Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-01
BADGER BRIEFS.

The Friendship schools have been
dismissed to prevent the spread of
diphtheria.
The VirOqua council has passed an
ordinance looking to the erection of a
$4,000 city hall and library.
Frank Buchan of Amory, Polk
county, has been arrested on the
charge of shipping cartridges outside
the state.
At Crookston, Mimi, w. H Barclay,
at one time heavily interested in the
West Superior -four mills, died of
heart disease.
John L. Thomas of Racine will on
sary CT his birth. He is undoubtedly
| the Oldest white person living in Wis
consin.
The tug Arctic returned from
Sturgeon Bay where she went to try
to get the Ann Arbor ferries out of the
ice. All efforts to get them out of
ice in Green bay will be abandoned
until the weather moderates.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Falk of 61S
| Newberry boulevard Milwaukee, had
a narrow escape from severe injury,
possibly death, in runaway. AS it
! was, they escaped unscathed, though
! Mrs. Falk suffered severe nervous
shock.
The rag room of the paper mill Of the
Kimberly & Clark company at Kim
berly was burned out At one time
it was thought the plant would go.
The damage is estimated at from S.
600 to $4,000, and is covered by in
suranCe.
Near Cashton, Mrs A. n. Jones,
wife of farmer, jumped into well
100 feet deep. She was temporarily
deranged and when rescued said that
worry over recent murder and sui
eide had made her want to take her
own life.
Mrs. Paulina KoepIin of Neenah
has received word that the remains of
her son, Adolph Koeplin, member of
a South Dakota regiment and who was
drowned while serving in the Philip
pines, have arrived in San Francisco.
The burial will be in the National
cemetery at that place.
Gothort Schweiger Of Hewitt was al
tackled with paralysis of the heart
while attending services at the Catho-
lie church and within ten minutes was
dead. He came from Jefferson four
years ago, where he had resided for
fifty years. He leaves two daughters,
Mrs. NJ. Schifford Of Hewitt and Mrs.
W. Bowen of Chippewa Falls.
Mrs. Zelda Kroeplin's 6-weeks old
daughter lies upon a cot in the W1scon-
sin General hospital, Milwaukee, with a
broken leg, while her mother has a
swelling on her forehead as big as a
walnut, her body and limbs badly con-
fused, as the result Of her first ride on
a railway train. Thinking she was be-
ing carried by, she innocently jumped.
At Marinette the funeral of the late
George Monroe, who was killed while
serving with the twentieth Kansas
volunteers in the Philippines, was
held. The funeral procession was
headed by Co. I, second regiment, fol-
lowed Dy the Spanish-American war
volunteers, the G. A R. and the Odd
Fellows. The church was filled with
people. The streets along the route
were lined by thousands.
An experimental camp for "open air
treatment for consumptives will be
opened at Long Lake, Wis, this sum-
mer under the direction Of Chicago
physicians, who contend that SAM
tarluIn treatment for this disease has
proved failure. If the camp" is a
success permanent ones will be es-
ta0llshed in various parts OF the
country. An important feature Of the
treatment will be that the patients
will De required TO inhale the open air
at Least fifteen hours every day.