Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-03
BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS.

Eau Claire.
The assessed valuation Of real and per-
sonal property in Baraboo has been fixed
at $3.S47,5T2.
Work on the new $4,000 hospital do
mated by c. B. Clark to the city of Nee
nah has been commenced.
Mrs. Joseph Duff was found dead in
bed in Lone Rock by her little daughter.
She had been dead several hours
An addition to the present chapel of
First Congregational church in Beloit,
costing $4,000, is to be made at once.
Theodore Young, aged IS, a prominent
farmer of the town of Burnett, is dead.
He is survived by a wife and five children.
Oliver Smith, aged 50, of New London,
a veteran of the Civil War. has made
thirteen violins by hand during the past
year.
The Bank of Sheboygan has purchased
property to the south of its present loca-
ton on which it intends to erect large
building.
The Farmers Store Company's ware
house at Bloomer was destroyed by fire.
The loss is about $4,000, with insurance
of only $4,000.
The 2-year-old daughter of Barry Bow
ems was instantly killed near McCarty's
crossing, Kaukauna, by Green Bay COM
pany interurban car.
The farmhouse of James Stewart, To-
Gated in the town of Yorkville, was de
stroye1 by fire, involving a loss of $1,000
partly covered by insurance.
Rev. S. w. Pollard has resigned as
pastor of Plymouth church in Elroy to
accept a position with the Children's
Home Society at Eau Claire.
Frank Allis of Chicago was killed
while trying to board a Wisconsin Cen
trail train at White River. A card in his
pocket gave his mothers address.
Ernie Miller caught the record Oswego
bass in Krbes lake. 1t measured %
inches in aength and II inches in cir
! conference and weighed ~ pounds.
Peter Gallagher, brother of Joseph
Gallagher, secretary of the Racine board
of education, supposed to have been lost
in Alaska in 1904, has been heard from.
William Busselmann of Eau Claire is
suggesting placing machinery on the as
| sessment rolls only when not in actual
use, but making it exempt when running.
Mate Kramer and Dust Slettin, woods
men, are in Jail in Superior on suspicion
| of having been connected with the muir
der OF man supposed to be Erick Young.
Louis Goss picked up a pearl valued at
$500 in the river near Hononegah park
at B@loit Other stones smaller in size
have also been found recently in the
waters.
Three hours after reporting for his first
days work as a labOrer in the Milwau-
kee read ga. is at La Crosse, John Kaiser,
aged G5 years, was run over and killed
! By train.
Mrs. Sam lei Thompson performed the
remarkable saat Of walking from a fast
moving Milwaukee road train at Corliss,
with child in her arms, both escaping
serious injun..
| That the Roosevelt theory of large
families hold4 in Washburn is evidenced
| by the fact that the school census for
| 1908 shows as increase of over fifty from
that of last year.
| Andrew lie ng, aged II, committed sui
eide by hanging in Appleton, because his
son, Joseph, t is said, would not permit
him to keep q dog to which he had become
greatly ATTACHED.
/ petition contemplating the division
of the town os' Amnicon into two towns to
be known re ;pectively as Amnicon and
Midland has been presented in the Cir
cult Court il Superior.
The postmaster of Bruce and August
Jimpson of tlat place have been threat
ened by per8 ms who ordered the post
master to gi,a up a sum of money at a
place designated by them.
BY the pre-, nature explosion of a charge
! of dynamite ut Brentwood Einard XVI
aged 20, was killed and Carl XVI, his
brother, aged IA. was badly injured They
Sssre blasting out stumcs.
Henry BoHau of Appleton was SEN
fenced to eight months in the county Jail
! for stealing !ilverware and m6hey from
the home of John Baum, where he had
hired out to 10 farm work.
Frank AlliG son of Mrs. Anna Allis of
Chicago, was cut in two by an ore train
which he was trying to board at White
River, and Led from his injuries four
hours afterwa;d He was about p years
! old
| When JohE Donovan ventured on the
premises of tirs. Susan McLaren in
Whitewater s.gainSt the express order of
the latter. aEe opened fire on him with
a six-shooter She was fined 81 and
costs.
The third annual camp meeting of the
Holy Jumpers, which recently closed in
| Waukesha, vas according to Mrs. Ger
trude Harvey, wife of Edwin l.. Harvey
the official head of the sect here, the most
successful held.
Miss Helen Kimball. daughter of Post
prevented f:L.ll results in a runaway by
cutting the rugs from the carriage in
which she With her guests were taking a
| pleasure riGa, when the horses became
frightened.
Rushing into the turbulent water of
Lake Michigan without removing her out
err garments. Mrs F. b. Greenwood OF
Shcboygan succeeded in saving the life
| of 12-year-old Minneline Froney, who had
| been caught by the undertow and was be
| ing carried out into the lake.
Sparks from the fire of the Gillett
village hall. which was burned to the
ground Saturday. ignited the hardware
store of c. Bocher and the barns of H
Sorenson and ]. Simpson. Sam Rush.
| fireman. was hit by the nozzle of Il hose
BY hard fighting the village was saved
| from destruction.
]. 4. Henry, a banker of Joliet, H..
died at the Pennoyer sanitarium in Ike
nosha. The deceased was prominently
| connected with the construction of rail
| ways in Illinois in early days.
The shipping department of the Lin
dermann-lIoverSon Company. stove manu-
facturers in Milwaukee. was destroyed by
fire. the loss being about $4,000. The
remainder OF the plant was saved.
Alleging that her son had knocked her
down. given her terrible beating. and
chased her from home. Mrs Margaret
Sherman. well-known town of Arson
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