Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-31

in BelOit, Wis, became so violently in
sane on the train that the conductor
had to have her taken off the cars be-
fore reaching her destination.
Gottlieb Wehrle, Of Platteville, who
graduated from the medical depart
ment of the Columbian university,
Washington, carried off the highest
honOrs of that institution in the shape
Of the first prize, $50 in gold.
Robert Schubring, a 17-year-old boy
employed in the Badger pulp mill at
Kaukauna, was fatally injured by be-
ing caught in the machinery.
Monroe has decided to have an old
fashioned fourth of July.
The district attorney has been inves-
tigating a case of a Two Rivers wO-
man who is said to have caused the
death Of her 6-year-old stepson by
striking the child on the head with a
stick.
The jury in the case Of Carl William
against r. G. Merryman for $1,000
damages for the loss of a leg while
employed in the defendants mill dis
agreed. The case was tried at Mari
nette.
The convention of the eighth con-
gressional district, comprising the
counties of Wood, Portage, Outgamie.
Brown, Kewaunee and Dorr, will be
held at Stevens Point, June %.
Dudley Langford and Rowley Loo
mas Of BOscobel will be tried on
charge of having picked up and kept a
sack of provisions lost from wagon
belonging to Patrick Glynn.
An Appleton paper has discovered
that a single one of the large paper
mills uses as much water in day as
the entire city Of Appleton exclusive
Of the paper mills.
The council of Chippewa Falls has
appropriated $4,000 for city improve
ments. 1t also decided to borrow
$4,000 from the state commissioner
of public lands.
The st. James Episcopal church at
Green Bay, which was erected about
twenty years ago, but which has not
been used for a long time, is being
pulled down.
Herman FaIk, August Moenke and
Charles Carlson were arrested at Sha-
wano by the deputy United States
marshal charged with selling liquor to
Indians.
The will of the late Caroline Draper
of Draper hall, OcOnOmOWoc, has been
filed. She leaves two thirds Of her es-
tate to Charles Draper and one third
J. n. Trout of Kaukauna is planning
to make a trip on his bicycle to Nj
agara Falls, New York and Philadel-
f:hia, starting on June 1.
Miss Estelle HammeI, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. David Hammel of APP
pletOn and Mr.. Charles Wirth will be
married at Appleton June u.
Rosa Smith has begun suit in the
circuit court at Depere against John
Tetzloff asking $4,000 damages for
alleged breach of promise.
Mrs. j. c.. Cultivate of West De
Pere has resigned her position as post
master and R. Mcdonald and Thomas
Casey are after the place.
Miss Annie Boden of West Bend
was married to John Hacker last week.
Two Of her sisters are married to two
of Mr. Hackers brothers.
| Mrs. Ross Rosetta femme of Berlin
! is dead aged so ynars: Mrs Irnrotia
IdelI of Prairie du Chen died yester-
day at the age of 70.
The Holmes sanitarium at Hudson
/ has been sold and DR.. Samuel John
son is said to have bought a control
ling interest in it.
| J. III. Van Dyke has sent check for
$50 to the OcOnomOwoc fire company
for services rendered when his barn at
! Cloverdale burned.
Farmers in the southern part of Ben
ton and New DiggingS are complain
ing about the practice of killing fish
with dynamite.
| Most of the bridges along the Ma
rengo river were carried away by the
recent freshet and several dams were
washed out.
| Guy Sampair, a 14-year-old Cumber-
land boy is missing from his home and
! it is thought he was drowned while
! fishing.
Every business house in VirOQua has
contributed for electric service and the
new system will be in operation by
July 10.
john Chenevert, formerly proprietor
Of the National hotel at Menasha, has
purchased the Windsor house at Fond
du Lac.
Charles Mcleod, the second white
man to settle on the Menominee river,
died at Menominee, Mich, aged 50
years.
The Rust Land company, with a
capital of 100000, has organized at
Eau Claire to deal in southern lands.
Mrs. Dudley Fitzgerald, wife of a
St Paul conductor, died at her home
in Watertown yesterday, aged Al.
George Carpenter of Somers, Ken
osha county, killed a badger on his
farm. 1t weighed 81 pounds.
Homer Nelson, ex-assemblyman and
ex-treasurer of Green Lake county,
died recently at Ripon.
The Rev. J. NJ. Heiber, Lutheran
minister at ShebOygan Falls, will set
tie in Riverdale, III.