Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-11
All Over the State,

\ national bank will be started at
Coleman.
Mrs John T. Olson of N.w Richmond
was instantly killed by a thunderbolt
while in her pantry during severe cleo
trical storm.
Prokop Plecity, recently found uncon-
scious in his Office at Haugen, with a
bullet wound. is dead. The shooting is
still a mystery.
Edward Schultze. son of Town Clerk
Henry Schultze of Thorpe, committed sui
eide at Hope, \. d. The remains arrived
i'll Thorpe the other day for burial.
Evidence was submitted by the State
in the Edward Collier manslaughter case
at Kenosha. that Collier had confessed
having struck some one in his auto the
night William Dyer was killed.
The body of William O'Reilly, 30 years
of age. was removed from Silver Lake the
other afternoon. O'ReiIly was a Cana
dian and employed by an ice company as
superintendent He had not been seen for
a year.
George ?. Miller. trustee of the estate
of the late Henry C. Payne, former Post
master General of the United States. has
filed his annual report in the Probate
Court in Milwaukee. The report shows
that the present value of the estate is
$5S6. 1908
The action of the Navy Department of
the University of Wisconsin in setting
May 30, Memorial day, as the day for
the boat race with Syracuse university at
Madison called forth indignant protest
from a number of old soldiers at a meet
ing of the Lucius Fairchild Post, Grand
Army of the Republic.
The erection of two factory plants. the
combined cost of which will be 100000,
will be the immediate sequence of a deal
that has just been completed in Oshkosh.
The Diamond Match Company will build
structure that will cost 100000 and
the Oshkosh Bottle Wrapper Company
will build one whose cost will be 100000.
an unusual number of deaths occurred
in one family in Racine on one day. The
first death was that of Mrs. MalOna Hold
ridge, aged 80 years the second that of
her brother. Charles Erskine. aged a,
and the third was her sister, Louna Yrs
kline. aged 81.
Pm A1tliiEld anu ~AAbAltA L. b'AcC
were fatally injured in an explosion of a
small gas plant in the basement of &
building on the northwest corner OF River
and Martin streets. Milwaukee. The &C
cident occurred while Hemeta was solder
ing tank of gas to be used for automo-
biles.
Oscar S. Pritchard. a former cashier
or Milwaukee baking company. plead
ed guilty to embezzling $500 and was SEN
fenced TO three years imprisonment.
Lizzie Davidson. aged II years. was ac-
cidentally killed at Lynxville. She was
watching her father pull pump from the
ground, when a dog broke and a lever
struck her on the side OF the face, killing
her instantly
Albert Linhart of La Crosse, charged
with the murder of Hjalmer Johnson,
aged -, who died Thursday from the re-
suit of two pistol wounds received at a
party. has voluntarily given himself up
He maintains the affair was accidental.
Jacob c. Best. son of the millionaire
wholesale liquor dealer of Milwaukee,
who was shot in the abdomen in q saloon
in Racine. died Monday morning. j. W.
Dillon, owner of the saloon in which
Best was shot. is lodged in Jail, and al
though Dillon denies the charge, a dying
statement of Best and statements of men
who We're in the saloon at the time of
the shooting place the guilt on him.
The daughter of Charles Wenzel of
West Allis, years old. was accidentally
shot and killed. With a number of play
mates the child was handling an old shot
gun found in the attic The weapon was
supposed to be empty. The girl fell dead
as soon as the explosion was heard.