Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-23
State News in Brief.

StSIS NEWS III
Rev r. c. Denison of the First Con-
gregational church of GAINESVILLE may be
called to Omaha, Neb.
Sarah Rudolf of the town of Ellsworth
died from blood poisoning. Deceased was
prominent in county educational affairs.
John Globes of Trimbelle was thrown
from his carriage in a runaway and re-
ceived a broken shoulder and tN- broken
legs.
1t is reported that the station of the
Kewaunee. Green Bay and Western road
at CascO Junction was struck by light
ming and burned. The loss is $1,000.
Bad river has overlooked its banks and
is the highest in years. The village of
Odanah is flooded and one-third of the
inhabitants have been forced from their
homes.
Ira Stewart. who six years ago muir
dered his son-in-law. Fred Miller, at his
second trial in Chippewa Falls was al
lowed to plead guilty TO mansaughter in
the third degree.
Chief of Police John O'Keefe of Hud-
son became father of twin boys Saturday.
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month in appreciation of the addition to
the chiefs family.
4 movement started by the saloonkeep-
erS of the city is now being pushed by
the pastors of Beloit to prevent the COM
mon council from granting more saloon
licenses the coming year.
Because of spread of typhoid fever
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quest has been made that there be a
test of water used in the city, and which
is pumped in from the lake.
During an electrical storm lightning
struck the barn owned by Robert Nc
Geehan, in the town of Rockland, burn
ing it with all the machinery, twenty
six head of cattle and eight horses. The
loss is $1,000.
Henry Roe, an engineer of the Wiscon
sin Central railway charged with falling
asleep % duty and causing a fatal wreck
March - at Beulah station, was bound
over to the Circuit Court under $1,000
bail for manSaughter in the fourth de-
gree.
Fire in the plant of the Holbrook.
Al
ton. seriously damaged all of the main
buildings The loss is estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000, with an insurance of
$4,000, in twenty-seven different com
panies.
Veronica Wolewvynski, II years old,
swallowed poison which she carried in
tablet form when being taken to the rail
~, n..l,I h., IF oF 4l,o
House of the Good Shepherd of Mil
waukee for her return to that institution.
She died. Her employers in Oshkosh
notified the officers that she was incor-
rigible.
Edward Bohn of Weston has discov-
cred a new method of catching rats. He
had tried the usual trap method without
success and then discovered that the feed
barrel had an attraction for the rodents.
Arranged thus for a trap, he landed forty
rats in three nights. He figures that
the progress made thus far has saved
him $40.
Arthur Bishop, a well-known Eau
Claire man, was found unconscious in
the street in Chippewa Falls the other
morning at , o'clock. He was lying in
a pool of blood and his leg was broken.
When he was brought to consciousness
he said that he had fallen at 10 o'clock
the previous night and had been unable
to call assistance. He had soon after
tainted as the result of loss of blood.
A blaze among sparrows' nests in the
steeple of st. Mary's Roman Catholic
church of Marytown set fire to the
church, communicating to the parsonage
and two dwellings, a $4,000 loss, partly
covered by insurance, resulting. A Chin
ney on the parochial school house caught
fire and the sparks were carried into the
steepie of st. Mary's church adjoining,
where several sparrows had made their
nests.
A bolt of lightning and a weak heart
formed q combination of circumstances
which resulted in the death of Mrs. Bar
bara Schroeder at her home in Kau-
kauna. Mrs. Schneider was virtually
frightened to death.
Allen Brunn, 10 years old. son of
Charles Brunn, a farmer residing south
of Manitowoc, had his hair burned from
his head and his face and neck badly bis
tered in entering the burning stable to
czye the horses during a fire which de-
stroyed the barn, stables and granary on
his fathers premises. The fire loss is
$1,000.
Helen Ulrich. aged years. daughter of
a Neenah merchant, was accidentally shot
in the left side below the heart while
gathering wild flowers at Riverside park
1t is not known who fired the bullet.
Edward Cotton. aged So. for over TWEEN
ty years an engineer on the La Crosse
division of the Milwaukee road, is dead
as the result of a stroke of paralysis.
Mr.. Cotton served in the Civil War.
Fire caused a loss of $4,000 at Man
ava. The postoffice, general store of
Dick Berkey and Nye Brothers, shoe
shop of James Charney. barber shop of
Boet & Vaughn and three saloon buildings
were burned.
The new station of the Milwaukee road
at Wyocena on the La Crosse division,
was totally destroyed by fire, together
with the entire contents of the building.
The fire is supposed to have been caused
BY lightning during a storm which broke
over the little town of 1000 people short
" after / O'Clock, at a time when the
station was closed. The station was erect
ed less than a year ago. The loss will
probably be $1,000.
Levi Kettleson, a wealthy farmer, was
found dead at a pump near his summer
home on Lake Kegonsa. There is mys-
terry in connection with the death and
the police are investigating on the theory
that a crime for robbery was committed.