Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-11-21
State News in BRIEF.

companion While on a hunting trip. he
will recover.
The Wisconsin Condensed Milk Com
pany of Burlington offers farmers S1.65
for November per cent milk, the high
est price ever paid in that section.
Emil Allen of the town of Auburn
has made a wager with c. S. Stilberg
that he can carry a live calf, weighing
90 pounds for distance of three miles
without resting.
o. E. Morgan, Shawano, has purchased
the timber holdings on the Red river of
II. c. Scott of Omro, comprising upwards
of 100000 feet. The terms of the
sale have not been made public.
Because he found hair on his plate at
breakfast, Frank Demass, a Sheboygan
real estate dealer and contractor, smash
ed the plate, broke up the dining room
furniture, and beat his wife. He was ar
rested and fined $14.
Milk dealers who raised the price 1
cent in Manitowoc will be forced to re-
turn to D cents quart. This results
from the refusal of FIVE or SIX of the
dealers to remain in the association and it
is said that the reduced price is already
in force with more than half of the deal
ers. The idea of incorporating the as
ISOLATION will be abandoned.
With an attendance which broke all
| past records, the ffty-fifth annual meeting
of the Wisconsin Teachers Association
opened at the Alhambra theater in Mil
| waukee. As State Superintendent Cary
said, the session showed the greatest edu-
| cational gathering ever held in the United
| States, excepting the National Educa-
| tional Association conventions.
Bitterly arraigning the church in which
| he had been a minister for fifteen years
| for its failure to teach what he consid-
cred the true gospel, Rev. Harvey Dee
| Brown, pastor of the First Baptist
church in Kenosha, has announced his
conversion to socialism and his retirement
| from the Baptist ministry. DR.. Brown
was graduated from the University of
Rochester fifteen years ago and later took
his doctors degree at Illinois Wesleyan.
| The State tax commission has aunounc-
| ed the assessment of the express, sleep
| ing car, freight line and equipment COM
| panies for the present year. The total
valuation of the property of these COM
panies in Wisconsin is placed at S1,174,-
| 646.94 this year, as against 81 ,o3S, 51S.54
last year, an increase of 1926, 12S.4O. The
| total taxes this year are S1S,OS3.31, as
against 17,51O.7O last year, al increase
of $57261. The rate this year is less
than last.
| 1t is believed that Amigo has arrived
at solution of the car-fipping problem
| The boys of that city were caught jump
ing trains by w. ]. Stewart, private de-
| tectiye of the Northwestern road and con-
victed, their parents paying fines of $40
and costs. The clipping" evil, according
to reports, has cost lives and limbs in
| Wisconsin for many years, and Amigos
method of dealing with the youthful Of
tenders is likely to be copied in other
| cities.
| William Kosley of Laona Junction shot
| his wife, who accompanied him on hunt
| ing trip into the woods. Mrs. Kosley was
| lying i'll in their hunting shack near Hiles
at the time of the accident. Mr.. :<osley
returning from a search for game, saw a
weasel He fred missed the weasel and
the shot pierced a crack of the shack
and struck Mrs. Kosley, inficting serious
wounds Physicians removed nearly all
the shot and it is thought the injured
woman will recover.
| Farmers of AIanitowoc county have
cancelled more than sixty mortgages
within two weeks, according to a report
of the register of deeds, and the aggregate
| &c tha 10, nj
of which was paid in gold, says the regis
ter. Within the year large number OF
| farmers have cleared their property. An
other report Of the registers Office shows
| a total of 1877 accidents in the county
between May IA and Oct. 1. The num-
Der of marriages for the same period was
| 173.
| Albert Bates was brought to Chippe-
wa Falls by Sheriff Smith, having been
arrested on a bigamy charge on a house
boat in the Mississippi river, near Cas-
vile, Iowa. His last wifes sister, Au-
| gusta Cameron, with whom he eloped
was also taken into custody. Bates de-
clares he is innocent. A woman in Chip
pewa Falls who says she is his wife
says she has proof that he committed
bigamy. Bates acknowledges having four
living wives, but denies having any more
and says three wives divorced him.
The logging season is now in full swing
in the forests of northern Wisconsin and
the upper peninsula of Michigan, and
| hundreds of lumberjacks have made their
way northward The activities of the
| various lumber companies, however, are
confined this year, and the depletion OF
| the forests during the past years marks
| the decline of the numbering industry,
| which has always been one of the promi-
nent industries of Wisconsin. The States
| large factories have eaten away at the
forests until now there is comparatively
| little left.
The will of John LeVant Stevens, the
original settler of Kenosha, filed for pro
| bate in the County Court, bequeaths
property valued at 100000. John LIE
Want Stevens, Jr., is named as the prin-
cipal beneficiary under the will. but the
property is placed in trust during the
| life of the son. At his death $1,000 is
to be paid to the Kenosha hospital and
| the remainder is to be divided between
! Miss Isabelle Stevens, an adopted daugE-
ter of John L. Stevens, Jr., Mrs. Belle
Leach, Mrs. Benjamin Hatch and her son
Benjamin Hatch.
With flames leaping up around the ton
neau of their automobile, Mr.. and Mrs
| Charles Yunker narrowly escaped burn
| ing to death before their car came TO a
stop. The accident happened five miles
west of Markesan on a lonely by-road
and the car was completely consumed.
Pleading guilty to charge of having at
tempted to murder his wife, Adolph Mo-
ritz, aged So, a compositor, was sentenc-
| ed to five years in Waupun by Judge
| Brace in Milwaukee. 1T was the
drink was Moritz's only statement. He
had served one year for abandonment be-
| fore.
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