Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-24
State News in Brief.


cisco. has been appointed assistant post
master at Waterfowl.
While unloading potatoes John Dagon,
a well-known farmer at Eagle Point, fell
from the wagon and was killed.
The Supreme Court in Madison decided
that fine cut tobacco in a leaf wrapper
is not a cigarette and that the sale of
such product is not a violation of the
anti-cigarette law.
Prof. e. G. Smith of Beloit college and
his daughter, Rebeccah, were both victims
of ptomaine poison as the result of eat
ing sandwiches. Both will recover with
out serious result.
-Four strangers attempted to rob Steve
Quale, landlord of the Commercial hotel
in Hudson. Quale was struck, but not
seriously injured He knocked one down.
Help arrived and the four were jailed.
The property of the Randolph Canning
Factory Company has been sold to Mr..
Deming of Chicago, formerly editor and
owner of The Gamer, the national publ
cation of the Gamers. The price paid
was $26,500.
At the session of the Evangelical gen.
eral conference in Milwaukee the Cana
dian delegation offered a resolution that
the name of the conference be changed to
Evangelical Episcopal church. 1t was re
ferred to the committee on revision.
Burr Brakeman, the 12-year-old son of
Harry Brakeman, was accidentally shot
while hunting in a cornfield near Della
van, dying shortly afterwards. The trig-
ger of the shotgun the boy was carrying
caught on a cornstalk and the charge blew
off the boys lower jaw.
A military company is about to be
formed in Shawano to become part of
the National Guard w. +. Strehlow,
late of Company A, Fourth United States
is the leading spirit in the move.
velt's Rough Riders, is assisting.
Jacob Gerbovitz, the Kenosha man who
was sent to the State asylum at Winnie
bago, has been paroled and returned to
Kenosha. Before he was sent to the asy-
lum Gerbovitz attempted to kill his wife
and then fired a bullet into his own
throat. At the trial the jury held that
he was insane. The man now seems to
be in perfect health.
The Woman Christian Temperance
Union home for women, located in Eau.
Claire, is having a fight for life. The
directors of the home who are Eau Claire
women and prominent in the State union,
express great surprise at the methods of
the board of health. They state that they
are prepared to meet and disprove any
and all charges rejecting on the home.
Earl Hopkins, a high diver, met terri
BILE injuries in Kenosha when diving from
a platform 80 feet high into d tank 3 feet
square. Hopkins threw out his arm to
save himself and the arm was broken in
two places. He was taken to the hos
pital unconscious and it is feared that he
has sustained fatal internal injuries. Two
people witnessed the accident
Orville Rath, the 12-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Otto j. Rath, lost both legs
just below the knee by crawling beneath
4 Wisconsin Central freight tsain in Osh
kosh. The boy with a companion was 60
ing from the Park school to his home and
attempted TO crawl beneath a train stand
ng at the crossing. His companion got
through safely, but Rath was caught
when the train started.
Everett Brown, aged 81, a well-known
resident of Sussex, was drowned in Lake
Zeesus. The body was recovered. Brown
nd his brothers-in-law, William Palm
md Walter Hardiman, were in a rowboat,
1ot far from shore, when he was suddenly
seized with an epileptic fit and fell into
he lake. His companions We're unable to
'escue him. He is survived by his wife,
mother. two brothers and two sisters.
Rushing from the kitchen with her
clothing ablaze, Miss Inez Harlacher fell
at the feet of other members
If the family in Waukesha. Before the
lanes could be extinguished she was ter
IDLY burned and is dying. 1t is believed
hat the unfortunate woman spilled kero-
ene on her dress and that the garment in
,ome manner caught fire. She was 80
7ears of age and is a daughter of George |
i. Harlacher.
An important deal in real estate was
losed in Washburn when B. Ungrodt, a |
hardware dealer, purchased seventy-fve |
eet of business property on Bayfield, |
,egin the erection of large brick store. /
Hugh H. Byrne chief of police of La
crosse for the last seventeen years and |
me OF the best known officers in the coun
ry, died at st. Francis hospital in that /
ity after an operation for gall stones,
iged % years. Chief Byrne has taken .
,art in the capture of some Of the most
Ioted criminals in the Northwest during
is long term.
A hunting accident resulted in Nels
Nelson, a 15-year-old boy, being manned
t Kenosha. The boy had been hunting /
rhen John Kettehut pulled the trigger
f a ten-gauge shotgun in a fall and the
barge entered the Nelson boys right
and. The hand was terribly mangled.
Robert Clark has sold the Otter Creek
ill property and twenty-five acres to the
northwestern Lumber Company. The con-
Iteration was about $4,000. The sale
leans that the Northwestern company
ill eventually place a new dam on the
.au Claire river, converting the large
over available for general manufacture
lg purposes.
Henry Roe of Milwaukee, a conductor
n the Wisconsin Central railroad, held
n the charge of manslaughter, was found
OF guilty, the jury returning verdict
fter being out many hours, Roe was
larged with being asleep on his engine
hich. without a guiding hand, plunged
ito another train near Lake Beulah last
Iarch. David Jordan Chicago. a brake
ian. was killed in the wreck. The testi-
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me he was supposed to be asleep, was
nconscious.
An order issued from the adjutant gen.
ais Office has increased the minimum
ilisted strength OF Battery A from for
six to 1913 men.