Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-01
WISCONSIN GLEANiNCS.

aged A. is dead.
Mrs. John Mckinley died at James
vile, aged 30. She leaves husband
and four children.
Miss Sophia Bushnell, sister OF
Mrs. S. II. Nanbergen of Hudson, died
at the Wauwasosa sanitarium.
j. VI. Meroln of Milwaukee, asks
of John B. Zaun $4,000 damages for
alleged loss of his wife's society.
An order was issued disseminating
| the postoffice at Pennington, Oneida
county. Mail will be sent to Gagen.
Pensions: Increase, Daniel Kelley,
/ veterans home, Waupaca, Sc 10 So;
/ Eugene NJ. Leach, Wild Rose, Sc to
IS: original widows, Eliza Stahl, Mil
waukee, IS.
James DwyeT, an employee of the
Milwaukee Joint & Welding Co., Mil
waukee, may be blinded by a hot
/ metal explosion.
At Sparta Mrs. J. r. Skillman is
/ dead. Her husband was agent for the
American Express company there for
/ thirty years.
Johnson Mcclure, manager of the
Milwaukee Clearing house associa-
ton, died in Wauwatosa He was
born in Chico 80 in 1887
! At SheboygaL Alma, the 3-months-
! old child of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
! Westmore, was smothered to death
while in bed with its mother.
At Beloit Mrs. Myron Tower and
! daughter, Eva, aged 8, accidentally
took belladonna, supposing it to be
dandelion extract and their lives
were barely saved.
At GAINESVILLE Miss Sarah F. KEN
NETT and Edwin E. Johnson were
married. The groom is an employee
of the ST. Paul railway at Green Bay.
A well dressed young man who reg
! istered as Charles Wainwright
! Omaha, Neb., was found dead in his
room at the Hotel Pfister, Milwaukee,
| having committed suicide by shoot
| ing.
Harry G. Smith, a member of the
| I'd Illinois volunteers, aged %, a
| former Beloit boy, died at Jackson
vile, Fla, of typhoid fever. His
remains will be brought to Beloit for
| burial
| At Stevens Point George H. Rogers,
who lives just outside the city limits,
killed gray wolf in his own yard
| and secured the state and county
! bounties of S. each, and sold the
| hide for $3.50.
The daughter of j. NJ Henry at
| Viroqua was accidentally shot in the
| back by young man, while handling
| a revolver. The bullet has not been
| located, and it is feared the wound
will prove fatal.
| The dwelling of Carl Powers, situa.-
ed 10 miles from Milwaukee was de-
stroyed by fire and the infant grand
child of Powers persisted in the flames.
| Powers and his daughter, mother of
the infant, were at work in the fields
adjoining.
Congressman and Mrs. Babcock
and Secretary of State Casson and
wife have been at Eau Claire re-
Gently. They were met by Represen-
tative and Mrs. Jenkins of Chippewa
Falls. Congressman Griffin was a
| guest at the same hotel, Mrs. Griffin
! being in Washington.
| There were five weddings of Wau-
kesha people on Thanksgiving day
Miss Mae E. Parker and Joseph F.
| Barrows, Julius Dresdow and Matilda
Handt, Lewis Richardson and Miss
Mamie Carey, Adolph Winzenreid and
Miss Carrie Ruby and Frank Klatt
! and Lena Bellmann.
| r. P. Breese has received letter
| from w. B. Brocchus, former secre-
| tary of the Waukesha Y. M. C. A.,
dated Boston, in which he says he
reached that city in charge of cargo
Of cattle. Brocchus left under cireum-
stances which placed the association
in an embarrassing position.
Joseph Goulet, who, left Ashland
last June to enter the United States
navy, has returned from Norfolk,
where he was mustered out. During
the time he was in the navy he was
on the monitor Puritan, and was all
| through the war on this boat He
assisted in the bombardment of San
Juan.
Judge John Whytock, who died at
Albert Lea, Mimi, enlisted at La
Crosse, in 1861, as member of Bish-
ops company in the I'd cavalry, was
chosen lieutenant, then captain, and
finally major. He has lived in
southern Minnesota since the wal
and had been judge Of the circuit
court for many years. He was born
at Buffalo and was So years old.
At West Bend two freight train:
collided Several fiat cars and eat
tie car were wrecked, and an engine
telescoped. The station platform
was also badly damaged. The en-
gineers and firemen jumped.
John Griffin pleaded guilty to Crane
larceny at GAINESVILLE and was sen
fenced to one year in the state re
formatory at Green Bay. He ant
Ernest Byers stole some clothes from
ST. Paul's church, Beloit.
At Kenosha the ladies Of st. Mat
thew's Episcopal church gave Tn
Bells of Bonneville at the Oper
house. The performance was highl,
successful, the singing of the solo
lists and the work of the chorus bein
exceptionally good. Mrs. Tanner
Miss Belle Head, Mr. Wheeler, MI
Kupfer and Mr.. Ellsworth wer
cast for the principal characters an
sang in good style. The perform
ance will be repeated.
THE POsToFFTCE IN 1898.