Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-12
State News in Brief.

State News in Brief.
A 1914 pound pickerel was caught in
Rock lake, the largest this season.
Jack Bradley, an old soldier of the Iron
Brigade, died at his home in Mansion.
aged 81 years.
Farmers near Marshfield are making a.
good thing out of having their land clear
ed from brush by goats.
Peter Christen of Sparta was instant
ly killed by falling under the wheels of
a caboose at Dickinson, n. d.
Peter Schoat, blacksmith at Ply
mouth, was struck by a st. Paul train
while picking berries and killed.
Frank Heidenreich, aged 49, was
drowned in Fox river, near the ST. Paul
railway bridge at Omro while bathing.
Henry G. Baker, formerly of Madison,
has been appointed chief of police of Ra-
cine at a meeting Of the board of fire and
police commissioners, to succeed the late
Fred Pfster. The vote for the appoint
ment was 3 to 1.
Charles Burton of Reedsburg lost a
barn filled with hay and grain and a
valuable team of horses by fire. Two
little girls went into the barn to see some
kittens and while there lighted a match
which set fire to the straw.
Fred La Blad, Ashland teamster, fell
dead of heart failure. La Blad was
known as Fatty and had received repeat
ed offers to allow himself to be exhibited
as freak. He was about 80 years of
age and weighed 400 pounds.
Milwaukee and Northern railway Off
Gals reported to the Milwaukee police
that 25,O00 feet of trolley wire, covering
FIVE miles of roadway between Milwau-
kee and Cedarburg, had been cut down
and carried away by thieves.
The general store, saloon and opera
house owned by Thomas j. Mccarthy in
the town of Rhine, four miles east Of
Elkhart Lake, were burned. The cause
of the fire is unknown. The building
and stock, valued at $4,000, were totally
destroyed.
Elsie Kressen, a 16-year-old girl, who
has been deaf for years, suddenly regain
ed her hearing while at play in Appleton.
She was seized with a rumbling sound
III HeE ears, IHeH ISlL IL SHoCh iIhc d uedFy
blow on the head and thereafter could
hear perfectly.
Miss Fannie Spooner has been appoint
ed superintendent of Pepin county schools
to succeed her sister Lucy, who resigned
The appointment was made by State
Superintendent Cary. The salary is
$780, and Miss Spooner will have fifty
five schools under her supervision.
Oscar jacobson of Jackson was SEN
fenced to seven months at Waupun for
the theft of $50 from his father, a citi-
zen of the town of Martell. He took the
money and started west when he was
caught. His father prosecuted him, and
was very indignant when the maximum
penalty, one year, was not imposed upon
him.
The finding Of the body of Kovack
Geser, aged "a years, in the water near
the Goodrich dock in Racine, gave rise
to theories of murder. Geser disappear
ed Aug. 90 His body when found had
articles of apparel and there was no
money. He leaves a wife and child in
Hungary.
James Boss, farm hand Of Milton,
was beaten and robbed by two compan-
ions. Ross received some money from
his employer, and on the way home took
the two men into his buggy. They re-
lieved him of his money and threw him
out of the wagon. Fred Chapsey and
Tom Welsh of Beloit are arrested in con-
nection with the affair.
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Ashland division shops of the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad Company in
Kaukauna, narrowly missed being killed
by peculiar accident. He was turning
a heavy car axle, and in removing it from
the lathe the steam hosting apparatus let
loose of the 7OO-pound burden, and one
of the hooks caught Mr.. Francois full IL
the mouth and tore itself loose, tearing
out several teeth and lacerating the roof
of his mouth and upper lip.
The hot, damp weather has caused
acres of potatoes which were green and
growing to be struck with a blight. 1t
will make some potatoes worthless for
digging while some, if dug at once and
placed on the market, may be utilized.
''Staff Captain" G. II. Davis, arrested
in La Crosse on a charge of being the
head Of an interstate movement which is
grating on charitably inclined people by
collecting funds for charitable institu-
tons which do not exist, pleaded guilty to
the charge Of obtaining money under false
pretefrses and was sentenced to the State
penitentiary for one year.
The investigation into the case of Bony
Lombard. whose body was found in the
town of Barnes Saturday, point strongly
to murder, and John 'Speck, trapper,
hunter and fisherman, has been arrested.
The body of Lombard was found lying
twenty feet from Speck's shanty.
A romantic story of the recent storm
comes from Plum City. Leslie Lewis,
living near Ellsworth, was to wed Miss
Carrie Moser at the home Of her parents
in Plum City, and many Of the wedding
guests had gathered when the storm came
and turned Rush river into roaring tor
rent. which young Lewis tried to cross in
vain. The wedding has been postponed.
Assemblynan G. E. Estabrook Of Mil
waukee was appointed at conference be-
tween Gov. Davidson, Secretary of State
Frear and Attorney General Gilbert to
revise the town laws for separate publ
cation. The Legislature appropriated $500
for this work. Mr.. Estabrook has for
number of years made study Of the
town laws which have been passed by the
Legislature and is especially fitted for the
work.
The blue book viii not be ready for dis
tribution before the latter part of Sep
TENDER or the first of October. The index
this year will be an improvement over
other years, and the additional work in
this branch has delayed the publication.