Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
WITHIN OUR BORDERS.

downstairs at her home in Menominee.
breaking both legs.
Rev. Is. Burant of Winona will succeed
Rev John Sroka az pastor of Holy Cross
Roman Catholic Church in La Crosse
Mrs. John Kellner. prominent society
leader and a church worker of Manito-
Voc, died after an illness of three months.
Herman Barrelmann. aged 40, was
found dead on the ice ON the Milwaukee
River. about a mile north of Cedarburg.
| The farm dwelling of Reinoid Mielke,
az Rib Lake. was DESTROYED by fire at a
loss of about $1,000, with small insur-
aDce.
Joseph Mayhem, lathe foreman at the
Menasha woodenware plant. lost his left
| hand while at work on joining ma
chine
BY the bursting of steam pipe P
Riley, an employee at the Watertown gas
plant. was scalded about the face and
neck.
J. {. Miller. of KEEL prominent Demo-
cratic politician. candidate for Sheriff
| and ex-Supervisor of the town, is dead
at the age of 81 years.
Fire in the cable house of the power
plant of the Sheboygan electric light plant
| caused $1,000 damage, and turned the en-
tire west side into darkness.
III. Blank a cheesemaker living south
of st. Cloud, died from injuries sustain
ed when thrown outof a buggy onto the
ice below while crossing bridge
In Oconomowoc Lawrence Kelly was
sentenced to one year at Waupun on be-
ing found guilty of burglary, having en-
| tered the residence of DR.. Donnelly.
Mrs. Marie Hanson and her daughter
were found unconscious at their home in
Racine. from inhaling coal gas escaping
| from stove. = Physicians revived them.
l.. ID. Harvey, vice president of the
Stout Institute of Menominea has en-
| phatically declared that he is not can
| didate for the office of State Superintend-
! emit
In the death of ]. c. Zellinger at the
age of So years, Oshkosh lost one of its
| pioneer residents, who drove one of the
| first stages between Oshkosh and Mil
waukee.
Henry Guiginger. aged 20 years, EN-
ployed at the factory of the Smalley Man
ufacturing Company in Manitowoc, was
seriously if not fatally hurt in the burst
! Ing of an emery wheel
The Wisconsin MilIers' Association de-
cided TO pay under protest the SO license
| fee charged all millers. They have been
| fighting the law for some time, claiming
| it was unconstitutional.
en-
| ing of the freight elevator in the plant
of the Simmons Manufacturing Company
in Kenosha The injured men are Matt
Fisher, Frank Taylor and John Beilot
Twenty passengers aboard a Milwau-
kee, Racine and kenoSha interurban car
were slightly injured when a ear jumped
the track two miles north of Kenosha. A
king bolt of one of the trucks was broken.
J. NJ Bostwick. head of the firm of
J. NJ. Bostwick & Sons, proprietors of
the largest dry goods establishment in
Southern Wisconsin, dropped dead in
GAINESVILLE of heart disease, aged "A years
Notices have been received by the prin-
| cipals of the different schools OF the an
nual meeting of the Northeastern Wis
consin Teachers Association, which will
be held in Grand Rapids, Feb. II and -
| Judge Fifield of GAINESVILLE held Elmer
L. Ellsworth for trial on the complaint
of Mrs. Kate Kennedy for obtaining
money from her under alleged false and
| fraudulent pretenses. Bail was fixed at
| 81 200.
William Mueller Walter Bond and
James Jorgenson. Menasha fishermen,
narrowly escaped drowning when they
broke through the ice of Lake Butte DIES
Morris They were rescued by neighbor
| ing fishermen.
| Eloping from Stoughton, Arthur Nyha-
gen and Miss Sarah Erdah went to
Manitowoc and were married. Nyhagen is
former Manitowoc boy who holds a re-
| sponsible position with the Moline Plow
Works at Stoughton.
Jacob Krug, one of the best known
farmers near the town of Forest, is dead
and August Plank, a neighboring farmer
was probably fatally injured when their
cutter went over the side of a bridge,
| throwing the men to the ice below.
Efforts will be made to have Carne-
gle medal given to young Charlie Lee, of
| nice LAKE, w DO ltCthlIy SdNti bHt lives
of his two sisters, nearly losing his own,
when his four brothers were burned to
death He is recovering from his severe
| injuries.
| Search has been begun for Thomas Nc
| Laughlin aged 50 years. who disappeared
mysteriously in GAINESVILLE. 1t is thought
he may have wandered into the river,
where the swift current. due TO the rains,
would have made it impossible for. him
to get out
William Dillon. cvonvicted in the Cir
| cult Court of Racine County of the MUIR
der of Jacob Best of Milwaukee. on
March 27. 1907, must serve his term of
seventeen years in States prison. the Srl-
preme Court affirming the sentence of the
Circuit Judge.
! The long looked for crusade on the
part of the Civic Federation of Racine
was commenced when District Attorney
| Thompson called upon Sheriff Gustave
Derricks and ordered him to serve notice
on proprietors of all questionable resorts
in the city to close at once and leave
| the city
4 fathers suicide last July drove a son
| youth. having been committed to the
| Northern Hospital at Oshkosh by Probate
| Court. Facts in the case show that Pc
routkas mind has been failing since he
| found his fathers dead body hanging in
the barn last July.
One of the large icehouses on Brown
Lake owned by the knickerbocker Ice
| Company of Chicago. was destroyed by
| fire. together with the power plant. The
| loss is estimated at $4,000. The ice
house was partially filed with ice of this
seasons cut, 10 which fact is attributed
| the size of the loss.
| Manitowocs first Homecoming last July
led to a wedding which took place Mon
day. the principals being Edwin Schreib-
er of Chicago and Miss Clara Greunke
of Manitowoc. Schneider, a former Man
/ ifowoc resident. came he-e with the Chi
caso Club TO visit his grandfather and
met his bride of to-day at that time.