Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-29

divorce from her husband. Irving T..
Officer, at Viroqua.
An opera house to cost $4,000 will be
erected by G.. +. Andrae at Stevens
Point this summer.
Mrs. Hannah Thatcher, aged 50 years,
died at Ter home in the town of Mount
Clemens, Racine county.
The marriage is announced Of Miss
Ida Chapman. of STAFFORD, Mo-, to
Arthur Gutheil, of Chiffon.
James Reed and Henry Trader, of
Wausau. were fined S25 and costs each
on a charge of illegal fishing.
Frank KiHman, resident Of Jetfer-
son. was kicked in the abdoman by Il
horse and dangerously injured.
The fourth annual session of the Lake
Geneva students conference opened at
that place with an attendance of 800.
Gus Nelson, employed in the Esterly
iron works at Whitewater, was struck
in the eye by a piece Of red-hot iron,
Margaret Maston TO William e. Per-
son, both well-knoWn residents of N4-
pere.
A heavy wind storm swept over
Stevens Point and tore up great many
trees, besides blowing down numerous
barns.
Hugo HinZkleman, Racine boy,
was drowned in the river at that place
by falling off the pier. The body was
recovered.
The growing crops in the vicinity Of
KilbOurn City are reported to be in eX
cellent condition owing to the recent
abundant rains.
The Racine police arrested thirteen
young men who make Il practice of go
ing i'll swimming ut that place inside
the city limits.
John Mortimer, aged Il years, an
only son Of Mrs. Alice Mortimer, of
Boscobel, was drowned While bathing
in a spring at that place.
Miss Edna Flanders was married to
Prol. III. b. Hubbell at the home of her
parents in Beaver Dam. The young
couple left for trip through the east
David Holmes, one of the defendants
in the Mead murder case at Waupaca,
was formerly resident of Appleton
and married a young woman at that
city.
John Sawyer, of Springvale. Column
IL; Is, Jn Of thf>
committee which was sent over from
England to locate a tract of land by the
pOtters
Thomas II. Savage, who was farmer
on the Indian reservation at ShawanO
during Cleveland's first administ ration,
has been appointed Indian agent at
that place again.
Gustav Degner, formerly a resident
of Merrill, was arrested at Wausau on
charge of having a plurality of wives.
He pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to two years in state prison.
The contract for the new high school
building at Grantsburg has been let to
the Cloquet Lumber company, of Clio
quet, MINI. 1t is to be completed by
Tic DoSlluillS Ol Tie I'LL 1cIIl.
The steamer Fannie G.. Hart, with
an excursion party of over 100, left
Green Bay for the worlds fair The
party will be quartered on the boat
during the weeks stay at Chicago.
The grade of the lola Northern rail
road is complete as far as lola and
track laid within two miles of the town.
Work is proceeding rapidly and trains,
it is expected, will be run regularly by
July l.
Herman Orten, the Wausau young
man who was arrested Oh a charge of
stabbing Robert Haase, has been re-
leased on 5000 bonds. He will have a
hearing at the next term of the cir
cult court.
Mrs. K. Barbara Spaeth, of Cadott,
now 10 years Of age, has since 1888
spun 725 pounds of wool, knitted 600
pairs of socks, fifty pairs of stockings,
and footed many pairs of both socks
and stockings.