Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-01-07
MINOR STATE ITEMS.

goats. which he will fatten on his farm.
Thousands of pounds of suckers are be-
ing caught in the river at Marinette and
sold to the larger city trade as white
fish.
Henry Ziemers. aged -. and Andrew
Kerkhof, aged -. pioneers and we'll
known residents of WrightStown, are
dead.
Mrs. Bull has started a mushroom farm
in Menomonie. 1t is a novelty there and
no little interest has been created in the
project.
Clark Crandall, IS years of age, and
one of the pioneers of Milton Junction,
was asphyxiated by escaping gas from
his coal stove.
Hugh Bahlert has started excavation
for new hotel. 34x56 feet in dimension
and two stories high. in Pound. 1t will
be modern throughout.
For the loss of a hand in one of the
machines at the plant of the La Crosse
Rubber Mills Company. Simon Sundehn
is asking $4,000 damages.
Walter Goetsch, convicted of robbing
the Valid Manufacturing Company of She
boygan of its tools. was given a two
years sentence in the penitentiary.
Louis Elfinger drove horse and wagon
over a sixty-foot embankment at the end
of Tenth street, Racine. and came out
alive. EIfnger took the wrong road.
Jere Toomey, pioneer drayman of
Manitowoc, is dead, aged II, failing TO
survive a stroke of paralysis suffered sew
eral weeks ago. A family survives.
Barns and machinery to the value of
$1,000 were destroyed by fire, starting
from sparks from a threshing engine on
the farm of Adolph Peleshek, town of
Denmark.
An unusual catch was made when
George Town, while fishing in Fowler
lake. landed a pickereI weighing twenty
two and a half pounds. and measuring
fcrty-seven inches in length.
An order for a rehearing in the case
of the decision of the Manitowoc Gas
light Company increasing its rates, has
been issued by the State railroad com
mission in favor of the city.
Thomas E. Jeffrey sent to the pension
fund of the Kenosha fire department a
gift of $500 as a recognition of the work
done by the firemen at the recent fire at
the Jeffery home. His loss was $4,000.
James Shumway, postmaster at BriS-
| toll for more than eighteen years, died
at the age of 10 years. Ie had lived at
Bristol sixty-two years and was one of
the first members of the Republican party
Peter Saintgerman, a Chippewa county
/
Fifeld. He was engaged in saving down
trees when a limb fell and struck him
on the head, breaking his neck He was
% years old
Following the announcement of the res
| i uaton of President Berlin Hall of the
Manitowoc police and fire commission
| comes the report of the retirement of
Herman Schuette, the oldest member of
the commission.
After having been believed dead for
about six months, Patrick O'Rourke, for
merly roadmaster for the Wisconsin Cen
| trail, appeared in Chippewa Falls and
showered Christmas greetings and presents
upon his friends and relatives
Irwin NJ. Chapel, who has been connect
| Vb with ullt ItSlSlti VI uctuS OIiiCe VI the
| county at Green Lake since january
1891. and who has been register in pro-
bate and deputy clerk of Circuit Court
| since March, 1904, has resigned
The plant of the Fox River Valley
| Knitting Company was completely de-
Stroyed by fire at Menasha. The fire
started in the boiler room. The loss is
variously estimated at from $4,000 to
$4,000. partly covered by insurance
Breaking into a trunk owned by Miss
Anna Scanlon, servant in the Hotel
Bronson in La Crosse, some one stole 81
| in silver leaving SIC untouched. Accord
| ing to the story of the girl she had TWEEN
| ty-three silver dollars in the trunk The
peculiar part of the affair is that the
| thief did not take the balance of the
| money and did not touch other articles of
value that were also exposed.
Capt Columbus Caldwell of Waupaca
first superintendent of the Wisconsin Vet
Grams Home is dead of paralysis. aged
| rs years. Capt. Caldwell was born Sept.
| -. 1890 and during the war he was cap
| tain of Company NJ. First Wisconsin
Volunteer infantry. Later he was regis
ture from Waupaca county. He leaves
wife. two sons and two daughters.
After securing a bigger jag than he
could comfortably carry. Frank Gorchels
attempted to hang himself in the Osh-
| kosh city Jail. The attempt was almost
successful. He cut a handkerchief into
strips and made rope of it and tied it
| to the bars at the top of his cell and then
suspended himself from the other end.
Another prisoner nearby raped on the
iron bars and attracted the attention of
the police and Gorchels was cut down
but not too soon. \ physician was sum-
moned and the man came out all right.
Two months ago Mrs. Mary Lloyd of
Stevens Point. who last September was
taken to the Outagamie county insane
asylum at Appleton, declared she would
never eat another morsel, and she kept
her word. her prolonged fast causing her
demise. The house physician sustained
life in his patient for eight weeks by the
artificial administration of food, but the
woman wasted away. 1t is believed she
suffered with a cancer of the stomach and
stopped eating because of the added dis
| tress every time food was placed on her
stomach
The picture representing the past, pres
ent and future of Wisconsin, which was
Dainted by Edward Blashfeld. artist of
New York. has been received and placed
in position on the wall above the Speak
ers desk in the new Assembly room in
Madison. The picture cost the State 3d.
900.
President Rosbolt of the Eau Claire
Commercial Association will appoint a
committee of two, who with two residents
of Chippewa Falls and two from Lady
smith. will call upor President Clark of
the Omaha road 10 urge the building of
an extension from Holcombe to Lady
smith.
City Attorney Hougen said that the
city of Manitoroc would probably ask
for an injunction to restrain the gas COM
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