Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-14
All Over the State.


Mrs. Hanorah Casey Venney OF Beloir
celebrated her one hundredth birthday
Her eyesight is good and her mind is
clear.
I. q. Alton. brakeman on the Mil
waukee road. was seriously injured by be-
ing caught between two moving cars near
Sayner.
Peer Hoffman of the town of Milla-
| dore was killed in a runaway accident,
/ His wife suffered broken leg and other
| injuries.
Mrs. Hannah Amelia Getting, aged II
years, of Red Cloud. Neb. died at the
home of her brother. Salmon Epson, in
the town of Bristol.
Glen Godfrey of the liveryman firm of
Godfrey & Taylor, died in OSceola after
an illness of seven weeks. aged 26. He
leaves a wife and one child
Charles Zaun of Jackson was acct
| dentally shot and killed by a youthful
| companion, Louis Laverrenz, who missed
a squirrel, the bullet hitting Zaun.
Charging that she used a knife on his
COW, cutting several gashes that required
has caused the arrest of Mrs. VI. NJ. Bar
Der, cook at a Hayward hotel
George Snidervin. who was found gull
! ty of conducting a blind pig" in the
| town of Waterford, was fined $50 and
costs, and took an appeal, withdrew his
| appeal and paid the court S100.3O.
Herbert Evans of Markesan. aged Is,
was probably fatally injured by the acct
| dental discharge of his shotgun in trying
to climb through a barbed wire fence
| While hunting. One arm was amputated.
Frank Eckes of Marshfei, aged 10,
while showing a cousin his new shotgun,
accidentally discharged the weapon and
| the charge striking his S-year-old sister
| Beatrice in the abdomen, killed her in
stantly.
Many pond net fishermen on Green bay
will be obliged to buy new Irvine before
| beginning operations next spring. An I'M
| noticed paragraph in the fish law will
cause this additional trouble and expense
| for the fishermen.
Max Reinholdt, former supervisor from
| the Nineteenth Ward of Milwaukee,
pleaded guilty before Judge Brace to the
charge of accepting a bride of $50 in
connection with county hospital con-
| tract several years ago. He was fined
$500.
DR.. Herring of New y ork. an expert en-
gineer, who is visiting in Milwaukee, has
suggested the use of Lake Superior as a
| reservoir to allow an increased flow of
water to the Chicago drainage canal and
to keep the water supply at Niagara Falls
up to normal.
Lee G. Bunnel, until recently telegraph
editor of the Eau Claire Leader and son
OF Prof +. q. BunnelI, a prominent In
diana editor, has become a member of the
faculty of the Laporte. Ind. high school,
succeeding Prof. O. \. Schotrs as prin-
cipal of the departmental grades.
William J. Carney of Milwaukee. Sec
rotary to G. G.. Wait of the International
Harvester Company while duck shooting
on Green Bay. near Point Sauble, was
shot and instantly killed by one of his
companions. The party of three was in
blinds. When ducks passed over all shot
at the same time. The charge from one
gun went into Carney's head and body.
LU1luS 1upulkp. IL lONu u l1dIIISOH
farmer, who is the father of fifteen chill
dren residing in Milwaukee. st. Paul,
Peoria, H.. Memphis and other places,
will leave shortly for a tour of the cities
where his children are residing, paying
them his annual visit. Ten days will be
spent with each child, so he will be kept
away from the farm most of the winter.
While being initiated into 4 fraternity
| of Lawrence university, Henry Jeffers Of
Appleton was wrapped in shroud and
placed in a coffin and carted to Neenah at
ID idnight where he was laid in a grave,
and told he would be left there until
morning The candidate refused to con-
sent to the ceremony, and kicked off the
cover of the coffin, which was later re-
turned to the undertaken in a badly de-
molished condition.
Mrs. Nicholas Kitowski of Carson was
literally blown to pieces by the explosion
Of a stick of dynamite that had been plac-
ed on the stove to dry. Two of her chill
dren, who were clinging to their mothers
skirts when the accident happened, were
so badly injured that they cannot survive.
A third child was struck by piece of
the stove, the iron being imbedded in its
forehead. A fourth child was also struck
by flying metal but will recover.
In a report on the potato experiments
carried on at the various experiment sta
lions of the college of agriculture, j. G..
Willard, instructor in horticulture, says ::
The yield of potatoes in Wisconsin for
the last season is estimated AZ about two
thirds crop. Harvest was earlier than
usual, partly because of the uneasiness
caused by the heavy freeze in the fall of
1906. Those who marketed their crop
early in the season realized about 40
cents a bushel."
The statement that Athletics as far
as the local high school is concerned have
tendency to cause the students to be-
come addicted to the use of Intoxicating
liquors." made by the Fond du Lac super
intendent of schools, is said to be in the
main partly responsible for the ban plac-
ed on athletics there and the canceling of
all football dates of the Fond du Lac
highs since the local eleven was defeated
at Appleton. The actions of some of the
students after the game is said TO have
caused the displeasure of the teachers.
and room rent of State Game Warden j.
W. Stone of Barron county. while in
Madison. The Attorney General holds
that this is the headquarters of his Office
and that no expenses can be allowed.
The Pittsburg Coal Company has let
contracts to the Barnett-Record Com
pany. and the Great Lakes Dredging
Company for work on its big coal dock
at Allouez bay, Superior, preparatory to
the enlargement and rebuilding of that
structure. A total of 100000 will be
expended. Complete new steel machinery
is TO be one of the Improvements.
Born il. Lowden county, Virginia, in
1910 being now 81 years of age, Ben
jamin III. Longley of Manawa has again
been denied a pension. Mr.. Longley en-
tered the army at the time the Mexican
war broke out, serving three years and
being wounded in the battles of Chipelci-
pek and San Francisco. Late in the fall
of 1860 Mr.. Longley made application for
service under the late Gabriel Bouck Of
Oshkosh. but was refused on account of