Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-26
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

cense fee of SO.
Carl Goodman, a former resident of
Waukesha; has disappeared from Racine.
and it is feared is drowned.
By gnawing a cable squirrels put TWEEN
ty-six telephones of the Rock County
Telephone Company out of commission.
Henry Brinker, postmaster of Nesno-
tab for the last ten years, and one of the
best known men in the vicinity, is dead.
Two children of Thomas Flanagan of
Beloit. bitten recently by a mad dog, were
sent to the Pasteur institute at Chicago
for treatment.
A. w. Bryant of Appleton. formerly
director OF the Wood county telephone
system, became violently insane while on
his return from Quebec.
After an existence of fifty years under
one postmaster, George II. Chamberlain,
the Rock Falls postoffice has been aban-
doned by the government.
Frank Grass has established a station
in Crivitz for the purchase of pine cones,
to be shipped to Germany, where the de-
mand for seed is enormous.
Harry Kyle was killed near the Mil
ler's dam. He was one of a party of
hunters with Henry Liberty, mill owner
from the town of Holway.
Bernard Fetzer of Branch may lose
one eye as result of an accident, a
splinter striking the eye where he was
splitting wood at his home.
John DAVIS, a pioneer resident of Pitts
vile. died as a result of being shot
while hunting deer He was 81 years
old and leaves wife and two children.
Robert Ladwig was awarded $4,000
damages against the Jefferson Ice Com
pany for injuries sustained while labor
ing for the company in kenosha county.
d. L. Naumann of Wausau has been
permanently appointed head fire warden
in the department of the State forestry
commission under Supt. E. NJ. Griffith.
In Oconomowoc fire destroyed cottage
owned by William n. Pelouse and occu-
pied by John Bollein and family. 1t
was built in 1885, then being used as a
tavern.
George Scatter, a Racine carpenter, had
five ribs fractured, his head cut omen and
sustained internal injuries, by scat
foldings falling upon which he was
standing.
Rev. Alfred Johansson, for three years
missionary of the Swedish Lutheran
church in India and Japan, will be in
stalled as pastor of the Swedish Luther
an church in Kenosha.
Harry e. Fitch of Nekoosa. defeated
candidate for district attorney, will con-
test the election of r. e. Andrews of
Marshfeld, Republican candidate, who
won the election by % majority.
The 1J-year-old son of Mrs. John
Steiner, living ten miles northwest of
Medford, while hunting deer carelessly
dropped his gun. 1t was discharged and
he received the contents in his side and
shoulder.
Oscar Sprague of Mcmillan, aged %
years, was shot in the hip while deer
hunting. He was descending Bruce
Mound and was handing a gun down to
companion with the muzzle toward him
when the hammer struck a rock
A movement for the erection of a mod
ern eight-story hotel building for which
Madison has been craving for years has
been started by two Chicago business
men, E. A. Wickline and r. V. Graves,
at a contemplated cost of $250,OOO
Wisconsin's State fair may be held a
week later than usual next year on the
second instead of the first week in Sep
tombar Tho mo flow will not bo 1o+or,,;,od
finally until the annual meeting of the as
ISOLATION of fairs and expositions in Chi
cago next month.
Barron county will build its own coun-
ty asylum. An appropriation of $4,000
to be secured by an issue of bonds. has
been made by the county board, which,
by a vote Of 2S to IS, decided on the cree
ton of a building for the treatment of
insane patients of this county.
Former State Senator A. NJ. Stondall
has offered to give the city of Madison
a beautiful strip of lake shore land in
the Sixth ward for park purposes if the
city will agree to name it for him and
comply with other minor conditions The
value of the proposed gift is $4,000.
Returning from a hunt, Michael Scov-
ronski of Menasha was accused by his
Jacob Schalock and Valen-
tine Gat2a, with being a poor hunter
He flew inso rage and had proceeded
less than 100 feet when the gun in his
hands was discharged and Schalock and
Gatza fell seriously injured. Scovronski
maintains that the shooting was purely
accidental.
The dis5srment proceedings against At
torney Frank B. Lamoreux of Ashland
ended in his acquittal There were thir-
teen charges of unprofessional conduct
against hira. covering a range of sixteen
years practice at Stevens Point and Ash
land. District Attorney Foley of Supe-
rior prosecuted the case and Mr.. La
moreux was defended by L. X. Luse of
Superior and Senator Sanborn.
George ATcHaffie, while in the woods
near Keystone, was fired upon four times
by unknown hunters. who undoubtedly
mstook him for a deer. When two shots
had been fired upon him he threw him
self upon the ground. but when he arose
two more shots were fred. one passing
through his cap. McHaffie then decided
to remain three hours stretched upon the
ground. until dark. when he made his way
home. c. T. Bronson also reports being
fred upon by hunters near Riverview.
While out hunting Herman Moth of
was shot through the right
shoulder by the accidental discharge of
his rife The ball, which was of large
caliber. entered the feshy part of the
shoulder and came out just alongside of
the shoulder blade. No bones were
broken.
At lola. Thomas Hess. the 9-year-old
son of Charles Hess. was shot through
the heart by his 13-year-old brother, Mil
ton Hess. who had been shooting at tar
gets When the gun failed TO go off. he
struck it with a fatal result. The family
reside in the town of Harrison, eight
miles from lola.
The low water in the Wisconsin river
and its tributaries is causing many
ground wood mills 10 shut down for lack
Of power The big turbines in the grind
er room of the Rhinelander Paper Com