Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-11

RlOt0uS miners fatally shot the city
marshal of Dayton, Iowa.
Near Kiowa, l. r.. George Hunter
shot and killed Frank George, his
brother-in-laW.
John .. Meek was arrested at Glen
wodd, Ind, charged with assault on Il
l2-year-old girl.
Alfred Lewis, of Fowler Ohio, con
ricted of killing his wife, was sentenc-
ed TO fifteen years in the penitentiary.
-Four Of the six prisoners in the jail
at GreenviIle, Ill, overpowered the
deputy sheriff and escaped.
During Il dance at Harmony Park,
Iowa, Town Marshal Weston shot and
killed Henry Hoover without any ap
parent reason.
Indiana'S supreme court has reversed
the verdict in the case of McAfee and
Parker, sentenced to death for murder.
AS result of the cOrOner's investi-
cation Lem H. Willis has been held
for the shooting of Lawyer Hultz AT
sullivan. Ind
l.. $. Dwoyno, editor of a Cleveland
Polish paper, narrowly escaped as
sassination at the hands of a rival
editors wife.
Attempts were made to poison Mr.
Seaman, one of the prosecuting attOr-
neys in the COughlin trial in Chicago.
Thieves raidedt several cars of mer-
chandise at Hammond Ind, securing
property worth 500.
The charges of cruelty against Rev.
Dengledey, of the Luthern Orphans
home at Richmond, Ind, have been
postponed indefinitely.
John Sullivan, under arrest at st.
Louis, has confessed to rObbing the of
fees Of the Real Estate Exchange
seven times within two months.
r. J. Hosper, accused of poisoning
his wife, has been placed on trial at
Joliette Que. The case Us complex
and sensational.
NJ. L. Walters, prominent in the
Kansas miners strike, failed to meet
committee at Kansas City to ans
wer charges of misappropriating
money.
James Dugan, arrested on suspicion
ut st. Louis, proves to be one of
three men who killed a man in Henne-
pin county, Minnesota.
Women in Iowa City, Iowa, are kept
in terror by Jack the Hugger,' who
frequents dark alleys and embraces
every woman he meets.
Friends of Professor S. G. ShOrtledge,
who killed his wife at Medea, Fa., ask
that Il commission inquire into his
sanity.
On plea Of guilty Mrs. A. Rigsby,
Of Chesterfield, H., was fined $50 for
sending an obscene letter through the
mails.
Rev" Frederick Howard was con-
yicted at Jackson, Tenn, of having
swindled many persons under various
aliases.
James L. Calvin, the baseball pitcher,
was arrested at Cleveland, charged
with stealing a diamond pin and gold
watch.
An attempt to rob the safe of the
Highland Gll) Brewing company was
frustrated by the Waterman, who was
terribly beaten.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
private bank at Franklin Grove, H.,
and secured from $4,000 to $4,000.
William Palmer was sentenced at
Saginaw, Mich, to the state prison for
| twenty-five years for the murder of
his brother, two years ago. 1t was
his fourth trial and second convic-
ton.
| Dick Edwards, who, it is alleged,
was seen with the Martin woman in
Chicago just before her death, declares
that he will be able to prove that he
was in Salt Lake at that time. Painter
! is under sentence of death for the muir
der of the woman.
Burglars got about 500 from the resi-
dence of Solomon Pollard, near Ken
! ton, Ohio, after they had bound him
and his wife and tortured the old man
| by burning his feet with hot irons to
make him tell where his money was
secreted.
The joint Indictment against George
NJ. Leighton, James Yost, j. Don Mac
Neale, William 3. Burnett and w. A.
| Thompson for dGfrauding the Old
Mems and Widows homes at Cincinna-
| ii charges them with trying to sell q
mortgage on property for more than
the property was worth.