Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-20
CRIME.

ELMER SHARKER, the Ohio matricide,
has been granted further respite.
WESLEY P BALCH, the Boston horse
man, killed himself because of financial
embarrassments.
AN attempt was made at Lafayette, Ind,
to lynch George Bennett, who had killed
W. FL. Scott and John Workhoff.
A. CAPEsTRo, an Italian, of s.. Louis,
has received letter rom the New Orleans
Malta notifying him that he is to be assas-
sinated.
THIEVES at New York stole thousands of
dollars wor of cigars from cases shipped
from Havana.
CHRIS ACTERFELDT, who murdered
Mrs. Stohl at New Lebanon, ILL.,, last De-
cember, has been sentenced to four years
in the penitentiary.
FIFTEEN letter carriers in New York
have been discovered to be in league with
green goods" men and to have taken care
of the latter mail.
TRAIN robbers went through the express
cars on two Georgia railroad trains while
the messengers were asleep and secured
$4,000 in cash.
The grand jury at Winchester, Ky,
has returned fifteen indictments against
Hume Clay, who forged the names of his
father and grandfather for over 500. 900.
A WHITE man who was lynched for a
murder in Georgia is found to have been
innocent.
JOHN E. BURLINGTON, the notorious
train robber, who escaped from the Brown
vile, Mo-, jail three weeks ago, has been
recaptured.
REV. J. H. KING, formerly of hillside
Mich, committed suicide at Oberlin, 0
He was sixty years old and has been
of infrm mind for several years.
JOE JACKSON, one Of the Rube Burr ows
gang of outlaws, committed suicide in the
Mississippi state prison at Jackson, by
leaping head-frst from a stairway to q
brick pavement fifty feet below.
RUBE SMITH, the sole survivor of the
jackson, Miss, for robbing the mails AM
will probably get life sentence.
The grand jury returned an indictment
against Charles 7. Loring TO-, bigamy. He
escaped trial last week by having the in
dictment against MIN quashed.
POSTMASTER and editor Lawson M
Meyer, of Akron, Ind, has absconded
Already 5000 in forged paper has beer
discovered. 1t is alleged4that he has been
guilty of TEN pering with the mails.
THE residence of John Sultzman, a lead
ing Chicago business man of this city, was
entered by burglars on the 18th and $500
secured. No cIew has been found by the
officers.
ETHEL TowNE, claiming to be ward
of James H. Walker and niece of Lyman J
Gage of Chicago, tried at Terre Haute to
cash check for $500 purporting to have
been signed by Mr.. Walker, who says he
does not know her.
BOYD GILMORE struck his uncle, Hugh
Stewart, over the head with a baseball
bat Friday, inAicting injuries which result
ed in Stewards death this morning.
Stewart was intoxicated and was abusing
young Gilmore mother.
PAT CARMoDY, a st. Louis saloonkeep-
er, recently failed in business. He knew
he was doing a good business and could
not understand why he should become
bankrupt. Finally, after brooding over
the matter, he concluded he must have
been robbed by his bartenders. Taking
one of the suspected men into a room he
forced him confess and disgorge 81, 800 in
cash and building association stock. An
other suspect gave up 81 900, and now Mr..
Carmody has resumed business.