Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-25
All Over the State

William Arndt. % years old, of Mil
waukee was crushed by an elevator ant
died.
The R. J. Dowd Knife Works at Be
lott were damaged by fire to the extent
of $4,000.
Nora Murphy, aged % years, died a
the City hospital in Madison from burns
received while cleaning a skirt with gaso
line.
Adam Sickles, the secretary of the
Oneida Indian fair, says the Indians have
already taken steps to give a fair next
year.
Mrs. Beyersteadt of New Holstein was
struck by freight train and perhaps ia,
tally injured while driving across the
tracks.
Stefin Thon of the town of Harrison
lost his barns, granary and outsheds by
fire. His loss is $4,000, with insurance
of 500.
Members of the Carl Weber and Henry
Sturm families of Fond du Lac were poi
soned by eating smoked pork which was
not cooked. Lolita Weber may die.
Bitter litigation is anticipated between
the Milwaukee Electric Railway and
Light Company and the city of Racine on
the question of placing conductors on the
cars.
The congregation of the Roman Cath
olic church of the Immaculate Concep-
ton in Sheboygan has Ousted the Rev.
Father Jodyzius, the priest in charge. He
refuses to quit and sleeps in the church
basement. Archbishop Messner was APP
pealed to by the congregation.
Elizabeth Buss, II years old, daughter
of William Buss, a Chippewa Falls farm
er, was accidentally shot and killed by her
brother John, IA years old. The bullet
passed ABOVE the girls heart. John had
been out hunting crows and stopped to
talk with his sister, who was sitting in
front of the window. He was toying
carelessly with the trigger when the gun
discharged.
With a report that could be heard for
several blocks the cylinder head of a
3.OOO-horse power Vilter engine, in the
plant of the Milwaukee Electric Railway
and Light Company in Racine, blew out.
The head struck a condenser and then a
large generator. Other pieces went
through windows and struck the Miller
Manufacturing Company's plant. EN-
ployes of the company and also of the
Miller company believed there was a boil
er explosion and ran from the buildings.
The engine is completely wrecked. 1t
cost about $4,000.
The thorough drainage of 100000
acres of undrained marshy or clay soil
in Wisconsin would increase its value
according to the estimates
of Prof. A. R. Whitson, soil physicist of
the University OF Wisconsin.
Articles of incorporation have been
fled for the Madison and Fond du Lac
Railway Company, capitalized at $780,
600. The system proposed is known as
the protected third rail. 1t will be an
air line and will not be deviated more
than three, miles. The route will touch
at Windsor, Columbus, Beaver Dam and
Waupun.
Walking several miles with her chill
dren at night to escape the alleged cru
city of her husband. Mrs. Charles Schu-
cite of Schleswig is i'll from exposure and
the shock.
Seventy-two Manitowoc county corpo-
rations have failed to file the annual re-
port with the State as required by law,
according to notices sent out by the Sec
rotary of State.
The Wisconsin Archaeological Society
will mark large number of Indian
in Manitowoc and county next
spring. 1t is said that Manitowoc county
s richer in Indian mounds and relics than
any county in the State.
Stephen Kennedy of Milwaukee, a
member of the East Side Milwaukee High
School team, was rendered delirious in a
game between the Kenosha and MilwaU-
kee High School teams in kenosha. 1t
required four men TO hold him in an au-
romobile when he was taken to the hos
pital. He revived later.
Lon Conroy. a bartender, lies at st.
Mary's hospital, Oshkosh, with a bullet
IN his abdomen and Michael Madl,
hack driver, is in Jail accused of the
shooting. After a few words over a triv-
al matter Madl left the saloon, purchas-
ID a revolver. returned and fired point
blank at Conroy. Madl was then over
powered.