Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-25
All Over the State,


He was walking on the tracks.
Otto Bartl of Hermansville brought a
wolf pelt to Menominee The wolf was
full grown and of the timber wolf va
riety.
George Popp of Shawano, II years old,
died of lockjaw which developed from a
wound received the day before the Fourth,
when he was playing with blank cart
ridges.
Ten La Crosse people, all members of
prominent families, were made seriously
i'll from ptomaine poisoning as the result
of eating roast veal at a picnic on the
Mississippi river.
Men are securing the northern half of
Waukesha county for traces of Gilbert
Comm, aged so years, and the father of
Rev. W. G. Comm. pastor of the Presby-
terrain church at Vernon.
\ wagon wheel passing over his left
shoulder being dragged for a considera-
bic distance and not a bone broken is the
experience of \. w. Nader, farmer liv-
ing in the town of Aztalan.
E. 2. Salmon of Beloit, a retired min
lister, is entertaining a company of TWEEN
ty-four preachers and their wives, from
different points in the Northwest, at his
summer home, "Old Mission" on Made
line island.
John Absellor. wanted in Kenosha with
Ivan Ivankoff on charge of conspiracy
to defraud foreigners who had placed
their money with them as bankers. was
arrested at Akron, Ohio, and will be
brought back.
Andrew Fisher, aged so, a carpenter
and painter, was struck by 500 passen-
ger train No. So, west-bound. at Rhine
lander, and knocked off bridge into the
Wisconsin river. The body was taken out
a short distance below the bridge. His
neck had been broken. His home was at
Aniwa.
r. 4. Cleveland a young man of con-
siderable pluck, and an ambition to see
the world, has undertaken the task of
walking around the world in two years,
earning his own living in the meantime
Mr.. Cleveland's home is near Grand Rap
ids. He has studied in Ripon college,
where he expects to return after his
globe-trotting experience to complete his
course.
Postmaster General, who has Just been
made the secretary to President Roose-
welt, is a Wisconsin boy. Mr.. Hitch
! cock is the son of Rev. H. G. Hitchcock
who was pastor of the First Congrega-
tional church in Kenosha for many years,
and he spent all of his early life in Ke-
nosha. He was educated in the schools
of kenosha.
Richard Olson, aged 30, a railroad la
borer, was stabbed at Altoona city depot
by another laborer, whose name is I'M
known, and VINO escaped. The ARRAY took
place in the midst of crowd of thirty
| or forty people on the depot platform. The
weapon used was a long-blade pocket
| knife. Olson was taken to the Eau
| Claire hospital on switch engine. His
wound is just below the heart. He may
| die.
Herman Holz and Albert Holz narrow
| ly escaped being drowned in the Chip
| pewa river at Chippewa Falls. They
were ont fishing in boat when suddenly
| fish tackled Herman's line and in the
excitement which followed the boat cap
sized. The line caught in the oar lock
and the fish carried the boat down stream.
Luckily log hove to and the men got
| OH it and foated down the river until
they were picked up. Neither Of the
men could swim. The craft was after
wards recovered mile distant.
Il have just shot man; send an am
bulance," was the startling telephone mes
sage received at the Marinette hospital
the other night, and which caused an
ambulance to be sent out to Pierce ave-
nue. in haste, accompanied by two police
men. William Bishop, a saloon man,
sent in the call and explained when the
ambulance arrived that he wished to get a
| hack or an ambulance for a sick woman,
and he tried the expedient of sending in
a murder call. The woman had a high
fever and she was taken to the hospital.
| Most of the residents in the vicinity
| of Taylor's park on the west side of Fond
du Lac, ate blackbird pie for their din
ners the other day. Early that morning
persons residing near the park saw what
| appeared to be large, dark cloud, grad
ually settling down over the trees. The
| cloud was a swarm of 5000 blackbirds,
that had come to feed upon the flies and
| Insects Hundreds of the birds were
| killed with sticks and stones. The re-
mainder of the flight went toward the
lake, where they fed in the marsh on the
| lake shore.
/ Enraged because of the action of his
| wife in bringing suit for divorce, Gus
| tav Albrecht. a rougher, employed at the
| Illinois Steel Company in Milwaukee,
shot and seriously wounded her and then
shot himself, dying instantly. The wom
an may die also.
The presence of mind of Mrs. Henry
Volkert, wife of an employee in Madi
son bravery, probably saved her hus-
bands life He reached into a barrel
after chicken and severed an artery of
the wrist. Mrs. Volkert wrapped a tape
measure about the arm and this stopped
| the flow of blood.
DR.. J. F. Hopkins Aubin, Mayor Of
Peshtigo, resigned his Office and the Coun-
| ell elected James Campbell TO fill the va
| cancy Aubin has had trouble in getting
| his appointment confirmed and threat
ened to resign This was his second
term.
| Charles Groling. one of the best known
| pioneers of Beaver Dam, is dead, aged IS
years NJ Groling had been in feeble
| health IOf several months lie was DOTH
in Hesse, Germany. He came 10 Amer
lea in 1S49 and lived in New York three
| years, after which he came to Wiscon-
sin, and had resided in Beaver Dam fifty
two years.
Prairie du Sac is to have a homecoming
July 81 and Aug. l and =. Great pre-
| parations are being made and hundreds
| of former residents from all parts of the
| United States viii return to take part in
! the event. Addresses, band concerts and
| ball games are among the attractions.
Owen c. Smith, aged 80, postmaster at
Templeton for the past fifteen years.
where he conducted a general store, COM
mitted suicide in his store by shooting
himself with a revolver. The body was
found by his brother, Clifford Smith. 1t
is believed Smith became despondent over
continued Ill health. He was widower
and is survived by two sons and daugh-
ter.