Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-06-01
BADGER BRIEFS.

lie JdueSNllle I. vi. y. a. DanQ OF
twenty-three pieces left for Grand
Rapids, Mich, where they will furnish
music for the international confer
ence of Y. M. c. A. secretaries.
Charles Ryan and Louis Hansen,
arrested at Elk Mound and charged
with assault with intent to rob Con-
ductor M. M. Riggs of the Omaha rail-
way, pleaded guilty and were each
sentenced to state prison for a year.
The Kewaunee board of supervi-
sors has decided to build a new poor
house, to cost from $4,000 to $4,000.
The Manitowoc county board elected
Arthur lander county clerk to fill the
term of Fred Maresch, who committed
suicide.
At Berlin William Worth, a cattle
buyer, had pocket-book, containing
notes and greenbacks, chewed up by
hogs near Chicago. He accidentally
dropped the pocketbook in the car
while feeding his stock He will send
the pieces to Washington.
Rosie Wiesung, the girl who disap-
She has written a letter from Chicago
to her mother in which she says that
she had left home with the Italian
Sam Rose, and had gone to Racine
where they were married She is
anxious to be forgiven and to come
back.
DR.. D. w. Day of Eau Claire, has re-
turned from Chicago where he con-
suited DR.. Murphy, originator of the
Murphy button used in appendicitis
operations. AS a result, DR.. Day de-
cided to undergo the operation for
appendicitis. He left for ST. Paul
where the operation will be per-
formed.
Sheboygan is either without board
of public works or else it has two such
over the keys and records of the Office
to the new body as advised at the last
meeting of the council. Notwithstand-
ing that at the last municipal election
the voters elected the old board out of
office, the members seem bound to re-
main.
Mrs. Hugh M. Elliott has begun suit
against the Chippewa Valley Electric
road for $4,000 Her husband, ex-
Alderman Elliott, has also begun an
action for $4,000 for the loss of the
services of his wife. On Feb. II, Mrs.
Elliott was a passenger with eight or
ten others in a trolley car when it was
run down by a yard engine She lost
an arm.
The Chippewa county board rejected
the offer of James l.. Gates of Milwau-
kee to purchase the county lands, 49,
900 acres. Mr.. Gates made three
propositions, the first being to pur
chase the lands for SIG forty cash.
His second was to build a railroad
through the county to connect with his
proposed Milwaukee e Lake Superior
road, if the supervisors would donate
the lands. He also offered to take all
of the tax certificates held by the coun-
ty at face value. The board without.
a dissenting vote rejected each and all
of the propositions and placed valua-
ton of 81 an acre on the lands.
At Appleton County Clerk Montgom-
cry has issued a license for the mar
riage of Alexander Schenandore, full
blooded Oneida Indian, and Miss Ma
BILE Bennett, white girl who has been
for the past two years a teacher at the
government school on the reservation.
Schenandore is a young Indian who
has been educated at Carlisle, Pa, and
has acquired considerable property on
The reservation, including good house
and some stock. Miss Bennett is an
attractive girl, and the match is ap-
proved by her mother, who is her sole
relative. The bride came |
% Wisconsin from South Dakota, |
where she had had previous experience
n Indian school work.