Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-25
THE BADGER BUDGET
\ HALF-BREED GOES asN THE
WARPATH NEAR SUPERIOR
AND SEVERAL MEN ARE SHOT
Two Murder Gases en- TIE Court
Docket at Ashland uk ee
Said to.Eavor the Plan of Opera ting
Its Own Lighting Glant-State
News in General.

! Sheriff .HoehIe of Superior was called
60 the town of White Birch. 40 miles
south, by,.a telegram announcing tina
| three men had been shot and SeriOuSl,
injured hya desperate character named
Basil Lerd. Lord was ordered ava!
frezn the AIRS. Saunders's place. Actu
ated by 4 desire for revenge he pro
Tided himself with a double-barreleG
shotgun and went upon the Warpath
Going to the Saunders,s place, nc
opened fire upon everyone in sight
but owing to poor craftsmanship sue
eees3ed in ,wounding only three men
His victims We're DaI Sheaf, shot in
the face and legs; Dick Richards, shot
ia tie arms and legs, and an unknown
Duinth man, wounded in the arms
and legs. Lord is a half-breed Indian.
The affair occasions little interest. No
der was burnt on both sides.
Ashland will have two murder trials
this week, when Mrs Thrush and Cas-
per Emmert will be tried for the .sur-
der Of Martin Thrush and the prelim-
mary examination Of John B. Howe
for the killing of D. A. Williams will
be held. Since District Attorney Ross
man took a change of venue in the
Thrush case Judge Parrish has been
corresponding with other circuit judges
and has finally arranged with Judge
5ClementsOn to try the case. The eX-
animation of Howe will begin Wed
nesday.
A special committee of the Milwau-
kee common council, which has been
Investigating the problem of electric
light, decided to recommend that the
city build it's own plant. The report
it is thought, will be adopted.
CHRIS. Frey, gambler teS-
titled that he paid Nick.
Drew, who has always been
the leading gambler at Superior, S33
on June / to give to the treasurer of
the gamblers committee, who was to
give it to Mayor Starkweather. He
also testified that he had given Ii
rectly $33 OBJ July to the treasurer Of
tie gamblers. Nick Drew was recalled.
and denied that he had ever received
any money from Frey. j. F. Bishof.
hardware merchant, said he had
talked the matter of the investigation
over with the mayor when it was ad-
mltted that money had been paid to
Starkweather by gamblers and others.
Charles Tank brought the bicycle
into play in Milwaukee in abducting
his 3-year-old child from the wife from
whom he separated six weeks ago. The
boy, whose name is Charles, was play
ing in front of the home of Henry
Schaeger, father of Mrs Tank, when
Tank rode up on his bicycle He was
disguised with heavy false beard
and blue spectacles. Tank gave the
children some candy, which gained
their friendship, so when he asked the
little boy if he wanted a ride on the
wheel he clapped his little hands with
delight and went with his father
whom he did not recognize until some
distance away from the house when
Tank threw away his disguise. Tank
took his boy to the home of his sister,
Mrs. Robert Pom, but the mother got
him back.
Pensions have been granted persons
residing in Wisconsin as follows:
Original-Edward Greau, National
Soldiers home, Milwaukee; Gerritt
Hammer, Cedar Grove -Sheboygan.
Additional William Littlejohn, AL
bion, Dane. Renewal and Increase
Charles A. Green, Lima Center, Rock;
George P. Clayton, Monroe, Green:
Henry A. Towner, Trempealeau,
Trempealeau. Reissue - Frederick
William Miller, Black Earth, Dane;
Frank McClintock, West Salem, La
Crosse. Original Widows-Mary L.!
Waldo Appleton, Outagamie.
Lieut.. T. B. Baker of Lansing, Mich,
arrived at Hudson in quest of health
He is at the home of his brother, At
torney II. C. Baker, and in an eX,
remely feeble condition. Lieut.. Baker
was foremost in the pursuit and cap
ture of J. Wilkes Booth for the assas-
sination of Abraham Lincoln. He was
the first to strike Booths trail as he
crossed the Rappahannock, and the
last person who conversed with him
before he was shot by Corbitt.
The firms of Knauf, TeSch & Jones
and the Berger-Gallogly company of
Chiffon have consolidated. They are
two of the leading mercantile and
grain-buying firms in that city. Ber-
ger and Knauf each purchased the in
terests Of their partners. The firm
will be known as Knauf & Berger.
Attorney Charles Quarles says he
confidently believed DR.. Walter Kemp
ster will again be health commissioner
of Milwaukee. Mr.. Quarles said the
action of the common council in re-
moving DR.. Kempster was Illegal, and
that the supreme court would no doubt
render a decision reinstating him.
Owing to the opposition to the prac-
tice of holding school picnics in parks
where beer is sold the Milwaukee
school board committee on rules has
decided to recommend that no more
mass picnics be held under The
auspices Of principals and teachers.
Judge Wallber announced that he
had arranged with Judge Goodland Of
Appleton to try the case Of Frederick
T. Day, president Of the defunct