Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-28
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.

Fremont Gardner was accidentally shot
and killed while hunting near Iomahawk.
Liverymen of Lake Geneva have ad-
vanced prices owing to increased cost of
hay and feed.
Stein Nelson, aged 6, and Hans Hanson,
aged s, were drowned in Lake st. CroiX
while skating.
Warren Denny of Abbottsford, excited
by running into a herd of deer, fell dead
from heart disease.
John Cram of Cable, while deer hunt
ing, had toes blown off through the acct
dental discharge of his gun.
Carl Wetzel, a farmer living near An
tigo, was shot and killed by a set-gun
which he was arranging in a runway for
deer.
Oscar Nelson of Merrill, while in the
woods for deer, accidentally discharged his
gun and received a serious wound in the
thigh.
William Schultz, aged IS, and William
Gehrt, II, of Merrill, broke through the
ice on Lake New, near Merrill, and were
drowned while hunting. Their parents
supposed they were with relatives until
their bodies were found.
Gov. Davidsou has pardoned Wojeck
Sowa, a Pole, VINO is serving a sentence
of fourteen years in the State prison at
Waupun for killing John Moore, police
officer of Stanley On March s, 1901. Sowa
employed his brother-in-law, Vincent Ko-
lax, as a farm hand, but after some trou-
bic discharged kodak and told him to
get off the place and remain away. Ko-
lax went to Justice George Burke and
swore out warrant for the arrest of
Sowa, and the warrant was given to Con-
stable Fred Bratz, who took Moore and
several others, including kodak, along to
help serve the document. While Moore
was pounding at the front door kodak
went around the house to a rear window
and told Sowa that he had told him he
would fix him and now he would do So"
Sowa didn't know that the officers had a
warrant for him and when Moore sue
ceeded in getting the door of the house
open and was about to step in Sowa fired
several shots from gun, killing Moore.
As a result of a trial before the Do
lice and fire board on several charges,
Fire Chief Gross of Beloit was repri-
manded.
Earl Holly of Spooner stood leaning ON
his gun, his hand over the muzzle, when
he hit the trigger with his foot and his
hand was blown off
Martha. divorced wife of Ned Thinner
man, went to the home of her former hus-
band at Fisk and shot him. She was
found later lying on the lounge in the
house with pistol wound over her heart.
Both will die. Zimmerman secured a di-
vorce II July.
Carl Hackbart, farmer in the town of
Maine, 80 years old, accidentally killed
himself while deer hunting. From the
appearance of the body Hackbart appears
to have been leaning on the rife when
it was discharged and the bullet went
through his head, killing him instantly.
After being out for nearly four hours
the jury in the case of the State VS..
C. E. Gavin returned a verdict of guilty
in Fond du Lac. VI. K. Reilly, who rep
resented the defendant, made a motion to
have the verdict set aside. Gavin and
A. B. Fontaine were charged with con-
spiracy TO influence a jury in a Green
Bay graft case.
Storm Bull, professor of steam engi-
neering in the University of Wisconsin,
died at Madison after an illness of six
weeks from cancer of the stomach. He
was born in Norway, Oct. 20, 1856, and
was graduated from the Federal Poly
technical Institution in Zurich, Switzer-
land. in 1877. He was elected Mayor of
Madison for one year in 1901. Storm
Bull was a nephew of Ole Bull, the
famous Norwegian violinist.
Fire caused damage of nearly $4,000
to the First Baptist church IN Elkhorn.
Flames were caused by an overheated
stove IN the basement and spread rap
idly through the entire upper part of the
structure. The insurance is $500.