Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-14
All Over the State

Failing health has compelled Miss
Frances Ryan to resign as secretary at
the Wisconsin State school for the blind
in GAINESVILLE.
Henry Schmidt of Milwaukee, a brake
man on the Milwaukee road. fell under
the cars at Milton and lost his left leg.
Schmidt is "a years old and single.
In Chippewa Falls Fred Hammann at
tempted to commit suicide by cutting his
throat in the county Jail. He had tried
to persuade friends to get him sent to an
asylum.
Joseph Schurck. formerly a colonel in
the Austrian army and more recently
civil engineer and inventor in Milwaukee,,
shot himself in his room in Milwaukee
and died.
The engagement of Miss Foia La Fol-
lette. daughter of Senator La Toilette,
to Alfred I. Rogers was announced at
Madison. Mr.. Rogers is a political friend
of the Senator.
A new rural electric railway between
Winona, Mimi, and La Crosse is promis-
ed in articles of incorporation of the La
Crosse and Winona Traction Company
filed at st. Paul.
The John Schroeder Lumber Company
of Milwaukee has signed a contract with
the d. J. Murray Company of Wausau
to build a mill at Ashland, with 10000
900 feet capacity.
The Beaver Dam branch of the Agassiz
society will oppose the determination of
the squirrels. 1t is claimed by many that
the squirrels are causing damage to
shrubs by gnawing the tender bark and
eating the young buds. The Agassiz so
ciety will try to show that it is not the
squirrels which are doing the damage but
a species of worm or the insect produc-
ing them.
Modern Woodmen's hall at Porters
Mills, is being moved to Mt. Hope, dis
lance of five miles, by members of the
Brunswick lodge. Three weeks ago the
building was placed upon four immense
logging sleighs. In the three weeks the
building has been moved two and half
miles. The building is hauled by twenty
eight horses made UP in two rows of
seven teams each.
\ writ of mandamus to compel school
board to allow his daughter to attend
school after he had directed her to refuse
to take two studies in the course, has
been brought by John Scholidon, residing
near Arcadia, against Joseph w.
Haines Herman f. Simpson and Herman
Ulbrech. officers of the school board. The
school board gave notice to the teacher,
Edward Finner. to refuse to hear any
recitation of Miss Scholidon and it is al
legged that Herman Simpson forcibly eject
ed the girl from the building.
Blown through the window of the gas
plant of the Allis-Chalmers works at
West Allis and hurled against the side of
a gondola car twenty feet away from the
building Fred Marsh, IS years old, engi-
neer of the gas plant, was instantly kill
ed by the explosion of a gas meter.
North bound passenger train No. > on
the Wisconsin Central was derailed about
three miles south of Oshkosh and thirty
five passengers. a large percentage of
them residents of Milwaukee, were badly
shaken up and bruised. As far as known
there were but two persons seriously in
jured.
A deal in standing timber and logging
operations of the biggest magnitude on
the ST. Croix for many years has been
closed. 1t is a sale of the MusserS aun-
try Land. Logging and Manufacturing
Company. as well as its holdings of stand
ing pine and other timber on the st.
Croix and its tributaries, located chiefly
in Wisconsin and partly in Minnesota.
The deal embraces about 160,0OO,OOO
feet of pine timber. 1t involves some
what more than 100000. The pur-
chasers are the David Tozer Company,
William Kaiser and William Mackey.
They operate the Tazier. the Eclipse and
the Mackey sawnills at South Saltwater.
Fire in the basement of Lakeside sani-
tarium in Oshkosh caused a panic
| among the 100 inmates. but was eventual
| ly stopped without serious results by the
| nurses and other attendants. One woman
insisted on taking her boy. a week old,
and carrying him to a neighboring house.
The temperature was 81 below zero.
Thomas Brooks, George Getterdam and
| T. C. Harrison. merchants of WATERFOWL,
| pleaded guilty before Circuit Judge Geo
| Grimm to charges of violating the clao-
margarine law by selling oleomaTgarlne
| ooiored Yellow The pleas of guilty were
| unexpected. as Swift & Co., Chicago,
who sold the WATERFOWL merchants the
..oleo,'' sent attorneys to fight the case.