Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-02

Claire has been closed on attachments
amounting to about $4,000.
Miss Lillian White, of Eau Claire, re-
ceiyed prize at the worlds fair for
needlework on chamios skin.
Michael Durkin is in Jail at Dodge
vile, on charge of shooting Robert
Day, inficting serious wounds.
II. X. Voight died very suddenly at
Sheboygan Thursday. John Flynn, Il
veteran Of the same city. is dead
The Pine river forest fire sufferers
are all rebuilding their houses, and
some of them are already completed.
Merrill lumbermen are busy getting
ready for winter operations in the
woods The cut will fall considerably
short of last season
1t is stated that the board of normal
school regents will not choose site for
the new school at West Superior until
sometime in February
After 30 years separation Hiram JEFF
ferson and his son Thomas are reunited
in GAINESVILLE. The father was seperat-
ed from his family just after the cap
! ture OF Fort Donaldson. he being Il
slave on Il plantation near the fort.
Thomas was then only two years old,
and this week saw their first meeting
since the stampede of slaves caused by
the victorious advance Of Lincoln $
army in Tennessee.
George Holmes, a farmer living in
Sank county, remarked that Mrs. Sarah
now has been obliged to pay for his
speech by giving Mrs. Davis 5000.
Henry Miller, a telegraph operator
from SpOOner, is under arrest at Bosco-
bel, chaged with stealing, for which he
offers the excuse that he was out of
work and would rather steal than beg.
| W. w. Warren, Il young banker of
TOmah was married at Minneapolis to
Miss Grace Mcmillan, daughter OF Viii
| liam Mcmillan, a well known lumber
man, who formerly lived at AIcKenna.
| The mayor of Oshkosh has ordered
that all pastebOard milk tickets now
| in use be destroyed for fear of the
spread of diphtheria germs by this
| means. Metal checks will be substi-
| tuted.
Mayor Charles III. Badeau's new
! paper The Weekly Investigator, IA;lde
its appearance Wednesday at Merrill.
1t will advocate the principles of the
/ peoples party and starts out With a
good patronage.
The breach of promise case Of Miss
| Florence Byrne, OF Chicago, against
W. V. Noad, of West Superior, Will
some UP for trial Nov. 6. Noad has
filed his answer. ill which he denies all
Miss Byrne's allegations.
| The mother of a woman who called
herself Madam L. |. Thomas and who
, claimed to be music teacher, has been
! in Eau Claire recently looking for her
daughter, who however, had disap-
peared ten days before her mother
arrival. Her home is in Escanaba,
Mich.
| Three Wisconsin men were badly in
| iured in Chicago Thursday by the
giving way of a gate Oh a State street
cable car trailer. They are: f. III.
Taylor, of Stevens Point, left arm
broken and badly bruised; z. D. Atten-
bury, of Plover, face cut and bruised,
and O. w. Bell, of the same place, also
! cut and bruised.
Mrs. Adolph Laergens, wife of far
mer living near Phillips, took half an
ounce of nitric acid because her huS-
! band refused to buy her a sewing ma,
chine Antidotes were used, but with
out avail, and she died half an hour
after taking the poison. She leaves a
family of five. chirlren, one being a
/ babe in arms.
Mayor Atkinson, of Eau Claire, was
assaulted on the street by eX-Mayor d.
W. Day, a physician. The trouble
grew out Of the publication in The
Leader, Mayor, Atkinson's paper, of
an article taken from a Chippewa Falls
paper referring to a scandal about a
prominent citizen of Eau Claire. DR..
! Day met Mayor Atkinson on the street
and asked him what he meant by pub
| fishing the article in question, but the
editor said that he did not want to be
interviewed ON the street. In order
| to detain him the doctor took hold Of
the EDITORS lapel, whereupon Mr.. At
! kinson objected and the doctor slapped
| his face.