Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-14

coLDlIlISSlOlef, IS gong u see to i
tHat Ill members OF the clergy pay
taxes, ii he can So decree. First OF
all, Francs AayIef katzer, Archbishop
Of Milwaukee,, WlIl have to pay take.
on his residence On Chestnut street
LArInpuln was CLAIMED Tor the DrOn
- =. -.-'p o. l"-A COMMISSIONER asntu
iof ADVICE from the city attorney
heretofore THIS property has been ex.
elnpt from Taxation under the assess
ment made by Tax Commissioner Bod
den. he deed OF the property is in
tAe dfchDIshOp'S name and it is gen
orally conceded tnat he viii have 10
pay. There IS general movement on
loot III Milwaukee to tax all church
property that can be reached and it is
very probable that this will be fol
loss. - oJner assessments that win
reach property tuat has hitherto eS-
capped taxation. There is a general
feeling that Tax Commissioner Brown
VIII make an effort to enforce the law
to the letter, and that great many
institutions that have heretofore es-
capped taxation VIII be put OH the list.
lie annual fl-dday meet of the
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic as
s0clatiou occurred at Ripon. In the
freshman debate between Lawrence
university and Ripon college the
Judges gave the RipOn freshmen the
unanlInous verdict. The debaters We're
Lawrence, Miss Florence b. Mott and
MesSrs. Ii. Huttlestead and l.. b.
Rank; Ripon, Misses Allie Kelly and
Mabel Johnson and Victor Palmer.
Inc held day events began with the
baseball game III the morning. The
Ripon team was made up of subs in
order to allow the regular team, which
takes part in the afternoon sports, to
rest. The Ripon team won by a score
OF IL TO 10.
John hebzerski was stabbed in the
abdomen while standing with others
at the corner of Sd avenue and Burn
nam street, milwaukee,. At midnight
Officer Carmody met Louis Miller and
Stan.siaus Sibylski supporting Keb-
zersI on Mitchell street and said they
mad found him III that condition. He
was taken 10 Il physician, who, after
examining him, pronounced his wound
fatal Peter Johnson was arrested on
suspicion, and AIyine Pratt young
woman, WAS also ARRESTED on suspicion
II having something to do with the
affray
Frank EngeI, son Of Joseph Engel.
the veteran who died of smallpox at
the Soldiers home Thursday, has died
at the isolation hospital of smallpox.
making the second fatal case in Mil
Waukee for Il number of years. The
body was placed i'll an alright coffin
and then turned over to an undertaken
who, accompanied by a health-ottice
inspector, took the body to the county
farm III WauWatoSa. There are now
only two cases al the isolation hoSpi,
tai, both patients doing well.
At the college tield-day events at
Beloit I. T. Briggs of Oahe, S. D.,
broke the college half-mile running
record His time was 2:0S IL E. E.
CoWay of Oak Park broke the stand
ing high jump, clearing five feet H
i. Smith of MorsOran, Turkey, in the
pole yaulung contest made feet
inches. In the tive-mile bicycle race
Len Chilcott of Beloit won in 1916,
with G. kuentzel, Milwaukee, a close
second and +. Van Wort, Beloit, a
close third.
kilograms from Boscobel relating to
the arrest of girls for immoral con-
duct have greatly exaggerated the
facts and result III great injury to the
city. The last case in which it was
stated forty witnesses were summoned
was an excess of thirty and was
thrown out of court as lacking eyi-
dence. Threats oil suits for false i'm
prisonment are being made by some
Of the parties arrested and the end is
not yet
The laying of the cornerstone OF the
new school building of the Evangelical
Lutheran Grace congregation took
place Sunday in Milwaukee. After a
sermon by Prof. \. HoencOpe the Rev.
Theodore jacket made an address,
summing up the history of the school
prior to the laying of the corner stone,
in which a copy of the Dresden cate
chism, the history of the school and
several newspapers were placed.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union state convention closed at Por
tage DR.. Annette Shaw, of the Eau
Claire home, presented her report,
and the matron, Mrs. Brown. gave
a brief sketch of life and work at the
home. The convention appropriated
$1,000 toward the maintenance and
support of the institution. Mrs. DR..
Shaw was elected vice president of
the state organization.
Word has been received of the
death of Foreman Thomas Fender
grast, who had charge of the Brule
River Improvement cOmpany'S bust
ness at Brule. Death resulted from
his having tooth pulled. His jaw
was fractured and modification set in
Pendergast was we'll known as a
guide for hunting parties.
II The national convention of the Boil
er-Makers' Union adopted a resolution
providing for an increase of the quar-
terly dues from 80 cents to G5 cents
This morning officers were elected fol
the following year. Lee Johnson o
Kansas City, KaS., was made pres
dent for the fifth term.
Judge Parish ordered another specia
yenlre of jurymen drawn for the Fen