Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-24
BADGER BRIEFS.

was burned with a loss of $4,000.
The general merchandise store of
H. Buchanan at Arkansaw was
burned.
G. J. Moser was appointed postmas-
ter at Elton, Langlade county, vice
Joseph Wurzer, resigned.
George Mcclure was arrested at
Pewaukee on a charge OF threatening
to kill his wife. and will be tried for
sanity.
The contract for the addition to the
Brown county insane asylum has been
let to George Georgenson of Green
Bay for $3.50.
Several carloads Of ore from a mine
in Vernon county, have been tested
and it is said to yield from rs to 80
per cent of metallic copper.
While working in the woods near
Cedar, Herman Sempf of Glenwood
was killed by falling tree. Sempf
was we'll known as ball player.
Relatives of Mrs. Warren Peters Of
Sobieski, Oconto county, who disap-
peared about week ago, are looking
for her in the surrounding towns.
At Kaukauna, Frederic Grimmer, a
veteran of the forty-fifth Wisconsin
volunteer infantry in the civil war,
was stricken with paralysis and can
not survive.
Mrs. L. E. Latimer of Chicago, died
Oh of
monia, and that her husband, Judge
Latimer, is dangerously i'll. They
were pioneers Of Eau Claire.
At Rhine, Frank Losaw, an early
settler, aged 70 years, at Kewaunee.
Mrs Barbara Terens, a widow, at
at Osceola, P. P. Wellandek, aged 50
years, and at Elkhorn, Guy Harri-
man, aged "a years, are dead.
Lewis Larson. who has been cashier
of the Lumbermen's bank of Shell
Lake for six years, has resigned and
with c.. S. Nelson of Spooner will or
ganize a bank at the latter place. ].
M. Smith will succeed Mr.. Larson as
cashier.
At Marinette seven women were
injured in an accident which occurred
to sleighing party. While going at
full speed the sleigh tipped over and
all were thrown out. Miss Annie
Hunt of Marinette and a Menominee
woman were seriously hurt while five
others were painfully injured.
An outbreak of typhoid fever in
Ashland that was first noticed ten
days ago is adding new cases to the
list and the disease is fast assuming
the features of an epidemic. The
startling prevalence of the disease is
attributed to the impurities of the
water supplied by the water company.
Marson H Wilgus, one of the
pioneers in the cooperage business in
Wisconsin, but for a number of years
engaged as an insurance agent died at
Sheboygan, aged IS. A wife and
daughter, the latter the wife of Clar-
ence S. Pierce, general land agent of
the G.. & n. w. Railway company, sur
yiVe.
EX-Sheriff John Gardner of Monroe
writes from Pennsylvania that he has
recovered a good share of the funds
which George Zimmerman embezzled
from the Klass estate, including
horses and carriage, piano and jewelry
which Zimmerman gave to the young
woman of that state of whom he was
enamored.
The advertisement of William Gertz
of Watertown, S. D., printed in a
GAINESVILLE paper for information re-
garding his brother, Jens Gertz, who
was also called Tim or Fred, is sup
posed will lead to the identity of a
man known as Charles Goeltz, who
hung himself at Monroe a year ago.
No trace of his relatives could be OBJ
tanned and ne was buried.
Wisconsin Original.
James A. Johnson, Gresham, Sc,
Byron W. McAuly, Wisconsin veter-
ans home, Waupaca, So; Edward
White, Oshkosh, So; Hans Anundson,
Colfax, s12; additional, John Biemann:
Milwaukee, So. Increase: John Miller,
Caroline, $14; Thomas Riley, Winnie
come, Sc; original widows, Francelia
N. Widmer, Madison, So; Sarah J.
Curtis, Eau Claire, So; Rebecca G.
Andrews, Baraboo, So.