hanged them to a bridge.
AS the rope was being placed around his
neck, Belts asked for chew of tobacco.
THE mayor of St. Joseph, Mo-, has or
dereei suit 10 be brought against the bonds
men of Register RiHgo for $4,000, to
cover deficit in his accounts and defray
the expenses of recovering the stolen
bonds.
WILLIAM STULL, farm laborer near
Georgetown, o., killed Mrs. Calvin Sum
mers with revolver. The sheriff of
Columbiana county and posse of depu-
ties followed him into the woods near
New Franklin, where he shot himself
dead.
SEVEN students of Bowdoin college were
sued by freshman for S5 600 each Tor
damaging his eye by hazing. The case
occupied four days in the supreme court
of Maine, and President Chamberlain was
called as a witness, but the jury dis
agreed.
In the surrogates court in New York.
one of the counsel in the Yates will case,
named John Strachan, was forced to
admit that he swindled a client in Scot
land out of 81, 900 and fed to the United
States.
THE family and body of Minister HurI-
burt have arrived at New York from As
pinwau. George H. Hurlburt states that
his father was personally instructed by
President Garfield to bring about an early
peace between Chilli and Peru, and ac-
cepted the mission for that purpose be-
! Ieving that IN six months the work could
| be accomplished.
a PACKAGE of watch-iewels, valued at
81, 600, was recently sent from London TO
the agent of the Elgin Watch company in
New York, TO be forwarded to the factory.
| Between the customs officers and the ex-
press messengers is divided the RESPONSE
bility for the mysterious disappearance of
bundle representing one-third the con-
| signment. The matter has for several
| days been in the hands of government de-
tectives in Chicago.
| In the senate the river Improvement
bill, giving $5,000,000 for the Mississippi
and $1,000,000 for the Missouri was
passed without objection. The anti-Chi-
| nese bill then came up. The 14th section,
prohibiting the naturalization of Celes-
/ tials, was retained by vote OF so to %.
| The 18th section, relating to skilled labor
| ers, was stricken out when an adjourn
ment was effected.
| THE latest social sensation at St. Louis
| is the elopement of the wife of a CONNER
cial traveller. the mother of three children,
with John Curtis. not quite II years of
age. whose father is bucket-shop keeper
! in the chamber of commerce. Mrs. Dixon
sent word to her mother to take care of
her little ones. The police are on the
trail of the fugitives.
JOHN A. WILL, of Shelby, o., put a
bullet through the brain of Thomas
Kelly, at Chicago, who had staggered
against him. The murderer walked
across La Sale street and threatened TO
shoot young man whom he met. Loud
threats of lynching were made and VIII
drew his revolver and kept the crowd at
bay until the patrol wagon reached him
at Market street. The police were COM
PEELED to club him to Inconsistencies be-
fore they could secure him. Will saws
he shot JEFF Mickey, at Vernon, O., eight
years ago.
AT the st. Lawrence hotel. in Chicago.
q drug clerk named Andrew Mofat, "a