Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-30
BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS.

Inc Elm GrOFe creamery at BaraD00
has been sold to L. C. Zacher of Milwau-
kee
While sitting at breakfast table, James
j. Winter of Cataract was stricken with
heart disease.
The contract for remodeling the La
Crosse public library has been awarded
to John A. Miller for $17,977.
Students of Beloit college won in a de-
bate at Beloit with a team representing
Knox college.
Charles knaack of York reports that a
cow on his farm has given birth to three
calves and that they are perfect in ev-
cry respect.
Burglars broke into the Fifield post
Office and stole $50 in stamps and money.
Later they broke into the depot, got a
dollar and escaped.
The Chicago and Northwestern refuses
to pay $500 for the loss of toe by a
Kenosha workman and has appealed to
the Supreme Court.
George Gillett, one of the oldest and
wealthiest retired farmers in Racine
county. while unloading cinders from a
fiat car, dropped dead.
John Blenker, merchant and lumber
man of Sherry, had his Tg crushed be-
tween two logs while working in his mill
yard. His condition is serious.
Because of domestic trouble lately, Err
nest Hantke, proprietor of a hotel at
Grafton, committed suicide by severing
his jugular vein with a penknife.
The new gasoline motor car which will
be put on by the Northwestern road to
run between GAINESVILLE and Beloit on
Monday, is now in the round house.
Two girls who reside about eight miles
south of Eleva nearly killed a horse be-
longing to an Eau Claire livery firm by
fast driving, and were placed under ar
rest.
The eighth annual summer school will
open in the normal buildings in White
water on June %. Prof. Pray of Mil
waukee will have charge of a depart
ment.
The Illegal voting case growing out of
the primary election in Superior on
March "a had to be dismissed on account
of the alleged spiriting away of wit
nesSeS.,
At the quarterly conference of the
American Society of Equity at Knapp it
was decided to establish central slaugh-
ter house and a cold storage plant at or
near Menomonie.
Nearly 800 Greeks have left Sheboygan
during the last few weeks and the city's
big colony is almost a thing of the past
Many of them have left for GAINESVILLE
to do railroad work.
That Joseph Hall, whose mutilated
body was found in homestead shanty
near Washburn, died by violent means is
the opinion of the coroner's jury, but no
blame is attached to any one.
Electricity has been installed at the
uuarries of the Standard Lime and Stone
Company at Quarry, and all blasts will
hereafter be set off by electric sparks.
Blasts will be planted forty feet down.
The skeletons plowed up by d. w. Poe
are pronounced by Prof. Collie of Beloit
college to be the remains of mound build
ers, probably 300 years old. Further
blowing revealed half a dozen more skeie-
tons.
Frightened at a merry widow hat,
horse belonging to f. G.. Kenyon ran
away in La Crosse and was stopped just
as it was about to plunge into the Mis-
sissippi. The carriage was demolished,
but the driver was unhurt.
Isaac Stephenson spent $1,000 in Sc
curing the election of twenty-five La Fol-
lette delegates from Wisconsin. The
United States Senator made the follow
ing entries on the expense blank: Paid
to city committee. 500. December 20,
to HI. Ekern 81 900. Total, 81 100" No
explanation of what city committee IS re-
ferred to is made.
The jury in the case of Anna Kelley
as Administrative against the Lake Su-
perior Terminal and Transfer Company
and the Great Northern Railroad Com
pany-a suit for the death of Mrs. kee-
ley's husband. killed by cars at Superior,
has returned a verdict for S6,615 for the
plaintiff.
The Croker Chair Company of Sheboy-
gan has closed a deal by which it be-
comes the owner of 6, 103 acres of timber
land in Houghton and Baraga counties
in the State of Michigan. 1t is covered
with hardwood timber and will be cut for
use in the Sheboygan factories. The
price paid was $4,000.
A collision occurred on the eastern out
skirts of La Crosse between street car
on the La Crosse City railway and
Green Bay and Western train. The
street car was smashed into kindling
wood and the train was wrecked. Sev-
eral persons are reported injured.
For months the Wisconsin Central has
been annoyed by petty thefts from its
freight cars at Ashland. After long in
vestigation Edmund Shant. store keeper
for the company. was detected in the act
and he was sentenced to a year in the
Green Bay reformatory. An accomplice,
Author Seegar, a locomotive engineer,
was fined 800. Ed. Jones, a wiper. who
assisted, has pleaded guilty.