Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-11
SHORT STATE ITEMS.


neer resident of Hillsboro, is dead.
The First National Bank of Omro was
placed in voluntary liquidation the other
day.
{. H. Larrabee of Omro has been elect
ed president of the board of libraries of
| Ninnebago County.
Mrs. William Cough. a well-known
resident of Sugar Bush suffered a frac-
| tured limb in a fall at her home.
Edward Graham brother-in-law of
Superintendent of Schools John Callahan
of Menasha. was killed in a railroad
wreck in Iowa.
Peter kemper, a well-known resident
| of the town of Woodville, was struck
and killed by a Northwestern train at d
crossing near his home. He-was ~ years
old
In a runaway accident Mrs. Albert
Tuebert. wife of the proprietor of the
st. Charles hotel in Janesville. was bad
ly injured and $500 trotting horse was
killed
Employees of the Appleton Wooden
Mills will receive a dividend of } per
cent on their earnings of last year. A
similar dividend was declared on the capt.
tai stock.
At the third annual meeting of the Os-
| ceola Farmers Mutual Telephone Com
pany, Louis Schmidt was elected Presi-
dent and Fred Pilgrim and B. j. Rochel,
| Directors.
Rock County authorities have offered
a reward of 500. Gov. Davidson S40O
and relatives of Michael Cronin, murder
ed mysteriously on Jan. u, another S40O
for arrest and conviction of the murder
| ers.
In New London Mayor NJ W. KNAPP
stein has issued a proclamation declaring
I.incoln's birthday, February y, legal
holiday. The factories and stores will
close and business generally will be sus-
pended.
DR.. J. W. Smith of the bacteriology de-
partment of the State University. has an
nounced that all cases of typhoid fever
and diphtheria in the student body had
been cured and that no new cases had
developed.
| Henry NJ. Wallis, president of the j.
| l. Case Plow Works in Racine, was ar
rested on complaint of Factory Inspector
David Evans, charged with failing to pro-
vide hoods over emery wheels to carry off
| the dust.
Manitowoc business men have made a
| demand upon the council for extension of
the fire limits and a rigid enforcement of
the regulation affecting construction of
buildings. the aim being to reduce insur-
| ance rates.
Brooding over her i'll health Mrs.
Charles johnson, the wife of a La Crosse
| fisherman, succeeded in the second at
| tempt to end her life. Last summer she
threw herself into the Mississippi River,
but was rescued.
Burglars looted half a dozen Racine
dental parlors. At the offices of Gilbert
| Tate they carried away 81 worth of gold
| filling and other property. DR.. ]. G.
| Gruber lost $40 worth of gold, and other
offices similar amounts.
For the second time in a quarter of
century, the old clock on the belfry of
| Library Hall at the University in Madi-
son. succumbed to the elements, and the
hands refused to move because of the
snow which wedged in behind them
Betrayed by pal" George Musiel,
when he confessed in Manitowoc munich
pal court just before being sentenced to
| twenty months at Waupun. John Drill
| and Victor WabenSki. aged 16, have been
arrested for robbing Chicago and North
western cars
Louis A. Copeland. President of the
Bank of Frederic. has announced himself
| as a candidate for County Judge at the
election to be held Tuesday. April g.
Judge Charles Fl. Oakley. who has held
the office the past ten years, will not be
candidate for reelection.
In Grand Rapids. Herman Podawiltz,
Who together with Fred Podawiltz Adam
Bork, Paul Pataske and Earl Summer
vile. is charged with stealing and killing
COW belonging to E. f. Deyo. a Port
Edwards hotel keeper. was bound over to
the circuit court. Fred Podawiltz. Adam
Bork and Paul Pataske. who Dreaded gull
| ty, were sentenced to one year each.
Eau Claire. Chippewa Falls, Lady
smith and Park Falls men interested di-
rectly or indirectly in manufacturing and
water power. held IA meeting in Eau
| Claire to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of ask
| ing for legislation to establish a system
of reservoirs on the Chippewa and FlaG-
| beau Rivers on the same general plan as
those asked by the Wisconsin Valley I'm
provement Company.
Efforts are being made to have A. C.
| Frost. former owner of the Chicago and
Milwaukee Electric Railway Company,
take up a proposition to furnish street
| lights to Kenosha. but Mr.. Frost has de-
clared that he has no way to furnish the
power needed for such project The al
dermen are making every possible effort
to get competitor for the kenOsha Gas
and Electric Company.
Miss Matilda Christensen of Minneap
oils. in county court i'll Chippewa Falls
began what may prove long drawn
fight for a share of Ole Christianson's es-
tate, valued at $4,000. Miss Chris
Hanson claims to be the common law
daughter of the decedent. Christensen
left his estate to his widow ana two chill
dren and made no mention of his alleged
common law daughter.
Patrick Tooman. a boiler maker from
Pittsburg. Pa. is at a Racine hospital
with his jaw fractured and face terribly
lacerated. results of a peculiar accident.
Tooman out of work, was walking from
Milwaukee to Racine. At Ives he was in
yited to ride in with Peter Sylvester. No
sooner had he entered the rig that the
horse kicked, one of the feet striking
Tooman on the side of the face.
Carl 3. McCabe. of Oshkosh, president
of the Wisconsin branch of the National
Organization of Postoffice Clerks, an
nounces that the executive board of the
branch will meet Monday. Feb. D. at
| Milwaukee, This is the first announce
| nent of the date, that having been left TO
| Mr.. McCabe.
4 3-year-oId son of William hrause OF
Albany is dead as result OF falling into
a boiler of hot water standing on the
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