Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-23
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.


rich liner Virginia, fell from the deck
after finishing fire drill and was drowned.
In a runaway accident caused by a
passing motor cycle, Mrs. E. V. Benja
min of Cumberland, jumping out of the
rig, sustained severe injuries.
J. g. Train, member of the Legisla-
ture in 1856, and the first city clerk of
Baraboo, died of heart failure, aged rs.
He drafted the city charter and held many
offices.
1t cost Henry Gilbertson of Neenah a
broken shoulder bone and fractured arm
to give his seat in a street car to a wom-
an. He fell from the car into wire
fence.
The State park commission has put
crew of men at work clearing the Brule
river near Iron River, of dams and re-
moving dangerous rocks from the bed of
the stream.
Mrs. Anna Clause 90 years old, was
struck by lightning during a heavy cleo
trio storm at Kenosha. She was rendered
unconscious and it is feared that her in
juries may prove serious.
Jacob Landgraf, one of the first bust
ness men to settle in the Fox River val
ley, is dead at the age of SO. He came
to Neenah in 1857, when Neenah and
Menasha were mere villages.
While employed about the plant of the
Wisconsin Pea Packing Company at
caught in the governor of the engine and
so severely injured that it became neces-
sary to amputate his left arm.
The death of his father, Rev. L. Traub
of Cumberland, proved too much for the
delicate nervous system of 14-year-eld
Noah VI. Traub, and he broke down. He
was adiudged insane and taken by his sis
ter to the Mendoza hospital
Mrs. \. Sharpless of Neenah had her
left arm so badly scalded by having it
immersed in hot water in a wash boiler
that the flesh has peeled off in parts, and
It is thought grating will have to be re-
sorted to to bring the arm into proper
shape.
During a severe electrical storm at
GAINESVILLE Miss Hazel Howe was thrown
from her horse by the force of a thunder
bolt and was seriously injured. Three in
terurban cars were struck by lightning,
and much property was damaged by the
storm.
When the Thirty Years Club, made up
of former residents who have been away
from Watertown thirty years and more,
meets Aug. l. the night of the first home
coming day, its members will be welcom-
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thirty times.
Domestic science has been added to the
course at the north side high school in
Manitowoc and the south side is consid-
ering manual training, domestic science
and commercial courses for next year. The
north side district meeting authorized $500
for the new course.
The threshers of Winnebago county
have organized in an effort to make a
profit, it is claimed. They will charge
cents per bushel for threshing oats and
barley, with a varying price for wheat
and rye. The former price was 212 cents
for barley and oats.
While coming out from under the in
fuence of gas, after having his teeth fixed.
L. Brunderhoff of Oshkosh became VIC
lent He kicked the attending physician
into corner and started to punch the
dentist. A policeman was called and sub
dued the violent man.
Three workmen. employed on the new
Wisconsin Telephone Company building
at Neenah had narrow escapes from
death when part of the top wall coping
weighing four tons, fell within two feet
OF where they were working. About $500
worth of damage was done.
The voters of Racine will decide by
referendum whether the Milwaukee Flee
trio Railway and Light Company shall
be granted additional franchises in Ra-
cine and ones granted in 1888 for
term of twenty-five years be extended I'M
til 1912 as decided on by the council.
After stabbing his companion, a young
Finlander was imprisoned on the third
story of a building at Tripoli. He was
handcuffed and tied and locked in a room
Becoming tired of his lookup. the prisoner
threw himself out of a window landing
squarely on his back on the pavement be-
low.
At Eau Claire, while Albert Hanson
was swimming in the Eau Claire river
his bathing suit slipped over his feet,
rendering him helpless, and he was drown
ed before comrades reached him.
At Sheboygan, Mrs. William Mark
wardt crushed her skull and sustained
other injuries which will undoubtedly
prove fatal by falling from the roof of her
home while she was hanging clothes.
Over 1900 pounds of wool were sold
at Roberts to Chicago buyers. the amount
the stock held by members
of the Society of Equity. A price of 1871 |
cents for native grown and Is cents for
western wool was realized
There have been fires in three Apple |
ton confectionery stores within the past |
three weeks and they are attributed to |
The same firebug. Recently one Of the |
largest confectionery and fruit stores was |
found in flames shortly before II o'clock.
The interior of the building was de-
stroyed
Eight thousand three hundred and forty
acres of Bayfield, county land changed
hands when Samuel f. Snively Of Du-
nth disposed of his interests to Louis
Helms of Grand Rapids, Iowa, the con-
,ideration for the immense tract being
s62, 80 The land is all situated in the
owns of Bayfield, and Bell and consists
If timbered and cut-oyer farm lands.