Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-09-11
From About the State

The presbytery of Winnebago will
meet at Marshfield Sept. and 10.
The new Baptist church at Oshkosh
costing $4,000, was dedicated Sunday
John Kiefer, aged SO, a Lima farmer
who was injured in a threshing ma.
chine, died without regaining con.
sciousness.
At Portage D. J. P. Wayland, a
prominent medical practitioner, lies
fatally i'll from apoplexy. He has been
unconscious thirty-six hours.
J. w. Walton, printer of West Su-
perior, was asphyxiated. 1t is sup
posed that he attempted to turn on the
electricity, but by mistake turned on
the gas.
August Wilson, a farmer living near
Caledonia, was prevented from com
hitting suicide by his hired man, who
cut the rope with which he had tried
to hang himself.
Mrs. E. III. Drew, the Dowieite who
was located in Kenosha Friday, after
having been missed from her nome in
Chicago for more than two weeks,
mysteriously disappeared again.
The Northwestern depot at New
London was broken into. The gum
machines were broken and robbed, the
baggage room entered, trunks broken
open, clothes scattered about the room
and one valise cut open.
After nearly three years of litigation
with the Kaukauna Electric Light
company in which the city refused to
pay its electric lighting bills, which
now amount to about $1,000, a basis
OF settlement will soon be reached.
Congressman H. A. Hooper has re
celVed another letter from H. G. Tay-
lcr, senior member of the board of To-
cation, in which he says that the
animation of sites some time next
month and that Racine and Kenosha
will again be visited.
The Menasha Gold Mining company
was organized with a capital stock of
S1,000,000 The company is lnccrpor-
ated under the laws of South Dakota,
with A. N. Strange of the Strange Pa
per company, G. w. Dodge, postmaster
Of Menasha, and P. D. Whitehead of
Chicago as incorporators.
Commissioners have been appointed
by Judge Sebecker to examine and re-
the large marsh bordering on Leach
creek, in Fairfield, Sank county, and a
small tract in Caledonia, Columbia
county. The proposed district en-
braces some $500 acres of land.
The Delavan Lake Dramatic associ-
alton in it's second annual performance
scored a success in the presentation of
the two-act farce, the Unwilling Burg
iaI, which was written in collaboration
By Miss Edith Mason and Elmer Ste
Vens, two Chicago young people, and
was presented in the barn of George
G. RiCkords.
A company has been organized to
purchase the Prentice brownstone
q'Iarries at Washburn from the receiv-
er, and place them in operation. The
members of the company are supposed
t. be Milwaukee and Chicago business
men. Frederick Prentice and his asso-
ciates put half million dollars into
the venture
In a speech that savored not at all
of politics, Mayor Rose of Milwaukee
addressed several thousand farmers
who had gathered for the annual kir-
miss at Lorima The village hand and
a large crowd had met the mayor at
the depot, and had escorted him to
the country home of John Buerger,
where he spent the day.
In the sailing boat Mamie, J. H.
Kimball, his son Norman, student of
Racine college; the ladies' drill mas
ter of Kemper hall, Kenosha; Mr.
Richie, Chicago: Miss Chamberlain of
Norfolk, Va; Misses Lu Balm and
Agnes Slauson of Kenosha were at
the mercy of the wind off Racine for
several hours.
Burglars at the home of Harry Wit
tenberg, at Beechwoed, stole a gold
watch and some money. The resi-
dence of James Mailman of Sneboy-
gan, was also entered but the maraud-
ers were scared away A man who
was running through an alley on the
east side and is supposed to be one of
the gang, was arrested.