Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19


the birth of Lincoln under the auspices
of the Fred S. Lowell Post. g. A. R., of
Kenosha.
Several hundred persons in Beloit saw
Matt Lathers. defeated candidate for the
Legislature, pay his election bet by wheel
ing G. w. Shimmai several blocks in a
wheelbarrow.
John Pfeiffer, who has been janitor of
Beloit college for forty-six years, was pre-
scented with medallion by the students,
and his picture hung in the college library
by the faculty.
E. r. Aderhold, State dairy inspector,
paid a flying visit to Sheboygan. He
found the milk of one dealer below the
standard. His entire supply was poured
into the sewer.
Mistaking carbolic acid for a bottle of
medicine came near resulting in the death
of Mrs. Thomas Schultz of Kenosha She
took two teaspoons of the poisonous fluid
in a glass of water.
The big tunnel built under the Root
river by the J. l. Case Threshing Machine
Company, and the first ever constructed
in Nlcine. has been completed and turned
over 20 the corporation.
John Wilson. an old time Beloit bust
| ness man, father of William Wilson, SUI
perintendent of schools at Fond du Lac,
and Mrs. George Hansen of Chicago,
dropped dead in Chicago.
City Attorney Detling says that the
only basis of settlement of the suit
brought by the city of Sheboygan against
the water company is that the company
surrender its plant to the municipality.
Edmund Heller, the 26-year-old globe
| trotter who HIS been selected to accom-
| pany President Roosevelt on his African
| expedition, is a nephew of c. G. Schottle
of GAINESVILLE and visited there last sum-
mer.
John Reuter- town of Black Greek
farmer, is charged with selling adulter
ated milk to a cheese factory. Action
has been brought against him by ]. d.
| Cannon, assistant State food commits
| sioner.
Mayor Scholey of Kenosha will not lock
horns with the State railroad commission
over the payment of telephone bills. He
notified the telephone company that he
would sign the orders for the payment of
| its bills.
B. W. Burch of Appleton conferred
with Gov. Davidson over the long distance
telephone and declares that he intends
prosecuting saloonkeepers individually for
keeping open their places of business on
election day.
| Thomas Corigan, water boy for the
track surfacing gang working near the
Rock river bridge of the Northwestern
road, not far from .Janesville was struck
by the Northwestern train and had his
left leg broken.
After arresting Walter Strochein in
Vulnerable times within the last ten years
on the charge of larceny, the police have
come to the conclusion that the Sheboy
gan lad, who is now 20 years old, is a
kleptomaniac.
Because under the ruling of the State
rate commission the Home Telephone
! Company refuses to give any further free
service to the city of Ashland, telephones
in various municipal departments will be
| dispensed with.
The Rambler touring car owned and
driven by John Cuddy, a well-known
cheese dealer, burst into a mass of flames
at Lake View. Mr.. Cuddy managed to
escape without injury, but the auto was
totally destroyed.
The first annual poultry show given by
the WATERFOWL Poultry and Pet Stock As
ISOLATION will be held Feb. 4, ), 6, Z and
8. Julius Zier was elected exhibition su-
perintendent and T. w. Wittenwyler ex-
hibition secretary.
Allan Reed the 14-year-oId son of Mrs
A. B. Reed of Sparta, narrowly escaped
death when he was thrown from a pony
belonging to a companion. The pony
slipped throwing him to the ground and
falling on top of him.
Frank Dabis. d negro, and John King
his white companion, who almost sue
ceeded in escaping frSm the La Crosse
county Jail, were sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for one year on conviction of
carrying burglar tools
The employees of the Fairbanks Morse
Manufacturing Company in Beloit have a
benevolent organization that has been in
existence eleven years, and has paid out
SD 600 in sick and $1,000 in death bene-
fits 1t has 740 members.
Beverly Jefferson of Madison proprietor
| of Jefferson's Transfer Company and for
nearly sixty years a resident of that city,
died of heart disease at the home of his
son, Dr. Frederick A. Jefferson, in Chi
cago. The decedent was born in Virginia
in 1889.
Payne's Hotel and saloon, the Freder-
lex Hotel Luke's restaurant, Diamond
Brothers barber shop, Lunon & 'Taylor's
market. Coddon's clothing store, He'd
berg's grocery. Carlsbn's hardware store
and Hubbards saloon at Frederick, were
destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
The left leg of Rudolph Donnerstag, the
alleged counterfeiter, who was shot while
resisting arrest, was amputated at Rhine
lander, the operation being necessary to
save the prisoners lire. A dumdum bul-
let had passed through the feshy part of
the right leg and shattered the bone of
the left.
James Goodwin connected with the
| Mississippi River Logging Company, is
authority for the statement that the re-
naming 100000 feet of logs near the
Cameron dam will be logged this winter
He declares that John Dietz viii not make
any trouble SO long as the dead line is
not crossed.
farmers mutual insurance company
whose business it viii be to insure the
| farm property in that vicinity is being
organized in WashburIl and articles of in
corporation have already been drawn and
will be submitted to those interested in
the near future. The plan is receiving
! the hearty support of the farmers.
Edwin Thorsby, aged Il, is the first
victim of a gun accident in Bayfield,
! county this fall. He was carrying an
automatic rife and in stepping over log
| in some manner discharged the gun, the
bullet taking effect in the wrist and tear
ing the whole length of the forearm. He
| is now at the Ashland hospital and it is
feared that he may lose his arm.