Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-29

were eating dinner at the time. fed for
their lives. The four East Marinette boys
chung together. barely escaping the flames.
which several times caught them and st
one time leaped to the tops of trees ahead
of them. The crew ran in different direc-
tons to. escape the fire. and it IS not
known whether any of them persisted or
not. Some of them probably went to
Wausaukee. The camps were destroyed.
State News in Brief.
The Chippewa Valley Electric Rail
road, Light and Power Company has
mortgaged its property for 100000 to
a Chicago bank.
William Canonburgh. a farmer who
lived near Kenosha, was burned to death
in the flames of his barn when the hay
stored in it was fired by a stroke of light
ming. His wife tried to rescue him and
was severely burned.
A man who is supposed to be SiIo.n
Darby was picked up in a dying condi-
ton in GAINESVILLE. 1t * thought that he
was set upon by thugs, who robbed him
and then threw him into the alley to die.
The man is believed to be resident of
Reloit.
Arthur Connell, aged u years, and
John Cornell, 4 years cid, were stricken
with appendicitis and were operated on
at the Beloit hospital by their father, DR..
D. 2. Cornell. Both are recovering. This
makes the fourth appendicitis case in the
physicians family.
In an explosion at the Coming mill of
the Latin & Rand Powder Company al
Pleasant Prairie, Norman Phillips OF
West Virginia, 50 years old, was killed
and Walter Harren and John Nolan were
fatally burned. The cause of the eXplo
sion is not known. The damage to the
buildings is slight.
H. H. Bartells, a civil engineer Of
Crivitz, was arrested on the charge OF
forgery, committed at Springfield, Mo
Bartells was taken into custody at Cri
vitZ. The Bankers Association of Mis-
souri, is behind the prosecution. Friends
expressed the opinion that Bartells is
mentally irresponsible.
From Wyandotte comes the report that
the towns record of freaks has again
been broken. Lee Du Mond, aged 3, has
parted company with live lizard two
inches long. The child was taken with
vomiting fit, and when given medicine the
lizard was brought forth. 1t died from
the heat, and the boy now eats as he
never did before.
Lightning struck the Ellsworth high
school building during storm. The bolt
tore off large section of brick wall. de.
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die lights in that section of town. 1t
also blew the fire whistle, which is auto.
matically worked by the electric alarm
system, and had the whole town out in
the downpour of rain.
At 10 O'Clock Tuesday, in the presence
of 200 people, the first stone of the new
$6,0O000O capitol building was laid in
Madison. There was no ceremony. The
boulder, which weighed about ton, was
hoisted into place on the northwestern
corner of the foundation by derricks, OPP
Grated by four men. A second stone was
laid just before noon.
Rose Gallatin, the 14-year-old daugh-
ter of John Gallatin of Menominee, was
attacked and nearly killed near that city
lie OJueE ulSul. lNue was SlIuCk uOWll,
several teeth knocked out, and was finally
left in an unconscious condition in a gain
field near the highway. Her assailant
used bicycle in escaping at the approach
of teams. Three suspects have been ar
rested.
While attempting to initiate the hang
ing of a criminal about whom he had
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of Louis Justman of Unity, lost his life.
The little fellow was playing about the
barn while his father was hauling in
grain. When the men returned from the
field they found the boy hanging from
one of the barn posts by a short piece of
rope attached to a staple.
After living in poor circumstances near
ly all of his lie, Tom Hendrickson, a
farmer living near Sioux River in the
town of Washburn, thinks that riches are
now in sight and claims to have diScov-
cred an iron mine on his place. Mr..
Hendrickson is so enthusiastic over the
discovery that he refuses almost any price
for the land, although land adjoining his
is being sold at So an acre.
The largest log cut in many years in
northern Wisconsin was split into four
sections by dynamite and sawed into
boards of large and rare size at the
Chippewa Falls mills The timber was
6 feet in diameter and IA feet long. 1t
was cut two years ago and was since
on exhibition. Thousands of people have
seen it and gone away in wonderment at
the size of the famous Chippewa log"
Attorney General Frank L. Gilbert has
rendered an interesting opinion relative
to the raising of license fees under the
local option bill. District Attorney Hust-
ing of Fond du Lac county has asked the
Attorney General whether the village OF
Eden, which now charges its saloons $3.50
for license, can be permitted by vote
under the law to decrease this license to
5000. The Attorney General holds that
under the law a license fee could be in
creased until it reaches the maximum, but
never decreased unless a no-license period
interveneS.
Frederick Cranefeld, secretary of 5he
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society,
after a trip of inspection of the crop
situation. said the farmers of Dane coun-
JUlS SIate, alone Will lose
because the climate conditions of this
year have been against the tobacco crop.
Monday" the 19-year-old negro boy
who was picked up in South Carolina as
mascot by members of the Second Wis
consin infantry during the Spanish-Amer-
lean war, was arrested in Fond du Lac
on the charge of attacking the mother OF
his benefactor, Capt. E. Seeve of Com
pany E.
Theodore Kronshage, Jr., of Milwaukee,
was appointed normal school regent by
Gov Davidson to succeed John Roemer,
resigned. The appointment takes effect
at once and continued until 1913.
Rice at weddings has been placed under
the ban of st. Mary's Roman Catholic
church of Racine. Bridal couples hence
forth will not be annoyed by the custom
until they get out of sight Of the edifice.
While Henry Highland, a Beloit sa-
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