Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-04
State News in Brief.

The Western Gas and Improvement
Company of Baraboo, owning several
plants in the United States, has gone into
the hands of a receiver.
Fire started by lightning completely
destroyed the barns on the farm of w. A.
Smith near Omro. Fourteen cows and
four horses were burned.
Swan Palmberg, aged 49, farmers
son, was struck by lightning at Barron.
He was thought dead, but was resusci-
tated after an hours work
John Cook, chief of police of Mari
nette. was asked by Mayor Davis to re-
sign, on account of his failure to enforce
the saloon and gambling ordinances.
E. B. Jacobs, prominent farmer living
near Blanchardville, was found dead in
the woods where he had gone for a load
of wood. 1t is thought he either died
of heart failure or fell and broke his neck.
He was so years of age.
Fernie Arndt, aged 0, and Ernest An
derson, aged u, were instantly killed at
Maplehurst. The boys had gone to a
rollway near their homes to gather gum
from the logs, and while thus engaged
the pile gave way, burying them.
Farmers telephones played a promi-
nent part in saving III. L. Marshalls big
farm near Rolling Prairie from destruc-
tive blaze. Lightning struck his largest
barn, and neighbors for miles around were
called by telephone. The building was
partly saved, although the destruction Of
all the farm structures and houses seemed
certain.
To combat a proposed guardianship for
herself, Miss Catherine Pankratz, aged
IS, took the stand in her own behalf in
court in Manitowoc and recited the dis
position of fully $4,000 which she has
loaned on notes and mortgages. The wom-
an, though decrepit, demonstrated mar
velous memory. Testimony developed to
show that the woman had lived in squalor.
Judge Krez reserved the decision.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mohe of Beloit has been
released from Jail in GAINESVILLE so her
| health may not be permanently injured.
She served 107 days of her sentence. This
was 90 days and a fine of 500 and costs
of $40, or 80 additional days. The costs
We're RENTED and she paid her fine. Mrs.
Mohe was found guilty of obtaining
money under false pretenses. She was
accused in the northern part of the State.
Daniel McCarty, lately adjudged incom-
petent by Probate Court in Manitowoc, is
missing for a second time and anxiety is
| felt for his safety. McCarty is one of
| two brothers at Cato who sold an 49,,
600 farm for $4,000. He disappeared
while the case was pending and after ten
days was picked up wandering on the
| highway at Rhine. William Morgan,
Cato, the guardian, is searching for him.
Jacob G. Best of the firm of Jacob Best
& Co. Milwaukee, wholesale liquor mer-
chants, was shot in the abdomen in a
Racine saloon and cannot live. Best ac-
cused J. W. Dillon, saloonkeeper, of
shooting him. and Dillon, now under ar
rest, denies having any knowledge of the
shooting or that it took place in his sa-
| loon. Frequenters of the place, who the
police believe know something of the
shooting, are held by the officers, but are
unable to clear up the affair.
The Hewitt Water Power Company
| has sued the Outagamie Paper Company
| for SCI, 900 back rentals for power on a
! contract begun in 1888, at $4,000 annu-
| ally for loo horsepower. In 1897 the
contract expired and the Hewitt company
served notice of increase of the rental.
| During the consequent dispute payments
| were deferred until $4,000 was the
amount of the bill and $1,000 the inter
est and incidentals. Leading owners of
| each company hold stock in the other.
IL r Al
child block in Madison, has purchased a
1000 monument for himself and family.
1t has just been set up in Forest Hill
| cemetery. 1t came from Vermont. Ly-
| naugh is SO years old and in good health.
The coroner's jury at La Crosse, in
| Investigating the death of Hjalmer John
son found that the young man came to
his death by reason of a pistol shot
wound caused by shot from a revolver
in the hands of Albert Linhart March
II. Witnesses testified Linhart deliber-
ately pointed and fired the revolver at
Johnson.
James W. Dibble and wife. who were
married in 1866 and divorced twenty
years ago, met at a funeral in Baraboo
They talked matters over and were mar
RED at once.
Upon application of Elmer A. Kimball
of Chicago, judgment creditor, the Mad
ison Safe Deposit and Trust Company,
Madison, was appointed receiver of the
Madison Lighting Company.
George Bates, a notorious forger, es-
capped from the Baraboo Jail. He slipped
away while removing storm windows from
the Jail. climbed through a skylight to
the roof and descended by means of a
waterspout.
George Stetcer Of Eau Claire was set
upon by three men whose faces were part
" hidden by handkerchiefs. They stun
ned Stetcer and took from him a pouch
he carried on his shoulder and s121 in
money. The robbers made good their es-
cape.
Surveyors of the Chicago Kenosha,
Milwaukee and Lake Geneva Railway
Company are laying out a right-of-way
| for the company's tracks directly through
the center of Kenosha. The right-of-way
will be more than two miles in length
and the property through which it must
pass is valued at more than 100000.
The attorneys are drawing papers for the
| condemnation of much of the property.