Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-02
State News in Brief.

Bates Brothers store at Weston burn
ed to the ground. The loss is $4,000.
George j. Margerum. proprietor of the
Hotel Racine, dropped dead in his office
of apoplexy. He was 66 years Old
Fire in the American Leather Com
pany's tannery at Prentice did damage
estimated al from $250,000 to 100000.
Burglars entered the Omaha depot of
Comstock and carried the safe outdoors
and tried to blow it open, but were I'M
successful.
Frank Fleming, aged about 8 years,
second son of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Fleming of
Pewaukee. died of tetanus, caused by
stepping on a rusty nail.
John Wilcox, a farmer who lives be-
tween Bridgeport and Brodtville, found
the tooth of an extinct animal which is
believed to be that of a mastodon.
The theft of a ham from box car at
Shawano on June 16 will compel Ingwald
Thompson to spend the next year of his
life in the State penitentiary at Waupun.
Frederick Rietbrock, aged I6 years. a
well-known lawyer, and formerly for
many years one of the leading breeders
Of high-grade Guernsey cattle in the Unit
ed States, died from a stroke of paralysis
in Milwaukee.
District Attorney BOsshard of La
Crosse submitted to the Attorney General
questions relative to an alleged ice com
Jine at La Crosse. The Attorney General
says he can take no action in the Osh-
kosh case, and says the district attorney
at Oshkosh must act.
Charged with manufacturing spurious
coins, mostly quarters, which were passed
principally upon newsboys and bootblacks,
G. @. Albert of Milwaukee has been ar
rested.
Theodore Dobeck. of Ableman. aged
&c, was killed in South Dakota. where
he had charge of stores for the Chicago
and Northwestern road along the new
track.
The GOODNESS and nerve of Engineer
Wood alone prevented a disastrous col
lision between a fast passenger train on
the Northwestern railroad and a crowded
automobile at Eau Claire.
The Wisconsin Attorney General de-
cided that county or State committees I'M
der the primary law could name candi-
datec for Office only when vacancies oc-
Cured after a primary had been held
BY the breaking of timbers in one of
the towers at the Montello granite quarry,
about 500 feet of heavy cable with a car
rier fell, injuring Walter Kerskie and
Julius Kruger. a number of other men
narrowly escaped.
\ horse driven by Albert Olson Nesja,
q farmer aged 60 took fright on a bust
ness street in Eau Claire. The horse
kicked the dashboard TO pieces, and just
as Nes,ja fell forward the horses hoof
struck Nesja on the head and killed him.
Max w Erhardt. malster at the Kiln
kert brewery in Racine. died suddenly,
aged A years, from the effects of taking
an overdose of medicine for the cure of
a tapeworm. He copied a prescription
out of a physicians book or paper 4
physician said the medicine paralyzed ey-
cry nerve in his body.
A. C. Hammond, who lost a piece of
his skull and two ounces of brains by fall
ing on a circular saw on June %, has
fully recovered at the hospital in Chippe-
wa Falls, much to the amazement of ply.
sicians, who said he could not live. He
has regained Consciousness and declares
his thinking apparatus is in good working
oroer.