Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-05-14
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

VISION SIN SIATI NEWS,
The stone cutters strike in Milwaukee
is at an end. The men get 81 per day.
Rev. Jacob Post, D. D., who was pastor
of Perseverance Presbyterian church for
twenty-one years, died in Milwaukee
Friday from general debility.
w. ]. Ransom, formerly of Milwaukee,
was found dead in cell in a Cleveland
station house. Whisky was the cause.
The body of Martin Hanson, drowned
last November; was found in Little Lac
Butte DIES Mortes, four miles from
Neenah His brothers body was found
two weeks ago, in Lake Wiunebago.
News has just been received of the trag-
ic death at Clayton, Idaho, of George E.
Nodine, formerly well-known resident
of Milwaukee, and Samuel l.. Clemons,
of Berlin. Their bodies were found
Thursday at the bottom of deep gulch
in the Salmon river mountains, where
they had been carried by an avalanche.
The wife of Rev. A. NJ De Ford, the
young divine who is at present serving a
five years sentence at Waupum for rails
ing the denomination of several 81 and 50
bills, is in destitute circumstances. Her
two oldest children have been taken to the
Orphans home at Appleton. The lady,
accompanied by her remaining Two young
| children, has gone to Montello, where she
has relatives living. After her husband s
fall she depended entirely on the charity
| of very small circle of friends. Mrs. De
| Ford is progressing young woman OF
Is years, although she has greatly changed
since her husbands incarceration.
Competition among the milkmen al
Plattevilie has brought that modify
down to 2 cents per quart.
Alexander Chapman was sentenced at
Sheboygan to two years at Waupun,
Judge ellison refusing a new trial. Chap.
man was convicted of manslaughter in
the fourth degree.
Phillip Roy, one of the Washburn
tramps who attempted to kill Officer
Cassidy, was held under $4,000 bail
Cassidy is now expected to recover.
Robert Biggerstaff died from the effects
OF injuries received in the collapse of {
building during the recent heavy snow a
Superior.
Officer Erickson was badly cut will
knives in the hands of pair of toughs
whom he ordered away from the Superior
depot.
DR.. Mergler, who shot a man named
Dohl at Marengo, has been held in bonds
of S., 900. 1t is now feared that Dohl viii
die.
Geo. W. Cowan, who died at Boscobe
last Saturday. was a resident of Gran
county for over half century.
Will. S. Frazier, chief of the Wisconsin
Good Templars, was married in Astoria
H.. on the 9th. Mr.. and Mrs. Fraziel
will sail for Europe, where they will spenC
their honeymoon. Mr.. Frazier represents
Wisconsin in the Grand Lodge Of the
World in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Miss Julia Winslow, a Normal student
at Pletteville, aged 30 years, went sudden
ly insane last Sunday and made two vain
attempts at suicide.
Mr.. Chas Kessler formerly at Schlitz
park and MIR. John Bumensaat have
leased Higen Spring park at Cedarburg.
Three hundred cords of shingIe bolts be-
longing to the Shell Lake Lumber com
pany were destroyed by fire.
The body of Alex. Jorgensen, who was
drowned in Shell Lake last Sunday, has
not Jet been recovered.
Rev. Z. NJ. Morris, of the Baptist
church at Fort Howard, has resigned or
account of i'll health.
Mrs. Francis Hayek, mother of Mrs M
NJ. Secor, of Racine, died Thursday aged
rs years.
John Davis. of Racine, was found dead
in his bed. He was afflicted with heart
disease.
Ripon college will graduate seven stu
dents in July.
1t has been discovered that the sudden
death of Mrs. Frederick Wolf, an aged
woman living at Viroqua, was due to
strychnine. 1t is supposed she took her
own life on account of Ill health and
trouble. She was IS years old.
Charles Fress is suing the city of Osh
kosh for $4,000 damages. He claims his
cane stuck in hole in the sidewalk and
that he fell over it, breaking his leg. The
crack in the sidewalk was not more than
an inch wide.
A kerosene lamp exploded at the home
of w. Pence, of Phillips, Wednesday
night, and the family barely escaped with
their lives. Loss on the building and
contents is estimated at 81, 800.
| A 7-year-old boy named Sitter was
killed at Marquette. Green Lake county,
by the falling of a window SASH which
| struck him in the back of the neck.
| An $4,000 site has been donated A. A.
! Freeman; the big miller, at Superior, and
the new mills are expected to be in run
ming order by September.
| There are l TAT children enrolled In the
public schools at Superior, and on that
basis citizens claim population OF
$4,000.
H. Fl. Proctor, of the nepere News, ha,
been succeeded by Paul Halline. Mr..
Proctorwlll leave for the west shortly.