Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-26
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Commander Upham, of the Wisconsin
G. A. R., has appointed the following Off
GERS to complete his personal staff: E. A.
Shores, Ashland, senior aide-de camp:
John Beth, Green Bay, assistant quarter
master general; S. w. Eager, Racine, in
spector; D. Lloyd Jones, Stevens Point,
Judge advocate; Thomas Peck, st. Croix
Falls, chief mastering officer The COM
mander has issued an order to the posts of
the state to properly observe the twenty
fifth anniversary of the founding of the
first q. A. h. post. April 6.
Secretary of the Navy Tracy received a
letter the other day from d life convict in
the Waupun penitentiary suggesting that
seamen for United States cruisers be taken
from the penetentiaries of the country and
enlisted, and at the end of their term of en-
listment, if their behavior has been good,
they be discharged.
Mrs. Mary Gorham, wife of the editor
of the Merrill News, has for some time
past been undergoing Koch treatment in
Oshkosh, and she has been discharged
from the institution a healthy woman
Mrs. Gorham has been suffering with con-
sumption.
The National League of Musicians will
not affiliate with the A nerican Federation
of Labor, the discussion of the proposition
to so affiliate having been brought to a
sudden termination at the Milwaukee
meeting Thursday.
Fred. W. Staples, who was arrested
some time ago charged with killing David
Seeley, at Staples, January II, pleaded
guilty to manslaughter in the fourth de-
gree, ana was sentenced to thirty days in
jail, and to pay fine of $780,
Thomas Riley and James McNally, of
Shell Lake, who were sentenced in the cir
cult court yesterday to a year each at
Waupun for larceny, escaped from the
county Jail. They manufactured wooden
keys, with which they unlocked the door,
Ella, wife of G. NJ. Breed, of the town
of Howe, Oconto county, mas disappeared.
Breed says he took her to tie railroad sta
ton, but she has not been heard from
since, and it is feared there has been foul
plai.
Miss Lilly Curtis. the fourteen-year-old
Neenah girl who took $40 of her mothers
money and ran away to Milwaukee, has
been returned to her home by the Milwau
kee authorities. She will be sent to the
state industrial school,
A reward of $50 is offered by a number
of the citizens of Sheboygan for any in
formation that will lead to the conviction
of the person or persons who have spread
poison upon the streets, and which caused
the death of about fifty dogs in the past
few days.
David Malcolm, aged 80, is dead at
hartford; also Joseph Chenkoski, Polish
refugee, aged 20, at Durand, and John
Duggan at Oshkosh.
Thomas Montague, a brakeman living at
Waupun, fell from freight train between
Rubicon and Iron Ridge and was badly
hurt.
Brother Christoff, nurse at the AIexian
Brothers hospital at Oshkosh died of la
grippe.
The homestead" fever has struck
Fond du Lac, and when the unearned land
grant of the Omaha company is thrown
open for settlement a number of residents
will have a finger in the pie.
Capt. J. H. Marston, of Appleton, one
of the members of the Waupaca home
b ard, says he will request Gov. Peck to
hold an investigation of the affairs Of the
institution.
Edmund Pennefather, highly respect
| ed citizen and wealthy farmer, and one of
the first settlers of New Munston, Ken9sha
| county, is dead, aged 83 years.
Burglars in the residence of Patrick
Wooster at Racine had several hundred
dollar worth of siIverware rolled up TO
! curt OFF whel they were discovered.
Moses Hooper, of Oshkosh, was in New
Orleans the day of the malta lynching. He
writes to a friend the opinion that the
mob was justified.
Farmer, the crazy insurance agent who
created such commotion at Racine, was
examined, declared insane, and commit
ter 70 Oshkosh.
Mrs Thos Ball was frozen to death
| Wednesday night in Shawano county
| while returning home from a neighbor' S In
| the town of Hunting.
| The Oshkosh business mems association
has adopted the fair grounds proposition
made by the Stock Growers association
and Oshkosh will probably have a fair
next fall.
The time lock on the big safe in the
First Commercial bank at Cassvile re-
were Obliged TO send to Chicago for an eX-
pert.
Instead of one smeltel which the St.
! Louis. Mo-, men contemplate erecting at
Superior, they will probably put up two or
more at a cost of $500, 900.
Sheboygan democrats have put the fol
| lowing ticket in the field: For mayor,
James Bell; city clerk, W. Kunz; for
comptroller, Mr. Marganau.
Racine doctors say there are as many
cases of la grippe in that city at present
! as there were during the epidemic of last
year.