Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-23
CRIME.

Four persons escaped from Pennington,
S. D., county jail.
SIX pirates robbed the ighthousekeeper
at North Head, Grand Manan, Me-, Fri
day night.
BURGLARS at Norwalk. Conn, set fire
to barn In the outskirts of the town Fri
day night to divert the attention of the
police and robbed a jewelry store of S15,.
600.
In fight with Richard Williams and
his brother, drunken miners at Iron River
Michigan, Marshall Terry was shot
through the body and Richard Williams
lest arm was shattered.
AT Knoxville, Tenn, crowd became
disguised with the circus performance and
tore the tent to pieces. Several persons
were injured aud the show driven out OF
town.
ONE HUNDRED of the Scottdale, Pa,
coke strikers attacked the deputy sheritfs
in charge of one of the mines Friday
night. The strikers were compelled to re-
tire, but one of the deputies was fatally
shot.
AT Cedar Rapids, Ia, Sunday night,
John Tarket, while temporarily insane
from the effects of the grippe, blew his
mead off with shotgun.
ss3THE books of the Boston Water Power
company show that shares amounting to
$72, 900 have been illegally issued by the
former treasurer.
The deficit in the accounts of Page Nc
Pherson, the St. Louis defaulter, is said tc
be $35, 000
MICHAEL Posi-, ex-county treasurer o.
ShelbyvilIe, Ind, has been indicted on 6
charge of embezzling S13, 900 of the coun
ty funds.
MINORITY stockholders of the Pars
Rubber Shoe company, of Boston, charge
that its officers have been guilty Of fraud
ulent transactions amounting to $1,000,
900, and have asked for the appointment
of a receiver.
JAMES H. ARNoTT, a we'll known citi
zen of Vienna, H., was assassinated while
walking along the p ,blic road. Barke
Stanley and his son Edward have been ar
rested, charged with the crime.
S. r. HowELLs, prominent lumber
merchant of Chicago, was arrested Tues
day in that city On the charge eff bribing
weighmasters at Missouri river points tt
make false shipping weights.
AT Peoria, ILL.,, Rufus Easton (colored,
was shot five times and instantly killed at
the St. Julien restaurant, Oh Fulton street
Thursday morning by Johnny Dettwig
Easton had threatened the life of Dettwig
many times, and at the time Of meeting
had a butchers cleaver under his coat.
JOE BRADBURY committed suicide
| Tuesday at Watson, Ark, because a
widow named Winters refused to marry
him. Just before he died he confessed
that about twelve years ago, when he
was boy of twelve years, he killed his
| stepfather, John Posh.
A CONSTABLE named Green was at
tackled by band of saloon keepers in
Burlington. Iowa, Monday morning,
while he was serving a warrant on a
| liquor seller of that city. His skull was
fractured and other serious injuries in
| ficted.
JESSE LOCKWOOD, aged seventy, has
been afflicted with the grip, which is said
to have made him temporarily insane. On
Saturday last he took club and beat his
wife severely, declaring that he was com,
manded to do so by the Lord. She died
Tuesday. Lockwood is said to have rung
the church bell of the Methodist church a
few days ago. at the same time proclaim
ing that the Lord desired him to make a
human sacrifice of life by killing his wife.