Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-12-21
CRIME.


Mrs. A. t. Briscoe, aged eighty.
CRIME.
Masked men robbed the Chicago
Great Western ticket Office at st.
Charles, Ill.
Juror Finnegan created a stir at
Logansport, Ind, by saying he was
Influenced to find not guilty IN liquor
case.
Anti-salooD residents of Ossian, Ind,
are under suspicion Of using dynamite
and blowing up a storeroom.
Ben Tennis was hanged at Harris
burg, Pa, for killing a girl 9 years
old He made a prayer and a speech.
Fong Sing Suey, SaT Francisco
Chinese doctor, was found stabbed to
death in his Office, a victim of high
binders.
A laboring man named Thompson
was shot and killed by Parolman
Tweeton while resisting arrest at
Crookston, Mich.
DR.. Henry G. f. Meyer, accused
of poisoning Ludwig Brandt, shows
signs of severe strains caused by his
trial for murder.
Farmer Deloss Hicks, of Middle
town, n. Y, who eloped with young
Mrs. Anderson several weeks ago, has
returned without her.
Robbers looted the South Bend. Ind,
National bank OF $4,000 while Cashier
Myron Campbell was at home eating
dinner
Two negroes We're lynched at Ber-
lin, Ala, for robbing a store and kill
ing a clerk who slept therein.
Curtis Poorman was shot and killed
| by Dave Donley as the result OF a
| quarrel at Humboldt, Ill.
Armed thieves forced the station
at Howard, Kan, to open the Santa
Fe safe. They secured $40.
DR.. Parkhurst, who has been waging
war on the disreputables Of the ten
derloin district of New York city, has
received nineteen letters threatening
him with death.
Six masked men bound the Reeder
sacked the house for money which
they failed to find.
| Knox, Ind, Mutual Fire Insurance
company has collapsed. Officers are
said to have taken the funds and fed
Charles Heiman, of Chicago, was
shot and wounded by Michael Holpin,
who called at his house with intent
to rob
Philip NJ. Scheig and Frank Floyd,
who, it is alleged, robbed the bank of
Minneapolis of $4,000, arrived here
on the steamer New York in custody
of detectives.
| Mrs. Della Keegan, whose suit for
| 100000 against Russell Sage for
breach of promise was dismissed,
visited Mr.. Sage's office and said she
proposed to kill him.
William r. Davis, arrested in New
York on a charge of assault preferred
by his common law wife, is accused
by her in court of having contracted
common law marriages with eight
other women.
A non-union telegraph operator died
at Wilkesbarre from poison evidently
taken with his food in the restaurant
where the Lehigh Valley road has fed
it's new men.
Five masked men overpOwered the
night operator at the st. Charles, Ill,
depot shortly after midnight yester-
day morning, blew open the safe and
looted it, and robbed the operator of
gold watch.
The Grand Rapids board of alder
men has impeached and expelled Geo.
III. Jacobs, one Of its members. Jacobs
was convicted of embezzlement. NAL
feasance and forgery in connection
with city contracts.
Columbus Hayes, convicted of muir
! der in the first degree at st. Joseph,
Mo-, for the killing of his brother-in-
law, William Sneed. will gain a new
trial. Through an oversight Of the
prosecuting attorney he was not given
an opportunity to plead to the charge.
One of the boldest attempts to rob
an express-car was made on a Lake
Erie and Western train near Bloom
| ington. The robber, who appeared to
be alone, entered the car when the
train stopped at a crossing. Messen-
ger T. G. Weak1ey Immediately crap
| pied the fellow and after a hard strug-
gle threw him off the car.
Councilman Poole of Elizabeth, n. J.,
| had struggle with a sneak-thief
whom he discovered stealing a coat
| from a tailor-shop. The thief bit Poole
severely in the hand, and broke away,
but was soon captured. The prisoner
gave his name as Frank Murray of
Bridgeport, CT. He was committed
| for mayhem and larceny. Poole's
hand is greatly swollen, and fears are
entertained of blood poisoning.
FOREIGN.