Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-24

chastised a young man named Adam with
/ raw-hide. She says he was engaged to marry
/ her, and when she broke the engagement he
circulated slanderous stories about her.
I Harris E. Laid, young man employed as
clerk in the Northwestern Mutual Life In
surance Company's office, was recently taken
insane and locked up for safe-keeping.
/ During the past season about 5000 hui
/ ings have been erected in Milwaukee, involv-
/ ing an expenditure Of between 100000 and
I 100000
/ While Louis Hagendorf was engaged in
! cooperating a silver bath in Milwaukee
! photographing establishment, the other af-
I ternoon, the porcelain receptacle exploded,
and portion of its contents struck him in
| the right eye, completely destroying the
I sight.
/ The Milwaukee internal revenue receipts
during November were SIT, 529S5.
Herman kindling was recently arrested in
| Milwaukee on complaint of the German Cor
| sui upon the charge of having stolen dia-
monds from Huttenberg, Austria, valued at
$4,000
As Clarence Forsyth, of Milwaukee. was
leaving bank with $1,000 the other evening
he was met by a man who threw quantity
| of pepper in his eyes and then robbed him of
his package.
The other morning a saloon-keeper named
Hnck, living at Humboldt, committed sui-
eide by cutting his throat with razor.
At the Milwaukee rolling-m the other
evening, while Henry Seaman was fixing
crane in the mill, at height of twenty feet
from the ground, the plank on which he was
seated with a sledge-hammer in his hand
gave way and he was precipitated upon an
iron plate beneath, and suffered fracture of
| both his legs near the ankles.
Monroe County.
At meeting of poultry fanciers recently
held in Sparta the Northwestern Wisconsin
Poultry Association" was formed 1t is in
| tended to hold grand poultry exhibition
some time in January.
Ozaukee County.
Weller's brewery, at Port Washington, was
burned to the ground the other day. Loss
$4,000. Insured for $1,000.
Racine County.
During theyear ending Nov. 1, 2S1 prison.
| ers had been confined in the county jail at
Racine, of whom six were females.
AS Mr.. Nicholas Gaffrey, a farmer livingin
Dover, was returning from Racine the other
night, accompanied by his son, a tire got
loose from one of the wheels and the son,
who was driving, stopped the team to pick it
up. After handing the lines to his father the
team started to run, and the wheel broke,
throwing Mr.. Gaffrey to the ground and in
stantly killing him.
Rock County.
James Caldwell, of GAINESVILLE, recently lost
sixteen fat hogs. For some reason he gave
them quantity of salt, and, shortly after,
the whole were dead.
! Elmer G. Palmer and w A. Conrad were
| lately seriously burned in their room, at
GAINESVILLE, in an attempt to ill lighted kero-
sene lamp.
! Frank Pierson, of GAINESVILLE, has a lady's
work-boX, made by himself, which contains
| 6,521 pieces of wood. Mr.. Pierson was en-
| gagged one year on it.
August Leutz, of GAINESVILLE, was thrown
| from his wagon the other night and very Sc
verely cut in the head.
Sank County.
| From the report of the Superintendent of
Public Schools it appears that the value of
school property in the county is 1914, 1O5;
amount expended during the year, $50, O7S;
total days of school taught, "a, 55S; number
of children of school age, 1866; number of
children of school age reported as not attend
ing public schools, 2,701.
People in Dellona were recently excited
over the death of a young woman whose re-
mains looked olife-like that after their prep
aration for the grave the frienas concluded
! to return them to the house until they could
| determine if she were really dead At last
! accounts the body had been kept week
without showing any signs OF decomposition,
and strong hopes were entertained that she
would awake again, Notwithstanding the de-
cisiOn of the physician that she was really
! dead.
ShebOygan County.
At Plymouth, a span of horses belonging
to Thomas Ford recently took fright while
that gentleman was assisting a lady to alight
| from the buggy, ran away, and killed one of
| the bystanders
TrempeaIeau County.
| John Burt, Jr., proprietor of the Burt
| House, at Arcadia, was recently shot by his
father because he refused to give him any
more liquor The shot entered his right
breast and fatal results were feared.
WInnebago County.
John Owens and Isaac Gallagher, Of Osh-
| kOsh, recently made an ice boat, and, rigging
| it with mast and sail, made lightning trip,
crossing the lake in about an hour. They re-
turned in nearly the same time.
| At a meeting Of the Appleton District Con-
| ference held at Oshkosh the other day, Rev.
| Mr. Craig, who was arrested in Milwaukee
some weeks ago for stealing books, surren-
! dered his parchment and gave up the work of
the ministry. DR.. Kempster, Superintendent
| Of the State Hospital for the Insane, pro-
nounces him a deptomaniac and not morally
responsible for his actions.
! Joseph Miller, three-card monte man, was
recently arrested at Oshkosh for beating q
farmer out of S110 by his little game.
During the past year buildings costing
| 1897, 400 have been erected in Neenah.
man named Dist was recently waylaid
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