Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
All Over the State.

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Lester of Chippewa Falls will build it.
E. ]. Born, a prominent jeweler well
known throughout northern Wisconsin for
twenty years, died suddenly at Ashland.
Kenneth Andre and Clarence Searles,
aged II years, were drowned in Rock
river at Beloit by falling down an en-
bankment while fishing.
While his mother was absent, George
Barry, 10 years old, was drowned in the
river near his home in GAINESVILLE by fall
ing off temporary bridge.
Adolph A. Schmidt was drowned while
swimming in Lake Okauchee. He was
following a boat in which his fiancee,
Miss Irma Hassinger, and his half Sis
ter, Ida Peters, were seated, when he
became exhausted and sank.
Ten thousand dollars in certificates of
deposit on the local banks of Racine and
500 in cash was stolen from John Wen
sing, a farmer of Central Park Wensing
attended circus and discovered the loss
of his money upon arrival at his home.
Six persons narrowly escaped death in
an automobile accident on Whitefsh Bay
road, near Milwaukee. Automobile No.
9S9OW overlook and overturned a car
riage and stopped at the brink of 300
foot embankment. A fence held the ma
chine.
Appleton merchants and manufacture
ers are likely soon to insist upon a tele-
phone consolidation unless the Wisconsin
Telephone Company and the Fox River
Valley Telephone and Telegraph COM
panies soon come to an agreement and
give the city a single system.
Henry Zochon was killed in a runaway
accident at Ashippun. The horse became
frightened by the breaking of the harness
and ran away, throwing Mr.. Zochon out
upon his head, breaking his neck and
causing conclusion of the brain. He was
33 years old and leaves a wife and one
child.
The 500 Railroad Company has filed
an amendment to its articles of incorpo-
ration in the Secretary of States Office
in Madison, declaring its intention of
building a branch line from Brooten,
Mimi, to Superior Fifteen miles of the
line will be in Wisconsin, all in Douglas
county.
Miss Callista Babcock, the Neenah
heiress who is doing missionary work at
Seoul, Japan, has written a letter in
which she expresses satisfaction with her
work, and believes the climate will benefit
her health. Miss Babcock is not attached
to any missionary board and is defraying
all her own expenses
Ralph Flatow and Ralph Levinson, Chi
cago gamblers who were arrested for run
ming games of chance on the Barry liner
Wisconsin, Aug. T. have been assessed
heavy fines. Flatow was sentenced to pay
a fine of S40O or serve nine months in
the house of correction, and Leyinson
must pay $500 or go to the workhouse
for four months.
John Pamperin, aged 81, one of the
best known cigar manufacturers in the
Northwest and president of the Pamperin
Leaf tobacco Company, is dead in La
Crosse, after an illness of several months.
Mr.. Pamperin organized the Pamperin &
Wiggenhorn Cigar Company in 1886, and
the factory was the largest in the State
outside of Milwaukee.
Persons unaccounted for after the re-
cent tornado, the worst ever experienced
at La Crosse, have been located, and it is
now believed that no lives were lost when
the tornado suddenly swept down upon
the numerous craft on the river. The
damage to churches, factories, residences
and crops in this county is conservative
ly estimated at 100000.
The Milwaukee police have started to
make war on the small boy who smokes
cigarettes. Orders have been issued to
arrest all boys and girls under 16 who
are found smoking tobacco of any kind,
and if the smoking occurs nyyprem-
ises other than the parenls of Ythe Of
tenders the owner also is to be arrested.
The crusade will be carried on under the
new State law passed by the last Legisla-
ture, which prohibits children under Is
from smoking.
The Racine Main street bridge muddle
has been settled by the City Council. The
structure cost about $4,000. There were
defects, and the city held back $4,000,
but the Milwaukee Bridge Company
claimed the plans were defective. The
bridge company has noH agreed to throw
off all extras and remedy other defects,
while the city pays the balance of the
contract price and valves the collection
of the penalties of so per day for the
overtime in completion of the structure.
John Pauley, pioneer, 20 years old, is
in bed at his home in Washburn with the
most remarkable case of cramps" on
record. While picking berries in the
marshes near the city he was seized with
pain in his legs and fell to the ground.
He lay until shutdown, when strength
seemed to return to him, and he crawled
to the edge of the swamp. Late at night
he was found by a farmer unconscious
near the road. Physicians were called
when Pauley reached home. They are
sure the case has nothing to do with
paralysis, but they are unable TO dag
nose the disease.
News has been received in Milwaukee
of the engagement of Mrs. Clara Schan-
dein Heyl, recently divorced from Jacob
Heyl. to Arthur Schlubeck of Westphalia,
Germany.
Two men were killed, one was slightly
injured, and two others narrowly escaped
death or injury in the collapse of a stor-
age shed at the plant of the International
Harvester Company in Milwaukee.
In a heroic and successful attempt to
save the lives of three men who were
swimming in Okauchee lake Miss Lille
Way, the 16-year-old daughter of Prof.
Rudolph Way, dancing master at West
Point, nearly lost her life.
At the butchers picnic in GAINESVILLE
William Mohns killed and dressed steer
in ) minutes and 10 seconds, thus winning
the championship of the country, it is
said. Jack Magnus of Milwaukee, hith-
erto said to be the fastest man in the
trade. killed and dressed his steer in 3
minutes and 40 seconds.
In the Circuit Court in kenosha
Judge Williams handed down a decree of
divorce in the suit of Mrs. Margaret
Allen VS.. Albert j. Allen. The defend
ant in the action is an insurance solicitor,
now living in Chicago. He did not ap-
v,a,- "a, dafand the action Mrs Allen was