Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13
LATESTSTATE NEWS
FOREST FIRES STILL BURNING
AS LATE AS FRIDAY.
SUICIDE OF HARRY MANN IN
MILWAUKEE.
An Arcadia Farmers Life Is Saved
by a Dog-Cranberries III Bad
Way-Elopement of d AIarkesan
Maid-Notes from Many Points.

Thirty families who lost all were
fitted out at Cumberland at an eX
pense of about $780, Clothing and
provisions were furnished to about
1870 families. Responses to appeals fol
aid have been wonderfully prompt ano
generous. New cases of deStIi -iOI
are being reported to the committee
almost hourly from the country dis
tricts. Three hundred sufferers have
already left to join friends or relatives
where they can be cared for, but there
are as many more who must be pro
Vlded for, and the relief work must
be kept UP for weeks in certain cases.
Cranberry packing has just com
menced on the Dogs i'll Wood county,
but the worms worked SO badly dur
ing the continuous drouth that many
marshes will be abandoned for the
season. The vines in a number of
cases have also been found so injured
by the hot, blasting winds that no
berries can be Looked for therefrom
for two years.
Negotiations have been closed be
tween the Green Bay and Fort How
ard WaterWorkS company and u party
Of gentlemen from the two cities
whereby the latter acquired possession
OF this valuable plant. The price paid
was 100000 The officers of the new
company are X. Il. Berkes, president;
A. q. Neyill, secretary; NJ. Joannes,
treasurer.
Mrs. AdOlph Frietsch, of Milwaukee,
wife of the daring SWede who is try
ing to cross the Atlantic i'll a cookie
shell craft called tie Nina, has re-
ceiyed Il letter from her husband,
which he wrote on the ocean and gave
10 the captain of the steamer Menan>
tbs, when spoken on Aug. 81 Mrs.
Frietsch declined to make public the
contents OF the letter, which she said
were of Il personal nature. Frietsch
is we'll and expects to get over to the
other side all right.
While William Bennett OF Center
Vile was rolling barrel of salt into
his pasture he was attacked by Il bull
and narrowly escaped death. The ell
ragged animal struck him in the side
throwing hIm about ten feet, break ing
three ribs The bull then jumped on
him aud would have killed him had
not his cries for help brought his dog
to the rescue. There was Il lively en-
couL .er between the animals, during
which Mr.. Bennett escaped.
Herman Dow, Il homesteader who
lives ten miles from Iron river, arrived
at Ashland Friday. He said the fires
in the vicinity from Winch ne came
were burning harder than they had at
amy time since Sunday. He was
driven from his home yesterday morn
ing and with his family came there
Everything he had was burned. A
dozen other hOmeSteaderS, he said
were burned out They remained at
Iron River.
Marry Mann, an ect entric indy idual
who came from Chicago about Il year
ago, died at the house of correction in
Milwaukee from a he1Qorrhage of the
lungs. AS Il result of his peculiar an
ties Mann was frequently arrested,
and at the time of his death he was
serving thirty days sentence for
disorderly conduct.
The case OF George Kerr, the re-
porter who in June last thrashed City
Attorney Hamilton because that Of
fetal withheld from him news that
he gave other reporters, was dismissed
in Milwaukee. At the time of the
trouble Mr.. Hamilton had Mr.. Kerr
arrested upon a charge o. assault and
battery, but when the case was called
the complaining witness was not pres
ent
A fire started in shop No. II of the
prison shops at Waupun and burned up
into SHOP No. Il on the second floor,
causing a loss of about $4,000 on the
stock and machinery and $1,000 on the
building. The stock and machinery
were insured The fire was evidently
fixed by some convict working in
this shop just previous to the time Of
closing for the day.
Anton Lessel brick-mason on the
new city hall, Milwaukee, fell off the
wall, distance of five stories. He
was terribly bruised about the head
and chest, but was conscious when
picked up. The force of the fall was
broken by the inside timbers, from
story to story, until he reached the
ground.
William McMann, the representative
of John Gateley n Co. of Chicago,
who with his wife was so terribly
burned by an explosion of gasoline
Thursday, died from bis injuries. His
wife will probably recover. McMann
is the son of well-to-do parents in
Saginaw, Mich, and his remains We're
shipped to that city.
Uhl, the crack catcher of the Fox
Lake baseball team, eloped with Edith
ZanderS at Markesan few days after
game of baseball there The young
people drove to Fox Lake being chased
by the angry father and an officer
but they failed to catch the runaway
couple, who gave them the slip and
We're married.
Wisconsin pensions: Restoration and
additionai-Barna NJ. Corey (deceasedD
Sharon. Increase-Henry H. Clement
Oshkosh. Reissue-,Iohn G.. Frenz
Kenosha; Peter Edsch, New GIarus
Milton Hicks, Waupaca. Original
widows. etc-C. Emile, Stehwin. But
ternut
The annual meeting of the Wartburs
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