This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BROWN, BUTTERBAUGH, MEADOW, MEDDAUGH, PERKINS, RICHARDSON, ROSS Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oEC.2ACE/556 Message Board Post: From The Wisconsin Leader [Merrillan, Jackson County, WI], Friday October 19, 1888, Page 1 Numerous fires have been running through the woods all around this past week, approaching so close to Mrs. RICHARDSON's house near the cemetery as to cause an alarm of fire Sunday, but no damage has been done beyond the destruction of considerable wood. Hugh C. PERKINS, who broke jail in Neillsville five years ago, where he was being held for trial for the murder of Hugh MEDDAUGH, has been found and arrested near Detroit, Michigan. He will be brought back for trial. It will be remembered that PERKINS and MEADOWS (sic) quarreled over some lumber, and that PERKINS shot MEDDAUGH. E. B. BUTTERBAUGH visited St. Paul last week. Mr. and Mrs. Syd. E. BROWN spent Sunday in New Lisbon. Rev. W. C. ROSS and wife called on Merrillan friends last Saturday. Submitter: Joan M Benner <jmbenner@tznet.com> Golden Rule Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood/resource/r-joanb.htm Specializing in Central Wisconsin Records Member, Association of Professional Genealogists