Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-03-12
BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS.

William j. HALEY was killed by Mil
waukee road train at Walworth while
crossing the track in a buggy.
Mrs. Augusta Hejnek. 100 years old,
believed to be the oldest person in Wis
consin, died in Stevens Point. Mrs. Hell
mex was born in Poland.
d. Sweeney, 80, had a narrow escape
from fatally shooting himself while hunt
ing near Maple Grove. A metal truss
which he wears saved his life.
Conductor Andrew Peterson of the
Wisconsin Central grabbed a woman and
jerked her off the track as the pilot of
passing engine brushed her skirts.
Emil Tausand AN employee of f. Abeles
& Co. in Milwaukee, fell six stories down
the elevator shaft and it is expected that
he will recover. Not bone was broken.
Emmett c. Dean, ex-manager of the
Western Union, for whom a warrant
charging embezzlement was issued was
arrested in Chicago and brought to Ke-
nosha.
Despondent because his parents refused
to give him money to pay the balance on
farm he had purchased, George Bullion,
%, committed suicide by hanging in
Waukesha.
Butted in the stomach by the head of
a fellow employee, John Hendrickson died
five minutes afterwards at the camp and
sawmil of A. G. Stephenson, five miles
from Hazelhurst.
One of the social events of the season
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Miss Cora Griffith to Clarence Palmer
Beers of GAINESVILLE. The bride is daugh-
ter of Mayor w. b. Griffith.
Eight Beloit merchants have learned
they have cashed checks for about $50
each that were valueless. The checks pur-
ported to be signed by the Warner Tnstru-
ment Company. The man who passed them
has left town.
Earache was fatal to Frank o. Johnson
of Marinette. He was found unconscious
by one of his employees. He regained con-
seriousness long enough to state that the
ache in his ear was the cause of his i'll
ness. Then he died.
The North Wisconsin saengerfest will
be held at Stevens Point July 1919. On
the second day a concert will be given at
the opera house in the afternoon and an
other in the evening. The festival will
conclude with picnic.
Banking Commissioner Bergh has is
sued charter authorizing the commence
ment of business by the Oostburg State
bank at Oostburg. The capital stock is
$4,000. Peter DANA is president and
John Brethouwer cashier.
City Marshal Appleby of GAINESVILLE has
received a warning from a mysterious
source that two of his police officers, Pat
rick Tanning and former Policeman Bear
are to be assassnated by an unknown
who signs himself BLACK Hand
In GAINESVILLE Frank Martin received
word that his stepfather, Frank Murat,
shot and instantly killed his only sister,
Julia Martin, at their home on Three
Kings street in Paris. He was sentenced
to death within twenty-four hours.
Fire broke out in the wood shed of the
Emergency hospital in Wausaukeee and
before the department responded the hos
pital was ablaze. The roof was burned
and the wards badly damaged Origin I'M
known. Loss 81 1000, covered by insur-
ance.
Mrs. Vera Fisher. %. a prominent
member of the Holy Jumpers" at the
Fountain house in Waukesha, where she
was employed as compositor on The
Burning Bush. the official publication of
the sect, died in New Mexico, where she
went for her health.
The railroad commission has rendered
decision that within the next ninety
days the Northwestern road must erect a
suitable platform and sidetrack at the
village of Krakow, Shawano county. and
stop at least one passenger train and one
freight train there daily each way.
Jerry Donahue. one of the builders of
the old Milwaukee. Lake Shore and West
ern railroad, now the Lake Shore division
of the Chicago and Northwestern from
Milwaukee to Ashland, and former WELL
known railroad man. is dead in Sheboy-
gan. Mr.. Donahue succumbed to grip
lie was g.
John Smith who lived at Sanborn,
where he has been working for some time.
committed seucde by throwing himself
in front of a railroad train. For some
time Smith has been drinking.
A club has been organized at the State
capitol, composed of all the officers and
employees at the capitol. There are 176
men and IS women and the idea of the
organization is TO promote sociability.
W. c. Ribenach, private secretary to
Senator Stout. has purchased the plant of
the Ashland FIGURING Mill Association.
Senator Stout and other Menomonie men
propose to develop the property and great
~ enlarge it.
The Eau Claire City Council has
awarded five-year contracts to the Chip
pewa Valley Electric Railway, Light and
Power Company to light the business sec
ton with 100 arc lights at SJ9.40 per
light per year, and to the Welsbach Street
Lighting Company of America to light the
residence section with 160 gas lamps at
$3.50 per light per year, lights to be
sixty canle power. Graft charges are rife
and it is possible Mayor Frdwley will
veto it.
Adyices from Somerset are that 'Dr."
Till Immediately resumed Practice after
his release under bonds from the court
in Glenwood and that 200 PATIENTS came
to Somerset for treatment ID one day.