Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-14
ALL OVER THE STATE.


dead in the postofhce in Reedsburg
while waiting for the mail
Elias Fox, Of Hillsboro, says that
his bees commenced making honey one
week earlier this spring than any pre-
vious spring he has record of.
James K. Scribner, for over fifty
years proprietor of flour and feed
mill in EIdorado and ex-assemblyman,
died at the home of his daughter in
Minneapolis.
Fifty laborers employed in the foun-
dry of the Belle City MalIeable Iron
Company in Racine have refused to
work because four of their number had
been discharged.
Herman Kottke, aged % years, sin
gle, residing at Deer Park, was drown
ed in the swimming pool at Chico Hot
Springs, Mont, where he had gone for
the benefit of his health.
Edward Miller. aged q, was drown
ed in Beaver Dam lake. Failing to re-
turn at night his wife began a search
for Miller which ended with the find
dren.
Charles L. Bayrhoffer died at the
Monroe hospital two hours after his
wagon was struck by train. Two
horses he was driving were killed He
was 81 years of age and a well-to-do
farmer.
William Davies, claiming Shiocton
as his home, came to Oshkosh with a
well developed case of smallpox and
was at once placed in quarantine in a
vacant building. He is expected to
recover shortly.
While driving near Cashton, Joseph
GraW, a mail carrier, had a twenty
minute fight with a 7-foot rattlesnake
with nineteen rattles, finally dispatch
ing the reptile. This is very early
for snakes to appear
Ri. Rev. James Schwebach, bishop
of the diocese of La Crosse, has been
taken to La Crosse hospital 1t is
announced that he is not seriously i'll, I
but that he may be confined Indefinite
ly to recuperate his health.
The Badger Rubber plant in Mineral
Point has passed into other hands
The new company will be known as
the Ross Rubber Manufacturing Com
pany. The plant will be operated in
the future on a larger scale.
Rev. e. J. Evans, who has supplied
the pulpit Of st. Paul's Episcopal
Church in Beloit the last month, has
accepted the rectorship. He is a grad
uate Of Beloit College and son-in-law
of former Mayor c.. F. Hardy.
After being out, jury in the case
of the State versus DR.. Elias Cole,
77-year old Fairchild physician, charg- |
ed with causing the death of Maude |
Bennett by criminal operation, came |
in, reporting a disagreement, it was
discharged. The case will be tried |
again in September.
A telegram received from Sheridan, |
Wyo., states that two men were Killed |
in a railway wreck at that place on !
Friday, supposed to be Joseph Jandl |
and his brother. The two boys are |
supposed to be sons Of the late Frank |
JandI, of Caledonia, who left for the |
west some weeks ago.
c. H. Stubs has sold his creamery
at Lyons to Bblas brothers of Chi |
cago. The purchasers will install
bottling equipment, and will discon- i
tinue the making of butter. The milk |
and cream will all be shipped to Chi
cago Mr.. Stubs retires after bust
ness career of twenty-five years at
Lyons.
Judgment has been entered in favor
of the Finance Company, of Pennsyl
vania, against the GAINESVILLE Street |
Railway Company in the action to |
foreclose the mortgage or trust deed |
Of which the plaintiff was trustee. The1
total valuation is $156,700, which is
the largest judgment ever entered in
a court in this county.
Stricken suddenly with apoplexy,
Mrs. Christian Walter, wife of
wealthy brewer of Neenah, died at
Pueblo, Col, very suddenly. She had
gone there to attend the wedding Of |
her niece, Miss Christina Walter; of |
Pueblo, and Dr. D. c. OConnell, of
Milwaukee The high altitude is given
as the cause of her sudden demise.
The Oshkosh Yacht Club held its
annual meeting the other night and |
elected these officers: Commodore, |
Henry w. Roenitz; vice commodore,
frederic j. Eaton; junior vice com
modore, Charles P. Bray; secretary,
J. T. O'Brien; treasurer, Oscar GraTy, |
Jr.; feet captain, Ernst Derksen; |
measurer, Edward w Goettmann; di-
rectors, f. P. Gillet, Dr. NJ E. Corbett, |
H. C. Roenitz, John c. Thompson and |
Commodore H. W. Roenitz.
While assisting in taking soundings
John Naples fell off the revetment in
Sturgeon Bay into the canal and be-
fore assistance could reach him he
was drowned He was % years old
and leaves a wife and one child.
Their demands for a 10 per cent
increase il wages being refused, about
eighty workmen quit their work at
the Oberbeck Bros Manufacturing
Company in Grand Rapids, and the
plant is idle. They also demand
semi-monthly instead of monthly pay
day.
Ernest Ruegg, the 3-year-old son of
Henry Ruegg, a cheesemaker at the
Centerville cheese factory, was in
stantly killed by falling under the
wheel of a heavily loaded cheese
wagon His head was run over by
one wheel. The child had been play
ing around the wagon.
Fire destroyed four buildings on
Ormsby street. Oxford, including a
meat market, drug store, Good Tenn
plars' Hall. and two story frame
building occupied as dwelling. The
total loss is about $4,000, partially COW
cred by insurance.
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