Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-01-26
BADGER BRIEFS.

Al GAINESVILLE John B. Smith, grocer, !
has been arrested on the charge OF |
selling colored oleomaEgarine
AT Chiffon Joseph Gruettner, repre-
sentative OF the Pabst Brewing com
pany. received a broken hap in a run
away.
An investigation into the causes that
led TO the drowning OF Chief of Police
Garyey OF Men2shs proved that il was
accidental.
What is known as the Hill store at
shkosh was sold to Rudd & Co., house
furEishers The consideration was
abouc $4,000.
The marriage of Miss Eta Crum-
NETT, daughter OF J. #. Crummett of
Berlin, to Eugene Van Houten of the
town OF Aurora is announced.
Irving NJ. Harrington, secretary of
the Rock River Cotton company, died,
aged 81. He came to GAINESVILLE from
Minneapolis. a wife and two daugR
ters survive.
near Bangor, Evan Morgan got hi
hand caught in a corn husker. 1t waa
necessary to amputate the arm at the
elbow.
Thomas Rooney, q pioneer farmer of
Rock county. died in GAINESVILLE, also
home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Q.
Henderson.
Al GAINESVILLE Edward Carmody
pleaded guilty to receiving stolen
goods at Beloit and was sentenced so
two years and half at Waupnn. Ben
jamin F. Harding was arrested on the
charge Of robbery.
An l1-year-old-bo was picked up by
the Fond du Lac police. He gave his
name as Israel Cohen and admitted
having run away from his parents in
Chicago. His father, Conrad Cohen.
has been telegraphed foy. -
The Union Telephone company VIII
extend it" line 10 Stevens Point,
twenty-hree miles north Of Plaint1eld,
The owners Of the line are b. B. Bor-
den and F. r. Borden Of Plajn6eld and
NJ. Plank and Frank Wood Of Hancock.
5. G. Simmons appeared before the
! kenosha council anu offered to under
| take the work OF rounding the city
| debt o. $4,000 This debt, Mr.. Sim
| mons thinks, can be refunded in 20
| year bonds at 31s per cent. interest, in
! ssead OF the per cent. that is now
! paid
| Mrs Jackson, widow OF Joseph Jack
son, one o. the frs. settlers Of Osh-
kOsh, is dead at the age o. SO. Mrs
| Jackson was married a. Green Bias Il
1898. Mrs. Gordon. wife OF SUPP
! Gordon o. the nor.her,l sease hOspiJal
is a daughter; 'and Rcoer. Jackson d
! Shawauo a son.
At New Lisbon the building owned
by Henry Spears ana occupied by Far.
ley Bros. as meat market, was
burned with its contents. The loss II
Spears is 81 800: insurance, ST. 200: los!
10 Farley Bros. on Stock, $3.50; no in
surance: loss 10 F. N. Sarrunier o,
tools, 1926; insurance, $500.
At the March term OF the circui
court in the case Of Hausel
against Whitley, Peter Hausel
was given $4,000 damages iC'
injuries received from 4 bull Oh
the Whitley farm, near Kenosha
where Hauser had worked Nov
Judge Fish has granted new trial
At Fond du Lac Mrs Lydia Plat;
aged 10, who tes been suffering 70
twenty years With what physician
hi
disease Of the spine and who has beeI
confined TO her bed the last four years
arose Friday and walked. She ha
been walking ever since and claim
she is absolutely free from pain. Sh
attributes the cure to prayer.
At Neenah Mrs John r. Williams j.
dead, aged -. In 1S49 she was mar
ried TO John r.. Williams / Wankesh;
and the couple moved 10 Neenah tn,
same year. Mr.. Williams was post
master II Neenah under Grant. Mrs
Williams leaves an estate OF abou
$4,000. She is survived by sister
Mrs. John Vaughn, OF the town 0
Utica, and two brothers in Wales.
! At Evansville Deacon Norman w
Dennis died OF heart failure. He va:
June, 1924, and removed TO Wisconsin
IN 1847. A widow and several childrei
| survive. Isaac G. Poner is also deaC
at Evansville. He was born Charl
ton, Mass, in 1921 and came to Greer
county in 1885, He removed 20 Rocl
in 1866
The lennon ths-old baby boy IL J
| +. Markofski at Berlin was given
small quantity OF kerosene by 3-year.
old sister while the two were playing
together, with the result that the lit
tie one died.
In a letter Bert Burden OF Elroy
who IS in the Klondike, says that al
| members OF the Elms party are vel
| and hard at work. They reached q
depth Of eighteen feet and have found
good color" but no brick dust.
i Thes~ have killed two moose which
! dressed $50 pounds each The weather
/ thus far has been reasonably mild q
/ degrees below zero being the lowest
| Rev. A. d. Hendrickson died at his
| home in GAINESVILLE. His case was
most remarkable one and is without
| a precedent in medical annals. On Dec
! /, 1898, he suffered a stroke OF apo
| pleXy that paralyzed his entire left
| side. About week after the alta =:
he refused TO take food OF any X
and continued to live on water up to
the day Of his death. He came from