Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-31
BADGER BRIEFS.

the ice at Merrimac, but the drivers
and horses were rescued.
E. Sakrison was appointed post
master at Deer Park, st. Croix county, |
vice John Sakrison, removed.
The team of Herman Pribbernow |
was struck by a passenger train while |
crossing the track at Marshall and
Pribbernow was eriously injured. Both
the horses were killed and the wagon
was demolished
Frederic Grimmer, aged rs years,
veteran of the civil war, and also a
German soldier. died from the effects
of stroke of paralysis at Kaukauna.
He settled in Milwaukee when he ar
rived in this country from Germany in
/ 1854
! When Mrs. G. A. Turner went to the
central police station in Milwaukee to
report the disappearance of her hus-
! band whom she married less than a
week ago, she found her son, Louis
charge of forgery.
Arthur Ensford, alias Joseph Ten
mis-, was bound over at Oshkosh and
sent to jail, being unable to find $1,000
bail Ensford is charged with stealing
goods to the amount of $95 from the
Winnebago Paper company of Men
asha. He has served two terms in
Waupun and one in the reformatory.
He will be tried Feb. IS.
When west bound freight train
left Racine Junction for the West on
the ST. Paul road, the conductor dis
covered bag tied to the end of
freight car and blood ripping from it.
He believed that murder had been
committed and after calling watch
man and others opened the bag and
discovered the dead body Of dog.
There is likely to be a rate war be-
tween the insurance companies Of
Racine One agency has a nOn-union
insurance company and desires to
throw it up, but refuses to surrender
premiums of $4,000. The special
agent of the company threatens to
open an office and cut rates. If this
is done it will result in a cut through
out the northwest.
Rev NJ o. Hanson was found guilty
of wife desertion at La Crosse. Two
years ago he was one of the most
popular clergymen in that city and
presided over a congregation that en-
braced the Norwegian element OF
the north side. Because of domestic
= troubles and othe matters he was ex-
PEELED from the church and became an
{ outcast and finally fugitive from
1 justice.
1t is said that Mrs. Adam Mutchie
/ of Racine is q relative of the late
l queen of England, and that she is en-.
titled to some of the estate of the
< queen. Mrs. Mutchie learned of the
S relationship, it is said, drought &
: letter from Monticello, Wis, where
: there are relatives who also claim
:, they are entitled to part of the
: queens estate. Mrs. Mutchie says
= that her grandmother was a cousin OF
V the late Queen Elizabeth of Holland
: and that there was a relationship be
f tween Elizabeth and Queen Victoria.
f Mrs. M. J. Russell, mother of George
l. H. Russell, was found dead in bed at
a Milwaukee, death having resulted
= from apopleXy. Mrs. Russell was vel
known in social and charitable circles
She was the widow of Harvey Russell
and was SO years old. She was Miss
Guilds and was born at Pitsfeld, Mass
Her husband died in Milwaukee &c
5 years ago. George H. Russell, the
WelEknoWn insurance man, is her only
, son. Mrs. Russell was the secretary
of the board of managers for the
home of the friendless.
The report of his first years ad
ministration Of the Plankinton banks
' affairs, was filed by Assignee Herman
, who does not give much hope Of
realizing on the remaining assets
The assignee says he has hopes of de-
, claring another per cent. dividend
before long. He has in hand $24,00C
available cash, besides a like amount
that is unavailable. The principal
source of value remaining in land in
South Dakota, on which he received
an offer of $4,000 last year before
the drouth. The amount actually col,
lected by the present assignee from
the assets of the estate during the
year is s69,742, and the amount re-
ceived from Irving M. Bean, former
assignee, was $52,2SO, making the
total receipts $122,O22 Of the
amount received from Capt. Bean $20,.
900 is not available, as it is claimed
by William Plankinton as compensa-
ton for his services as assignee.
: The investigation Of the charges
made against Supt. G. S. MCGOWAN of
the La Crosse county insane asylum
opened and is being conducted by a
special committee appointed by the
= county board. The charges are made
by Frank F. Smith, former trustee.
, and Martin Lyden, formerly an en-
ploye at the asylum, but discharged
for incCmpetency. The charges are
of serious nature and assert that
} McGown struck patients in the face
, with his fist, locked up patients for
SO hours without food or water, fed
patients on sour bread and rotten
meat, abused the help and others
At Racine, three suits were begun
against Racine county, the outcome of
the case Of the state against Henry
f. Corbett, charged and tried for
attempting to kill Rev. David B.
Cheney, but found not guilty. Soon
after Corbett was arrested he was
stricken with nervous prostration and
it required someone to take care of
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