Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-07

teoISe Carpenter OF SOmefS killed
an 1S-pound badger
The chair factory at IronwoOd may
be moved to Marshfield
Kate Berchner of Cassville was
killed by a train near Waupeton.
II. d. Wing, late of The Kaukauna
Sun, will move to Alabama
Oshkosh and Chippewa Falls are to
have new republican dailies.
Horsemen at Durand are delighted
with their new half-mile track.
Tramps burned the schoolhouse at
Benefits Siding, Douglas county.
An excess of water is interfering
with work at the Hortonville mine.
The pioneers of Portage county will
picnic at Lake Emily ON the Goth inst
Crawford county pioneers will talk
over old times at Gray's Mills next
Saturday.
Last week the Upham company of
Marshfield shipped thirteen carloads
of furniture.
Supt Lowell of the Waupaca city
schools has resigned to take a course
at the state university
-Four cases of shoes and number
of hats were taken from a Milwaukee
car at the La Crosse yards.
Parties from Columbus, O., are look
ing around Marshfield to locate a
stave and barrel-head factory.
Eph Miller and William Cuday Of
Rice Lake were taken to Minnesota
for alleged robbery of an old man.
The interstate campmeeting Of the
Seventh Day Adventists will begin
Thursday at Silver Lake, near Por-
tage.
Editor Wheelock Of The Taylor
County Star and News will spend a
wellearned vacation on the Pacific
coast.
The KeWaunee Banner, a German
democratic paper, edited by L. H
Maring, has been enlarged and i'm
proved.
BrOsse Bros. of Oconto have this sea-
son shipped about 5000 pounds of fish
to Chicago. They keep twenty one
nets set.
Fred Monson's g. year old girl
burned to death while playing around
a brush fire near her home in Wash
burn county.
The body Of Charles Kanbach, a
5-year-old boy who has been missing
from his home for two days, was
found in the river al Racine.
Willard d. Van Brunt of Horizon is
viewing the hardwood lands in Flor
ence county with the intention of buy
ing from $1,000 to 10000 acres.
The Kewaunee Enterprise last week
issued handsome special edition
showing the advantages of Kewaunee
as a manufacturing and shipping
point.
Miss Belle Field of Racine received
the diamond medal of the Chicago
Musical college There were 1900
competitors, all accomplished must
clans.
E. A. Diebel, while at work on the
roof of house, fell and broke his
| neck, expiring in about fifteen minutes,
at Wausau. He was intoxicated at
the time.
John HOFFMAN, who lives on a farm
near Racine, attempted to commit
suicide by shooting himself. The ball
glanced to the left side of the heart,
/ and was extracted. He is supposed to
! be insane
! The n. G. Foster railway will be
built through Clark county this sea
son. The extension will be from Fores-
man to point on the Greenwood
branch of the Wisconsin Central rail
way, distance of twenty miles
| George Kaime, who said he was an
| Oshkosh attorney, was arrested at
Wausau for an alleged attempt to pass
a confederate $50 bill. He was intox-
| icated at the time. He was fined So
| and costs.
An ingenious Sheboyganer has pat
ented a process for covering buggies
with a porcelain surfaced permanent
! finish that cannot be effected by eX-
| posture, by sand or grit in washing,
or by mud spatters.
| At Hortonville, Sylvester S. Whit
man, a pioneer of Outagamie county
and father of the well-known Apple
ton attorney, A. B. Whitman, died
Sunday, aged SO years.
Fire destroyed the residence of Mrs
George Perry in Platteville. Quite a
sum Of money, which had been Sc
creted in the house, was carried from
the building by a fireman.
A young man named Cawachen was
found dead in the town of Rollin, a
few miles south of Amigo. 1t is sup
posed that in pulling his gun out it
was discharged. The ball passed
| through his breast, killing him in
! Stantly.
The mystery surrounding the dis
| appearance Of Conan CrOzier, son of
Attorney J. W. Crozier, was lifted by
| the finding Of the body III the river
at Oshkosh. The boy left home a
week ago today and it was suspected
that he had been kidnapped.
! Joseph Lucashevski, of Racine, was
robbed of 5000, a part of which con-
sisted of 400 German marks. His
! trunk was broken open and the money
| taken out. Joseph DobeZeyski, his
roommate, was arrested on suspicion