Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-06
STATE NEWS
IN BRIEF

1912, selected for what is planned
to be the most elaborate pub
LEGATION of the kind ever issued at
Lawrence college was announced as
follows: Editor in chief, George
hoehn, Sheboygan; associate editors.
Paul Ivey. Grand Marais, Mich; Har
~ Heiden, Sheboygan; Georgia
Humphrey, Milwaukee; Eneid Sack
or, Appleton; Evelyn Hall, Appleton;
Charles Ford. Pepin: Edith Isley. Mon
roe; art illustrators, Robert Ewers.
Menomonee Falls and Miss Harriet
\. Marks, Lancaster; business mana
ger, Floyd Bennison, GAINESVILLE; as
sistant business manager. Chris IsIey,
Monroe.
Observation-Disclosures trade schools
has made necessary two new in
structors. Next week night classes
will begin, and Secretary Har-
bach reports that the girls classes
promise to be crowded, though this
is the first year. In the girls trade
school, there are 144 girls. the largest
number yet enrolled. Miss K. S.
Johnson has been recommended as
assistant sewing instructor in the
girls school. F. R. Crabtree has been
recommended as instructor in me
chanical drawing for plumbing ana
carpentry.
Janesville-EH Cook, aged twen-
ty-one, of Richland Center, a stu
dent at the Evansville seminary
| where he was working his way
! through school, was electrocuted in
the basement of drug store where
he had gone to light a fire. He turned
| on the electric light, at the same
| time grasping the wire where the in
sulation was worn off. He received
the full shock. Cook died before med
/ zeal aid reached him. His parents
! live near Richland Center.
| Jefferson.-This was entry day
at the Jefferson County and Rock
River Valley society's f1fty-f1fth annual
| fair, but no races or special attrac-
! tons were billed. The entries in all
| departments are exceptionally good
Ninety horses are entered in competi.
| ton for $4,000 in purses. Special
| trains will accommodate all of the
surrounding cities.
Fond du Lae,-Roy Esgert. twenty
| years of age, was fatally in
| jured in the 500 line shops, where he
was employed as blacksmith's help,
er. He was oil1ng a shafting when
| his coat became caught on the betting
and he was dragged around the shaft.
The machinery was stopped and the
| boy rushed to the hospital
Marinette.-Senator Isaac Stephen
son, with his son-in-law, H ]. Brown
in an automobile made a personal in.
spection of drive conditions along the
Menominee river. Both the North
Ludington and the Island mill, the
two Stephenson saving plants in this
city, have had to close on account OF
the log shortage, which resulted from
the failure to finish the drive in the
spring because of low water.
Highland. = Gertrude Stake, ten
year-old daughter of John Stake, a
farmer, was accidentally shot and
killed by the nine-year-old son OF
John Thomas, a neighbor. A repeat
ing rife was playfully picked up by
the boy and he pressed the trigger
The bullet entered the girls forehead
Marinette. - Fire broke out in
the Aragon mine at Norway, 80
miles north of Marinette, periling over
100 workmen who were in the mine
at the time. All were finally rescued
unframed, and the burning section
of the mine flooded.
Manitowoc-Members of Lutheran
parochial school faculties of the Win
nebago district of the northwest con
| ference will meet in Manitowoc 1t
is expected that about 100 teachers
viii attend.
Appleton-The inheritance tax on
the estate of John Van Nortwick, pres,
fdent of the Green Bay and Mississippi
Canal company, was fixed at about
$4,000
Kenosha -Nazerino Angelina was
arrested here. charged with vi
olating the game laws. He had
five squirrels, two rabbits and seven
song birds and on plea of guilty he
was fined SIS and the costs. He went
to Jail for so days in default of pay
ment of the fine.
Evansville.-Fred Hendricks Of this
city. aged twenty-one, a student at the
University of Wisconsin, died after a
lingering illness of pulmonary tuber.
culosis.
Eau. CIaire.-Mrs William Yule OF
this city received the news Of the muir.
der near Austin, n. D., of her brother.
in-law, Adelbert Crow, who formerly
lived in this city.
Racine.-Mrs W. L. Williams,
one of the Oldest and best known
Welsh women of Racine, is dead. She
was seventy-nine years old and had
lived in Racine 55 years.
Madison-The investigation of the
alleged use of the states stamped
envelopes in connection with the
candidacy OF the late Frank T. Tucker
will be continued.
candinavia-Barney Peterson was
badly injured by being caught by
pulley of corn shredder.
Manitowoc.-The new assessment
rolls of Manitowoc county show that
the assessed valuation has increased
nearly s1,0OOO00 in one year. The
total valuation in 1909 was s35,059, sos
and that for 1910 is s35,965,225
Neenah.-Chief rangers and deputies
of the Catholic Order of Foresters of
the Fox river valley will meet here to
perfect plans for the work of the vari-
Gus courts during the fall and winter.
La Crosse.-The enrolment in the
La Crosse Normal school is 81, about
$50 more than was listed at this time
last year. graduating class of sew
enty-five IS practically assured.
Neenah.-William Ebeling, said to
be from Green Bay, was mysteriously
shot In the house of Cora Edwards.
and now lies at Clark hospital at the
point of death. The woman was
placed under arrest and removed tc
the county Jail at Oshkosh, where she