Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-03-07
State News in Brief.

Six young women were held up by three
masked men near Cadott and robbed of
$13. The women resisted pluckily.
Eli Eastman, aged 50, the oldest resi-
dent of Hartland, and a charter member
of the Masonic lodge there, is dead.
Richard Conner. one of the most promi-
aent lumbermen in northern Wisconsin,
died with tuberculosis. at the Cunning
ham hotel in Spooner.
Frank Byers, aged 50. night Waterman
at the Common Lumber COmpany's rail
road roundhouse at LaOna, was fatally
burned attempting to eXtinguish fire
which threatened the building. He died
twenty-four hours later.
Charles Quagin, an Indian, has been
arrested by the sheriff pending an inves-
tigation as to the killing of his wife, a
full-blOoded Indian. near Brentwood. The
husband. it is charged, was intoxicated
at the time the wife met her death.
W. J. Diehl. who pleaded guilty before
Judge Sanborn of the United States court
in La Crosse to the char e of securing
carload lots of wood and SaWduSt through
fraudulent use of mails, was fined $500
for the offense. Diehl at first pleaded
not guilty. but later threw himself on the
mercy of the court.
In Oshkosh the jury in the case of the
State against Michael Madl. charged with
the murder of Louis COnroy. agreed upon
a verdict finding the defendant guilty of
murder in the second degree. Judge Hal
sey of Milwaukee presided over the case.
The second degree gives a sentence of
from fourteen to twenty-five years.
District Attorney Baker of kenosha. it
is said. has secured a confession in the
mystery surrounding the death of William
Dryer. who was killed by an automobile
in July Edward Collier is under arrest,
charged with running down the man. Bits
of glass from the shattered lamp of the
machine gave the district attorney a clue.
Two brothers. bachelors. Daniel and
Charles McCarty of Manitowoc, have
been summoned to appear March 10 to
defend a sanity inquiry which is to be
held upon complaint of relatives who al
Iege that the two are incompetent to adj
minister their property. valued at S1O,-
900 to $4,000. The complaint alleges
that the two sold farm for which they
had been offered over $1,000 for $4,000
and it is claimed the property is easily
worth $1,000. \ brother makes COM
plant.
The Wisconsin Dairymen's Association
elected these officers at the convention in
Tomah: W. ]. Gillette. Rosendale, presi-
dent: G. l. Hill. Rosendale. vice presi-
dent Fred Burchard. Fort Atkinson, sec
rotary. and ii. X Loomis. Tomah. Wis.
treasurer.
y plague of what is popularity known
AZ the "seven-year-itch' has descended
upon Chippewa Falls in a very. severe
form Physicians are busy trying to
check the epidemic but have thus far been
unsuccessful. The antics of some of these
afflicted with the disease are exceeding
strange.
Henry Dreier. the first settler of How
ards Grove. was found dead in bed after
lying down for nap. He had enjoyed
the best of health. lie was 50 years of
age.
Michael Haley of Oconomowoc was
struck and killed by a fast milwaukee,
road train while walking TO work for the
Knickerbocker Ice Company. He was 43
years old and single.
Detective Chris Norbeck. famous in the
Ares administration at Minneapolis. is
Oh 4 farm near Chippewa Falls. He says
that be has more pleasure In working
around COWS than he had as sleuth. lie
will not return to Minneapolis.
The saw and shingle mill of the Roddis
Lumber and Veneer Company at Park
Falls was burned to the ground. Fire
broke out in the single mill addition to
the saw mill and the whole building was
in flames almost as soon as the alarm was
given. Heroic efforts of firemen kept the
flames from the planning mill, other build
ings and the lumber piles. The loss is
$4,000 and the insurance 100000.
No action has been taken in Mantle
voc in the case in which Milton Torrison
was alleged to have uttered a forged pa
per for $50 and prosecution will not be
had. 1t develops that the entire affair
was hoax and that the money was imme-
diately returned.