Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-20
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Parsons Holy Jumpers" are at Wau-
kesha.
Genoa has a baseball club composed of
young women.
The Loveland waltz has been adopted
by State dancing masters.
At La Crosse they get rid of tramps in
the parks by turning the hose on them.
Mrs. Andrew Lapp Of Reeseville lived
only seven hours after her aged husband
died.
According to the school \census just
completed Burlington has population of
2,910
New charts are being made of the Mis-
sissippi along the west boundary of the
State.
Prof Seffel of Dayton, Ohio, has taken
the chair of geology at Lawrence uni
versity.
Shipments of ore from Superior are
100000 tons short of the same period
of 1907.
Fishing has not been so good in years
in Mississippi waters as during the pres
ent season.
The Great Northern ore docks at AL
louez are tied up by strike among the
laborers.
Jared Fox, station agent for the North
western road at Elroy, died from injuries
caused by falling from handcar.
Eleven ounces of cancerous growth
were removed from valuable setter dog
at Fond du Lac but the dog died.
Frank McHensey of Elkhorn attended
circus in Racine and lost his pocket
book containing $50 and a check for SO.
Because his mother refused him money
Frank Kenosha, a half-breed Chippewa,
kicked her eye out and nearly killed her
at Spooner.
Although she had never learned to
SWIM by superhuman effort Fannie
Jackson managed to reach a Neenah dock
when the boat in which she was rowing
capsized on the river. Miss Jackson was
pulled from the water by Anna Foth just
as she tainted at the edge of the dock.
As result of quarrel at the Leath-
EN- & Smith quarry near Sturgeon Bay
one man is dead and another is being
hunted under suspicion that he is the
murderer. The name of the dead man is
not known; the alleged murderer is Mike
Habeck. Both are Macedonians.
Harvey T. Wells. former bOok-eeper
in a Kenosha bank, who is charged with
embezzling 1920, pleaded not guilty be-
fore Judge Quarles in the United States
District Court in Milwaukee, and was
held to the grand jury in the sum of
$1,000 bail. Wells was captured in Bos-
ton.
As the result of negotiations during the
last few weeks between Mayor DECK
man of Sheboygan and the City Water
Company officials. the water works intake
pipe will be extended 5000 feet into Lake
Michigan. This extension, it is thought
will give the city pure drinking water
and will do away with polluted water
which is said to be the cause for the
typhoid epidemic.
The greatest swimming feat that has
been pulled off in the Duluth Superior
bay for years took place when Edward
Thompson, Superior man, swan from
the White City to Connors Point, a dis
% minutes. Thompson intended to swim
back to the White City, but he was 50
chilled by his long stay in the cold water
that he decided not to undertake it.
At the Sixteenth street crossing of the
Northwestern road in Racine, south
bound passenger train struck a horse and
carriage containing ]. c. Jorgenson, his
wife and two children. throwing the We
hicle and occupants twenty feet and
wrecking the rig and breaking the legs
of the horse. Mr.. Jorgenson was cut and
bruised and injured internally, but Mrs.
Jorgenson and children escaped without
a scratch.
Dominick Bach, aged IS, turned over
all his money, $500, and has entered the
poorhouse at Ashland, fearing he would
become a public charge when his cash
was gone.
While swimming around the Racine
breakwater, William Abessor, an expert
swimmer, was taken with cramps and was
brought to shore unconscious by the life
saving crew.
William Upton, famous as a horse
owner and trainer in the Northwest, died
the other afternoon, aged 81 years. He
had been a resident OF Kenosha for the
last twenty-siy years.
1t is alleged that a deliberate effort
was made to burn the -Four Corners,
resort in the town Of Pleasant Prairie.
The inmates were routed out at i O'Clock
in the morning. when the entire east end
of the building was found TO be in flames.
Harold Zonne, formerly of Appleton,
had a narrow escape from being cremated
in Omaha. He has been operating one
of the gasoline cars between Omaha and
Council Bluffs The gasoline became ig-
nited and in trying to extinguish the
flames and save the car his clothing
caught fire. He remained at his post until
he shut off the gasoline, and was fright
fully burned about the left side