Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16

aged SO years, succumbed to the in
sa2se heat, dying Friday. A wife and
two small children survive
Inc wisconsin Carriage company
viii erect a new plant presented by
! the citizens of GAINESVILLE. The new
building will cost S25, OO0. The
plant was burned a month ago.
Rural free delivery IS to be estab-
ished at Fox Lake August Is. The
service will embrace an area Of SO
square miles with 2 population Of 535.
Emmer L. Houston was appointed car
rier
The Sheboygan fire department was
called out in the intense heat 10 ex-
tinguish a hot blaze at the barn Of
Mrs Ulenn, which caught fire by spon-
taneous combustion. The damage to
the barn and neighboring buildings
was about $500.
Knapp, Stout & Co. of Menomonie.
recently sent the largest raft of lum-
Der down the Mississippi that was ever
fOated upon that stream. It contained
| 100000 feet Of lumber and sixty car
loads of lath and shingles. The raft
was made up at Saltwater. and the
| lumber was consigned to st. Louis.
At Fond du Lac word was received
of the death of Theodore Zentgraf. a
member of Troop B, Fifth cavalry, [.
S. A, stationed at Jefferson barracks,
! st. Louis. The young mans parents
reside at Mount Calvary He left
home three years ago to serve with the
! fifth cavalry in Cuba and his time OF
| service was nearly ended.
| At Combined Locks L. S. Packard
received a letter from Stockbridge
telling of the death there of Laura B
Packard, and asking if she was his
| daughter. He had no relatives there
and does not know who Laura Packard
was. The writer said she died July p
and was buried the next day at Parish.
She left some property.
Wisconsin pensions: Original. Cnas
a. Starkweather, Milwaukee, Sc; Je-
rome J. Curtis, Black Creek, Sc: addi-
uonal, Anthony Lashua Reams, IS;
| George W. Thompson, Berlin, S12;
Charles StieT, Oshkosh, So; increase,
Wallace R. Thurston, National Home,
Milwaukee, S12; Charles F. Weed, STA
wano, $12; reissue, VIM. H. Edmins-
ter, Blaine, IS; original widows, Mary
S. Bernier, Germantown, So; war with
Spain, original, James W. McEathron,
Milwaukee, SIT.
Thousands of dollars worth Of dam
age was done by lightning in the farm
ing districts at Cumberland during last
week. Lightning-rOd swindlers have
taken advantage of the heavy storms
and have sWindled the farmers out of
thousands of dollars the past week.
They tell the farmers that they wish
to put up a rod for advertising pur-
poses and ask them to sign permission
for them to do so, which permission
afterwards turns up at the bank in the
form of an agreement to pay anywhere
from $3.50 to $3.50.
The death from cancer Of John ].
Clarke occurred at Waukesha. He
was GO years of age and had been a
resident there As years, having emf
| grated from his native home in Ire
land after the death of both father and
aunt Mrs. Elizabeth Carney, who was
a pioneer resident and who bequeathed
| TO him the bulk of a large estate. He
is survived by wife and four daugh-
| ters, Mrs. H. P. Miller Of Racine, and
Misses Katherine, Camille and Estelle
Clarke of Waukesha.
Martin, the 10-year-old son of John
| Huntinger of Stevens Point, was
knocked off the side of a moving Wis
consin Central freight car and one leg
was cut off. The boy managed to hold
on $50 feet further, when the other leg
was cut off. No one witnessed the
| accident. He dragged himself to the
shade under box car on the next
track and when he was found five
minutes later was examining his
wounded limbs. He called to another
boy who happened to be passing and
asked him to bring his feet from the
other track where they had been
thrown by the wheels. His nerve was
wonderful, but during the afternoon
he collapsed from the loss of blood
At La Crosse it was discovered that
party of % men from La Crosse,
who make log stealing a profession,
had attacked the raft of J. w. Van
SAINT, which was tied at Dresbach,
Mimi, and removed several hundred
logs valued at $1,000 or more. The
men went UP in sixteen skiffs and
overpowered the watchmen; after TAX
ing the logs came to La Crosse with
them and sold them to local lumber
man. Detectives are working on the
case. Log stealing is a profession Of
which little is known, or heard. They |
have a protective association and all |
members are pledged to utmost Sc
crecy. EIen who are in a position to |
know about their movements such as
bridge engineers, never tell on them, |
as they know it means death or at least |
great personal violence During the |
past twenty years 100000 worth of |
logs have been stolen.
STRENTTOIIS TJETT OF SENATOR