Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-03

liz IOuI III COuIlL Vi TIE Indictment
against Fred NJ. Price, former supervi-
sor and town chairman of the town
of Grover and at one time assembly
man, was quashed by the court, the
statute of limitation running against
it.
John Schmitt, who sued the Fair
banks-Morse Company of Beloit for
$4,000 for injuries while working on
the installation of dock machinery, has
accepted $2,100 in settlement. Schmitt
was buried under a falling bucket of
coal and had his arm broken and was
otherwise injured.
Henry Lockhart was run over by
a train on the Milwaukee road and
parts of the body were carried along
the track for block in Racine Lock
hart has long been subject to epileptic
fits, and the belief is that while walk
ing along the tracks he was stricken
and fell unconscious.
A jury found former Supervisor F.
c. Price guilty of being an accessory
paid to supervisor to influence him
in agreeing to the purchase of a road
machine for Marinette county. Of the
eighteen indictment cases already dis
posed of this is the first one to stick
Tossed and thrown about in a coach
that went tearing through box cars
and over railroad tracks in the Big
Four wreck at Cincinnati, Charles
Jagerson, of Neenah, escaped unhurt
He wrote relatives that he was sitting
with one of the trainmen who was in
stantly killed, but he miraculously es-
capped.
Serious delay is to be encountered
by the Northwestern Railway in its
effort to lay a new direct line across
from Milwaukee to La Crosse Com
plant has been filed with the rail
road commission by~farmers along the
western end of the new route, pro-
testing against the right-of-way sought
by the company.
The gym itch,'' a contagious skin
disease, has appeared among the stu
dents of the university in Madison,
and precautions are being taken to
prevent it's further spread. The itchy
sensation is said to be caused by a
small insect or mite which burrows
beneath the cuticle. The remedy being
prescribed is a mixture of lard and
sulphur.
Because his 5-year-old son put his
fingers in a lawnmOwer which Harvey
n. Johnson, of La Crosse, was towing
behind bicycle, and cut off one
finger, manning two others and other
wise bruising his hand, c. S. Benia-
min has brought suit against Mr.. John
son for $4,000 damages. Mr.. Johnson
declares he did not know that the boy
was behind him.
The long fight by the students of the
University of Wisconsin for an inn
partial hearing before dismissal from
college for alleged breaches of discI-
pline has probably been brought TO
a close by the decision of the uni
versity faculty to establish a student
court which shall have power to con
slider all cases of delinquencies brought
to the notice OF the faculty.
The recent sloppy weather, with
water running down the cutters, and
slushy sidewalks, was like that usually
seen late in March. 1t was a January
thaw all right. and a little more such
weather will cut in on the loggers
around Ashland. In fact, there is COM
paratively little snow so that it will
not take long for mild weather to in
terfere in many ways with business.
Never in the history of Fit Dodge
has there been so much winter build
ing of Importance and no winter for
many years has been so poorly suited
| for this manner of Improvement, yet
work is progressing quite steadily in
all cases. The Butler school, a fine
| three-story building in a new suburb,
will De completed by Feb. LIST; the
knights of Columbus building, which
! is to house temporarily the postoffice,
is being rushed with all speed; the
J w dlI hOAlSS1 IlOiSA has az " dtlSSu u lilS
| third story, as has the Smell Building,
a big business block. Brick layers
have worked even in zero weather, al
though laboring at a disadvantage.
The Clayton Telephone Company is
| just organized and will connect with
the Wisconsin Telephone Company in
Neenah. The Larsen Telephone Com
pany was recently organized also. All
farm districts in Winnebago County
are now touched by telephones.
Edward Quesnell, of Holcombe, was
convicted in court of selling nahum.
Holcombe is a dry village. The
State Anti-Saloon League worked up
the case by employing NJ. D. Graves,
a detective from Eau Claire, to obtain
the evidence. QuesneIl was fined $50
and costs.
]. H. Peacock, of Prairie du Chen
purchased the large pearl found in
the Wisconsin River last August by
Muscoda hunters. The price paid was
$500 The pearl is about the size of
small hazelnut and has a beautiful
color
CARRIED in the uniform of a nurse
a stranger obtained admission to the
home of Mrs. Woodland in La Crosse
and asked permission to leave f
| days-old infant while she telephoned
to Eau Claire The woman then dis
appeared and no trace of her has since
been found.