Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-05-26
SHORT STATE ITEMS.

moses White, one of the active mem
bers of the Odanah Indians.
A marriage license was obtained by
Henry Vanderhey, of Little Chute,
aged 20, to wed Minnie Biesterveld, of
the same place, aged 63 years.
The new First Methodist Episcopal
church IN Eau Claire will be equipped
with a pipe organ in memory of the
late Capt. John T. Tinker and wife,
charter members.
Thomas Clark, aged 80 years, com
mitted suicide at GAINESVILLE. He was
apparently in good health at the din
ner table, but went out to the barn
and hanged himself.
A heavy, soaking rain extinguished
the forest fires which has been burning
in northern Wisconsin for weeks. They
were the most destructive that ever
occurred in that section.
Louis Kupper, assessor of che town
Of Emmett, was found dead in a room
at the Wisconsin house, Watertown.
bottle of carbolic acid was found
by his side. He was Al years old and
unmarried
William Henry Harrison MacLean,
siXty-fve years old, a prominent Re
publican politician and leading coal
merchant, dropped dead in a coal cart
in GAINESVILLE while directing the work
of the men.
The constitutionality of the state
oil inspection law is being tested in
the municipal court of Kenosha county
in the case of the state against Thomas
B. Jeffery & Co., to collect fees for the
inspection of gasoline.
E N. Moore, of Oshkosh, was
awarded $500 in circuit court for in
juries which he received and which
permanently disabled him as a result
Of being crushed between two cabooses
while employed as switchman on the
Burlington road in Nebraska.
Martin Hoebe, a blacksmith on the
Great Northern ore docks at Superior
attempted to commit suicide by ram
ming a stick down his throat and later
swallowing horse medicine, it is al
legged. He was taken in custody,
pending an examination as to his san
ity
At Sheyboygan, while his bride-to-
be, Miss Minnie Patitz, lay seriously i'll
with appendicitis, for which she
was to undergo an operation, John
Barthey, an engineer employed by the
Kohler company at Riverside, fell
twenty feet off a ladder and was badly
injured
The steamer Charles A. Eddy was re-
leased from Brabelly Island, Poverty
passage, by the tug Smith and lighter
Dohearty of Sturgeon Bay. She went
to Escanaba under her own steam
The wreckers lightered 1000 tons of
ore. One 12-inch pump kept her free
after the diver had jacketed her bottom
where she struck
Northwestern passenger No IA had
a close call four miles west of Mani
towoc, when the ashpan Of the engine
dropped while the train was going at
high speed The jar when the cars
struck the pan threw the passenger
from their seats and there was a pan
ic The brakes were damaged and the
train reached the city one hour late
under slow speed.
Alphonse HUM, age IS, sen of a
wealthy farmer near Holcombe, was
accidentally shot by boy companion
who lives at the Hum home. He was
playing with rifle which he did not
know was loaded and was aiming at
HUM in fun when the weapon expIod- |
ed. The bullet entered Hunz's neck |
above the collar bone. He is in a Sc
rious condition and is not expected to !
live
Thomas R. Lloyd Jones, superintend- |
ent of the public schools Of Fond du |
Lac, and formerly Of the schools Of !
Wauwatosa, was elected principal Of
the high. school of Madison at sal !
airy of $4,000 He viii succeed Prof. !
j. H Hutchison, who desired to be re
lieved to devote all his time to the
science department of the school. Prof. |
Jones was graduated from the Wiscon-
sin university in 1896.
A warrant was issued by Judge Mar
chetti, Of Wausau, charging a Mostnee !
man with setting fire to the barn in
the rear of a saloon building in which !
was originated the fire which burned
so large a part Of Mosinee the other
night w E. Finnegan, deputy fire
CT Green Bay, brings the com
plant. Finnegan and ]. &. Florin, at
torney for the state fire marshal, has
been taking af1davits and testimony at |
Mosinee.
Joseph Richie, one Of the wealthiest
men in central Wisconsin, has been
working out fine in Stevens Point, |
by doing time at hard labor On the
street unloading and piling bridge !
plank to be used in repianking the city !
bridge His predicament grew out of !
an alteration in Forest cemetery |
with Walter Kline Ritchie was en- |
to hire a man to work for
him when, it is alleged, Kline cut in |
with a few remarks which Ritchie re-
scented and Kline had him arrested on |
a charge Of using language tending to
provoke a breach Of the peace and also
for assault Richie pleaded guilty |
and was fined So and costs. with the
Of twenty days in jail |
declined to pay the fine.
The corner stone Of the new parish
hall of Zion Episcopal church of
was laid recently. Bishop |
Webb was in charge, assisted BY Canon |
st. George, of Nashotah House. and |
the Rev. John White, rector of Zion
church.
Peter Cummins, of Gary, Ind, was
stabbed under the heart and bis left |
leg nearly severed below the knee in
q riot Of railroad Iaborers employed |
on the double tracking of the Milwau- |
kee road near Bangor Cummins may |
die. Five men are in jail charged with |
assauIting Cummins.