Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-07-04

internal injuries which caused his
death.
The Darlington company of Chicago
has purchased 1890 acres of cut-oye.
land long the Flambeau river, near
Chippewa Falls and will convert it
into 4 sheep and cattle ranch.
At Menomonie the Gedney Picking
company of st. Paul has broken
ground for large picking plant to be
erected at once. The work will be
pushed rapidly and 100000 will be
paid yearly for vegetables by this in
stitution
At Marinette, Olaf Olsen, believed
to be insane, has been found near
Coleman after having wondered in the
swamp north of that town for FIVE
days, in which he had drank or eaten
nothing. He will be sent to an asy-
lum.
AT Chippewa Falls, John Miller was
almost killed by 300 pound cake of
| ice, which struck him in the head
falling from height of thirteen feet.
The ice. after making several bad
wounds on the head and face, injured
him in the shoulder and leg.
At Grand Rapids, the corner stone
OF the new county normal training
school was laid and the ceremony
was attended by large crowd from
all over the county, members of the
county board being seated on the
speakers platform. The building is to
cost $25, 900.
Laboring under the deusion that
Dr. e. l.. Tompach, leading physi-
clan of Racine had been instrumental
in sending him to the northern insane
asylum eighteen months ago, Frank
Dolezal, so years of age. made vi
cious assault upon the physician, and
attempted to kill him on the rocks.
At GAINESVILLE, Otto e. Smith, lead
ing druggist, was frightfully injured
while returning from fishing trip by
his horse running away. Smith start
ed to stop the animal, which was
frightened, when the lines broke,
throwing him under its heels. His
foot caught in spoke of the buggy
and he was dragged several hundred
feet before the horse stopped.
AT Waupaca, during a recent cleo
trio storm, lightning struck the
dwelling of Harrison Morse, a farmer
residing near Waupaca, the bolt run
ming down rafter and striking the
i bay window and to an iron bed which
was standing near, setting fire to the
mattress. None of the occupants was
seriously hurt and by quick applica
ton of water the fire was extingpished
AT Racine, Judge Belden has handed
down a decision of interest to school
boards throughout the state. The
case Is virtually fight between the
American Book company and CHM &
CO., two leading book publishing com
panies. By the decision the American
company wins, and hereafter it's books
will be placed in the schools of Lake
Geneva.
Peter Elsen, Kenosha laborer. so
years of age, had a remarkable es-
cape from death. Elsen is somnam-
bulist and while he was walking in
his sleep at his home on Orange
street, he leaped head first from a
second story window and fell on his
head on sidewalk. When picked up,
while seemingly dazed. he was not Sc
rlously injured. His elbow had
broken an inch board in the sidewalk
At SUPERIOR Miss Harriet Field,
homesteader, who four years ago took
up claim with jack pine on it, has
Just won decision from the interior
department at Washington, which es-
tabHshes new precendent-that
school teachers may be homesteaders.
Miss Field teaches in Minneapolis, and
a contest filed on her claim was made
| principally on the ground that a
/ school teacher could not be on a claim
enough to be bona fide homesteader.
/ The department holds that actual pres.
ence is not so necessary in such cases
rs evidence of intention and following
The spirit of the law.