Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-07
1878, and Adolph, the other, in Fox
river at Fort Howard in 1888.

sinoists the city, are TO be replaced by
automobiles. The change is to be
! made early next season and the thirty
! horses now needed to haul about the
five coaches will be retired.
At Eau Claire a trolley car struck
a wagon containing eight persons,
severely injuring Mrs. S. L. Stafford
In the wagon were Mr.. and Mrs. S. L.
Stafford and child, Mrs. H. G. Stafford
and two sons, and Mrs. Frank Smith
and child. The occupants were thrown
out, Mrs. Stafford striking on her head
and losing consciousness. The others
escaped with slight bruises. An exam
! nation showed that her shoulder was
! dislocated.
O'Connell Brothers, Sheboygan coun-
! ty men who went to the Klondike re-
gion more than year ago, have writ
! ten home relative to the climate and
| conditions Of the market, besides ex-
! citing narratives Of their experiences
in the country. They say that a con-
serVatiVe estimate, Judging by the dali
| ly average, they believe the amount OF
! gold taken out of the district in the
vicinity of Dawson City last winter
was upwards of SIS 100000.
! A special election was held in the
town of Bloomington, Grant county,
to choose supervisors, the last election
having been declared a tie by a deci-
sion of the circuit court. The election
resulted in the choice Of Henry Rob
erts, John Harris and Albert Schreiner,
| known as the anti-railroad aid ticket.
! The vote was SO to 81. This disposes
of the long contest for railroad bonds
in that town. The supervisors elected
are those Ousted by the court
John Miles, a boy employed at Hotel
Racine, confessed to the police that he
had been pilfering from guests of the
house. He said that he had once
worked at the Hotel Pfster, Milwau-
kee, and was discharged for dishonesty.
The Paint creek dam on the Chip
peWa, built in 1874, is rapidly going to
pieces. 1t was fine structure when
completed and it was supposed by its
! OriginatOrs that it would last for all
! time. 1t met its first mishap in the
! flood Of 1880 and in 1884 was made use
| less. 1t was believed that the going
out of this dam was largely the cause
| Of the great rise in the Chippewa at
| this point and the vast destruction to
! property. 1t has been decided that if
| some one will not take it down for the
timber it will be burned. The dam
cost between $4,000 and 100000.
In Milwaukee John F. Burnham
qualified as a member of the board of
fire and police commissioners in place
OF w. d. CantillOn, who rendered his
resignation A few weeks after re-
ceiving his appointment Cantillon was
promoted by the Chicago & North
western Railway company, by whom
he was employed, to be superintend-
ent of the Winona division of that
road. His new position required him
| to be absent from the city a great
part of the time. Burnham is a well
| known republican, was sheriff of Mil
Waukee county from 1889 to 1891, and
was member of the assembly two
| years ago.
Parties who have travelled from Ne
cedah to Mather report tons of fish,
such as pickerel and bass, to be dying
in the bitches leading to the branches
of the Yellow and Lemonweir rivers,
at points along the highway. The
stencil from dead fish is almost I'M
| bearable and wagon loads of them can
be found in small pools under the al
der bushes along the bitches, unable to
set back into the streams. The water
has been SO high during the last few
months that bitches in that vicinity re-
sembled rivers and fish would leave
the course of the stream for water
outside the banks. The receding wa
Ter, following the recent drouth in that
vicinity, had left thousands of them to
die
James Clarke, a banker, whose home
1t at Steele, n. D., jumped from q Pi-
Oneer limited train on the Milwaukee
/ road near West Salem, while the train
was running at a high rate Of speed
He was travelling with his wife on his
way to see his father who is critically
| Ill in Ohio. This is supposed to have
| preyed on Clarke's mind, and, together
| with the Intense heat, is thought to
have made him temporarily insane.
Clarke tried to cut the screen out of
his section Of the sleeper, but was pre-
vented by a porter and the conductor,
who were summoned by Mrs Clarke.
He afterwards assaulted Mrs. Clarke
with the knife. He finally managed to
jump from the train. He will prob
! ably die
! The Paine Lumber company makes
! the charge that the destruction Of it's
! warehouse at Oshkosh was due to poor
| pressure on the part Of the Waterworks
and has compiled data for suit against
the city. The company also charges
the chief or the fire department, Robert
A. Brauer, with cCnniying at this lack
of pressure and poor protection and
With neglecting to report repeated in
stances of poor pressure. The COM
pany claims that it had to use its
pumps to stiffen up the pressure and
that then the water company slowed
up. Photographs of pressure dials
statements of 1remen and spectators
are all being collected and then the
Paine company is going after the city
and the scalp of the chief.
HANGS UP RICH PRIZES.