Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-06-14
BADGER BRIEFS.

August Froll was appointed post
master at Binghamton, vice Henry
Smith resigned.
House to house registration of mail
will go into effect at GAINESVILLE and
La Crosse, June 80.
At Menominee, Mich, Frank
Wheeler and Miss Martha Bohlan of
Janesville, we're married.
Anton Finsted was killed this morn
ing at North Menominee on a rail
road crossing. He was SO years of age
At Sheboygan a resolution providing
for the purchase of the city water
works was favOrably reported to the
council by a special committee.
L. e. Goodwin Of Lost Lake had an
examination on the charge Of at
tempting to murder his wife by throw
ing her into an old we'll. He was held
in $4,000 bail.
Near Waukesha, George Michels died,
aged SO years. He leaves a wife and
eight children. Death was caused by
heart disease.
Mrs. Sarah w. KanOuse, mother Of
DR.. A. w. KanOuse of Appleton, died
aged rs years. Mrs. Caroline c. Davis
wife of the late Evan Davis, also died
in Appleton, aged 81.
At Palmyra Roy Misch, years of
age, drowned. He was the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Jacob Misch who went there
from Milwaukee a year ago.
At Menominee, Mich, Stafford
Holmes, a log driver employed by
Holmes & Son, was drowned in Pike
taken to Amberg, Wis.
Congressman Esch has recommended
the appointment of Albert G. Ram
stad of Eau Claire for a vacant cadet
ship in the naval academy in Annap-
oils. William Rowe of Eau Claire
stood the highest of the twelve appli-
cants who took the examination, but
he declined.
The contract for the foundation and
superstructure of the Indian school at
Hayward was awarded to Roettinger
Bros. of Fountain City at 1850. W.
D. Lowell of Des Moines, Ia, got the
contract for Installing the sewer and
water system at $4,000. The balance
Of TIE $4,000 available for the school
will be expended in equipment
Wisconsin Restoration
and increase, William H. Fox, dead
Amery, $17; renewal, Levi Annis, Mer-
riIl; increase, William Chandler, Ma
tional Military Home; Frank Lisb-
mann, Green Bay, $50; German Muller
Marinette, So; Frederick Rumble
Teillsville, $40; original widows and
children, Mary E. Fox, Amery, So.
The Oshkosh Waterworks company
has brought suit against the city fol-
100000. The company alleges that
/ the city, by emptying its sewers into
Lake Winnebago in the vicinity
Of the pumping station has contami.
mated the VIZ Ter supply; that the city
| by not paying its hydrant rental has
compelled the company to lapse its
interest and therefore injured it:
credit. An Injunction is asked re.
straining the city from emptying its
drainage into Winnebago. The sewer
system was put in after the water.
works.
Capt. Tom J. Rogers of Beloit, in {
letter of recent date from Neura
Caceres, P. l., where he is serving
with the forty-sixth United States vol
unteers, writes concerning the deatf
of a soldier of his company, Private
Richard Eisenach Of Neenah, Wis, a!
follows: "On April s, while on outpos
duty near Caceres, Private Richard
Eissenach Of Neenah, was approache;
by native who gave him to under
stand that he wanted to sell some ban
anas. Eisenach turned his head, evi
IDENTIFY to reach for his hat, when tn,