Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-01-21
STATE
HAPPENINGS

Madison.-Chief Justice Winslow of
the state supreme court is seriously i'll
at his home. He has been confined to
his bed for three days with the grippe
and there is considerable anxiety re-
garding his condition. Sergeant-at-
arms Irvine of the assembly is also on
the sick list. The day after his cleo
ton to the office Irvine scratched his
hand with a pin and blood poisoning
has set in. He has been taken to the
general hospital for expert treatment.
In his absence his place will be filed
by Harry V. Ross of Sparta, assistant
sergeant-at-arms.
Manitowoc.-Fire, which is pre-
sumed to have started on the second
floor of the Dempsey block, one of the
landmarks of the city, shortly after
midnight, Quilted the building and
caused a loss of more than $4,000. Six
firemen were overcome by smoke. The
building was a frame structure two
stories in height and covering half
block on the main street of the city.
twenty-five years ago it was known
as the Haveland hotel.
Chippewa Tails.-William Mcdonald
was sentenced to 80 days in the county
Jail because he embeZzled ten dollars
of Ide Tupper's money. Mcdonald,
who is not supposed to be able to OBJ
tain intoxicating liquors in saloons,
was given ten dollars by Upper to
purchase medicine, according to the
testimony. 1t was alleged that instead
of going to a drug store he hied off to
Eau Claire.
MISUNDERSTANDING that the in.
terests of the state are best served
by giving him his freedom, Judge
Belden suspended sentence on Frank
Wojciekowski, vino pleaded guilty to
having set fire to his saloon. The de.
PENDANT has family which he is try.
ing to support, and the court holds
that no real criminal intent was
shown:
Wausau.-W. NJ. Post of Milwaukee
was elected temporary chairman at
the opening of the state Y. NJ c. A
convention and Charles r. Hersch of
lldCihS oSCISIdIy. CdIIOll w.
of Milwaukee urged more personal
service in work of organizing branches
in factories, recommending that lead
ers be found among the men them.
selves.
Milwaukee e-Vera Lee confessed she
shot and killed her husband, Otto
Lundstrum. They quarreIed over a
bottle of whisky, she told the police.
Lundstrum refused to give her drink
from the bottle which he carried. She
shot him with his own revolver. For
more than fifteen hours she main.
tanned her husband killed himself.
Wausau.-The thirty-fourth annual
convention of the state Y. NJ. C. A
closed with mass union meeting in
the Presbyterian church at which G..
" Hubbard and G. S. Phelps, located
at Tokyo, Japan, told of their expert.
ences during the Russo-Jap war. Keno
sha was the only city extending an in.
vitation for the next convention.
Blocmer.-Practically the entire vii
lage of Bloomer turned out to pay
last tribute to Miss Anna J. Mack,
the young nurse who contracted scar
let fever while on duty in the con-
tagious disease ward of the ST. Paul
city hospital. Her dying request that
she be buried in her nurses uniform
was religiously carried out
La Crosse.-Caught between the
ends of two street cars which he was
endeavoring to couple together Her
bert Lucas, the Oldest conductor on
the lines of the La Crosse City Rail
way Company, was seriously crushed
about the shoulders and chest and had
a narrow escape from being danger
ously injuTef'
OPHELIA:
Gold Medal Flour is nourishing.
KEZIAH.