Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-31
All Over the State.

don, was shot in the eye with an airgun
He is liable to lose the sight of the mem
Der.
Ole Moen, farmer living at pleasant
Springs, died of hydrophobia, as the re-
suit of being bitten by skunk over
year ago.
While walking along the track south
OF Waunakee, ]. Martin and Christ Orreu
OF Madison were struck by q south-bound
train. Martin was killed instantly and
Christ fatally injured.
That all ministers must quiz smoking
and chewing tobacco, ana that in the fu-
ture no one given to the use Of the weed
shall be ordained to preach, was decided
upon at the Evangelical general confer.
ence in Milwaukee.
Wild game is plentiful around Marsh
field this fall. Wolves, bears, wildcats
and a panther being among the trophies
of local hunters. The panther is sup
posed to be one which escaped from Ring
ling Bros circus some time ago.
John Kohlmetz, aged so years, and
resident of Waukesha county for many
years, was struck and instantly killed by
q eHCsl-DOQuu litlSHl. I1t was CIOSS'JlS
the track near the viaduct at Oconomo-
woe when the accident happened.
Humphrey H. Pipkin, supposedly of
Racine, died in Beloit from injuries re-
ceived when he was hurt by an incoming
Northwestern train. Pipkin is stranger
in the city and was identified by letter
addressed to the name given at Racine.
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field, the farmers refusing 20 bring in
their wood. hoping to raise the price
when cold weather sets in. Ordinary
stove wood is selling at 1926 a cord, an
advance of 90 cents from former years.
Mrs. T. f. MacNichol, prom :nept
woman among the women's clubs of Osh-
kosh, died at the age of Al years. Her
husband and one daughter survive her.
She was the daughter of Amos Baum, a
banker of Waterfowl, where she was
born.
Herbert Fleer, son of Rev. Herbert
Fleer, pastor of the German Evangelical
church of Milwaukee, was captured in St
Louis and admitted he ran away from the
theological school at Elmhurst because
his father insisted on making him a
preacher.
The body of Frank Costly, an euploye
of the Rhinelander Paper Company, who
has been missing for two weeks. was
found floating in the Wisconsin river just
below the Davenport bridge. Costly, who
was 81 years old. is survived by widow
and infant son.
Postmaster H. J. Goddard has receiv
ed instructions to advertise for bids for
the construction of the new $4,000 fed
eral building for Chippewa Falls. The
building will be two stories and basement,
freproof. S4x62, designed in the style of
the kater renaissance.
Word has been received from Hilbert
of the breaking open of a safe in the
hardware store of John CRUDE and the
visits of several other places By burglars.
They then went to the butcher shop of
| Dryso & Dohr, where they broke open the
cash register and secured S6.25. The sa-
| loon of William Schneider was also Wis
| tied and $50 taken.
Former Banker Thomas CoGshiii. in
dicted for embezZlement of funds belong
| ing TO the bank at Seymour, pleaded
| guilty before United States Judge Quarles
| in Milwaukee and was sentenced to five
years imprisonment at Fort Leavenwortn.
Cogshill confessed having lost $4,000
of the banks funds in wheat speculation
on the Chicago market.
Warren ]. Davis has resigned his po-
! sition as cashier of the First National
| bank of Marinette. He goes to accept the
managership of the Manufacturers Ma
tional bank at Racine He has also re-
signed the mayoralty of Marinette to
| take effect Jan. I. He has been Mayor
| two terms and is one of the most promi-
nent and wealthiest men of Marinette.
Otto c.. p Hjermstad a Chippewa
Falls merchant. met with a peculiar ac-
cident while firing at a target. AS Mr..
| Hjermstad took aim and fired he was
dazed by loud report at the breech Of
the gun which flew out Of his hands and
landed about eight feet distant. In some
way the breech of the gun flew op"I as
! the shell exploded and pieces Of the shell
and powder struck him in the face. lie
may lose the sight of one eye.
Two persons were injured in hunting
accidents the other day. Elias r. Glea
son. while hunting north of Ellsworth.
was accidentally shot in the arm by a
| old. was struck in tie shoulder by stray
shot fred by unknown hunters.
James Lloyd Jones. memDer o. the
board of regents Of the State university.
and brother of Rev. Jenkin Lloyd .lCneS.
the Chicago divine. died at his homo at
Wyoming from injuries received when as
sisting in removing the bodies Of two men
| killed in a threshing accident near his
| farm
Fred Bogel of Oconomowcc was lead
ing a COW. when the animal reared and
struck him. Two ribs were found to be
broken. but as yet the extent of his in
juries cannot be ascertained.
! \ record was reached in land sales foI
! the year. when the Tonywatha Land Com
pany bought thirty acres of land at Eth
elwyn Park. across Lake Monona from
Madison. The price was $1,000 an acre
John A. Clements, farmer living
south of Rice Lake. is charged with firing
seven shots at William Stewart, neigh
boring farmer. who was driving gasoline
engine They have had trouble for sew
1 eral years.
Peter Kaiser of Elkhart Lake died o.
injuries received from being thrown from
a wagon. He stood M in the wagon and
/ tried to light cigar, and the noise mads
i BY striking the match scared the horses
and they started to run. He was thrown
and his skull and one side Of his face
were badly crushed.
Jacob Lauer of Baraboo was injured
probably fatally. while braking il tbs
Northwestern yards at Caledonia. III. The
accident happened while Lauar was on
top Of the train and as he was aboue t.
step from one car TO another the train
broke in that place, causing him 20 fan
on the track when the rear car passed
over his body.