Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-08
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

! cincinnati CONSTRUCTOR COMPANY was
granted an interurban franchise.
On pleading guilty, Leroy c. Russell,
a pickpocket, was sentenced in La Crosse
to two years in the State prison.
The twenty-sixth annual fair of the
Shawano county society was one of the
largest attended fairs held for years
Charlie. the 9-year-old son of ]. Hum
Der, while playing near the Chippewa
river near Tony. accidentally drowned.
Members of the Kenosha EIks will give
every child in Kenosha VIII has never rid
den in an automobile trip to Racine and
return.
An analysis Of the water from the Ke-
nosha artesian well shows that it contains
but fifteen bacteria to the cubic cent?
meter
Mystery surrounds the disappearance
of Jarl Naset, a 15-year-old boy of the
town of Bloomer. Jarl left his home
Sept Z.
About $50 acres have again been plant
ed to popcorn this year by the Wilson's,
on their farm some miles distant from
Burlington.
While out hunting with a party of
friends A. A. Eastman of Oconomowoc
was accidentally shot and as a result will
lose his right eye.
The Stevens point branch of the hui
name society has been reorganized with
Mrs. {. 3. Baker president and S. G.
Stoddart as agent.
4 fire started in the huckleberry marsh
near Eden by sparks from a Northwestern
engine and was soon famed by the winds
into roaring flames.
Superior coal docks have received about
100000 tons less of coal so far this
season than was the case last year dur
ing the same period.
While working in a sugar beet field on
his farm near Turtle Lake, Jacob Kasper
became i'll and a few minutes later fell
dead from heart disease.
Because of the alleged elopcment of
his wife with a stranger, Jens johnson,
a farmer living four miles from Sparta,
swallowed poison and died.
Fire Warden Charles Munger has caus-
ed the arrest of a. A. Grandy of Wau-
saukee for setting fires on farm lands,
which he had contracted to clear.
Miss Edwina Hurlbut, daughter of the
late Edwin Hurlbut, of Oconomowoc has
accepted the position of teacher of elocu-
ton in the New Orleans, La, high school.
Jesse Kirk Of Oshkosh. who was sand
bagged three weeks ago. while in Mime
apolis has been brought home suffering
from partial paralysis of the face, AMI
neck.
The Newton district school near Mari
nette was destroyed by fire, believed to
have been of an incendiary character. The
loss on the building was 500, with $4OO
insurance.
Lewis Bliss, a workman at the Beloit
gas plant, met with a peculiar accident
when the handle of a shovel was forced
into his side, making an ugly wound near
the heart.
Representing himself an agent of a
Chicago firm, a stranger has been defraud-
ing a large number of Beloit people by
taking orders for household goods on pay
ment of 81 down.
Harry Holbrook of the Holbrook
Amusement Company, which attempted to
hold a chautauqua in GAINESVILLE last sum-
mer, has written promising to pay all his
debts in the near future.
The ManitOwoc council voted to accept
the voting machine which has been on
trial, and if it proves satisfactory at the
November election the whole city will be
fitted with the machines.
Descendants of J. NJ. Alden, who came
to GAINESVILLE sixty-two years ago, held a
reunion. Three of the five children who
took part in the celebration arrived there
with their pioneer father.
Application for the pardon of Albert
Ullman of GAINESVILLE, who was given a
ten-year sentence on conviction of having
shot his daughter with intent to kill, will
be made to the Governor.
The claims of Rose Kingston of Mil
waukee for loss on household goods own
ed by her and destroyed with the Ke-
nosha resort known as the Four Corners,
have been settled for $500.
The United States Steel Corporation is
dushing the work on its belt line railroad
running from its land on the west side
of St. Louis river around south of Supe-
rior to the Superior harbor at the east
erly end of Allouez bay.
The Superior normal school wants a
$4,000 dormitory for the girls. Regent
Crownhart has preached the matter to
the board and it is likely that the Legis-
lature will be asked to authorize the ex
penditure of that sum in this manner.
The remains of Francis Rogers an in.
mate of the St. Croix county asylum
were found in the Willow river near New
Richmond. Rogers escaped from the in
stitution Sept. IS He was 81 years old
and was committed from Hammond Wis.
Charles II. Jacquinet of Eau Claire has
been given a bronze medal by the federal
government in recognition of his having
remained in military service beyond the
term of his enlistment while in the Phil
ippines in 1898 with the Eighth army
corps.
In a collision between a runaway horse
and wagon and an electric car on High
street, Racine, Frank Farley, aged 70
years, and Hans Jacobsen. aged % years,
both faJ.ners, were thrown to the street
and badly hurt. Farley has a fractured
skull and Jacobsen sustained conclusion
of the brain.
Only a little more than half of a full
potato crop will be harvested this year in
Wisconsin, according to information re-
ceived by John NJ. True secretary of the
State board of agriculture.
Jacob Dietrich, secretary of Ozaukee
County Fair Association, while on his
way from the grounds was thrown out of
an auto, sustaining injuries about his
head. rendering him unconscious.
What is believed to have been an at
tempt to fire the cheese factory of J. \.
Strait at Woodruff was frustrated by
the early discovery of his brother. who
put out the incipient blaze with a few
buckets of water.
Harry E. Atkinson of the Daily Lead
er died in Eau Claire after long illness
He is survived by his wife, infant son.
two sisters and three brothers. Also his