Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-10
WISCONSIN NEWS

The j. l.. Wilcox who with is wife
was arrested in Baltimore for coin
sweating and who was convicted
and sentenced to four years in the
penitcntiary. is said to be the man
who has been vainly sought by officers
for completely in the King diamond
robbery at Villa Clara, near Delavan,
last August, when masked men en-
tered the villa and compelled Mrs.
King to give up $1,000 worth of dia-
mOndS.
William r. Jones, a GAINESVILLE car
riage trimmer, was assaulted by two
foOtpadS near GAINESVILLE and relieved
of a roll of bills amounting to Sl1O.
After rendering Mr. Jones insensible
the robbers threw him off a bridge into
a creek, but the water was not deep
enough to drown him. He revived al
most as soon as he touched the water
and managed to crawl to the shore
He was on his way to accept a position
at Freeport, Ill. Mr.. Jones was held
up by footpads in Minneapolis about
five months ago. No trace of the
robbers has been found
The town of Pelican Lake in Forest
county is confronted with a legal QueS-
ton. At the annual town meeting in
April the vote for chairman resulted
in a tie between Fred Miner and John
Rice, and the board of inspectors neg
lected to have lots cast as required by
law. but some days afterWard reas-
Sembled and had lots cast in the man
ner provided by law and John Rice
was declared elected. The town board
meeting which resulted in a tie on
chairman, acting Oh the theory that
there was a vacancy in the office of
chairman, met and with the town
clerk proceeded to fill the vacancy
in the manner provided by law for fill
ing vacancies, and appointed Fred
Miner chairman and Mr. Miner is
acting with the board in town mat
ters The county board meets on the
10Th inst and it is not known which
one will be recognized by that body
A railroad crossing war between the
South Shore & Atlantic and the
Northwestern Coal Railway is in prog
ress at West Superior. The South
Shore is seeking to connect it's tracks
with the Chicago, Minneapolis, st.
Paul & Omaha Railway, and it's grade
is eighteen inches higher than that
Of the Coal Railway. The South Shore
put gang of men at work to grade it's
road over the Coal companys road
Railroad iron was placed ON the Coal
Railway track at the point of the
South Shore proposed to cross. War
rants were sworn out and the foreman
and half a dozen of the South Shore
crew were arrested. Both crews of
men are very bitter against each other
and touble is feared before the matter
is settled.
Waterford, Wis, May 4.-For some
time the friends Of Mrs Edwards,
wife Of De Witt Edwards, a welI-to-
do farmer in the village of Honey
Creek, this township, have suspected
that she was losing her mind, but as
she did not appear violent or dan
gerous it was not thought necessary
to place any restraint upon her. They
evidently misjudged her condition, for
Friday afternoon she administered in
a cup of chocolate enough arsenic to
cause the death of her 10-year-Old
daughter at 8 o'clock in the evening.
Mr.. Edwards had gone to Racine in
the morning, and did not return until
night when he found the wife and
daughter suffering great agony. Mrs.
Edwards had also drank of the
poisoned chocolate, and both victims
were writhing in pain upon the floor.
Mr.. Edwards summoned DR.. III. B.
Newell Of this place and DR.. Fulton
of Burlington, but before they reached
the farm, the daughter had died. They
to save Mrs. Edwards, how |
ever, and she is said to be out of
danger tonight, and in possession of I
her mind. She has confessed to Off |
GERS who visited the house that she !
the poison, saying that |
she did it because she was becoming I
demented and she preferred to die |
and take her daughter with her, to .
being sent to an insane asylum.