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jjot vnmce uhuas anaTin; Fnii, Xeliai Bi:6s.‘~''cvsv)jot)’kriliavobecn-oi'dL!'f!(i-fo!'lho.... free library, am! will arrive in a few days.ANOTHER ECLIPSE.A •Sheriff Ocok_.CapturesMoon^theHorwo-Approphator, 'In Minnesota—Ho Acknowledges.the SofyImpoaclijnent.i LbiJiJ^ Sc Co.j on Dellinger streett . ncmr CliOr;tJiutr: r]iavcr:opencd-' tlieii*^rrjCfj y -^miTy us jrFOmised; and rwill keep an fifi.-iorlment of good and d osTira blc tmoda.rill linye aa it may seem, Sunday, cold' and blustery with rain cominy down byittubfuls.; was su!eefed_by_i)ia'ny-HjJ()rL=--men for a trip into the country to be-gunetbof^Ove trattL-tram J.4- r.ati.ve.HU’oam.’“From TdfiSiliiy up~to‘_lil.5it night Sfieri/1 .Cook liaa been dilii»eiiLly purnu-in^ on thiTTTaii' of rAl)ijali -Afooir andr ran It •Shepljerd (aliasCjreeuj, iiifciil'eTwho recently stole a horse apiece from Aldcrmeu Fletcher and Wyman underciieuin^tancm-airend y - niihii-slietl-~Ttrrrw ■ — --Lhiaves, after disposing of Mr. Fletoh cr’d horse to. a_ifurinoil. near-Gales-vi 1 le,continued—their-fliylit- with..a Uuggy. and Mn Wyman’s horse. On Sunday,uvxvu ■ ouuii auei’ uio.y sum it for- five UoilaMa_ndsepamicvdr^hplierd; gMtwvy tv^^i „y,t4-purchased large selections of classicalmusic. Tiio conmiittce will meet thisevening at (J. F. .Mayuew’s at 7:fJ0 o'clock. . • ’With tlie singlo exception of Black River,-there has thus far been no driving wiiic-r on any of the streams of Wisconsin or of Minnesota. The-prospect is now decidedly better. The amount of logs in Chippewa waters is nboul 1 ,l!OU,i 00,000, as nearly as can he ascertained;..in niac.U,-.-22^000,000,- arni- inWolf. 11'5,000,000.TIic man who was found dead on a switch track on the levee at St. Paulsevora!~:iavisago anLj wiTo!wisS supposedfrom evidence found on his body, to have been an ollicur in the volunteer ] army in the late, war, has been idemi-' ; bed ,is Ciiptiun'JrO. Bennett, of Cliip-5[is body, which hadj laciTMicKl jiL Leigh's tiuderiaking es-Mablishinept, was forwarded to-day to bis telalivod. . : -•V.ft h:i» been discovered dust by somenUiTCDlitions moans vurirnw n.iiU-wHeir■wncrld btr*ifcrvix:errt5u3 for IJToakijjgthrough prisoit bars liavo been slipped into Lhe county jail among the inmates. They were found in the possession of lAdl A loon, who was endeavoring byinen TjTGvwio lv cw'cr^traThe man in the moon was .looking.''ljowever, iri the shape of an olficial, who 1'iroinplly “pulled down theiHinri^.’ ntrd iT isltecdie^s to say that .Moon wits relieved of his tools. To use the words; of an immortal bard, the devi! is certainly in the ‘ Moon* for mfer: I uc-r----:--------Ilaimnocks 50c n 1 tlie Talr.Vcmoix ui.Lev. .1. K. Dudley h;u? returned (Voidthe IMSi.• Kev. J. K. Irish and wife leave Madison to-day for France.T 11. Waggoner and v.Faulonthe afternoon train, to be ab--ent over to-morrow.Fred la?onanh--who-hits- long “been------ . , -- .. ^ ^ w ,r f • 9 m ww ■.Aloou Pibk the horse.lt;and* made foi Spring Valley, MinneKotn, a Ibwi^nhnut seventy.midwest of La Crosse. The rfjcrilTby this time was on thj trail, and lisp! posted the authorities everywhere by telegraph, but as the thieves were receiving information and shelter from relatives and pals, the chase ‘now.became; exceedingly interestingand exceedingly . difficult^' for the pursuer* At Spring Valley, Moon sueccded in selling Air; Wyman's horse- tcr-a^d(Tplltys\ieriTI-tlief^rmmed Wilkins for forty dollars, receiving three dollar* in cash. He told the deputy sheriff he could wait for the other thirty-seven, as he-wus.going -to stay there if he could get work. He didn't wait, •hut look a box car on the Southern Minnesota railroad and went on with his three dollars, sole remnant .of the plunder. At Wellqe~ about-150 miles west of La Crosse, on Saturday morn*mg.-AXoon crawled out of bis box car to get some breakfast. He had beensheriff, who had obtained pointerd at Spring Valley, proceeded to Weller and received his hard-won prisoner, with, whom lie arrived at Eau Claire on Sunday afternoon. ' The horse was left at •ftp? Vtihey-aiid—udl I—be-~aafeJy—rcuturned to Air. Wyman. Shepherd has been more slipperyf_and i* still'at largo.’ —‘lBijeA,-who4s-not-'yet“niiieteenrhatt but liule to say for himself. The total amount realized from the two horses had boon sixteen dollars. He said he• « » i. •«haisUuLieJ—nnt—wkh—live-^dolhii^phad-. had a tough trip of it, and had only thirty-four cents left. When he was takeir to- the county ”]juI on Sunday afternoon, his father, the notorious Dell Moon, who is confined there on a charge of shooting one' of his own nephews, said he would rather have seen “iJijc-dcad than brought to such TnTd i/mu he Tvas an' iniiocen• *••• • • ^’,!e:‘.-®-^^.i.vp:..?.fti^y“ttce. ...of _;the cUijraf society. haK sel.ucled Mr L. brew.a.r director of mnsicAi exercises and bus.boy who had been led into a trap b; Shepherd_Ttie partne«hip_specub ifofi wad certainly not a profitable one■yaiU'juaotei,was luoog-ie_d JtipUon--iviuclrShenfi'Cook had forwarded to Lhe Welles au-lhoTta^Zhi^l-i.vu^^Tlt;:nc^r-rfc^Uedr-T4in
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Eau Claire Daily Free Press
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Mon, Apr 28, 1884
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