Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26
CRIME.

WILLIAM SHINGLEDECKER. of AIiIIyale
Pa, eloped with his sons wife. taking
with him $500 of his wife's own money,
Two BOYS, aged IA and IS wears. have
been arrested at Denison. Iowa. for soap-
ing the railway track and opening a
switch
Two Northern Pacific brakemen have
been arrested and taken to Bismar, (.
charged with robbing Nathan Lodonskv
a passenger on freight train, of SO.
THE residence of August Vanek. a
Bohemian, in WinOna, was entered by
thieves Monday night, and $500 in
twenty-dOllar gold pieces stolen from a
cupboard.
GEORGE w. ATHERAN'S valuable horse
Bay Dan. which was stolen from Dob
sons pasture, near Oshkosh. Wis. a few
days ago. was found near Fond du Lac
IN possession of Charles Nergin. former
ly employed by Wakeman the butcher.
Nergin was taken to Oshkosh and placed
in jail.
WHILE stepping from a street car half
block from her home in Chicago Tues
night, Miss Matilda Hand, young lady
Of good family, was seized by two men.
gagged, carried to an alley and brutallv
outraged. Her condition is precarious.
SOPHIA WARTMAN of Philadelphia.
nineteen years of age, who, in April
last, nearly succeeded in killing herself
with a revolver, almost severed her head
from her body with a razor yesterday.
She was ruined under promise of mar
riage
AN esteemed young lady living with
a family north of LarimOre, Oak, on
the north bank Of the Turtle river, at
tempted to commit suicide by taking
nitric acid and will probably die She
had been disappointed in love.
THE two Barnard brothers, charged
with murder and arson. were released
from the Vernon La jail Monday night
by crowd of armed men. They cap
tured the guard, forbidding the sheriff
coming near them and broke the lock of
the jail. The whereabouts of the prison
ers is unknown.
REV. j. c. MOBILES, of Atlantic High
lands. n. j., sent his obituary to the
New York Tribune from the Merchants
Exchange hotel, saying he was going to
commit suicide and asking Whitelaw
Reid to take care Of his wife. He left
the hotel shortly after. No traces Of him
since.
FRED SCHLUDT, ST., of Reading Pa,
had his son Fred arrested for threaten
ing his life. The son was locked up and
half an hour afterward was found dead
in his cell, having hanged himself with
strips torn from his shirt The elder
Schludt is one of the wealthiest citizens
of Reading.
Catherine Keichter. German woman
of fifty, was found dead upon her bed,
in Chicago elaborately attired in her
wedding dress, which she had not worn
for thirty years, and cup OF poison in
her hand. Her husband, a cigar maker,
has mysteriOusly disappeared.
SATURDAY afternoon, at Kensington
station, on the Illinois Central Railroad,
robbers entered the station house, ap-
preached John Foshier, the agent, from
behind, clapped their hands over his
eyes, beat him insensible, bound and
gagged him, and robbed him of 81 800,
$500 of which belonged to the company.
Six tramps were arrested on suspicion.
THOMAS CONNOLLY, who was burned
by vitriol by Bridget McCae in South
ingtOn, a week ago is very low at hos
pital in Boston. The sight of both ewes
is gone, and death is soon expected. The
woman has not yet been arrested, al
though the selectmen Of SOuthingtOn
have offered q reward of 5000 for her
capture. Henry Pardloe, who was with
Connolly the same evening is also in a
precariOus condition.
MAJ. BURT of Des Moines is at La
Crosse in the interest of his son, in jail
for bigamy. The latter ran away from
his home to seek his fortune. At Apple
ton, wis, he opened a begnio and mar
ried one of the women occupants. He
then went to Green Bay on a spree and
shot a man, for which he served two
years in the penitentiary. On his release
he went to Florence and married another
woman Of the town, but firing Of her he
went to La Crosse and married a third
woman. The father then gave him a
farm, but wife No 2 had him arrested.
Wives No. / and ? will prosecute their
husband jointly. But senior was an of
ficer in the confederate army, is worth
100000 and says he will give $4,000 to
clear his SON.
FOREIGN.