Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Manitowoc, is dead, aged rs. The family
has Lived there since 1851.
Superior has been chosen as the meet
ing place for the seventh annual conven-
ton of the Daughters of Norway.
William Kingston, pioneer resident
of Vernon county, and a member of the
Assembly in 1886, is dead, aged IS.
John Till, the plaster doctor, has left
for Europe to stay two months Till said
that he would return and again locate in
Somerset
Young business men of Manitowoc will
have charge of the home coming which
will be held in connection with the county
fair the last week of August.
The 1S-months-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ray Roudebush of Sylvan was
drowned by falling into tub of water in
the yard When found, the child was
dead
Louis Sorenson, 81 years old, was found
dead on the river bank in Waukesha
with six wounds on the head, and the au-
thorities believe that the man was muir
dered
Edward Finger, West Allis boy, aged
II, is under arrest in Manitowoc on a
charge of robbing the Chicago and North
western passenger station at Francis
Greek
The White Star Laundry Company, the
largest in Racine. was almost destroyed
by fire. Smoke fire and water damaged
hundreds of bundles of linen ready to be
delivered.
Joseph Leichtman, the ST. Nazians man,
being sought by authorities who believe
he is suffering from smallpox, may have
fled to Mexico, this being the statement
of relatives.
John Vrabre aged 40, prominent in
many Slav societies in Kenosha. commit
ted suicide by hanging himself with a
fish line He had been out of work for
seven months.
a notice forbidding students of Law
renee university to dance was posted in
University hall by the faculty. Fraterni-
ties and other societies have violated the
dancing rule lately.
At a meeting of the Burlington common
council the aldermen decided to place the
city in one sewerage district, this being
the first step to a proposed plan of sew
erage the city will put in this and next
year.
Notice has been received in Sheboygan
to the effect that the State railroad COM
mission will soon commence the work of
appraising the plant of the City Water
Company, preparatory to investigating
the water rates.
Banking Commissioner Bergh approved
articles of incorporation of the Farmers
and Merchants bank of Menomonee Falls
with a capital of $4,000 and of the
Wisconsin State bank of Iron River, with
capital of $4,000.
Fred and George Aebischer, cousins,
aged respectively 13 and II, left home in
Chiffon the other day and have not since
been heard from. Six months ago they
were attacked By the ''wanderlust" and
after a long absence were found at Brown
Deer.
A movement for a Manitowoc county
work house for tranIps will be revived
in the session of the county board as
result of bills presented to the board for
S61S for the care of tramps in towns Of
the county the past six months, and there
is said to- be a chance that the project
will go through
The result of the recent convention of
county fair secretaries in Madison will
be seen this fall in radical changes in the
methods of management of these fairs.
Premium lists will be generally revised
and adjusted so as to fully conform with
the most liberal possible allowances from
the State treasury. More premiums will
be given for exhibits and fewer for ath-
letic games and freak shows.
Every owner of a COW in Manitowoc
must have license from the city council
under a new ordinance reported for pas
sage The measure provides for no fee,
but gives the health department authority
to demand the inspection of premises and
to file complaints and revoke licenses.
An old land patent dated Feb. 3. 1919,
has been unearthed in the vaults Of Coun-
ty Clerk c. w Luedtke in Green Lake,
eight years older than the patent which
is now in the possession of County Clerk
Frank o. Phelps of Milwaukee county.
The document is signed by President
James Monroe.
Notices are out for the twenty-frst
reunion of the Society of the Fourteenth
Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry to
be held at Chiffon June 10. II and u,
1908. Great preparations are being made
by the citizens of Chiffon for the event,
as one of the companies of the Fourteenth
was organized at Chiffon.
Pope Plus has decorated 4. b. Nc
Dcnnell of Chippewa Falls with the order
of St Gregory the Great. The honor
vas formally conferred by Bishop s5che-
bach Mr.. Mcdonnell is the sixth man in
the United States to receive the decora-
ton. which makes him a member Of the
Pope's household with the title of Sir.
The coroner's jury impaneled to inves-
tigate the mysterious death of Mrs. Carrie
Shaw. whose body was found in the mill
pond in Hortonville heard several wit
nesses. but nothing definite developed and
verdict of suicide is loked FOR. 1t is
said Mrs. Shaw was subject TO epileptic
fits and that during one of these spells
she fell on a stove and was burned. She
also broke a leg when overcome while she
was roller skating on April 10.
John Barker, vice president of the
North Freedom bank of North Freedom,
who accidentally shot himself through the
lung while crawling through a fence, died
as a result of hemorrhage. He is survived
by a wife, son and daughter.