Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-22

polSoHeI, WHO HAS luuS lar klIleu ABOUT
fifteen CANNES.
Survivors of the Peshtigo fire in 1871
are planning the erection of a monument
TO the memory of those who lost their
lives in the confagration.
Burglars gained entrance to George A
kroetf's tailoring and shoe shop in She
boygan, making way with two overcoats
and several pairs of shoes.
After having kept his theft of double
harness and bride secret for two years,
Joseph Ruba of Two Greeks confessed,
and was fined $40 and costs.
The State rate commission has decided
that if Fond du Lac wants to launch
municipal ownership of water works the
city must proceed through the courts.
A fall down the cellarway and the over
turning of a lamp caused the death of
Mrs. Henry Guenther after eight hours
of agony. The accident occurred at
Wayne.
James Wheelock, a resident of Lind
spy, was shot by an unknown hunter, the
fine shot penetrating his head, face and
legs. No vital organs were affected so it
Will not prove fatal.
The huge turntable erected in connec-
ton with the terminal roundhouses of the
Wisconsin Central at Superior has been
put in operation. About go men are
employed in finishing up the terminal of
the road.
A milk license ordinance adopted by
the Manitowoc city council in August is
believed to be a dead letter because of uhe
fact that there is 10 provision for its en-
forcement No license has yet been is
sued under it.
At the home of Alexander Hay in
Avalon, Rock county. a double wedding
ceremony was performed, his daughters,
Margaret and Mary, being united in mar
riage to Adolph Nickel and Otto Burger
both of Janesville.
The central conference of the English
Lutheran synod of the Northwest will
meet in La Crosse, beginning on Oct. 81
at which time the third annual meeting
of the Women's Home and Foreign Mis-
sionary Society will be held.
Jack Kline. arrested in Winona at the
instance of the Wisconsin authorities on
a charge of the burglary of the hardware
store of John Barlow at Arcadia, made a
clean getaway from the county Jail by
working his way through the roof.
Rev. John G. Kinder, who founded the
German Methodist church in Oshkosh in
1857, is dead at his home in Oshkosh.
He was 70 years of age. Mr.. Kinder
was a conspicuous figure at the golden
.--l.l a.. Il, T.,
Thomas Mahr 50 years old, resident
of Racine for thirty-nine years, was found
guilty of having entered the saloon of
Supervisor Harry Miller and stolen S34
Judge Shielding sentenced him to the
State prison at Waupun for a term of
eighteen months.
Jacob Lusk, Auburndale, has secured
a patent on a safety device that supplies
a long felt want. By operating a lever,
the driver of a runaway team, finding
himself unable to hold his horses, can
pull the evener pin and set the horses
free from the vehicle
Supervising Architect J. X. Taylor of
the Treasury Department at Washington
has written TO Beloit that because of the
precedence of many other cities the work
of drawing the working plans for the Be
lott postoffice will probably not be COM
menced before next spring.
George o. Field, aged &c, of Manistee,
Mich, died as the result of injuries re-
ceived in a collision between a Chicago
and Milwaukee road electric car and an
automobile which the young man was
nosha to Milwaukee. expecting to take a
boat to Manistee. He was driving west
along the Burlington road at a high rate
of speed An orchard obscured the APP
proach to the tracks until it was too late,
and the car hit the auto with such fear
full impact that the machine was hurled
80 feet from the spot.
Edward Morrow, about to cross a rail-
road track in Chippewa Falls, did not see
the approach of train. He was grabbed
from behind by woman and hurled back
ward Hardly had this been done when
the train whizzed by. The name of the
woman could not be ascertained.
The Dunn County Agricultural school
began its fifth year of work with the fol-
lowing faculty: F. r. Crane, principal
Miss Hortense Salter, assistant princi-
nal: Miss Angeline Wood, teacher of do
nestle science; R. d. West, instructor in
manual training; Walter Stolpe, cream
cry man.
In Racine the charge of murder in the
first degree against Henry Ole, the young
man who had a fight with John Herms,
who died of heart trouble a short time
afterward, was charged to manslaughter
in the first degree, ard Ole was admitted
to bail in the sum of $1,000 furnished by
his relatives.
Getting permission to go to church in
Chippewa Falls, Peter Murray az inmate
of the Chippewa county asylum, took
advantage of the favor and made his es-
cape. Despite efforts since then made TO
capture him. he has succeeded in evading
being apprehended. He is % years old
ard resided in Rusk county.
In the arrest of ole Miller, tramp, |
the Stevens Point authorities think they
have one of the Ladysmith bank robbers. |
Miller had S3S7.55 on his person when |
he was taken from a freight train.
Statistics from various parts of Wood
county indicate that butter and cheese pro-
duction fo- the summer of 1908 will be |
only half a yield, owing TO the short sea-
son and the long continued drought.
Prof C. J. Brewer, superintendent of |
the New Richmond city schools, has de-
signed a cupless drinking fountain with
an ascending stream of water, from which |
the school children drink without cup of
any sort. |