Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-16
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.

of Cosmopolitan clubs.
Jefferson citizens have raised $3.50 by
subscription to maintain a public skat-
ing rink on Rock river.
Johnnie Fritz of Unity. who was shot
by the accidental discharge of a 22-cali-
Der rife, died in Marshield.
Mrs. Julia Boettscher aged 81 years,
living at Bluff Siding, on the Mississippi,
committed suicide by shooting.
The Racine Babcock Fire Extinguisher
Company. forced into bankruptcy some
months ago, has been sold to George Buck
for S2,700
Miss Anna La Blanche of Eau Claire
was terribly burned about the face and
arms while starting a fire in a furnace
with kerosene.
A gasoline interurban railway from
Oshkosh to Winneconne is a project for
1908 for which preliminary steps have
been taken by Oshkosh capitalists who
are interested.
r. NJ. Bashfocd, who was appointed by
Gov. Davidson to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Chief Justice Cassoday,
has filed his oath of Office with the Sec
rotary of State.
While switching in the Ann Arbor
yards in Marinette Roy Scott. so years
old, fell off the tender of a switch engine
and was run over and killed, the trucks
mutilating the body terribly.
George Rogers and Peter Busch. " no
escaped from the county Jail at Chiffon,
where they had been confined on a charge
of robbing a store at Hilton Junction last
October. were captured at Rankin Lake.
Lars Largeteit, 81 years of age, was
found frozen to death in an old shed be-
longing to the Heddles Lumber Company
in Stoughton. He had been drinking
heavily. He left no immediate relatives.
On his wife's 45th birthday, Joseph
Diehl, - years of age. member of the
Sheboygan furniture and undertaking firm
of Nickel & Diehl, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head with a re-
volyer.
\ passenger train on the Chicago. Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad struck a
wagon in which three men were riding
on Hopkins road. near Milwaukee, The
dead are Edward Swan and Carl Hack
barth
News that a man believed to have been
William S. Achterman, student for the
ministry in the Lutheran seminary in
Franklin, had committed suicide near
Lincoln Neb.. was received with great
surprise at the mission house. inasmuch
as Mr.. Achterman is still alive
The mystery surrounding the death OF
Mary III. Stolenwerk. the wealthy Paris
woman found dying at the home of her
brother, was buried in a grave at the
little German Catholic cemetery. The
coroner's jury rendered a verdict that
Miss Stollenwerk had died from the re-
suit of the fracture of the skull. The
further investigation of the case is in the
hands of District Attorney Baker There
is no indication of guilt on the part OF
the woman's brother, Michael.
Engineer Blanchett of La Crosse was
killed and Fireman Goyette of La Crosse
and a brakeman were seriously injured
in a wreck of a Burlington passenger
train with a Great Western train neal
East Dubuque.
David Lawton one of the oldest manu-
of paralysis Mr. Inwton was born in
England in 1880. and came to this coun-
ty in 1912. He was a farmer up to 1865
when he came to Racine and established
the Belle City Manufacturing Company
and also conducted large feed and agri-
cultural implement store.
John Camp, a hunter and trapper, liv-
ing near the village of Fence, was muir
dered Saturday night by a stranger who
became angry because Camp would not
keep him in his cabin over night Camp
was shot through the leg with buckshot
and died the next morning from loss of
blood.
In spite OF the efforts of her husband,
who was almost killed himself in his eff
forts to restrain her from committing the
act Mrs William MCGOWAN of New
Chester threw herself in front of the
passenger train between Stevens Point
and Portage. and was instantly killed the
engine passing over her head.
Rev. F. A Gilmore pastor of the Uni
tartan church in Madison. his two sons.
Robert and Albert, aged 10 and Il years,
and 15-year-old girl, had
a narrow escape from death in q headan
collision on Lake Mendoza. between Gil
more twelve-foot iceboat and a thirty |
footer run by two university students,
one 4 whom was Erdall of st. Paul |
Boz boats were going fast in heavy |
wind. The son, Robert. sustained a dou-
ne fracture Of the leg and all of the |
others were badly bruised.
Charles Nolle, an Omaha road fireman, |
has gone insane from the effects of a |
blow on the head received while skating, |
and has been committed to an asylum.