Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-23
AMONG OUR NEIGHBoRs.


the grocery. store of Carl R. Zinkie and
secured $50 and a revolver.
The Wisconsin Democratic state cen
trail committee decided to hold a state
convention in Milwaukee July -
Four men broke into a bank in
Darien, and were in the act of blow
ing the safe when they were fright
ened away by passersby.
The Flying Dutchman, one of the
largest launches on Ike Pepin and
largely used for passenger trade, was
burned while at anchor at Maiden
Rock
Fire destroyed the B. B. elevator,
power house. brewery bottling works
and three residences, together with the
coal sheds and number of cars at
McGregor
Elmer Trideaux, of Dodgeville, a
deaf mute and a student at the State
School for the Deaf, was killed by
Northwestern train at Legion while
walking on the track.
The creamery at Wild Rose was de-
stroyed by fire with its contents The
fire is supposed to have started in the
boiler room. Work was commenced at
once on a new building.
George Moynette, the boy who was
run down by a train on the North
western trestle across the Fox River
in Appleton and lost both legs, died
in ST. Elizabeths hospital
William Mueller, who conducts a sa-
loon near Madison, was found guilty
in municipal court of selling liquor
to minors. He was fined $500 and SEN
fenced to six months in State prison.
Verla Carlin, the 4-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Carlin, died at her
home in Kenosha as a result of burns
received when with a number of com
panions she was playing around a bon
fire.
When arraigned in court on a chrge
Of numbering John H. Studier, foreman
of the La Crosse Fearl Button Com
pany, Matt Ruesgen pleaded guilty and
was bound over to the Circuit Court
for sentence.
Matthew Dalton a Northwestern en-
ploye, was found dead on the tracks
near GAINESVILLE He is thought to have
been robbed and murdered. A large
sum of money in his possession when
last seen was missing.
The mangled remains of an unknown
man. apparently about 35 years of age,
wi, ha
road tracks two and half miles west
of Portage. Nothing that would help
identify the body was found
At Beaver Dam fire in the Success
store, owned by w. H. Becken, did
$4,000 damage to the stock Smoke and
water damaged W. D. McKinstry's fur
niture stock and the Beaver Dam
Light and Fuel company's Office fix
lures.
AS a result of an order by District
Attorney John w. Reynolds, Green
Bay, under the directions of the mem
bers of the county board, all slot ma
chimes throughout Depere have been
taken out of the saloons and candy
stores
Organization of the Retail Liquor
Dealers Association of Manitowoc has
been effected to oppose any and all
candidates who may be pledged to the
county option program, and will prob
ably employ speakers to campaign the
county.
The congregation of Trinity Luther
an Church, at Sheboygan, has extended
a call to Rev Mr. Biedermann, Indian
apolis, Ind, to take charge of the local
parish to succeed Rev. Mr.. Frederick
Wolbrecht, who has resigned after more
than twenty-five years service.
Every saloonkeeper in Edgerton was
called before the city council and
threatened with loss of license for
selling liquor to minors, and all but
one were let go on compromise,
promising to obey the law strictly re-
gardfng sale of liquo2 to minors and
the taking out of screens. One license
out of the ten in the city was revoked.
In the Kenosha municipal court
Judge Randall has handed down a de-
cision ordering judgment for the
plaintiff in the sum of $1,000 in the
suit of Enoch Kline against the Mil
waukee Electric Railway and Light
Company. Kline was stabbed on a car
between Racine and Kenosha nearly a
year ago and brought suit declaring
that he did not receive proper protec-
tion while a passenger on the car Of
the defendant company. The case may
be appealed to the Supreme Court.
The Lacking stroke.