Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-10-27
WISCONSIN NEWS

Squire BriSban, who is visiting friends
in Portage, is 10 years old and served
in the Seminole war, and afterwards
put in three years in the First Wiscon-
sin. Both his grandfatherS fought in
the revolution.
Milwaukee dealers in the article say
that cabbage will be high priced this
year. The demand for them in the
south is so great that already carloads
are being shipped, and the supply in the
southern part of the state cannot hold
out.
Mr. and Mrs. S. y. Jewett of Jewetts
Mills, Wis, have just celebrated the
tfueth anniversary of their marriage.
The occasion took place in Minneapolis
at the home of a daughter
Nineteen checks were stolen from the
office OF the Shores Lumber company,
at Ashland, and John Kemler has
been arrested on a charge of being the
thief.
Z. L. Spence, editor of the Milton Tele
phone, had a narrow escape from being
killed by Il train at GAINESVILLE Thursday.
Bishop AIeSSmer, Of Green Bay, Wis
tied the Catholic mission ut the Oneida
Indian reservation last week, when
seven OneidaS received the sacrament
OF confirmation.
At a farewell reception rendered
Father Cleary, of KenoSha, the rev
erend gentleman was presented with Il
purse of $500, a gift from his parish
toner's and friends.
Carlo Observation-Disclosures is one of
the names given i'll to Clerk Hugh Null
holland at Appleton by Il man who
wished to become an American citizen.
The boarding-hOuSe of l.. Blair, ut
Gle, Ashland county, was partly de-
stroyed by fire. Blair was arrested
and put in jail on a charge of setting
the fire
Prof. Whitney, of Beloit, is preparing
a history Of BeIoit college for the Co
lumbar History of Education in Wis
consin, for the worlds fair.
Patrick Carroll was arrested at SUI
perior On Il charge of burglary. He was
bound over for trial in $500 ball. in de-
fault of which he went to jail
Mrs. Hannah Webster, formerly a
resident of Whitewater, died from the
effects of an operation at her home in
SpencepOrt, n. Y.
Mrs. Robert Davis, a resident of Port
age since 1916 died at her home in
that city, aged rs years.
The total loss in the fire at Randolph
last week amounts to scoops, and the
insurance $4,000. Temporary struc-
lures will be built where most of the
buildings burned, and next spring brick
buildings will be put up.
Dredgers at work at the head of Lake
Butte DIES MOrtes, near Berlin, brought
up an interesting relic a few days ago.
1t is Il part of the exploded boiler of
the steamer City of Berlin, which blew
up at that point in 1857, in which three
persons were killed and several severe
ly injured. Stillman Wright, now a res
ident of Berlin, was one of the injured
persons. The City of Berlin was after
wards repaired, but was burned to the
waters edge at her dock in Oshkosh in
1869.
Miss Edith FOntaine Rose, of Fond
du Lac, was united in marriage to Will
lam NJ Lewis of Racine. The cere-
mony took place in st. PauI's cathedral,
at Fond du Lac, and was witnessed by
numerous friends from Chicago, st.
Paul and Los Angeles, Cal. The groom
is a member of the firm of Mitchell &
Lewis, of Racine.
a live lizard, eight inches long, was
cOughed up by horse belonging to w.
II. Reed, of KeDOsha. The horse had
been ailing for some weeks, at times
but the animal became better at once
Upon parting company with the lizard.
William Kehrer, of Portsmouth, o.,
owner of the Riverside Knitting works
at that place, has decided to move his
plant to Superior. Work on the build
ings will be commenced at once. About
fifty hands will be employed at the
start.
A barn owned by Peter Rehl, at Fond
du Lac, was destroyed by fire, entailing
a loss of $500.
The marriage is announced of Miss
Hettie Burr, of Elkhorn, to Henry Pen
ney, of Iowa.
Miss Minnie Schults was married to
Edward Lewis, at the home Of her
parents in Beaver Dam.
Theron =. Keator, of Indiana, viii
address n republican meeting at APP
pletOn October u.
A young son of James Henry, of
Platteville, was seriously injured in
runaway accident.
Alfred Dodge, cashier of the inter
colonial freight office at st. John, N.
B., is under arrest. His accounts are
$1,000 short.
d. L. Ruiz, consul general of Ecua-
dor, is arrested in New York for for
gerry, committed to raise money for his
eXtrava CANT mistress.
Democrats and republicans set Clin-
ton, Illinois, wild with enthusiasm and
red fire last night.
A Rafting Good Family.