Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-01
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Charles F. Ware, well-know newspaper
man, died at Superior.
George Attain and Charles Dillen, the
two young men who claimed to be
from Milwaukee and who were arrested,
together with two Beaver Dam girls, in
a Sheboygan hotel last spring, pleaded
guilty to abduction, in the circuit court
at Juneau, and were sentenced to three
months Imprisonment.
Mrs. Hattie Burke withdrew her claim
to the estate of E. D. Deyarman, of Eau
Claire, the defense being prepared
TO show that her evidence Of marriage
to the deceased lumberman was manu-
featured
Two tramps were arrested at Palmyra
on charge of having stolen a Winchester
rife fyom Ed Rundle's store.
Morgan G, Daniels, pioneer of Wausau
and a wealthy lumberman, died of con-
sumption.
julius Quick, aged rs, an old soldier
ano pensioner, died at Horizon from the
effects of dose of rough on-rats" taken
ON the 23rd
The veterans of Door and Kewaunee
counties held reunion at Kewaunee
The attendance was large.
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the well-known lawyer, died this morning
from stomach trouble, from which she had
been a sufferer for some time.
hartford will hereafter require license
from all transient merchants traders or
dealers offering goods for sale within the
village limits.
At Marsh6ed Mrs. Joseph Schaefer has
brought suit against her daughter Mary
charging her with stealing a gold watch
DR.. Kitto, d prominent young physician
of Racine, claims that an attempt was
made to asassinate him on the street,
a man with gun following him
while he was making professional calls.
Fred Ellis, who assaulted a l2!year-old
girl at Rice Lake last August, was sem
fenced by Judge Marshall to twenty-five
years In prison at Waupun.
Mills at Wausau are again shut down.
the river bed being almost dry. More
water from the Tomahawk dam is expect
ed the first Of next week
At GAINESVILLE a little son of Orville
Church was struck by broken baseball
bat while watching a game. He received
a severe scalp wound.
Assays made from the new graphite pit
near Marshfeld show rs per cent graphite
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Two feet deep.
Mr.. J. L. Burnham, wealthy pioneer
of Milwaukee, is dead
The census bureau shows that there are
twenty-one exclusive seed farms in Wis
oonsin. There are 2,9l9 acres cultivated,
and the valuation of this land is $50 per
acre. The total value of the land, nipple
ments and buildings is $3.50, 1873 so.
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treasurer of the Milwaukee branch of the
National home has handed in his resigna-
ton to take effect on Sept. 30. He wishes
to return to his old home in New Jersey.
The Methodist Conference at Oshkosh
by vote Of 100 to 80 voted in favor of the
admission of women as lay delegates to
the general conference.
Fred Sobisky was fatally gored by a bull
near Racine.
Joseph O'Katchekum, an Indian boy
Catholic school at Raaler, Ind, was run
over at place called Webster's switch,
near Shawano, and instantly killed. He,
with another boy, ran away from the
school and were returning to Keshena.
contract to build the new Eau Claire high
school to Edward Siskrow, of Minneapolis,
for S34, 800.
1t is said that silver has been found in
paying quantities in the bed OF the river
at Neenah.
Jesse Graham's 3-year-old child was
struck and killed by the cars at Green
Bay.
The third annual reunion of the forty
sixth regimant of Wisconsin infantry will
be held in Palmyra, Oct. Is.
Sheriff Irvine, of Columbus County Great
ed a sensation at Rio by arresting l.. Ell.
Tiff, wealthy farmer living at LowVille,
near Rio. 1t was charged that the prison
er had committed assault and battery on
the person of Miss Edith Hagerann, and
the warrant was returnable to Justice
Bunker's court in Portage. When the
parties met at the justice office the mat
ter was settled and the defendant discharg-
ed. 1t was openly asserted by Miss Hag-
armann's brother-in-law, however, that
Tiff, who is man nearly 10 years old,
really attempted an assault, and that the
girl escaped only by promising to meet
him some other time.
Bears are running at large in the streets
of Wausau, or at least one was chased up
and down the streets and alleys last Friday
after trying to carry off pig. Those who
were after him proved to De poor marks
men, and bruin escaped TO the woods after
being wounded several times.
Fire on the Arthur farm, near Edger-
ton, did $4,000 worth of damage to oats,
hay and TOBACCO.