Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-09

The Oconto city council has awarded
the contract of building the new engine
house for SIS 900. The building is 34x7S.
solid brick, and of modern style.
Miss Nellie Smith, of Albion. n. Y,
will succeed Miss Horne as professor of
music at the Oshkosh normal school.
Motion for a new trial In the case of
James Moore. convicted at Superior of
burglary and criminal assault, and SEN
fenced for term of ten years at Waupun.
was denied. Moore case Will be taken 10
the governor
Ducks are beginning to appear on the
Fox river, saveraARocks being seen near
the Appleton sulphite plant. Quite num-
Der were shot between there and klmoer-
ly, though in violation of law.
Tuesday afternoon the l2-year-old son
of John Gamble. town OF Somers, Kenosha
countv, took an army musket from the
wall and went to the barn. His 7-year-
old brother folio we'd him out. The boy
dldn' know it was loaded. and pointed it
at the year-old boy. 1t went off, the
charge lodging in his left side, killing
him.
Henry Muenzloff, father of Mrs. John
Runke. died of trichinosis Wednesday at
the Runke residence, Milwaukee. He was
70 years of age and was the fourth victim
of trichinosis IN the Kunke household.
President Gompers addressed $500
union men at West Superior Thursday. In
the course of his address he said that
strength must be added to tie present de.
fensiVe attitude of union labor and that the
education of the masses was being first
finished by the placing of guns in the
hands OF hireling assassins.
Two more dangerous and well marke d
cases of trichinosis are reported at Dry
bone, near PIatteyille, and great excite
ment prevails in the town. In the Beming
family, vino partook of raw ham, FIVE per-
sons are under the physician s care, and
the lives of three of their number are des-
paired of. Pork Of every kind has been
interdicted in the village.
April 3 was the date originally assigned
by the United States court for the execu-
ton of John Youngman, an Indian belong
ing ty the Odahnah reservation, and who
some time ago was convicted Of criminal
assault in the United States court at Mad
lson, and sentenced to be hung by the neck
until he was dead, rape on an Indian reser-
Walton being a capital offense under
the United States statutes. Had the SEN
tence been carried into effect it would have
been the first banging In Wisconsin since
the passage Of the state law abolishing
capital punishment, and representations to
this effect were made to President Har-
| rlson, with the result that the sentence
was committed to imprisonment Tor life,
with hard labor, in the Waupun prison.
Youngman, however. has an abiding faith
III the existence OF another state where all
good Indians go, and says that he would
rather depart hence at once through the
med -unl of rope than be imEiUTed n
Waupun for the rest Of his natural life
Seven Winnebago Indians were to have
! eft Black River Falls for Washington yes
terday. on business fer their tribe, but it
is said they have spent the money allotted
them for expenses and cannot start before
next week. From the several treaties from
1880 to 1866 there was due the Winnie
bagoes ABOUT $2,500,000 in cash,
and the Oldest of the tribe claim
that prior to 1881 there were
only three payments ma6e-one of $50,
one of S27 and one of So per capita. which
would probably not be far from $3.50, 900
as maximum. This was in excess Of the
lands, stock, farming implements, etc,
| that were given them. What they want
| to know is what has become of the bal
ance of the s2,500000, or, if they have
received it, they are anxious to know how
| nd when it was paid.
The following deaths of Wisconsin peo-
pie are reported: Mrs. c. L. Tank,
widow of Rev. Reils 0. Tank, founder of
Tanktown. now South Fort Howard, at
Green Bay: Mrs. Bailey, at Milton, aged
rs; Rev. James Rogers, an old set
tie at Milton Junction; John Early,
a Whitewater veteran, from the
effects of a fall; Theodore Kendel. at
GAINESVILLE, aged 80; Mrs. Reuben Clark, at
Racine, aged "a; Edward Harding, we'll
known citizen of Columbus; Mrs. Sarah
Trip. aged 80, at Oshkosh; Mrs, BuIe
| Crossett, at Nekami; Luciue s. Smith, an
Oakfeld pioneer; Mrs. George Mehrens, at
Port WASHINGTON; Mrs. Dennis Johnson,
at Oconto, and Chauncey Holden, aged CO.
at Durand; Bernard Ubbink, prominent
contractor and builder, Gled Wednesday
after long illness, aged 81. Mrs Ub-
blink, who has been suffering greatly with
la grippe, also died Friday.