Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-12
MONDAY, JANUARY 9.
Wisconsin News

Wisconsin News.
ID. Mcdonald of Summit. has a
dog that carries papers and letters TO
any from parties IN Oconomowoc.
The Rev. DR.. Kemper has moved
from Nashotah to Oconomowoc. He
still retains his professorship at Nash
otah
Michael Reagan, of Edgerton. is
under arrest on a charge of criminal
assault, preferred by Mrs. Mosler, of
the town of Fulton.
Eugene a. Morley, the printer in
custody at Green Bay for obtaining
money under false pretenses, is also
to answer for forgery at Aurora,
III.
John McKlbbin, a merchant of
Fond du Lac, was attacked By high
wayman last Friday night, but man
aged to escape, though badly hurt
about the head.
Judge Clementson sent Nick
Ames, the notorious boy desperate of
Grant county, to the penitentiary for
seven years. He is the precocious
young villain who committed forty
burglaries ia Lancaster.
Gen. Vests petition for appoint
ment as marshal at Milwaukee
Is growing TO ponderous dimen-
sions. Nearly every lawyer in
Milwaukee and all the merchants,
members of change and the
entire array of citizens signifytsat he
is the m-.n for the place.
IS. S. Merrill, the great railroad
manager, died on Sunday morning at
1880 a. m. at his residence IN Milwau-
kee. His funeral will take place on
Wednesday, the 18th, at st. James
church IN that city. Sherburn S.
Merrill was one of the most remark
able men ct his age. He was born IN
Alexandria, Grafton county, n. H,
July %, 1918 His father was farm
er, and he was bred to farm work, on
q hard New Hampshire farm At the
age OF 16 he was man of all work
about hotel. He then worked as a
workingman for years Ia a Boston
furnishing house. Then he started a
little hotel in the little town of Bris-
tol, n. FL. Then he tried a wooden
factory, In which he remained till
1850. Then when 80 years of age, he
came to Milwaukee. For want of
other employment he engaged as
the foreman of a gang Of men
employed in grading a section
of the railroad, the first in the state,
then building from Milwaukee to
Waukesha. Here the practical, di-
rect, energetic Yankee il him showed
itself. He could get so much work
out of men, with no false motions,
no misdirected strokes or blows, that
he was soon promoted to the foreman
ship of the construction department.
Then, when that work was temporari-
ly suspended, he became conductor,
then paymaster, then assistant super
intendent Of the road E. Ell. Broad
head. He was next employed as
superintendent of the division from
Milwaukee to Watertown, thence of
the La Crosse division, next of the
Winona and st. Paul road,
from which ho was called
in 1865 to Milwaukee to be
general manager of the system which
has since grown to be the largest sys
tenn controlled by any railroad cor
poration in the world. He was the
soul of the business management. A
man of tireIess energy, it used to be
said that he knew every spike in the
several thousand miles of line The
most intricate or minute details of the
vast system he knew about, kept
track of, and his restless energy was
felt at the remotest side branch He
was familiar with all parts of the line,
every bridge, cut, fill, and the
myriad details of cost, etc.
He decided matters involving
the expenditure of millions
with rapidity that seemed rashness.
His Industry was boundless, his ca
pacity for work marvel. His frame
was strong, sinewy, of wonderful
endurance, and he was model of the
executive brain and temperament.
He was strict in discipline, arbitrary,
but just and quick to recognize and
promote fidelity and energy But he
committed the besetting fault of that
class Of men. He seemed to think
that his fund of vital power was mex
baustible. He worked so steadily
under such high pressure that
about Is months ago the collapse came
in partial stroke of paralysis. Since
that time he has been an invalid; and
at last he died. Had he cared for the
vast engine of power that kept the
vast railway system in motion, as he
cared for the myriad of locomotives
in use upon 1t, he woald have in all
probability lived many years longer.
A Clear Voice.
Mr.. Charles 7. Krebs, 737 Madison
avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, well
known in banking circles, certiies to
the excellence of the Red Star Cough
Cure. A few doses speedily cured bis
niece Of severe hoarseness and sore
throat. 1t is pleasant to take. No
one can be poisoned by this remedy,
which is free from opium, morpnla
and other dangerous drugs.
Children Burned.
ST. CHARLES, Mimi, Feb. Mrs.
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