Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-31
NEIGHBORING NOTES.
Taken From Our Exchanges and Com
denSed For Local Readers.
MUCH HAY BURNED.

StCf S1S L OIut y very u6-
structlve fire swept over portion of
the Buena Vista marsh last Thursday
and scores of farmers are mourning
their loss. 1t is estimated that at least
one hundred tons Of hay were burned
The fire is supposed to have been
started by hunters.
Marshfeld News: Wonderi if Wausau
had favored the drivers County Bill if
Upham would have placed the home in
Wausau?-Wausau Pilot-Review.
We are positive there was no connec-
ton between the two matters. How
ever, if Wausau would cease to be so
pigglsh with its neighbors, perhaps its
neighbOrs would be more ready to turn
in and help when it had longings of its
own. Mind you neighbor, too, the
time is coming when it will matter little
whether you favor Rivers county bill
or not, a new county will be formed
just the same.
BY the above it can be seen that
Marshfeld, as represented by the
News, if they are authority for anything
else than wind, is still ambitious for
new county and expect it without the
aid Of Marathon county. Many cold
days will pass before Paulus will have
that ambition gratifed. They prophe-
sled that many years ago. They are
still waiting.
GOLDEN ROD KILLS HORSES.
Marshfield Times: Is the fair name
of our national flower being desecrated
or has State Veterinarian Scott made
mistake in the name of the rod that
sends horses to their happy hunting
grounds. Mr.. Scott was interviewed in
Milwaukee recently and said that he
had just discovered that hundreds of
horses have died in the lumber belt of
Wisconsin from a disease brought on by
eating different varieties of golden rod
or sOlidago, which abounds in that
vicinity. The symptoms are somewhat
similar, he says, to anthrax, and the
disease has heretofore puzzled many
veterinarians. ''There is no cure for
the disease" said Mr.. Scott. ''The
only way to prevent it is by destroying
the plant, root and branch. F. G.
Leonard, of Hayward, has lost seventy
head of horses from the disease. Mr..
Truax, of Eau Claire, lost five horses
that were turned into a field rich with
golden rod.
BURIED IN \ WELL.
Adams County Press: On Wednes-
day last a young man by the name of
Gingrich, living in the south part of the
town of Easton, went to the bottom of
a we'll for the purpose of removing the
curbing. A few minutes after he de-
scended, the curbing above gave way
and the earth caved in burying him at
the bottom. The only person present
was his father, aged about 20 years.
The father ran for aid as fast as his
strength would admit, and the neigh
bors rallied to the rescue quickly. The
dry condition of the sand made the
work of recovering the body difficult,
and it was several hours before it was
done, and life was extinct. Deceased
was about % years of age and un-
married.
Tomah Journal: DR.. Simonson, of
the Iomah Hospital, was called to Green
Bay Tuesday for the purpose of remOv-
ing tumor from the side of Mrs. r. r.
Minturn. The friends of that lady here
will be glad to learn that the operation
was very successful and that her speedy
recovery is antici pated. VIM. B.
Naylor, Jr., and Miss Genevieve Wal
ker, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Hume Walker, were united in marriage
oD Wednesday, October 23d, 1895, atthe
brides home. The wedding was quiet
affair. only the immediate relatives and
a few Of the most intimate associates of
the contracting parties bsing present.
Green Bay Gazette: General Mana
ger S. w. Champion of the Green Bay,
Winona & st. Paul Railroad states that
that road is experiencing an almost
unprecedented rush of business. "The
movement of freight" said Mr..
Champion, when questioned on that
subject, lis something enormous, and
the equipment of our road is hardly
adequate for the demands made upon it
by shippers. The business is not con-
fined to any single line but includes all
kinds of freight. Potatoes are being
shipped out of Waupaca county in
immense quantities, and the movement
of flour east from Minneapolis is very
heavy. Much grain and lumber is also
being handled. and taken altogether
brighter than it has been for long
time past. Most of the freight bound
east that comes in over our line is trans
ferred to boats here and forwarded by
water, but after the close of navigation
it will be sent by way of the Kewaunee
road and the Ann Arbor car ferries.
THE recent reorganization of the
Green Bay, Ninona & st. Paul com
pany," said Mr.. Champion, "will
undoubtedly result in the speedy
enlargement Of the equipment Of the
road, thus placing 1t in condition for
the speedy handling of the steadily
increasing traffic which is being handled
by it."
Westfeld Union: The following is an
extract from d small boys essay on
"Heds:" There is lot of kinds of
heds, red heds, wooden heds, soft heds,
big heds, cabbage heds, levil heds, lite
heds, bull heds, bawled heds, and so
4th. Pa he's got one. It's bawled.
Ma she's long heded and Pa he's bull
headed, I'm red heded and levil too.
The smart end of boy is his he'd
except when he gets spanked, but the
smart end of a bee Is not there. o, no.
Pa says if feller has a he'd, he will
get ahed in this world, but [ don't want
no he'd like he gets on when he goes
out with the boys.
Wausau, Wis, Oct. 29.-An arrest was
made this afternoon which promises to
cut an important figure in what may
develop into one of the most noted
cases in the criminal annals of Wiscon-
sin. On Sept. %, on a railroad track
near Superior, man was shot in the
forehead by two desperadoes and killed.
Superior officers Immediately instituted
a search, and a week or two since
arrested George Thorpe. who proved to
be a prisoner who escaped from the
Marathon county jail Aug. u, by filing
off the bolt heads from the bars Of
cell window From Ihorne 1t was