Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-12
WITHIN OUR BORDERS.

WITHIN OUR BORDERS.
The county tax for Marshfield has been
raised $4,000 over the amount assessed
by the city assessor.
Mrs. Laura Kendall, Janesville's oldest
resident, died, aged 90 years. She had
lived in GAINESVILLE since 1888.
Merlin Flint a farmer, about 81 years
old, caught the fingers of his right hand
in corn shredder at Albany and all but
one were chopped off.
Oscar Nygard 20 years old, while hunt
ing near Dodgeville, accidentally shot and
killed himself A charge from his shot
gun blew off the top of his head.
Albert Erdman, former section man
on the Northwestern road, who was dis
charged a few days ago, was run down
and killed by a Northwestern passenger
train near Marinette.
John j. Reynolds, second engineer at
the Rhinelander paper mill, died from
the effect of injuries. He was caught by
a pulley and one arm was torn off and his
chest crushed. He was 30 years old.
Fire caused a loss of $4,000 on the
building and stock of the Soper Furniture
Company in Oshkosh. The loss is partial
ly covered by insurance. The fire is be-
lievel to have been caused by spontaneous
combustion.
Fire came very near destroying the ag-
riculEural works of the l. B. Rowell Com
pany in Menomonee Falls. Workmen
forming a bucket brigade by acting
promptly kept the fire from spreading.
The loss is small.
When Undersheriff Smith arrived in
Bioomer to serve a warrant on Albert
Kneill he found his man acting as
groomsnan Mr.. Smith waited until Mr..
Kneill had enjoyed the wedding feast be-
fore arTesting him.
At session of the Northern Chautau-
qua assembly in Marinette j. X. Wright
was elected president, and Rev. Sherman
L. Devne, pastor of the Pioneer Presby-
terrain church, named as superintendent to
succeed Rev. A. J. Benjamin of Milwau-
kee.
Calling to see a sick friend, Henry Ho-
ganson. a stone mason, committed suicide
in the home of Gustav Cjermundson, an
invalid, near Houston. Hoganson went
into an adjoining room and slashed his
throat with a razor. No reason is as
signed for the deed.
A bend certificate to issue 100000,
face value, per cent forty-year bonds,
voted last April, was granted by the rail
road commission to the Lake Superior
and Southern Railway Company. The
company proposes to build its line from
Huron to Champion, Mich.
The Wisconsin Anti-Saloon League is
going to start lld-clamping crusade in
the State and Kenosha has been selected
as the initial city for the league to work
in. The officials of the league will come
to Kenosha and lay plans for the prose-
cution of all saloonkeepers who violate
the laws.
After a chase of several miles across
the fields. a posse of farmers from Brook
Ign captured two tough looking indlvld-
uals who had broken into the home of
Mrs. Eta Rollins, a mile south OF the
village and had been routed by that lady
with a rolling pin. The men claim they
were sailors recently laid off in Milwau-
kee and were looking for food.
George Schumacher, who last April was
shot by Florence Dugan, whom he had
Tilted. and had since been suffering from
the wounds he sustained, died in James
Vile Since the shooting he had been
slowly dying with gangrene, the entire
back of his body being affected. The
Dugan woman was tried. but was freed
on the plea of emotional insanity.
Matt Kedrowski. aged %, a farmer liv-
Ing in the town of Sharon, died from ex-
posture in a lumber yard in Stevens Point.
He was a heavy drinker and wandered
into the yard while intoxicated and fell
asleep He was twice married and leaves
a widow and a large family
The Muscoda dairy board offers a spe-
cial premium of S15 to cheesemakers at
factories having membership by owner,
salesman or factory men who are MEM
bers of the board of trade who exhibit
cheese at the Wisconsin cheesemakers'
convention at Milwaukee in January,
1908.
Whitewater is having its milk supply
sensation. An ordinance requires Ii
cense in town, but before the license can
be given chere must be an examination at
a cost of 50 for each animal from which
he draws his supply. Only three dis
eased animals have been found among the
large number examined.
Mayor Linley of Superior instructed
City Attorney Mcintosh to bring injunc-
ton suits against all the questionable
houses in the city to have them abated as
nuisances. The Mayor recently notified
these places that after Jan. l they must
close. Criticism followed, and he has
now ordered immediate action.
Ten cents day is the value Rock
county Circuit judge placed on an attor-
neys labor Attorney Charles Pierce of
GAINESVILLE was awarded such pay, and the
man who viii have to pay it is David
Pillor of Beloit. Pierce gets 81 for labor
which. he says, required his attention for
ten DAYS. He had sued for 500.
While the Janesville banks are still
issuing cashier checks in lieu of currency
the Christmas trade is reported larger
this year than ever before at this date.
None of the factories have closed down
and but two have shortened their days
work to eight hours The farmers have
plenty of money from their sugar beets
and the stores are reaping The benefit.