Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-11
CRIME.

TRAIN robbers fred on train near En-
field, Me-, but the engineer started the
train and pulled it out before any booty
was secured.
JOHN SPELMAN, son of the Peoria
brewer, is again under arrest, for stealing
valise.
A Boston schoolboy set fire to the
schoolhouse to see the scholars and engines
hustle
PHILIP BAKER, convicted in New Or
leans court Of the murder of Mrs Nelson,
has been sentenced to hang.
The three murderers, Smiler, Slocum
and Wood, whose appeals to the supreme
court of New York against electrocution
failed, were re-sentenced Tuesday, to be
executed during the week beginning
July 6.
A. V. GARDEN, prominent citizen of
Manchester, Tenn, Sunday night shot and
killed E. NJ. Villiers, a music teacher,
whom he found in his wife's room.
JAMES TOILET shot and killed his broth.
er Edward at Grand Bank, n. F., because
the latter was too familiar with his wife.
WHILE trying to steal horses, three
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others unknown, were shot dead by Shaw
nee Indians in the Indian Territory.
HEzEKIAH CLAGGET, a Washington
| bookkeeper, committed suicide at the
Mount Vernon Hotel Tuesday by leaving
the gas turned on when he retired.
| PATRICK BURNS, a drunken horseshoer,
hanged himself Tuesday morning in a cell
in New York police station. He had
been arrested the night before for threaten
ing to shoot his wife.
DICK CLARK and Charles Crow of Sum.
nner count, Tennessee, quarreled about q
a girl. RevolVers were drawn and Clark
was killed.
SENATORS CAMPBELL and Allen engag-
ed in fist fight on the floor of the Illinois
senate Wednesday, but were soon
separated by friends and afterward apollo
gized.
JUDGE T. D. EDWARDS, district attor.
ney at Carson, New, committed suicide by
shooting himself. He had been suffering
from nervous prostration.
PETER CEDAR, living six miles from
! Genoa, Neb., shot his daughter-in-l law, in
ficting probably fatal injuries and then
committed suicide by taking poison.
FRED G. WARD, paymaster of the Della
ware & Hudson Canal company, is alleged
to be $4,000 short in his accounts. Mr..
| Ward, who is suffering from conclusion of
| the brain incurred in a recent railroad &C
cident, has been made delirious by the
charge and protests his innocence.
A STONE was thrown by some person I'M
known into window of a sleeper on the
west-bound overland flyer near Shelton,
Neb., Saturday night, and little child of
[. A. Holmes, of Chicago was fatally in
jured.
In an attempt to capture a negro des-
perado named Murry Saturday night, City
Marshal D. L. Alvorce aud Prince Albert,
colored man, were killed by Murray,
who escaped. He will be lynched if cap
tured.
''PRoFs." Bush and Dodd, said to be
from Chicago, advertised an Hairship' ex-
hibition at Omaha and collected admission
fees from $1,000 people whom they locked
in the fair grounds while they fed with
the receipts, the ''airship'' being mythical.
z AT Williamsburg, Ky, Sidney Lewis,
son of Judge Lewis of Harlan county, has
been sentenced to the penitentiary for
life for the murder Of his father in Feb
ruary last.
JAS. MITCHELL went to the home of
Martin Townsend at Mount Vernon, Ind,
and attempted to kill him by shooting,
when the latter got his rife and shot him,
killing him instantly. Townsend is suf-
fering from Mitchell's shot.
AN old man named Philip Peyran,
sleeping in the house of John Olson at
Sacramento, was murdered and the house
set On fire. Olson, who is wel-to-do, was
In San Francisco, and it is believed that
the murerer was after his money.