Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-23

10 Ii eHAnS iOuS were On the Darn ana It |
was noticed that the bolts struck one
of the rods.
The kenosha Street Railway COM
pany was formally organized with the
following officers: President. B. J. Ar
mold; vice president, W. X. Arnold:
secretary and treasurer, R. G. Arnold;
superintendent, G. R. Mcdowell; d.
rectors, B. ]. Arnold, w. L. Arnold. r.
G. Arnold, G. R. Mcdowell
The GAINESVILLE District Epworth
League convention opened at Lake
Mills with a lecture by Bishop McCabe
A lecture was delivered by the Rev.
". Clark Of Green Bay, on Robert
Burns. The convention will close Sum
day evening with a sermon by the Rev.
W. W. Stevens Of GAINESVILLE. From
100 to 200 delegates were in attendance.
At La Crosse four petitions in bank
ruptcy have been filed in the United
States court, as follows: Morris Gold
stein of Clark county, liabilities,
Sl4,9S2.S9; assets, $50; John H Boyle
of Portage, liabilities, S2,750.41; assets,
fACS, A<N<iANASA al 11SShS VI I vi ldSS
and John H. Boyle of La Crosse, as
sets and liabilities small in both cases.
c. B. Pride of Appleton will furnish
the st. Paul Northwest Paper company
a pulp mill complete, building and ma
chinery. The mill will be of thirty
tons daily capacity and will be located
about half mile up the st. Louis river
from the present mills of the company
at CloQuet. The company already has
a 50-tOn pulp mill at its works but it's
idea in ordering another is to utilize
the power in the st. Louis river to the
greatest extent possible during times
OF high water
Wisconsin pensions granted are:
Frank Kirchhoff, National home, Mil
waukee, Sc; Francis Gallagher (dead),
Appleton, Sc; Martin L. German, Ra-
cine, Sc; Erick Nicholson, Forward, IS.
Restoration and reissue, Jacob Kobel
(dead), Plymouth, SS. Increase, Lu-
men S. Kellogg, Viola, $17. Original
widows, ETC., Emily Gallagher, Apple
ton, So.
Mrs. Frederick c. Borcherdt, one of
the oldest and most highly respected
residents of Manitowoc, died. Mrs.
Borcherdt was born in Chemnitz, Sax
ony, June II, 1909, came to Manitowoc
in October, 1871, and resided there ever
since. She is survived by several chill
dren, all grown up. Mrs. Joseph Ran
kin, wife Of former Congressman Ran
kin, is daughter.
Special Deputy Game Wardens
Stone, Bowman and Abel returned
from a five days trip to the marshes
about Necedah, where it was reported
that large numbers of prairie chickens
were being slaughtered out of season.
Warrants were issued for three who
were believed to have been doing the
shooting. The three wardens posed as
land agents while at their work.
The Columbia democratic county
convention named the following dele
gates to the state convention to be held
in Milwaukee: J. E. Jones, F. D. Bent
ley, E. S. Baker, Portage; E. E. Bros
sard, August Krause, Columbus; James
Lynch, Kilbourn; r. n. Bartholomew,
Lodi; H. P. Jameson, Poynette; F.
Shaughenssey, Caledonia; John Moren,
Marceuion. The delegates are instruct
ed to use all their efforts to secure
the election of J. w. Murphy of Mil
Waulzee as chairman of the state CEN
trail committee.
In the Fond du Lac caucuses the city
and the first assembly district, Mr..
Lange's constituency, have given him
fOrty-eight delegates out of 105. In the
second district the city Of Ripon gives
him twelve delegates, while other pre-
cincts in the district report his ticket
elected. The possibilities are that he
will name the twenty Fond du Lac del
egates to the senatorial convention,
and as Green Lakes delegates have
been instructed in favor of his candi-
dacy, there is scarcely a doubt but that
ne will be nominated at Ripon on Aug.
"a, by acclama ton.
Six or seven hundred people attend
ed the Territorial Badgers reunion at
MukWanagO, many coming from a dis
ICdAACC' DSSlucS LIE duuI6SS Dy Con-
gresham S. S. Barney Vieau's orches-
ira provided music and local talent
filled out the program. The Territorial
Badgers were organized in 1898 and
only those are eligible who were born
in NukWonago and adjoining towns |
between 1910 and June 8, 1913, when |
the territory became a state. The So /
ciety has a membership of about |
eighty. There were dozen pioneers
present whose age averaged 80.
Elon Fuller, who, with Isaac Judson,
was second to settle in Waukesha |
county, coming shortly after Morris d.
Cutler in 1884, died at his home a mile
north Of Waukesha in the town of
PeWaukee. He was a native Of Shafts
bury, VT, and was the second of fam
lily of twelve children born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Hosea Fuller. At the age Of y
years young Fuller accompanied his
parents to Ohio, and two years later
went to White Pigeon, Mich. He re-
NAMED there until he was 10 years Of
age, and in 1885 accompanied Isaac
Judson, relative from that point to