Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-30
ALL OVER THE STATE.


of school age in Appleton.
Local business men decided to hold
street fair in Eau Claire.
Fire burned the Commercial hotel in
Fardeeville. The loss is $4,000. covered
by insurance.
Ashland county's first court house is
being RACED, being so dilapidated that it
became a menace
The Ashland division shops of the
Northwestern road are now running on a
nine-hour schedule.
Eau Claire grocers and butchers selling
merchandise at Altoona, will have TO take
out peddler's license which costs 81 a
day.
Robert Roberts, farmer of Nount
Pleasant, was killed on the Milwaukee
road one and a quarter miles south of
Corliss.
Mrs. Rebecca Vandemark and Thomas
Rothwell, who We're killed by a tornado
at Clinton, Mimi, were former residents
of Baraboo
At Neenah, frightened by a passing
auto. a horse of William Felton's ran
away. The owner was dragged for near
~ half a mile.
Two engines on the Milwaukee road
met in head-end collision on a siding
near Walworth, and both were smashed
No one was injured.
Capt. Nathaniel f. Edwards. aged II
years, civil engineer and well known
throughout Wisconsin, died at Appleton,
from general debility.
Between 5000 and 1000 fancy, COM
mon and homing pigeons persisted in a fire
that destroyed the two dove cotes of
George W. Hake at Jefferson.
Four negroes and two whites who had
opened fortune telling emporium at Eau
Claire have been forced to retire be-
cause the license is $50 day
William Kuehmichel, aged % years.
was killed by Wisconsin Central train
about mile north of Marshield. Both
legs were severed from his body.
Shortly after reading the funeral SER
vice over John Vieaux, a comrade of the
e. A. r., w. l. Stowe himself died from
paralytic stroke at West Depere.
Pickpockets operated in the crowds at
tending the skat tournament at Manito-
woo, and three robberies, the loss in
which totalled $3.50, have been reported
By going to Chicago for coal for use of
the fire department, Oshkosh will save
$40, as the bid of the outside firm was
10 cents a ton lower than that of the
home dealers.
The City Belle, a river steamer, sank
at its mornings at GAINESVILLE just as it
was being made ready to accommodate a
large picnic party up the river. No one
was injured.
John krobushick of Sheboygan, aged
80 years, is believed to have been MUIR
dered. When he left home he had $50
on his person. Since that time he has
not been seen.
According to State statistics, the village
of Little Chute leads in the percentage
of birth recorded. With a population of
scarcely 1000, fifty-six new arrivals were
registered during the year.
At Manawa, Walter Christensen, aged
D years, while playing near the barns of
his fathers farm, slipped from a milk
wagon, about two feet and broke his hip
bone. The child may be lame for life.
Harry Morris, II years old, of Stur-
geon Bay, was drowned while swimming
in Honey lake, two miles north of Bar
rington, I'll. The body was recovered and
shipped to the home of the boys parents
Deer are becoming numerous on Cham
bers island, the game preserve of Fred 4.
bennett of Sheboygan. The herds are
protected against hunters, but it is pos
sible that some must be taken off soon
TO prevent overcrowding.
Joseph Lui of Racine lost a vest con-
tanning gold watch and a $50 gold piece
while boating. The vest with the watch
and money was found at the Horlick dam,
four miles from the spot where it sank
to the bottom of the river
John O'Leary, aged about 10, believed
to be a Fond du Lac man, was killed
by blow on the head from a piece of
timber while engaged in moving a house
in Manitowoc. His skull was crushed
and death resulted almost instantly
The committee appointed by the Dunn
County American Society of Equity to
investigate the feasibility of a slaughter
house and cold storage plant at Menomo-
ME has reported favorably and canvass
for stock subscriptions will be made at
once.
Antonio Giacomazzi, aged % years, one
of the men injured in the collapse of a
-four vault, died at the Kenosha hospital
inc ,r1ae
A. Dickhaut who was injured at the same
time, is in a critical condition, but the
physicians express hopes of his recovery
Minasinosesith. an Indian woman, a
member of the Chippewa tribe of Indians,
died at the home of her daughter on the
Red Cliffe Indian reservation just above
Washburn. 1t is said that the woman
was over 100 years old. She was the
daughter of Big Eagle and was born in
northern Minnesota.
A contest over the issuance of $1,000
bonds to build a four-room graded school
building has stirred to strife the citizens
of Raddison. The bond issue has been
voted on favorably twice, but so deter
mined is the opposition that the bonds
have not as yet been foated Recently
some of the warning factions met on the
street and free-for-all fight was the out
come, in which rotten eggs and vegetables
played a considerable part.
War Department officials, after delay
of four months, have approved a proposed
change in the dock lines of the river at
and the city will now pro-
coed with docking which it is estimated |
will cost $4,000. Last year $4,000 was |
expended in dredging to secure the loca- |
ton of a S25O,0O0 coal dock, erected by
the Central Coal and Dock Company, now
under lease to the G. Reiss Coal Com
pany.
Charles Mayher, while digging out an |
oil well at Manawa, made an effort TO |
climb out His weight caused the walls
Of the we'll to cave in and pin Mayher |
,p6a- the Garth with only his baad anJ |