Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-03
WISCONSIN, NEWS.


The Goodyear Lumber company has
awarded the contract for twelve
frame residences at Tomah.
Mrs. Hiram Preston of Eau Claire.
was Frustrated by drinking lemonade.
Two doctors from this city brought
the woman back to consciousness and
| she will recover.
Racine.-Carl ]. Skow, aged 81
years, who had disappeared from his
nome, was found wandering about
Mound cemetery. The old man said he
mad been on a visit to Kenosha.
Heavy frost has nipped the late to-
Dacco and corn throughout Rock
county. The corn crop is nearly an en-.
tire failure; one.quarter of the to-
bacco crop is still in the fields.
The Quincy Refrigerator company
OF Fond du Lac has leased the plant
OF the Bowen Manufacturing company
and VIII Increase the yearly output
from $4,000 refrigerators to $4,000.
Theodore WidtzorItte, a resident of
Milwaukee, aged u years, was found
dead in bed at the farm home of T. w.
Huyke, near Broadhead. Young Widt.
zorditte came there to regain his
health.
Theodore Wietzorice of Milwaukee
aged 81 years, was found dead in a
tent on farm near Orfordville. He
asked permission of farmer to put
up a tent, and was found dead this
morning.
f. j. Mclean, c. ]. Borum and G.
x. Borum of Barron, and G.. e. Scott
OF Prairie Farm have secured a char
Ter to operate the State bank of Prai.
RE Farm. in the village of Prairie
Farm. The capital Is $4,000.
new pea canning industry in op-
position to the trust has been organ.
lied in Sheboygan with 100000 cap
ital stock. A pea canning plant large
enough to take care of a 700-acres crop
will be built at Sheboygan Falls this
tall.
Chippewa Falls-Two schoolhouses
and the Carnegie library have been
closed because of storm which
wrecked the smokestack of the cen.
trail heating plant. The city hall en-
ployes are also on a vacation because
of lack of heat.
Beloit-The refusal of the Bell Tele-
phone company to permit patrons or
the Farmers Telephone company to
use the formers service without pay
ing toll will lead to prosecution OF
the Bell company. The Farmers is
mutual company.
Alex, kuz, single, aged SO years, an
inmate in the st: Croix county asy-
lum for chronic insane. was run down
by an Omaha freight engine and hor.
ribly mutilated. Kuz had escaped
from the attendants, who were search
ing for MIN at the time of the acct
dent.
The postoffice at Mindoro was
blown open by gang of burglars and
the safe demolished with dynamite.
The robbers got large quantity Of
valuable jewelry. Several posses
were quickly formed and patrols es-
tablished over the northern part of
the county.
Neenah, Menasha and Oshkosh cap
italists have purchased of the Nal
chow estate twenty-five acresof land
located on the west shore of Lake
Winnebago, and will expend $4,000 in
establishing a summer resort. and the
promoters will erect a big hotel, be-
sides dozen cottages.
William T. Williams, a scion of n
we'll known Chicago family, was SEN
fenced TO a year in the state prison
at Waupun after he had entered
plea " guilty to the charge of having
obtained $50 under false pretenses
from z. G. Simmons, the well known
kenosha philanthropist.
sheriff Burns of La Crosse received
word today that a band of men, sup
posed to be the bandits who blew
open and robbed the Mindoro post
Office ON Tuesday, had been located in
lonely district in the northern part
OF the county. rhe sheriff with a posse
Immediately left for the scene.
The Northern Wisconsin State Fair
association elected the following Of
ficers for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent. A. G. Cox. Augusta; secretary,
Robert b, Clark. Chippewa Falls;
treasurer. W. w. Finn. Chetek; vice
president, c. A. Hayes, Chippewa
Falls.
William jeffrey. detective OF the
Chicago and Northwestern railway
company came to Racine and swore
out warrant for the arrest OF Nick
In Crnniesco nm au,Dlova NJ tha com,
pany as gatekeeper. Twenty-Five