Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-01-01
From About the State

| LOulS ~. DCu1o VI 1AAIlSo " as
drowned at Seattle last Sunday.
Nellie Cosgriff was held up and
robbed on the street while on her way
home at Chippewa Falls.
The new $4,000 opera house at
Neenah was formally opened by com
pany which played Hamlet.
James Wilkes Mcconnell of Oshkosh
denies the truth of the statement that
a reconciliation has been effected or
is at all probable between him and his
former wife, Laura Biggar.
Charles Kolow, a Kenosha saloon
keeper, is being held to await the re-
suit of the injuries of Joseph Wedles-
ledt, who he is charged with striking
over the head with billiard cue.
The will of c. F. Segelke has been
offered for probate at La Crosse. 1t
gives the widow 100000 Segelke dis
appeared about three months ago, and
is supposed to have been drowned.
William DAILY of BaraboO, brake
man on the Northwestern railway,
was killed at the round house in
GAINESVILLE while attempting to get on
a moving engine. He was % years of
age.
James Murray, James Roach, George
Wilson and John Dunn, who are sup
posed to be responsible for several
petty depredations committed nea- Jul
neau within the last two months, were
araigned in justice court and given
sentences ranging from four to six
months on a charge Of larceny.
A family named Spider, who lived
about ten miles from Ashland, are des-
titute. Christmas night fire destroyed
their farm house, and one child was
suffocated and burned up. The fire
broke out after they had retired, and
it was almost a miracle that the
father, mother and tWJ children es-
capped.
Chris Sorenson, one of the contract
ors at the Racine Mitchell & Lewis
Wagon company, aged over SO years
and married, was found guilty in the
municipal court of assaulting girls on
the public streets, it being alleged that
he is one of the men who go about the
city at night, attempting to hug and
kiss young women.
The first trouble Of the season over
the enforcement of smallpox regula-
tiOnS at Appleton arose when Harry
Bernhard, who is suffering from the
disease, refused to be removed from
his home, where he lives alone with
his wife, to the isolation hospital. He
is perfectly willing to observe regula-
tons, but not to go to the hospital.
He was not forced to leave home.
! Henry Wilson, who escaped from the
Galena jail in November while serious
ly sick with typhoid fever and was
later captured at Bridgeport, Wis, by
Sheriff Dickinson of Grant county
was sentenced to two years at Joliet
After being imprisoned the Joliet of.
fcials investigated his record. Dis,
coveries were made that he is a we'll
known counterfeiter whose real name
is Hubbard and an investigation OF
clues has led to the discovery of a
| large amount Of spurious coin.
Two lads, both under Is years OF
! age, giving their names as PrintuI
and Buchanan, and their home as APP
pleton, were taken in charge by the
authorities of New London They
were in a semi-frozen condition, hav
ing walked from Hortonville, a dis
lance of fifteen miles. Their minds
infiamed by a spirit of reckless adven
ture by the reading of lurid literature
a quantity of which was found or
them, they were attempting to make
their way to tie Rocky mountains
where they would hold UP stages for {
| living.