Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
MINOR STATE ITEMS.

MINOR STATE ITEMS.
o. Z. Rice of Stevens Point has de-
cided to open business college in Lady
smith
Albert Johnson was fined S25 on con-
viction of operating an unsanitary dairy
in Neenah.
The contract for the new bridge across
the Peshtigo river at Marinette was given
to the Elkhart Bridge Company.
John J. MyIe, advance man for a the
atrical company, was bitten by a spider
a Kenosha and blood poisoning resulted.
While bathing in Richland creek, a
tributary to the Wisconsin river, Amos,
the 23-year-old son of Adam Lawrence,
drowned.
II. c. Wilson, a pioneer farmer south
of Madison was accidentally shot in the
hand by two boys who were hunting near
his pasture.
Word has reached Marinette that Dick
Doyle, former resident of that city,
has been shot and killed in a small town
near Tacoma, Wash.
Refugees from northern and eastern
Wisconsin are focking into Eau Claire to
escape forest fires that are ravaging the
region east of there.
The Kenosha county board is seeking a
new farm large enough to take care of the
county poor. The present farm is too
small and will be sold.
Scratching match in a room filled
with fumes of gasoline caused by his
wife's crusade against vermin, Oscar
Land was almost burned to death in
Janesville.
DR.. +. w. Epley, former mayor of New
Richmond, and at one time president of
the Wisconsin Medical Society, was found
dead in a cistern. 1t is supposed that he
fell in by accident.
Because of the dry weather and tie
numerous fires along its right of way the
Milwaukee road has put on an extra train
to fill the water barrels on all uhe wooden
bridges and culverts.
Provided the trustees raise three times
its value either in money or its equivalent,
+. H. Van Ostrand has agreed to present
the Wisconsin Farm and Trades School
for BOYS with a tract of 240 acres in the
town of Evergreen.
Mrs. John Van Rooy, who died at Lit
tie Chute at the age of 80 years, is be-
lieved to have been the mother of the larg-
est family of any woman in Wisconsin.
She was the mother of nineteen children,
seventeen of whom are living.
After a long vigil for thieves who stole
l.. f11f
dead at the door of his home shortly after
he had been relieved by his son. Heart
failure intensified by the excitement is be-
lieved to have caused' his death.
The finding of a woman's hat in the
liver at GAINESVILLE near the scene of last
winters mysterious deaths of the Clayton
and Malone women caused a commotion,
but search of the river and banks result
ed in no further developments.
A ban has been placed on cigarettes
and smokers of the coffin nails by the
Fond du Lac camp of Modern Woodmen.
Hereafter no cigarette smoking will be
allowed in Woodman Hall or any part
of the building. Other fraternal societies
will take similar action within a short
time.
Frank Fowler of the town of Omro
was probably fatally injured at North
park in Oshkosh. Fowler is a heavy man
and he dived off a platform into shallow
water, striking his head violently on the
bottom Either his neck is broken or he
suffered a conclusion of the brain which
produced paralysis.
A report has been filed by the State
railroad commissions engineers of the
valuation of the plant of the ManitOwoc
Electric Light Company. The present
value of the plant is fixed at ST6,SSS and
the cost of reproducing the plant is given
at S110,123, the depreciation being about
- per cent in the twenty-six years the
plant has been in operation.
An attempt was made to wreck one of
the large Milwaukee, Northern cars near
Cedar Grove John Hutchinson, a farm
er residing near there, is charged with
having thrown a railroad tie in front of
the car There was a number of people
on the car. including General Manager
Walker. The car struck the tie but was
not derailed. Hutchinson was placed IN
der arrest. A son of Hutchinson was ar
rested in the afternoon charged with put
ting a sandbag on the track.
Heavy rains at many points in Wis
consin tended to check the forest fires
burning along the Chicago, st. Paul, Min
neapolis and Omaha line, according to re-
ports received at the general offices of the
railroad On the Hannibald ranch. how
ever the fires are still raging and the sit
uation there is yet grave.
Word has been received of the destruc-
ton by fire of the sawmill at Phillips,
Miss. owned by W. II. Hatton and ". H.
Dick of New London. The mill had a ca
pacity of $4,000 feet a day. The loss is
$4,000. partly covered by insurance. The
lumber yard and adjacent buildings were
saved after a hard fight.
The Social Democratic State platform
convention was called to order in Madi-
son at noon and lasted forty-fye minutes
the other day. The proceedings were de-
signed to conform with the State primary
election. The chairman was Victor l..
Berger of Milwaukee and the secretary
was Carl d. Thompson Of Milwaukee.
A freight wreck on the new Green Bay
extension of the Chicago and Northwest
ern line near Francis creek. cost the
life of Bert Sweeney. a Green Bay
brakeman. who fell under the wheels of
one of the cars and had both legs cut off
inst below the knees and had the lower
NORTON of his body crushed frightfully.