Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-09
MINOR STATE ITEMS.


MINOR STATE ITEMS.
w. II. Spencer was reelected president
of the Manitowoc cooperative Associa-
ton which conducts a mercantile estab-
lishment.
The Daniel Shaw Lumber Company
sold 5000 acres of timber land in Taylor
and Chippewa counties to Madison par
ties for $4,000.
The La Crosse Cornice and Ceiling
Company has increased its capital stock
from $4,000 to $4,000. W. S. Cargill
is president.
st. Johns Military academy of Della
field will establish a permanent summer
camp for students at Trempealeau bay,
on the Mississippi.
A petition is being prepared asking the
establishment of rural mail route for
the Danforth and Flat Rock farming set
Elements of Delta county.
La Crosse county is to have an agricul-
tural and manual training school, proba-
bly, at West Salem. Bonds of $4,000
will be issued to raise money.
Under the supervision of Major Judson
the extension of the breakwater and the
removal of the bar in the Sheboygan har-
Dor will be completed this summer.
Considerable feeling has been shown in
the Lake Halle district over the actions
of Samuel Shafer, farmer, who is said
to have beaten his sister, Myrtle, aged IL,
in a most shameful manner.
Two unidentified men were struck by
Northwestern train west of Hurley and
killed and horribly mangled last night.
They were found by the section crew.
There was nothing found to identify
them.
Eight girls. the Misses Gladys Heddles,
Bessie Burch, Lucy Fox, Emma MacLean,
Ida Greene. Jean Shearer, Robena Keller
and Pearl Peters. walked from GAINESVILLE
to Milton Junction in two hours. The
distance is eight miles.
Dr.. Byron Douglas, aged SO, pioneer
dentist of northern Wisconsin, member
of the Assembly in 1862, and for many
years treasurer of the Wisconsin Dental
Society is dead in Appleton. He was a
direct relative of Stephen \. Douglas.
Facing the alternative of losing his in
heritance in the fatherland, and suffer
ing Imprisonment should he ever visit
his home again, a young German of Ap-
pletOn has decided to return to his native
country to serve his enlistment time in the
army.
4 message from Washington announces
the death of Charles F. Bowling at Mag
dalena on March %. Young Bowling
was with the battleship feet, being as
signed to the Missouri He was taken
i'll with pulmonary tuberculosis about
three weeks ago. The body was buried
on land and probably will later be brought
to Eau Claire.
No primary elections were held in Me-
nomonie. Nomination papers for city Of
fees have been filed as follows: Mayor,
A. II. Johnson (Republican), John Mat
hews (Damocrat); City Clerk, f. w.
Rowe 0,epublican) Treasurer, Otto
Publ Republican,, Edward Bates (Dem-
ocrat) Assessor, John Hardy fRepub-
lican), John Moody (Democrat).
The body of an unknown man vas
found floating in the Kenosha river. The
man had been severely burned and an ex
animation of his stomach showed he had
taken a large quantity of paris green. The
condition of the lungs indicated he had
not drowned, but it was impossible to tell
whether death had been caused by the
paris green or by the severe burns.
Tossed and trampled on by an enraged
bull until his collar bone was broken and
the life almost crushed out of him. and
then thrown under a wire fence, was the
experience of William Raichle a young
farmer living near Frenchville. A neigh
Dor shot the BULL ,
Not guilty" was the verdict of the
jury in the case of John Young and John
Lanto of Barton, on trial as a result of
the shooting and wounding by the latter
of John Becker and John Neuy, members
of a gang of boys who threw stones
through a window of the houses where
the men lived.
Charles Stephan, 20 years of age, of
Caledonia. committed suicide by shooting
himself through the right temple with a
revolver. Young Stephan had been i'll
for some time with stomach complaint and
DR.. Sifton of Milwaukee made an exam
ination and was to perform an operation
within a few days.
Ray Coleman. an actor and musician,
who. it is said has wife and child liv-
ing in Buffalo, was sentenced to thirty
days on the rock pile at Omaha on COM
plant of Ray Nourse and his mother,
Mrs Ida Nourse. of GAINESVILLE. Nourse
charged that Coleman had eIoped with
his sister, Miss Anna Nourse.
State Insurance Commissioner G. E.
Beedle has issued a statement showing
that the total gross fire risks written by
joint stock companies in Wisconsin in
1907 was SJ9S,297,7I0, the total gross
fire premiums collected 5000. 944,S2. and
the total fire losses paid S2,5S3, $3.50.
The total number OF these companies op-,
Grating in this State during the year was
IA
John Farrell. aged IA years, who was
accidentally shot with a small rife in the
hands of Archie Cunningham, died in
GAINESVILLE of lockjaw. The boys were
walking along the river bank when the
rifle was discharged. The bullet lodged