Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-21
BADGER BRIEFS.

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J. B. Taylor, aged GA, died at Hewitt
of paralysis.
At Green Bay, Mrs. G. Oldenburg
died, aged 6S.
William Schutt of Pennington died
suddenly Of heart disease, aged IS.
Herman Schwan died at Staadt, aged
81. He formerly lived in Milwau-
kee.
The members of the Danish Metho-
dist society will dedicate their Green
Bay church Nov &c.
Henry Halberstad, well-knOwn
Kenosha merchant, was taken before
Judge Storson and found to be insane.
The new Polk county courthouse at
Balsam Lake has been accepted by the
building committee. The total cost
will be $4,000.
Mrs Matte Hunt, wife of DR.. Fred
Hunt of Stewart, Neb., formerly of Be-
lott, is dead, aged 81. James Dunn, aged
so, died at Beloit.
George Hassen of West De Pere was
killed by falling from wagon, the
wheels Of which passed over his head.
He was Is years old.
The national council Of the indie
pendent Order of Red Men decided to
meet in Milwaukee next year, the sec
ond Tuesday in September.
Moses Forcier was fatally injured in
a mill at Stiles by falling in front of
moving carriage. He died. He was
80 years old and unmarried.
Frank Russell, general manager of
the Park Falls Pulp & Paper company,
was seriously assaulted by two toughs
at Butternut. His right ear was torn
Off
Mrs. Martin Hession, Sr., for forty
two years a resident of GAINESVILLE,
died of heart failure, aged 65 years.
She leaves a husabnd and three
children.
Euzebe Lavigne, for ffty-six years
a resident of Wood county, is dead.
He was a leading merchant at Grand
Rapids; was sheriff three terms and
a member Of the first county board,
made up of two members from Grand
Rapids, which then constituted all the
territory in Wood county. He was
80 years old.
Perry, son of G. L. Hanson Of Gin
ton Junction, had a leg crushed in
cotton gin which he was putting up in
the Indian territory. Amputation was
necessary.
The state school for the blind has
opened with an attendance of 100,
which is the largest number in five
years. Typewriting has been added TO
the course of study at the institute.
A. NJ. Nelson, president, and J. P.
Malick, a stockholder of the Amherst
bank, paid to Sheriff Malone Of
Wausau the $500 reward offered for
the capture of the men who robbed
their bank last March.
Thomas Domingo, the Porto Rican
brought to Marinette by Co. I, tried to
commit suicide in Jail where he is held
on the charge of burglary. While in
a respondent mood he attempted to kill
himself with a razor, but his fellow
prisoners gave the alarm.
The remains Of Thomas Halbert,
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Chippewa Falls for interment. Mr..
Halbert was one of the early residents
of Chippewa Falls, the president of its
First National bank and otherwise
prominent in the upbuilding of the
city.
At the house of Joe Shawano Kasick,
five miles north of Keshena on the
Tn 9-unar-n1H
of Mitchell Mahkinetas and two child
rem of an Indian named Komaakin,
aged and years, burned to death.
They were in the house alone and
playing upstairs, when they set fire to
the building.
Samuel Dodge, a convict sent to
Waupun in November, 1896, from
Oconto county on an eighteen-year
sentence, was fatally injured. En-
gineer Flint with his assistant was en-
gagged in raising the electric lights
and wires which are used for illumi-
mating the prison grounds, when one
Of the stone ornaments on top Of
wall became dislodged. In falling it
struck Dodge on the head, crushing
his skull and breaking his jaws. Dodge
was Sc years old.
John Gulke, aged IS of Arcadia, who
has been i'll several months, walked
out Of the house while asleep. He
made a noise at the kitchen window of
his step grandson, William Edelbach.
Thinking it was a burglar Edelbach
shouted a warning and receiving no
reply fired two shots from repeating
Winchester rife. In the morning the
inmates were Mortified at finding the
body OF Mr.. Gulke on the sidewalk
One of the shots had taken effect in his
right eye and death must have been
instantaneous. A jury exonerated
Edelbach.