Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-06-08
CRIME.

Dr.. G. c. HOFFMAN, German journal
ist of Quincy, ILL.,, was shot three times
by the brothers Hellhake for publiaking
the attempted suicide of their sister.
The federal grand jury at Omaha found
an Indictment with twenty-five counts
against ID. G. Hull, late custodian of the
postoffiice building at Lincoln, for defraud-
ing the government by fraudulent vouch-
er5.
PATRICK MORAN. of Brooklyn, has
broug ht suit for $4,000 against the war
den, deputy warden, and one of the keep
ers of the Auburn penitentiary. for tor
turing him while he was serving a term
for passing counterfeit money.
A SALOON mas been opened next door to
| the reading-room Of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance union in Leavenworth,
and mass-meeting of one thousand per-
sons resolved to invoke the aid of the city
and state authorities in closing it.
| CAPTAIN KRAMER and troop of caval-
ry have been out from Fort Apache to
preserve the peace between the settlers at
| Forest Dale and Chief Pedro's band of
| White Mountain Indians Each party
desires to cultive the soil on a disputed
tract rear the reservation, and the whites
have got in their crops.
| The soldiers monument on the grounds
of the state normal school at MiIlersville,
Pa, was bespattered with ink and other
compounds by unknown parties Tuesday
night, and is supposed to be permanently
ruined.
BUFFALO BILL was robbed at Denver of
money and iewelry valued at $4,000, He
declares himself certain of obtaining fifty
| Of Ia nd on E1oIid oropuo GlouoIand
which his uncle sold by forging the deed
In Leadville, in a crowded street,
| Robert Bartamass and d. w. Fiesher shot
each other, and died almost instantly.
| The latter was peritentiary bird, and had
been arrested for robbing Bartamass.
| AwHoLRsALE liquor firm of Boston, in
order 10 get barrel Of whisky to GUS
toner at Claremont, n. H., where prohi-
bition is in full force, labeled it kerosene
oil. and painted it to carry out the decep-
ton, Now they have been convicted of a
violation of the internal revenue laws.
PATRICK FITZGERALD, noted burglar,
recently returned to Chicago, and four
officers of the Twelfth street station went
to his residence to arrest him. He
grabbed revolver and hit policeman
on the knee, whereupon he was shot in
| the shoulder and taken to the station for
| treatment,
RUsTLERs from Arizona are committing
extensive depredations in New Mexico =.
Governor Sheldon has placed the La Me-
silla military company in the field; Sher-
| if Bull, with twenty-five men, is in pur-
suit of gang which robbed ranch near
Elva Springs, and the Las Cruces militia
men are securing the country for squad
| who robbed Randall Station
IT will be remembered that George
Ellis, one of the murderers of the Gibbons
family at Ashland, KY, has been SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life. At the
time of the terrible tragedy, last Decem-
Der, the people were with great difficulty
restrained from taking swift vengeance on
the butchers. The escape of Ellis from
the gallows was too much to be endured.
A party of thirty masked men impressed
a train into their service. at 2 o'clock Sat-
urday morning, to proceed from Ashland
to Catlettsburg. At the latter place they
took Ellis from Jail and carried him back
with them to the scene of the murder, and
hanged him to sycamore tree. William
Craft and Ellis Neal. the others concerned
in the tragedy, are in Jail at Lexington,
under sentence of death.