Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-19
WITHIN OUR BORDERS.


mothers home in Oshkosh.
Harry Odeburns. working in Schroe-
der lumber camp near Saxon, took car
bolic acid, dying in agony.
At mass meeting an organization was
effected and stock subscribed to erect a
farmers elevator at Brandon.
In the presence of several hundred peo-
pie the new Scandinavian Baptist church,
built at a cost of $4,000, was dedicated
in Racine.
The barns and ice house belonging to
Fl. A. Freitag of Monticello We're con-
sumed by fire, together with a team of
horses and one COW.
BY the overturning of a canoe in the
Rock river at Beloit Miss Bessie Girls
void. 20 years old, was drowned. Her
brother Ben, IS years old, may die.
The Daniel Shaw Lumber Company
has transferred 6,456 acres of land to
Adam Bran of Madison for S56,213. The
land is in Chippewa and Taylor counties.
The chair of rhetoric has been estab-
lished at Lawrence university and Prof.
0. z. Fairfield of Alfred college, Alfred
Center, \. Y. has been elected to fill the
place.
John Kostalek of Milwaukee, instructor
consin faculty, was painfully injured in
an elevator accident in the chemistry
building. IL
John Ruth. for twenty years cashier
of the bank of Arcadia, is charged with
a $4,000 shortage. which the directors
have made good through assessment. 1t
is said Ruth admitted to the directors
that he took $1,000
Lawrence Grotenhuis. %, was suffo-
Gated in Oostburg by fumes from coke
furnace in the warehouse of the COST
burg Canning Company. Although alive
when found, he was unconscious and
died while being carried home.
The farm home of John Donthitt. near
Westboro. was destroyed by fire while
the mother was outside. The stove ex-
ploded, and her three small children, 4
years old, years old and baby. were
burned to DEATH The father was away,
too.
Station Agent Copeland at Jefferson
Junction has discovered there is large
timber wolf encamped under the depot
Although there have been plenty of OPP
portunities to shoot it, the inhabitants
have refrained in the hope they might
catch it alive.
During the thirty days beginning Feb.
6 and ending March 6. the Secretary of
State received claims for bounty on 232
wolves and $50 w11d cats and lynxes
The taxpayers paid S6,074 during the
thirty days in an effort to rid the State
of destructive wild animals.
The first agricultural extension course
given at the Winnebago county agricul-
tural school in Finneconne by the Uni
versity of Wisconsin proved so success
full that it has already resulted in sec
Ond course, to be given at the Marinette
county agricultural school in Marinette,
March 1920.
Refusing TO eat, unable to sleep and
in a condition bordering ON nervous pros
tration. Charles Hayes, under arrest for
the killing of his nephew. William Kuch-
imberg. at Maple Grove. is fast becoming
shadow of his former self He has
lost more than twenty-five pounds.
After fleeing to China in an effort to
escape prison sentence, Horace G. Nc
Kinley of La Crosse brought back under
an extradition treaty with China, gets
off with the small sentence of two years
in the county Jail at Portland. Ore, and
a fine of $500 for completely in the
Oregon land frauds.
Andrew Gloushak is not guilty of the
murder of Gabriel Fongel. So declared
a jury in the Superior Court in Superior
after celebrating less than an hour Self
defense was the plea.
Art Magnan. machine operator at the
Nickel theater in Racine. was severely
burned as a result of a blaze following
an explosion of picture machine. Mag
nan was operating the machine when a
spark from the electric light ignited the
films. an explosion followed and the front
part of the building was quickly envel-
oped by fire. Sixty persons in the thea
ter made a rush for safety No one was
hurt.
Plans are being made by the steel trust
for the construction of houses in Spirit
Like anu village VIII DE sIarten lHefe
as soon as the weather conditions are
favorable. The houses win be of con-
crete blocks Concrete will not only be
used for dwellings. but will be made use
of in many of the large buildings.
Death of husband. wife and daughter
is the fate that has bafalIen the family
of Dyer Austin of CHI 1ewa Falls since
Feb 90 Mrs Austin flied Feb. a and
her daughter. Mrs. William Greasy. pass
ed away Feb. %. Mr.. Austin died more
recently. Another Daughter, Sadie Aus
tin, is on her death Jed. All the deaths
were due to grip.