Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17
All Over the State

Mrs. Fred Zahn, who was run down by
a Milwaukee road train in Edgerton ana
hurt internally, is now slowly
recovering.
Three Chinese students, the first to be
enrolled there. have registered in the
college of engineering of tn University of
Wisconsin.
T. d. Perkins of Beloit is attempting
to break the will of his father, Luther d.
Perkins, who left an estate Of $4,000
and gave his son So.
Former City Treasurer Elsenach of
Neenah died in the county poor house,
aged rs. He was a pioneer citizen and
at one time political leader.
kilograms from Denver announce the
death of Morris l. Jones, formerly of ke-
nosha and former owner of the pacing
mare Alix. He was 60 years old.
Onalaska city council has taken up the
matter of compelling the La Crosse City
Railway Company to reduce the fare be-
tween La Crosse and Onalaska to ) cents.
Mrs John O'Brien of Milwaukee, moth
er Of Frank J. O'Brien Of the theatrical
firm of Jones & O'Brien, was badly in
jured in Kenosha when she fell on a
broken curb.
-Four horses dropped dead on the streets
in Sheboygan, suffering from collie. Vet
erina rians state that the sickness is due
to the new oats and hay. which in many
cases is still green.
Articles of incorporation have been ap-
proved and filed for the Racine City bank.
The capital stock is $4,000 and the in
corporators are W. G. Cuttings, Chris
Slot and y. \. Bacon.
The pioneer Methodist Episcopal church
of the head of the lakes held a fourday
celebration of its fifteenth anniversary.
Duluth and Superior Methodists are par
ticipating in the jubilee.
Frank James, right end for the Carroll
college eleven, suffered a fracture of his
right leg in the game between Carroll and
Lake Forest at Lake Forest, III. He is
in a hospital at Lake Forest and will be
out of the game the remainder of the sea-
son.
Mrs. Jacob Packlund died in Ashland
from injuries received in a gasoline ex-
plosion. Her children spilled gasoline on
the floor of the shed and the mother, not
knowing it, struck a match and the ex-
plosion followed. This is the second death
to occur in a week due to gasoline fires.
As a result of trying to quiet a number
of soldiers of Battery c, Third field ar
tillery, on a practice march from Fort
Smelling, Village Marshal Gus Rhodes of
West Salem and his assistant, Walter
Jones, were severely beaten by the artil-
lerymen. Indignant citizens fastened to
the assistance of the marshals, but the
prompt arrival of Capt. W. S. Overton
and other officers stopped the trouble.
Several privates are under arrest.
The regents of the, university won a
victory in their quarrel with Deputy
Game Warden A. W. Gratz in the matter
of the condemnation of property owned
by him and needed for the establishment
of the new heating plant at the univer-
sity. The decision by Judge Stevens in
the Circuit Court dissolves the injunction
recently secured by Gratz when the rail-
road company sought to lay trac across
his property in the night time.
The fishermen of Door county are
aroused over the fishing law requiring
the payment of license fee to the State,
and meetings have been held at Fish
Greek and Egg Harbor which were large
ly attended. Assemblyman Thomas Rey-
nolds was a participant at the gathering
in the latter town. At these meetings or
CARNATIONS were formed to protest against
the law Resolutions were adopted levy
ing a tax of 81 on each fisherman in the
county with which to carry out their
plans and to send delegates to the meet
ings at Green Bay and Menominee.
While picking hickory nuts about two
miles from Kaukauna, w. J. Wahlers fell
off a tree, breaking his neck. Mr.. Wah-
lers had been cashier in the freight depot
of the Northwestern railroad there for
several years He was 30 years old.
Charged with abandoning his wife and
two children who live at Buffalo, eight
years ago Albert Ladue, a barber, who
had married in Eau Claire and has three
children. was arrested and taken to the
eastern city for trial. Ladue had an ex-
cellent reputation. He owns property and
has been successful during his years resi-
dence in Eau Claire.
Thirteen passengers were seriously in
jured in a head-on collision between the
Duluth limited and a freight train on the
chicago, St. Paul. Minneapolis and Oma-
ha railway near Eau Claire.
The tobacco crop Of Dunn ounty has
been safely harvested and is the largest
ever known there. The crop will bring
the farmers of the county more than a
ono or -o5II;ou dollars
Because the management of the Ber-
strom Paper Company mill in Neenah
declined to increase the daily wages from
10 cents to 81. forty-five girls employed
in the rag department went out on a
strike.
Messrs. Joseph Adler and Andrew God
ding of Chicago, representatives of a So
cialistic colony, are visiting Chippewa
county with a view of purchasing land
for founding a conrmunistic colony. They
are fayorably impressed with the land and
climate and may decide TO locate the col
ony in the town of Holcombe-
District Attorney r. Y. Baker has filed
in the Kenosha Circuit Court
charging Frank L. Jackson and Shelly
FL. Montgomery, with perjury. The men
were originally arrested in connection
with the trial of Edward Collier, convict
ed of manslaughter lrst spring, but il
was thought the case against the boys
would be dropped.