Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-16

the best falls for farmers they have
in years.
Wisconsin pensions granted: Addi-
tional, August Froehlich, Sheboygan,
Sc to S12; Andrew Johnson, De Soto,
SIS to s12; increase, David Bennett, Port
Hope, IS to s12; original widows,
Bridget c. Enright, Seneca, IS.
At Menasha fire was discovered in
the basement of the three-story -four
mill of the Fuchscherer & Schlegel
Milling company and was checked
only after hard fighting. The loss is
considerable; insurance $4,000.
Patrick Duffy, aged about % years,
was struck by Northwestern train in
Racine and thrown sixty feet. His
head and body were injured and it is
thought he also sustained internal in
juries. His recovery is doubtful
Mrs. Nellie King Smith has brought
suit against the city of Beloit for
DANCES she alleges to have sustained
because the city removed a piece of
sidewalk from in front Of her property
on the ground that it was an encroach-
ment on the street.
John Curtis of Chicago, who is pro-
noting the automobile plant which is
to be established in the Wisconsin
CentraPs vacant shops at Stevens
Point, writes that he will bring one of
the completed carriages to that city in
few days. The company is to be
capitalized at s6,OOO,OOO and will en-
ploy from 200 to 400 skilled mechanics
Miss Kate Jeardeau and George Haw
were married at the home of the brides
parents near Platteville. Mr.. Haw is
a banker of Ottumwa, Ia. Miss Jear.
deau was a teacher in the Milwaukee
industrial school for four years, also in
like institutions at Racine and Geneva
III. Of late she has been travelling
agent for the state public school al
Sparta.
The Storey Lumber com
pany has been Incorporated by we'll
known La Crosse capitalists. The
capital is $4,000. The company viii
purchase large lumber tracts ant
a mill site in either Oregon or Wash
ington. The officers are. President, Oh,
Storey; vice president, B. F. Keller
secretary, w. L. Kaeppler; treasurer
w. B. Tscharner.
At the annual meeting of the North
western Sash, Door and Blind associa
ton in Chicago, the following officer
were elected: President, T. R. Morgan
Oshkosh, Wis; vice president, G.
Curtis, Wausau, Wis; secretary, H {
Parker, Chicago; treasurer, J. P. Gould
Oshkosh, Wis. The members strongl,
advocated an advance of prices, bu
, the scale was left to a special com
mittee.
Charles Peterson of Prentice, Will
hunting was killed by the Academia
discharge of his own gun. This is tn
second fatal accident of this nature i
Price county last week. Another acci
dental shooting occurred near tn
southern end of the county. StepheI
Albaugh of Cincinnati, while huntin
deer, climbed a tree to gather balsan
A hunter from the southern part of tn
state saw him, and, thinking he was
bear, shot him through the left arr
near the shoulder. The bone was S
badly shattered that it is feared ampu
, tation will be necessary. Albaugh i
II years old.
Horace White, editor of The Ney
; York Evening Post, has published
translation of Appian's Roman history
work of two volumes translated iron
the original Greek. This work ha
consumed all of Mr.. Whites time out
side of his editorial duties for tn
past five years. The proof of the en-
tire work was read in Beloit by Pro
: fessors Wright and Emerson. TIL
: dedication of the work is as follows
''To Joseph Emerson, DID,, LII. D., pro
| fessor of Greek in Beloit college, thes
5 late-coming fruits of mis- instruction
, are dedicated with the reverence an
) affection of the translator