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

CiC1h at the eSS HoteI, urOWneu dl MAJ
ison while bathing.
Two hundred workmen of the North
western car shops at Hudson, who struck
tor higher wages were granted a 10 per
cent raise and resumed work.
The barley and rye crop of Outagamie
county will be larger than that of last
year. the oat crop will be as good while
the hay will be % per cent less than in
1906, according to John Riehl of Center.
He also states that while corn is back
two weeks, the crop will be good
Miss Maize Wilson of Burlington was
nearly drowned in Lake Monona while
out boating with Don E. Mowry, son of
Duane Mowry of the Milwaukee school
board. He was attempting to assist the
girl to the pier when she fell backward
She was rescued by two bystanders.
The police We're notified that a band
of pickpockets worked on the cars of the
kenosha Electric railway the other night
and that many people were robbed. DR..
j. L. Stewart, a physician of Clay Cen
ter, Kan, was robbed of pocketbook
containing valuable papers and several
pieces of jewelry. Grover Stetson was
robbed of 500 in money and many others
reported smaller losses.
The other night an auto driven by Au-
gust Geffer of Milwaukee, while speeding
along at twenty miles an hour, in turning
out to pass another auto, ran over and
killed Nicholas Maurer of Brookfield near
that place. A few hours later an auto
in which were five men, AMI which is be-
lieved to have been from Chicago, crashed
into buggy on the Blue Mound road
in which were Mrs. w. H Luebke and
several children, completely wrecking it.
No one was hurt.
4 new factory has located in Grand
Rapids under the name of The Standard
Core Co. This corporation has been re
Gently organized with a capital stock of
$4,000. The incorporators are George
w. Mead and Isaac p. Witter of Grand
Rapids and r. L. Krous of Marshfeld.
The business of the new company will
be to manufacture wood cores on which
to roll paper in the mills from the ma
chimes, the wood rolls taking the place of
the more expensive iron cores heretofore
used.
While tieing his horse to post at noon
at the corner of Northwestern avenue and
Regent street, Oshkosh, Dennis Ryan, a
farmer living near that city, was killed
by coming in contact with live light
wire. Mrs. Ryan pulled 1ler husband
away from the live wire and was only
saved from also being injured herself by
having on her hands a pair of silk gloves.
eli ha
current passed through Mr.. Ryans body
from his right hand to his heel. He died
a few minutes after the shock. Mr.. Ryan
was 46 years old.
A trunk containing securities to the
value of 100000 has been found at
WATERFOWL and is now on its way to the
rightful owner. Otto Heinecken, a teach
er in Emmanuel church school, went to
Chicago and there left a call with the
express company to get two trunks to be
sent to Watertown. In some way the
driver mixed the trunks in his load and
sent one that should have been left at
the depot in Chicago to Watertown, and
left one of Mr.. Heinecken's trunks at the
depot Mr. Heinecken did not return I'M
til the other day, when he found he had
a trunk which did not belong to him. He
notified the company and the trunk for
which a hot search had been made by
the express company, was forwarded TO
Chicago.
Mrs. Mary McGrath, whose claim that
she will be 40 years old on Aug. 10 is
generally believed by old time residents
of Fond du Lac and Brandon, who know
that she has ffved in Wisconsin for sew
enty years or more, has been taken to
Milwaukee to be cared for during the re-
mainder of her life at the Home of the
Little Sisters of the Poor. Crippled by
the breaking of her legs a few years ago,
but otherwise seeming in perfect health,
Mrs McGrath made the journey from
Brandon in baggage car. Until the &C
cident which crippled her Mary McGrath
titled the three acres of ground left her
by her husband, and made It produce her
a living. She now finds ner chief com
fort in a short clay pipe which she
smokes as she lies on her cot.
The body of an unknown man was
found floating in Lake Kegonsa. The man
was about a years old, and upon gar
ments which he wore were the initials
3. L.
S. VI. Stephenson, former Congressman
from Menominee, and brother of Senator
Stephenson of Marinette, is in a critical
condition as the result of an accident, in
which he fell and broke his hip bone.
Mr. Stephenson was going to his Pine
Hill farm and was getting out of his
carriage in Marinette when the accident
occurred. His age, 20 years, makes his
recovery doubtful.
The Chippewa Valley Electric Light
and Power Company is the only bidder
for lighting the city of Menomonie for
a term of seven years beginning next
January.
An explosion of gasoline in the launch
Wherenow severely burned NJ. Weber and
John Light of Evanston, III. They were
on their way home and passing through
the canal at Sturgeon Bay when the ex-
plosion occurred. On the boat with them
were Mrs Light and daughter and Roy
jacobson of Milwaukee. The latter jump
ed overheard, but was rescued. The :
women, being in the after end of the boat,
were not endangered.
According to James Maeder, who has
just returned from his farm in Oconto
county, Hugh Herald of Mountain has
established a record for killing snakes
that is without equal in the State. Dur
ing a week the Mountain man dispatched
ffty-five snakes in three days. The previ-
Gus week he slaughtered forty-fve. This,
according to Maeder, is simply the begin
ming of a systematic snake hunt which
is to be carried out to rid Oconto Of the
reptiles.
Alfred Christianson of Eau Claire, aged
q. was killed while stepping off an inter-
urban car. He was a clerk in shoe
store. He was member Of Company e,
Third regiment.