Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-09

addresses will be delivered by suct
/ speakers as the respective parties may
furnish. R. NJ La Toilette has
promised to speak on republican day.
F. NJ. Grant Of Madison has been Of
fered by Assistant Secretary Taylor
the position Of superintendent of pub
lie buildings. The salary Of the posi-
ton varies according to the size of the
buildings in charge Of the superin-
tendent. The minimum is ABOUT
$4,000.
! H. J, Ormsby of Black River Falls,
! special agent TO establish free rural
! delivery routes, and congressman John
/ ]. Esch will recommend the establish
/ ing Of four routes leading from Mon
| dOvi and covering one hundred miles
| The service will commence the middle
! Of September.
| Surveyors have started to lay out
the new course for the Desplaines river
in Kenosha county. The farmers Of
! the country will have the river
| dredged to a depth of three feet
| through its entire course in the county
The improvement as planned, will
reclaim thousands of acres OF land that
is now marsh.
At Fond du Lac, the cOroner's jury,
which investigated the death of ARA
B. Taylor, brought in a verdict that
Mr.. Taylor came to his death by being
run down by a train on the Chicago &
Northwestern road, and that the train
T1nnjnO al hjchnT> rot Of
than is allowed by the city ordinance.
The Soldiers and Sailors association
OF Walworth county will hold its
twelfth annual union at Elkhorn, Aug.
Is. DR.. w H. Hurlburt, mayor of
ElkhOrn, will deliver the address Of
welcome. Prof. A. l.. Salisbury will
respond; the Rev. D. R. Lucas, past
chaplain in chief of G. A. R., will
liver the annual address. Among the
prominent speakers are: D. G. James,
department commander, G. A. r.; the
Rev. J. ]. Hull, eX-department COM
mandeT; E. B. Gray, Congressman H.
A. Cooper, and Maj A. J. Cheney
George Potter, an employee Of the
seed distributing department at Wash
ington, was fatally injured in a run
away at Madison. His former home
was at La Crescent, Mimi, where the
bureal will be- Mr.. Potter and his
wife came west several days ago to
visit the latter's mother, Mrs. William
Finley, living on a farm in the town of
Madison. At the time of the accident
NJ. Potter and his wife were driving
from the city to the farm and when
nearly out Of the city kite, which a
boy was trying to fly, lit on their
horses back, terrifying the animal and
causing it to rum away. Mr.. Potter
was thrown out of the buggy and
against a post
Dr.. Samuel H. Gish, the oldest den
list in practice in GAINESVILLE, died, aged
81 years. He was born in Lancaster
county. Pa, and was direct descendant
of the old Guise family, of Europe.
He was graduated from the Philadel-
phia Medical college in the class OF
1851 and after practicing in Elizabeth
town. Pa. came west in 1856. He
continued in active practice until a
few months ago. DR.. Gish was twice
| married, five children being born Of
the first union. He was actively inter
ested in researches and discoveries
among the old ruins Of Southern
Europe. the Holy Land, and Egypt
He made a special study of ancient
history and chemistry.
Chris Anderson, a mechanic of
! Racine, &c years old, has just left for
| Denmark with his brother to claim a
fortune of $4,000 left by the death OF
their parents. There is romance at
! tached to the life of Chris. Anderson.
| Six years ago he lived at Copenhagen,
! Denmark He was in love with a
| comely Danish maiden. They quarreled
and he came to America, n0twith-
standing the protestations Of parents.
! Arriving in Racine he secured en-
ployment at the Case Threshing
| Machine works. He saved few hun
dred dollars His brother also came
! to America and Chris. always thought
he was dead until a letter came from
him, dated in a Dakota town, apprising
him of the parents death. Chris,
stated that he would settle up his
affairs in the old country. wed MS
first love and return to Racine.
The Bank Of Cambridge was broken
into and robbed. The thieves gained
entrance by taking the screen of
from the front window and raising the
sash. They got into the vault by
cutting a hole through the brick wall,
which in eighteen inches thich.
Crawling in they then used nitro
glycerine to blow the safe. The safe
door stayed intact, thus foiling the
thieves. They, however, secured 1872
Oh. Of this amount $65.25 was silver
and $26.76 in pennies, which were il
the vault, but not in the safe. They
then tackled the safety deposit boxes
and rifed two Of them Of valuable
paper, but fortunately did not DISTURB
Postmaster Patterson's box, which
contained the government money
stamps and money order books. Inc
bank is owned by George Dow, founder
of Cambridge.
TO BRING COLONISTS.