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Show A TOUGH MAN. How Johu Wood Manages to Make Himself Him-self Happy. Mrs. Elizabeth AVood is tho wife of John Wood, a laborer, and is iu deep trouble. The pair were married nine years ago in England and have been living in Zion for a time. Of late John has beconio too utterly too-too to live with aud has amused himself by striking strik-ing the partner of his joys and sorrows, threatening to put salaratus in her tea, cut her throat and other like amusements. amuse-ments. This he has kept up until not only his wife, who is a very cstimablo woman, but the neighbors neigh-bors ' have decided that ho is too frisky a man to live publicly and ho will doubtless be arrested. One of the neighbors called at The Times office today to-day and said that the man's conduct is scandalous. He gets beastly intoxicated and vents his spleen on tho woman who has tried to make a man of him, curses her and everybody in sight He doesn't confine himself to his domestic do-mestic cirelo either, but on Saturday last proposed to extinguish tho lamp of life iu one of the neighbors' children whom he chased with a lommy-axe. The father of the child will apply for a warrant for his arrest today. |