Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
CRIME.

A powerful ring of opium and
Chinese smugglerS has been unearthed
at San Francisco.
A Burlington passenger train was
held up by five masked men near st.
Joseph.
Letters of very prominent men ap-
plying for counterfeit money are in
the hands of st. Louis postoftice Of
ficials.
May Barton, Il notorious thief known
as Diamond Fanny" has been arrest
ed at st. Louis.
Robert Hubbard, a wealthy farmer,
was killed by an unknown person
near Princeton, Ky.
Sherman Waggoner, a farmer, shot
his wife dead at Lynvilel, Ind.
Jose Coreiro de Mello, the murderer
of Bertha Manchester, was sentenced
to Imprisonment for life at Fall River,
Mass.
as the result of the examination into
the MamitoWoc,, Wis, bank failure.
Bonds were fixed at $4,000.
A lone highwayman held up the
stage between Bowie and Solomon
vile, Ari, and secured $500
Albert knop, treasurer of the vii
lage of Riverside, Ohio who has been
missing for Il week, is $4,000 short
in his accounts.
John Hart, who murdered his two
sisters, attempted suicide by cutting
his throat in the Rockford Jail.
Trial of John B. Koettipg. cashier
of Milwaukee, has begun.
Charles 0. Kellar was sentenced to
seven years Imprisonment for EN-
bezzling 100 from the Chattanooga
Brewing company.
Peter Peterson, Charles Ricketts, and
John Hickman, of Chicago, are in Jail
at Pontiac for attacking the Wabash
yardmaster at Forest.
Burglars blew open the safe Of the
Western Brewing company. at Belle
vile, Ill, and secured about $4,000
Murderer John Hart, confined in the
Rockford, ILL.,, Jail, slashed his throat
with Il razor and may die.
Joseph Aberle, an illiterate young
man, was arrested at Tftin, Ohio, for
sending obscene matter through the
mails.
DR.. Louis Sprau, u bicyclist of
Sandusky, Ohio, was robbed near Tiff
fin by highwaymen, who demolished
his wheel.
viii Duke killed John West in front
of 4 Tuscogee, Ala, church and mob
injured him so he is likely to die.
Asa Taft, suspected of numbering
his cousin, Leroy Rogers, at Irving,
Mich, last Sunday, was captured at
OtSego.
Champion Baugher, of Warsaw, Ind,
who assaulted and left for dead a
15-year-old girl, has been captured.
The Frankfort Lottery company of
ficials pleaded guilty at Louisville and
their case was set for trial Feb. Is.
In the United States court at Sprin-
field, ILL.,, George Castleman was SEN
fenced to Il year in the penitentiary
for passing counterfeit money.
After binding and gagging the clerk,
three men robbed Simon Greenburg's
pawn shop, Chicago, of jewelry valu-
ed at $4,000.
Iron Thunder, a hero in the Sitting
Bull fight, was murdered by a deaf
and dumb Blackfoot The murderer
resisted arrest and was killed.
Neils Nelson, a Dane, a years Old,
who is wanted at Hurley, S. D., for
numbering Christian Peter, for whom
he worked, was arrested in New
York
A stranger walked into the National
bank of Mexico and, picking up a sack
containing S1,uvv in silver, walked off
with it.
In the criminal court at Cleveland,
Ohio, Horace Steel, aged 20, president
of the wrecked gainesville Savings ana
Loan Association bank, plead not
guilty to two indictments on the
charge of forgery.
-Four hundred members Of the min
er's union of Deadwood, S. D., went
over to Annie Creek to stop work on
the South Dakota Mining company's
works, where less than union wages
is paid. A riot occurred in which
Supt. Lock was injured
Charles Oscar Kellar. the advent |
urer whose work is known from one
end of the country to the other, has
been sentenced at Chattanooga, Tenn, |
to seven years penal service for de-
frauding the Chattanooga Brewing
company out of S2,70O.