Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-12-19
SHORT STATE ITEMS.

Twenty boy babies to two girls were
born in Whitewater the last six months.
Reinhold Bonack died at the age of p
years at his home, two miles west from
Mayville.
August Anderson, unmarried, section
hand, was instantly killed by a train at
Stockholm.
Joseph Beaver aged %, of Loyal, who
was fatally injured by a fall from a rail-
road car, is dead
William Winlock, colored, is accused
of the murder of Albert Neumann in SUI
pnrior. The evidence is circumstantial
The citizens of Appleton think they are
entitled to dollar gas For years the COM
pany has been charging S1.45 for illumin-
ating and S1.3O for fuel gas.
The shipment of deer from Glidden this
year is ia, against 145 last year. Gid
den is considered one of the largest deer
shipping stations in the State
Crawford Wheeler, Is years of age,
while bathing in an Eau Claire club nata-
forum, got beyond his depth. He was
under water for several minutes and near
ly drowned.
Two farmer boys, who were hunting,
found the body of Alex Linn, aged so,
who disappeared last September, frozen
in the ice in a marsh near Friendship.
The body had to be chopped out of the
ice, only the head being above the water.
A $500 fire destroyed the entire stock
OF groceries, wall paper, paints and holt
day goods of Charles Sommers in Reeds
burg. The building was owned by George
Hilbert and was damaged $1,000 to ST.
800. The losses are partly covered by
insurance.
Jerome Schiffman. aged IA, employed
by the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany as a messenger and son of J. A.
Schifman, proprietor of the Wisconsin
Central hotel drowned in the Fox river
while skating near tile second bridge,
two miles north of Waukesha.
Because Frank Follan's horse is alleg-
ed to have eaten the hair stufing and 9TH
er ingredients of the cush ms of S. J.
Stones buggy, damaging the vehicle to
the extent of $3.50, Stone is suing be-
fore jury in Beloit municipal court to
recover the amount from Fallon.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago Mrs. George
Hearle OF Fond du Lac lost a valuable
brooch which was stolen from her home
The other day she received it through the
mail, but refused to say who sent it to
her. 1t is believed that the person who
stole the jewel became conscience-stricken
at the approach of Christmas and repent
ed.
Appealing in the name of good order to
enraged citizens, who threatened lynching,
to let the law take its course, Mrs. John
Fryslie saved the life of Fritz Tedeson,
accused of attacking and seriously injur-
ing her daughter in Neillsville. The mob
needed her appeal. Tedeson was placed
il; Jail. The girl was rescued from her
assailant by a boy.
\ second attack upon a woman in
Beloit was made by foreigner, supposed
to be an Italian. Mrs. Fred Perkins was
on her way home when she was attacked
by a stranger. Her screams aroused a
resident, who came to the door and fired
a revolver in the air and the man fed.
Fire totally destroyed the planning mill
and electric light plant of Frogner Broth
ers & Sons at lola. The loss is partly
covered with insurance. The company
will sustain a loss of at least 5000. As
the company furnishes the business PLACES
with lights, the fire leaves the village N
darkness.
If the Racine board of education has
its way the curfew law viii again be
revived in the city and children will be
forced to HE for home at night before
the hour of o'clock.
President Beggs of the Milwaukee
Electric Railway and Light Conn any es-
Inmates the loss of the recent fire, which
destroyed the Farwell avenue barns and
contents. at $4,000.
Mrs Charlotte Z. White, daughter of
the late Gov. Ludington, filed suit in Mil
waukee against Mrs. Frances i. White,
her mother-in-law, for $4,000 on the
charge OF alternating the affections of her
husband.
Frederick Koellner, 10 years old, lies
unconscious at his home. and Fred Last
and Fred Olson. about the same age, are
seriously i'll. the result of drinking the
contents of bottle which they claim
an old man gave them ON the street in
Racine. The police are investigating. The
boys declare that an old man asked them
if they wanted a bottle of root beer: that
they took it and drank the contents. All
became unconscious and were in that con-
dition for hours.
Leonard Knoll, a boy 13 years old,
whose home is in Berlin, has been taken
home by his father. after having run
away to Oshkosh. He left home because
he was lonesome for an older brother.