Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-28

dangerously wounded and Will Ward
fatally shot, while the officers were at
tempting to arrest him at Little Rock,
Ark.
In their annual report the board Of
United States general appraisers of
New York show that the ad valorem
system doesn't work. Too many eva
sions occur.
Miss Clara Campbell, who sued
Charles Arbuckle, the wealthy coffee
| dealer, for breach of promise, died in
Ohio. She got $4,000 from the coffee
| magnate.
Fifteen bodies were taken from the
| Cuyahoga river and identified as vic
| tins of the Central viaduct street car
accident at Cleveland, and four per-
sons are missing.
| H. H. Holmes attorney, in Philadel
phia, is accused of subornation Of per-
jury. 1t is asserted that Pitzel, OF
whose murder Holmes was convicted,
/ is still alive.
At Toledo Preston C. Hudson filed a
petition under the Winn liquor law
against Kate Envoy, based upon 1879
separate charges, and claiming about
| $50, 900 damages.
During 4 saloon brawl at Prairie
burg, Iowa, Gus Trainer struck a
farmer named Turner over the head
with a billy The skull was fractured
and turner cannot live.
The trials of the notorious Scatter
field whitecaps have begun at Ander-
son, Ind. Another attempt to kidnap
Miss Hudson, the states principal wit
ness, has been frustrated.
AS the result of a feud between the
Handley. Jones and Kilgore families,
near Birmingham, Ala, Joseph Kilgore
and John Jones are dead and John
Handley is fatally injured.
At the annual meeting Of the Ma
tionaI civil service reform league in
Washington Dec. II and IL John w.
Ella, of Chicago, will read paper on
| the movement in Chicago.
Jesus Vialpando and Feliciano
Chavez, convicted Of numbering
Thomas Martinez, ranchman, Jan.
20, were executed in the presence of
1000 people in New Mexico.
David Henderson, the negro school
teacher who hewed his way through a
room full of people at EmpOria, Kan,
has been captured. In case any of his
victims die lynching is feared.
Fitzgerald, the New York restaurant
man, was arrested for maintaining a
nuisance in boomers, but having
abandoned the new-wOman costume
for his mattresses was discharged.
Governor Altgeld has restored the
rights of citizenship to Richard H.
Johnson, of Lyle Station, Ind, who
served one year at the Chester prison
from Wabash county for larceny.
Ex-State Comptroller Edward Whip
pie, of New York, has been taken to
the Utica state hospital His insanity
had taken a bent toward arson. He
consented to his own commitment.
John Smith surprised burglar in
his house in West Hoboken, N. j., and
the thief shot and dangerously
wounded him. There were two bur-
glars in the house and both escaped.
Frank G. Huffman, the train robber,
who vas killed in Hickory county,
Missouri, by Sheriff James K. Moore,
was one of the most notorious bandits
that ever operated in central Missouri.
John G. Kaufman, aged "a years, a
retired iron manufacturer, who has
been identified with the industry in
eastern Pennsylvania for siXty-five
years, died at his home at Leesport.
At the chamber of commerce din
ner Secretary Carlisle made an impor-
tant speech on the currency in which
he said legal tender notes would re-
main to embaTrass the government.
William 7. Smith, one of the best
known and wealthiest retired coal
operators in Pennsylvania, was found
dead in bed at Shamokin. Death was
due to paralysis. He was IS years of
aCe.
Thomas Concannon, a wellknown
horseman, died at his home in Laporte,
Ind. of kidney trouble. He was an
old resident and served several terms
as superintendent OF the county in
Urinary.
Miss Mary Dudley, sister of Rev
Charles Dudley, of Beatrice, Neb., COM
mitted suicide at the Indian agency at
Ottumwa, Iowa, by cutting her throat.
Once before she attempted suicide by
drowning.
Assistant Secretary Reynolds, of the
interior department, has decided that
where a pension has been obtained
fraudulently, the attorney procuring
, the pension is not entitled to the fee
and must refund it.
Ivan Kolev, a Russian nihilist, who
! escaped from Siberia about two years
ago, was found guilty of murder in
the first degree, at San Francisco for
the killing of F. L. H. Weber and
wife last December
Joseph Hodgitts, who, in March muir
dered his brother, William, in Phila-
delphia, for refusing to buy him a
drink, pleaded guilty to murder in the
second degree and was sentenced to
twenty years Imprisonment.
Humphrey and Miller, the Union
college students, were given a hearing
on a charge of burglary and both
pleaded not guilty. They were held to
the grand jury. 1t is estimated that
they have taken property worth $4,000
G. OIL, er Iselin, head of the Defender
! syndicate, has entered indignant denial
to the charges of Lord Dunraven that