Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-03-21
State News in Brief.

John Robinson. resident of Manito-
woe since 1850, is dead, aged 81. Mr..
Robinson was known TIL oughOut the
county as Uncle John"
Mayor J. C. Schubert of Madison has
announced that he will not enforce the
cugsaw law or permit children being TAX
en- to the police station. He says instead
of arresting the children, the parents
should be arrested for violation of the
curfew.
The Milwaukee Gas Light Company,
one of the properties of the McMillin
syndicate of Boston. has announced that
in future rates in Milwaukee will all be
on an S0-cent basis. Hitherto illuminat-
inc Gas has been sold at 81 and fuel gas
at so cents net.
Arthur Roth. a waif was run down by
an automobile truck in Milwaukee and IA
tally injured. The boy was deserted by
his mother and had been in the care of
his grandparents. He attempted to climb
into the freight truck when he slipped
and was crushed.
DR.. J. II. Veitch, former sheriff of Ke-
nosha county. has been arrested on a
cape of prisoner from the county Jail
during his term as sheriff. The prisoner
was John Birk. who was sent to Jail
for six months DR. Veitch waived ex-
animation and was held to the Circuit
Court He furnished bond.
DR.. W. T. Rhinehart, proprietor of
Rhinehart's hospital in Ashland, and one
of the best known surgeons in the North
west. was struck in the eye by frag-
ment from a bullet in the Elks' shooting
gallery. The bullet pierced the cornea
and lodged in the lens. Permanent loss
of sight of the eye is probable and fur
Their complications are feared.
The receipt of threatening letters by the
manager of the Waukesha Stone and
Quarry Company, Adolph +. Hourack,
and the subsequent burning of the plant,
is now capped by an unexpected climax
when Hourack himself confesSes that he
had written the threats and had burned
the buildings. Hourack's propensity for
writing letters in the name of the Black
Hand caused his arrest. After he had
burned the plant he became alarmed and
wrote two letters to the officers of the
company which were intended TO afford
him an excuse for resigning and fleeing
The Milwaukee hospital. formerly
known as the Passavant hospital, located
in Milwaukee. was threatened with de-
struction from a fire which started in the
operating room on the fourth floor of the
west wing of the structure. Damage to
the extent of $1,000 was done.
While VI. o. Spencer of the town of
Scott, Crawford county, was hauling
load of wood to Boscobel his team be-
came Interchangeable and his son. Orlo,
about - years of age, slipped off the load
and in an effort to stop the horses was
knocked beneath their feet and instantly
killed.
In plain view Of a neighbor Horace
Tibbitts. a resident of bingham for sixty
years. committed suicide by blowing out
his brains with a shotgun.
A stranger 40 years of age. believed to
be J. ". Rawson of River Falls, DELHI
erately stepped in front of train at the
GAINESVILLE depot and was instantly killed.
St. Joseph's church at the st. Francis
can Catholic convent near Manitowoc was
destroyed by fire. The convent was saved
by an improvised fire apparatus and the
sisters who formed bucket brigade Two
tramps who are suspected OF having caus-
ed the fire probably were cremated in the
blaze, as both were drunk.
Clinton Rabbit. former member of
Congress. died suddenly in Beloit. at the
age of 10 years. Mr.. Babbitt was born
in Westmoreland. y. H.. Nov. 16, 1881.
His father was Nathan g. Rabbit, asso-
ciate judge with Joel Parker, formerly OF
New Hampshire. When % years of age
Mr.. Babbitt came to Beloit.
Mrs. William Kelley, wife of a store
keeper on the Bad River reservation, re-
ceived a message ON a recent night an
nouncing the death of her daughter, Mag
gle Morrison, known throughout northern
Wisconsin for years as the "Odanah
Queen" at Duluth. The shock caused
her to faint and she remained unconscious
until she died.