Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
ALI Over the State.

All Over the State.
Gordon Anderson. of Bloomington. has
been adjudged insane and taken TO the
county asylum.
Herman C. Buehcner of Chicago was
fined S25 and costs for shipping ducks
from Horizon to Chicago.
An engine and dynamo are being in
stalled and poles set preparatory to light
ing Owen with electricity.
Laura Roster. aged II years, died at
Milwaukee in great agony from lockJaw
1t is supposed she stepped on rusty nail.
Julius Ende and Miss Elizabeth Win
ter both of Horizon, were married at the
residence of Rev. T. S. Johnson at Beaver
Dam.
Benjamin Franklin Colt, a pioneer of
Dodge county. and prominent citizen for
sixty years in the town of Trenton, is
dead.
The Sank county fair exceeded in mag
nitude and interest any exhibition that
has ever been held on the associations
grounds.
Mrs. Myra Moran of Mellen died at
Rhinehart hospital in Ashland, after an
operation for cancer of the stomach. She
was 81 years old.
G. A. Kruger & Son of Princeton
pleaded guilty to a charge of selling sau-
sage containing salt of sulphurous acid
and paid fine of SO and costs.
Michael Schmidt. aged 81 years, died
in Fond du Lac. after lingering for about
three weeks with a broken neck. He sus-
tanned the injury in a fall from scaffold.
William Woodland, a well-known young
business man of Pardeeville. is dead of
lockjaw. His hand was cut while he was
assisting in placing a pane of plate glass
in the front of a store building.
A coroner's jury at Milwaukee exon
Grated George h. Earring son of Presi-
dent Earring of the st. Paul road, whose
automobile struck and killed George Over
land, a bicyclist, near Nashota-
Figuring at an average rate of $50 per
thousand, the Edward Hines Lumber
Company will clean up about $4,000
on the logs that are being taken from
the bottom of their mill pond at Wash
burn.
Because of unrequited love John Young,
a dock laborer. shot and killed Rose
Kaner, the 1S-year-old daughter of Sam
uel Kaner of Superior, and then commit
ted suicide in his own apartments near
the dock.
The Wisconsin Bark and Lumber Com
pany has purchased the entire Borth mill
property at Kempster with 1900 acres
of timber land in that vicinity. Seventy
five forties contain about 26,000,00O feet
of timber. mostly hardwood.
Emily Klippert, the night operator in
the Jefferson telephone exchange, was Sc
vere;y injured by a robber who broke into
the exchange. When the girl recovered
consciousness she crawled to the switch
board and notified the police.
s. f. Pope, 60 years old, and his two
adult sons of the town of Ludington were
jailed in Eau Claire on a charge of arson
made by their neighbor, Domonick Brown,
whose barn was recently destroyed by fire,
two horses being burned to death.
Amanda Schlueter, II years old, and
Otto. aged 10, kept the family from starv-
ing by stealing provisions from neighbor
ing grocers in Milwaukee. They were
taught to do it by their mother, who adj
mitted guilt in court, but said that the
father did not furnish money to support
the family, and she could not see the chill
dren starve. The father. Ludwig Schlue-
ter lived we'll and grew fat on the pro-
visions purloined by the children.
foot" Smith, aged -. center fielder
with the Hiles baseball team. which
IL. l.,
killed while on his way back home in
Forest county. The team left on 800"
east bound and in the hustle Of leaving
Smith was obliged to grasp the rail of
the last sleeping car. The closed vesti-
bule prevented him from securing a firm
foothold and after riding several miles
the chill air caused him 10 relax his grip
and he fell.
George Allen of Racine, % yearas old,
died under peculiar circumstances. Two
days before he partook of a lunch in
saloon. 1t is believed that the meat in
the lunch was probably poisoned.
Citizens of Luxembourg are wondering
where about $4,000 of their money has
gone to-supposedly invested in Okla
homa oil 1t has been found that the
we'll represented to yield 40 to 80 bar
rels per day was actually yielding about
twelve to fourteen barrels. worth - cents
a barrel, just enough to pay working ex-
penses The whole matter promises TO
be aired in court.
The postoffice at Lena was broken into
and robbed. The robbers after gaining
entrance proceeded to blow the safe ard
looted it of its contents which consisted
of $500 in stamps and 800 in cash. The
thieves escaped. but are believed TO re
the same ones who committed the robbery
at PcnSaukec a few days ago.
Earl Chaplin. a years old, resident of
the national soldiers. home in Milwaukee,
and who was said to have been one of the
heirs 20 the estate of his uncle, Russell
Sage. is dead Chaplin had been ailing
from general debility for some time. None
of his relatives was with him during his
last hours. 1t Is said Chapin's share Of
the Sage estate was $4,000.
That large area of country in the
Town of Rock Greek IS underIaid with
coal now seems certain. For a year or
more the big eddy in the Chippewa river
an Savastapoo has been washing out
chunks Of coal and depositing them on
tie sandbars below. This coal find has
caused considerable excitement.
Climbing over a fiat car of train that.
is said to have blocked the Roadway for
twenty minutes. Miss Maggie Fitzpatrick,
aged IS years. of Random Lake, fell I'M
der the coupling of the car when the train
gave 3 sudden lurch, and was instantly
killed. The dead girl was the daughter of
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hardware dealer.