Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-09-29
WISCONSIN NEWS
TERSELY TOLD

f|OOOAAc1A, oSSu IA0INS- Inc UOy ,
were caught in the act of breaking
!iato a hardware store They were
:equipped with a complete burglars
!octft, carrying a screwdriver fitted
into jimmy, a diamond glass cutter
and other tools. According to the po-
lice, the boys have confessed they
committed seven or eight burglaries
No great amount of plumber was Sc
cured in any Of the places entered.
Fond du Lac.-The two little
sons of Mr.. and Mrs. D. C. So.
,gTen Of this city and their nursemaid
Louise Grugene, were adrift on Lake
lWinnebago in an open boat They
were fishing, when a squat of wind
blew the boat out of Lakewood bay
into the broad reaches of the lake. De-
spite the efforts Of the maid the craft
was carried out into the rougher wa
tiers and she was finally forced to
give up rowing and direct her efforts
A motor boat from this city rescued
the party.
Racine.-Capt Edward Gil1en,
president Of the GiIlen Dock,
Dredge and Construction company
and one of the best known marine
contractors on the Great Lakes, lies
at the Lutheran hospital at Cleveland.
o., in a critical condition, following
an accident at Nottingham, O. Captain
Gillen, while directing some construc-
fion work on one of the company's
scows, was struck on the head by a
heavy tackle, causing injuries which
may prove fatal.
Racine.-Mrs. Hannah A. Foster.
widow Of the late A A Fos-
ter, who settled in Southport, now
iKenosha, when three years of age and
came to Racine in 1872, died there.
She was born in Connecticut in 1888.
Stephen Spring Chase, a former old
resident of Evansville and GAINESVILLE,
wis, died here, aged eighty-five. Mrs.
ELLEN Scrtben, an old resident Of Be-
lott, who had resided with relatives
here, died, aged eighty.
Racine.-Frank and Leo Miller.
Albert Gillen, James Higgins and
T. C. Hegner of this city were
tried at Port Washington, Wis, on
charge Of having caused injury to a
farmer near that place. The men
were on the way to Green Bay in an
automobile. A team of horses became
frightened at the auto and ran into a
ditch, injuring the man. Judge VIII
liam Cohlen discharged the men.
Marinette.-A deposition in a dam
age suit was taken by Court Commits
sioner Alvin E. Davis. The case Is
that of Frank Stoja, who sues the
firm Of Bates & Rogers, contractors
tn High Falls, for $25, 900 for personal
injuries. He alleges he was struck
by falling plank while working for
the company.
Madison-The state board of con-
troll has awarded the contract for the
hardware fixtures for the new build
ing at the school in Sparta to the
Phillip Gross Hardware company,
Milwaukee. The Kowasky company,
Milwaukee, was awarded a similar
contract for the school for the deaf
in Delavan.
Kenosha.-It is alleged that an at
tempt was made to kill Frank
Bubenich, a farm hand, on a road in
the western part Of this county. 1t
is said that three men attacked him
and that one stabbed him in the body
and the other cut him on the head
lieved that he will live. Two arrests
have been made.
Observation-Disclosures Ulseth of Calu-
met, Mich, won a race against death
from Marinette to his home. Mr.
,Ulseth was here on business when
he received word that his wife was
dying He engaged a special train
from Escanaba to Negaunee to con-
meet with the Duluth, South Shore &
Atlantic road, and reached the bed
side Of his wife. She recognized him
and died a few minutes later.
Appleton.-Returning to get his
umbrella after he had started
home at the end of his weeks work,
Joseph Wilger, an employe of the Fox
River Valley stone works, touched an
electric switch as he entered the plant
and was instantly killed
Beloit.-Louis T. Thompson, eighty
two years old, died in the farm resi-
i,dence of his son. He came from
Norway in 1852 and made his home
in Black Earth. Later he lived in
Boscobel and Sharon. He came to
the town Of Beloit nine years ago.
Beloit.-The freshman class Of
tBeloit college will number $50. the
largest in the history of the school.
Baraboo-Daniel Kimball, resident
of Baraboo for 43 years, is dead. He
was ninety years old.
Beloit-Beloit college has been
granted a Phi Beta Kappa chapter by
the general council in New York
Beioit.-W. Williams, aged eighty,
died suddenly. He was for many
years a superintendent Of the Rock
River Paper company's West side
mill.
Oconto.-Isaac Jones, seventy years
old, a resident of Oconto for 40 years,
died after an Illness of two days.
Superior.-After preparing to at
tend the silver wedding anniversary
of a friend, August Geffers was seized
with coughing, ruptured a blood yes
sci and dropped dead at his wife's
feet
Chippewa Falls.-Edwin Stern,
.thirty-fYe years old, was run over
by an automobile and seriously hurt
and Daniel Huff, sixty-four years old,
was knocked more than twenty feet
by another machine and made uncon-
'scious.
Green Bay-Rt Rev. Bishop Fox,
who recently returned from the eu-
Icharistic congress in Montreal, has
begun a tour Of visitation and con-
.frmation that will continue into No
vember
La Crosse.-The first steps toward
organizing troops of boy scouts in La
Crosse have been taken. Three troops
in La Crosse and one in Onalaska ere
in training.
Madison-The capitol building