Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-07
ErlEEiI1lal.

AxwoRTRY, the defaulting City Treas
urer of Cleveland, has turned over t his
bondsmen all of his real estate and yes
sci property, and intends to settle in
Toronto.
The United States grand jury at In
dianapolis has returned 166 Indictments,
princi pally in election cases. Judge
Woods has granted the jury recess of a
week.
Mr.. G. g. MANDT, editor of the Mt
Horeb (WiS.) Sun, was shot and mortalIy
wounded in his own house Thursday night
oy ap unknown misoreant, who made his
escape.
IN the Latimer murder case, at Jackson,
Mich, the barber who shaved young
Latimer the day following the murder
testified tina the young mans cuffs were
bloody, and that he tried TO wash the
blood from his clothes with towel.
A COMPLETE outfit of counterfel ting
tools was captured in Indianapolis by
secret service officers together with the
operator, w. W. Boalwright who has
served a term in prison for counterfeit
ing.
A YOUNG man calling himself F. w
White, and representing himself as an
employe of the c., B. & Q. Railroad, has
within the past week victimized Burling-
ton, Iowa, parties to the extent of sever
al hundred dollars by means of forged
checks.
New CASTLE, Pa, is the scene of another
terrible crime. An aged couple were
cruelty beaten by five masked men be-
cause they refused to produce their money
and will probably die.
LOUIS KNooKsTEDT, the youthful teller
of the Mullanby savings bank of ST.
Louis, is missing and the bank is short
$500 due to his speculations in mining
stocks.
Ed. KELLY, robber, was about to be
sentenced by Judge Normile in ST. Louis
when the fellow turned upon his attorney
Joseph Furling, and dealt him fearful
blow. For this he got i've years more.
JOSEPH 4. MOORE, the insurance default
er of Indianapolis, is now safe in Non
treal. He and lady supposed to be his
wife are stopping at a private house. The
Hartford insurance officials say it was the
business of the Indianapolis authorities
to see that Moore did not escape.
JULIAN G. MCCLURE, business man of
Austin, near Seymour, ind. went on a
late train to Canada. He is accused OF
being a defaulter to the extent of S23, OOO
belonging TO minors of whom he was
guardian.
] The sentence of James d. Fish, ex-
president of the Marine National bank
of New York, who was convicted in 1885
for misapplying the banks funds has
been committed by the president to five
years and ssx months with the usual al
lowance fer good conduct.
The gold pros oectors in northern Wis
consin are confident they will find the
precious metal in paying quantities, aud
are preparing to dig deep and thoroug hly
explore the hills. A dispatch from Dodge
vile says that of the samples of ore as
sayed one paid 1912 per ton, and another
$40 per ton of nickel and cobalt.
IN habeas corpus proceeding, Judge
Tuley, of Chicago, ruled that prisoners
mast be arraigned for examination be-
fore magistrate as so on as arrested, and
that no judge has power to commit man
to jail except on a sworn complaint and
warrant legally issued.
The inquest on the body of Mrs. Lat
timer, of Michigan, resulted in verdict
that she had come to her death at the
hands of persons unknown. The chain
of circumstantial evidence is being
wound around young Lattimer, and the
belief grows stronger every hour that he
is the murderer of his mother.