Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-07
WISCONSIN NEWS.

congregational cnui Gu at De Pere. Mr..
Keene is graduate OF Yale and Prince
ton. The Rev. E. P. Salmon. of Beloit.
delivered the charge to the pastor, and
Rev. Z. j. White. of Green Bay. the
charge to the people.
Two boys, aged 13 and IL wears respec.
lively, sons of Mrs. Sees. of Waupun, took
a team.of horses belonging to their mother
and started for the west. When they
reached Tomah they traded tie team for a
single horse and buggy ana then proceed
ed TO La Crosse. The officers in the mean
time had been following them and over
took The boys at La Crosse.
Florence Nlgro, of Eau Claire, has OBJ
tanned writ of habeas corpus command
ing the production In court of Gertrude
Granger, aged u years. The petitioner
states that she was married In 1878, that
in 1880 she got divorce from her hus-
band In the circuit court of Chippewa
county and the custody of Gertrude was
awarded her; that Delos Granger, of the
town of Washinton, Eau Claire county,
hts detained Gertrude against the wish
of her mother
The Indians on Bad River reservation
are making big money on maple sugar
this spring. They made over twenty
tons and are getting good price.
Kingsbury has been appointed post
| mas er at Altoona, Eau Claire county
H. c. Todd, pastor of the Congrega-
tional church at Shiocton, has been ar
rested, the complaint being made by |.
E. Darling that Todd illegally married
Sophia Hendrickson and w. l.. Watson,
of the town of Maiue.
A week old child was found on a door
step at Fond du Lac Monday night, by
passers by. The child was fairly well
dressed. The police believe they have
clue to the identity of the parents.
John Dover, widower from Pine
Greek, who was in Jail at Medford await
ing rial on a charge of being criminaly in
innate with his three daughters, hung
himself with towel. He left message
to his daughters declaring his innocence,
but IS said to have previously ma lie con-
fession of the crime.
Jewett Russell, an old and respected
citizen of New Richmond, dropped dead,
aged 81 years. Heart failure was the
cause.
Mrs. S. D. Cooper, the we'll known tenn
perance orator, created sensation at a
prayer meeting in the Oshkosh Baptist
church by openly denouneing leading
members of the church, including George
w. Gates, af the Diamond Match com.
pany, accusing him of driving fast horses,
giving card parties, having a pool table
in his house and doing other things not
consistent with the dignity of Baptist
deacon. Mr. Gates is prominent in bust
ness and society.
At Ashland Judge Calkins this morn
ing sentenced FIVE prisoners to Waupun
for one year each Gale, one of the crooks
captured, had liquids to erase signatures
and complete outfit of burglar tools. J.
B. Foster, convicted of stealing IS cents
from a man s person, received the same
penalty as the other man who stole S.,
Officer Charles Smith was summarily
dismissed from the Ashland police force
by the chief. The case caused consider.
able excitement because Smith had been
involved in several saloon rows.
An 8-year-old daughter of John Bier.
man, Of Grand Chute, was killed by a
falling tree which her father had cut
down.
1t is reported that eastern railroad mag
mates will establish city at Buffalo bay,
on the RedcIiff reservation, and make OF
| IL ctu l." pOltp pOlnU
Mrs. Nina Fessler was arrested at Kau-
kauna to ans yer to the charge of forgery.
The complaining witness is her husband,
Henry Fessey, W no swears that she forged
his name to check and had the same
cashed in one Of the city banks in which
she knew he had money deposited. She
admits the cashing of the check, but de-
MES the charge Of forgery.
The Wisconsin State Land and I'M
provement company, which recently
secured possession of about $500 acres of
smamp land on Muskego and Wind lakes
has arranged to improve the land at once
and put it to practical use. A large dredg-
ing machine has just been put to work
dredging the bottoms The work will be
prosecuted day and night, electric lights
being used at night. The company ex-
poets to have extensive celery and cram
berry beds on the land.
Thomas Fisher, of this village, while
wol king with the section gang at Pal
my IA, was hit on the leg be steel spike,
which knocked the knee-cap completely
out of place and severely bruised the
limb. 1t is feared he will be laid up all
summer.
The solvency of the bank at Elroy is not
affected in any manner by the loss by the
robbery Thursday night. The burglars
secured only S3,17005, instead of $500
as at first reported, and did not touch the
securities.
A prospectus of the proposed North Wis
consin academy has been issued. The
constituency of the institution will be
northern Wisconsin together with north
Michigan and northern Minnesota. The
committee selected to invite the proposals
are Rev. G. w. Nelson. Eau Claire; G. II.
Pratt, Minneapolis, and Rev. E. Wheel
er, of Ashland. 1t is expected that free
site and $4,000 will be furnished by any
of the communities where the college is
located.
A number of children from 13 to Is
years old were assembled in the German
Lutheran church at Merrill when light
inng struck the building, knocking four
of them to. the floor. Ottilie Gilman had
one shoe torn off and was badly burned,
and Lena Kunkel was burned from head
to foot The others were not seriously
injured. All will recover After leaving
the church the current killed horse in
stable near by. The church WIS but little
injured
Miss Mary Hendrickson, of Frankfort, a
woman rs years old, was burned to death
in her house. She had some lambs in her
kitchen which she had been in the habit
of feeding at night. 1t is thought she
upset her lanap while caring for tn m.
Her charred remains and those of her pets
were found in the cellar by neighbors,
who were not aroused until the house was
consumed. Deceased had no relatives in
Amerisa
A verdict of 1888 was given a man