Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-03
All Over the STATE.

prelate of the pontifcal household by
Pope Plus Y.
The attempt to raise the license from
500 to $500 at GIidden was decidedly
in favor of the lower amount The vote
stood about to l.
After battle royal waged under the
direction of the faculty and upper class
men Beloit college sophomores defeated
the freshmen in the annual cane rush.
The good road movement is being put
into effect in Brown county. Each town
Is building crushed stone roads The
town of Holland this year is expanding
100.
Barns and outbuildings on the farm
and summer home of Charles W. Norris,
Milwaukee, at Lake Okauchee were de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at
$1,000.
In their effort to interest the public in
three Sunday night lectures, the Bible
class committee of the First Presbyterian
church of Oshkosh plan is using large
display advertisements in the local news
papers.
power launch capsized at the Becher
street bridge, throwing nine persons into
the water. Two were drowned: Mrs
Mary Wierzchowski, aged 80 years, and
Alice Szybezynski, S-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Albin Szybezynski.
Emmett Holland, employed as an op-
orator for the Chicago and Northwestern
at Montrose, while trying to board a
moving freight train was thrown under
the car, striking on his knee on the sharp
rail. The knee cap was cut in twain and
the man will be crippled for life
Ray Kimball, Crystal Falls lumber
man, was walking over the dam on the
Fence river, near Marinette, when the
high water suddenly carried it out. He
went down with the timber and water
and was carried several hundred feet
down stream with the rush of water and
logs. He may not recover.
A. j. Olson, Chippewa Falls farmer,
was struck by train while asleep near
the track. Although he was badly cut
in the face, he did not awaken. When
the crew, after much shaking, finally
aroused him he was indignant that they
had disturbed his pleasant dreams and
wanted to know why they had made his
face bleed
John Franklin, an engineer on the
Northwestern railroad, has received $i0-
600 from William Peterson of Chicago
for saving the life of the latter's sister
in-law Franklin was spending his vaca-
ton at Devils Lake last summer, when
he rescued the woman, Miss Jenkins, who
was thrown into the water by her boat
capsizing.
Willie Braemer, Is years, died in Nee
nah as a result of fractured right leg
received in a fall from an apple tree.
Lockjaw set in. Herman Erdmann fell
twenty feet out of hay NOW and frac-
tured his skull. Warren Hollenbeck broke
three ribs in fall from a step ladder.
Donald Blosk tumbled from a tree and
broke his right leg above the knee.
known for years as a wide open town,
it is promised by the council that Neenah
will clamp the lid on Jan. /. The first
steps toward that end were taken the
other night, when the police notified sa-
looms that no more raffles would be per-
mitted and also that hereafter doors must
bt kept closed Sunday mornings and
women refused drinks at all times.
4 settlement has been reached between
the La Crosse City Railway Company
and it's employees, which will have the
effect of averting the threatened strike.
The men had threatened to walk out and
tie up the whole system if theri terms
were not met. The agreement reached is
a compromise the men getting an advance
of one cent per hour in their wages.
United States Senator Stephenson has
announced his appointments to fill the
vacancies at large in West Point. Ste
phen Wamsley of Eau Claire was named
with BENJAMIN Lampert of Oshkosh as
first alternate and ]. B. Hanson Of Mari
nette as second alternate. The examina-
ton will occur at Jefferson Barracks IN
January and the successful candidate will
enter West Point in March.
Mrs Elizabeth Clements, the last sur
viying child of Queen Marinette, the
founder of Marinette, died at her home
in Luxembourg, at the age of rs years.
Queen Marinette was a dignitary of the
Chippewa tribe and her home was the
first house built on the present site OF
Marinette. She was an enlightened
squaw. who took a prominent part IN
the early development Of that region.
Pledging their support to the Wiscon-
sin Good Roads Association, recently or
ganized at Milwaukee, and declaring for
the establishment of all kindred organ
izations. rural carriers of Manitowoc
county. in their fourth annual session.
voted to appoint a committee to coop
crate with postmasters throughout the
county with a view of lettering the de-
livery service OF the postal department.
Declining the offer of the court to al
low him to withdraw his plea of guilty,
William E. Williams of Chicago, said to
be son of a wel-known family there,
insisted that he receive sentence, and
Judge Beldon of Kenosha sent him to the
State prison at Waupun for one year
Williams is a graduate of Northwestern
university and a man Of distinguished
appearance. His mother now resides, 1t
is said. at the Holland hotel in Chicago
and to save her from notoriety Williams
had decided to plead guilty. He was &C
lenses from u. G.. Simmons, a wealthy
manufacturer, who gave him $50 for a
fund for a switchmen's home which e1-
listed only in his mind.
Sheriff Burns of La Crosse received
word that a band of men, supposed to
be the bandits who blew open and rob-
bed the Mindoro postoffice, had been lo-
Gated in the northern part of the county.
The sheriff. at the head of posse, heaV-
lily armed. Immediately left for the scene.
An epidemic of rabies seems to be
prevalent in Madison. One girl, Marga-
ret Conniss. daughter of the city dog
catcher. has been bitten and her physi-
clan will take her to Chicago for treat
ment. The health department has or
dered all dogs muzzled for the next six
weeks.
Potato digging is well under way and
conservative reports set the crop at
about two-thirds of the average yield.