Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-16
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF

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Clyde Hill committed suicide at Bar
aboo, when arrested for theft at the
instigation of his cousin, Charles Dick
lie of Portland, Ore
Deputy Game Wardens Gruebner of
Sheboygan and O'Connen of Milwaukee
arrested Daniel Smiles of Oostburg for
Illegal fishing. He was fined SIS.
Mrs. Annie Braun died in Sheboygan
from paralysis. When she received the
stroke she was carrying lamp in her
hand, and in falling was burned badly.
The Standard Oil Company has adj
yised Commissioner BeedIe that it car
ries no insurance whatever upon its
large properties in Wisconsin or else
where.
c. P. Trip, of Portage, was driving
a runabout in the country when the car
caught fire and was destroyed Mr.
Trip saved himself by a hurried exit
from the machine
George F. Penn, treasurer of the
Trades and Labor Assembly in Supe-
rior, was in court to answer the charge
of embezzlement of $3.50 belonging 10
the assembly.
A 3-year-old son of Max Liesegold
was run over and killed by a North
western passenger train. The little
one was terribly mangled. The family
came recently from Delavan
Peter Zimmers, for the past six years
superintendent of Kenosha public
schools, has resigned and has left for
a trip through the west. Mr. Zimmers
recently was elected superintendent of
schools in Manitowoc.
Attorney Dennis 7. Phalen of She
boygan has announced his candidacy
for Congressman from the Sixth Dis
trict. Mr.. Phalen was District Attor-
ney for four years, and served a term
in the Assembly and a term in the
State Senate, 1917. He is now court
commissioner.
Tomah is still dry After hearing
the case brought to test the result of
the license election recently held al
Tomah, the court held that sufficient
cause had not been shown to Justify
an order for a recount, and dismissed
the proceeding. The case may go to
the state Supreme Court.
A masked burglar awoke Mr.. and
Mrs. F. D. Burke in Madison and al
the point of a gun compelled them to
assist him in getting away with about
5000 worth Of jewelry belonging to
Mrs. Burke. He then made his es-
cape and no clue as to his whereabouts
has been found by the police.
A message has been received telling
of the death of John P Oberweiser, a
former Menasha young man, in Bill
ings, Mont Death was due to apoplexy
and resulted after an illness of less
than a day. Mr.. Oberweiser left Me-
nasha eight years ago to engage in
business in the western city
Andrew Stevenson, Arlington, has
announced his candidacy for the Re
publican nomination as member of the
Assembly for the First Columbia coun-
ty district. He has lived in the coun-
ty since 1854. James S. Towers, who
has served one term for the district.
has also announced his candidacy.
Demanding an increase in wages of
1919 per cent after a voluntary in
crease of 7 per cent had been granted
them, the flour and feed packers of the
Listman mill in La Crosse went on a
strike. In the hopes of having the
men reconsider their action the mill,
which employs 300 men, has been shut
down.
Persistence in looking for a street
car to New York led 10 the arrest in
La Crosse of a stranger giving his
name as John Molloy, New York, and
his removal from central police station
to a hospital DR.. WolE, city physi-
clan, says the man has kidney trouble
which has affected his brain. Molloy
says he does not know how he got to
La Crosse, and can not be made to
believe that he is not in a suburb of
New York.
Mrs. Charlotte Allen, wife of Charles
w. Allen, a director in the so-called
leather trust" and a member of the
@. n. Allen Sons Company of Kenosha,
who arrived in New York on
the Cunarder Lusitania, pleaded
guilty, through her attorney, in
the criminal branch of the Unit
ed States Circuit Court to an
Indictment charging her with hay
ing struggled jewelry and wearing ap-
parel worth about $4,000 into the coun-
try Judge Holt imposed a fine of
500, which was paid. Similar charges
against Mrs. Aliens daughter, Miss
Gertrude Allen; the daughters chum,
Miss Ethel Sumner, and Mrs c.. D.
Cregier, a Chicago woman, were
dropped after Mrs. Aliens avowal of
guilt
Cut worms, gophers and drought are
working havoc among the crops near
La Crosse. In many instances entire
fields of corn and rye had to be re-
planted and farmers are waging war
with poisons against the gopheFs.
Prof Paul S. Reinsch, head of the
department of political science at the
University of Wisconsin, has left for
Washington to attend meeting Of the
American delegation to the fourth Pan
American conference at Buenos Ayres
July 8.
AS the result Of a bullet wound in
his leg caused by the discharge of the
revolver carried in his pocket, Patrol
man Frank Wolf of La Crosse is con-
fined to the hospital. Wolf was whirl-
ing his club when he accidentally hit
the weapon in his pocket.
Kenosha county farmers have formed
an organization known as the Keno
sha Horse Owners Protective Associa-
ton" The association, which started
with more than seventy-f1ve members,
will seek to capture and convict every
man who steals a horse in Kenosha
county.
The Grant Railroad Company, with