Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-02-17
ALL OVER THE STATE.


GAINESVILLE factory were rescued after
being overcome by gas escaping from
a broken pipe
The residence of Camille Nice in the
suburbs of Marinette, was destroyed
by fire with all its contents. The
loss is estimated at $4,000
Tie C. Reiss Coal Company in She
boygan has notified all of its coal dock
employees of an advance amounting
from Is to % cents a day.
Louis Backhausen, of Wrightstowu,
was run over and killed at Forest
Junction by a Milwaukee road train,
his head being severed from his body
The State board of control has mott
fed the county board that the La
Crosse insane asylum at West Salem
is to be reconstructed at a cost of
100000
The Stevens Point common council
cut the mayors salary from $500 to
S51 per year. The council also patch
ed up the trouble with the Stevens
Point Water Company
Officials of the University of Wis
consin denied that Professor E. A
Ross had been ordered to take a leave
of absence because he attended a lee
ture by Emma Goldman.
Nicholas Orth, one of the earliest
pioneers of Sheboygan County, who
drove stage between Sheboygan and
Fond du Lac on the old plank road
before the railroad was built, is dead
In Madison the dairy classes of 1909
consisting of 100 students, of whom
sixty are creamery butter makers and
forty factory cheese makers, have com
pleted the three months winter dairy
course.
Joe Myers, who for some time has
been believed to be mentally unbaI-
anced, undertook to end his life by
tearing his throat with a button hook
while confined in jail in Monroe He
will recover should no complications
set in.
While at work in an elevator shaft
in the Kilbourn Touring mills three
men fell twenty feet by the breaking
of the scaffold. The men were slightly
injured, but D. w Beatty sustained
injuries to his head and spine which
may prove fatal
Sylvanus Stevenowitz, aged IA years,
fell from a dump cart in the yards
of the Garten Toy Company in She
boygan and broke his neck. He was
playing with some boys when the &C
cident occurred and they carried him
home, but before physician arrived
ne had died.
Frederick Weyerhauser has resigned
as a director of the First National
bank of Chippewa Falls and will also
retire from the directorate of about
thirty banks in the northwest 1t is
said that this marks his gradual re-
tirement from active business opera
lions of all kinds.
A mysterious series of fires occurred
on the lower Winnebago Lake when
three large fishing shanties owned by
Menasha and Neenah parties were
burned. 1t was reported that they had
been destroyed by game wardens be-
cause they had no windows. This
was denied by Game Warden Gruen-
valid of Neenah.
DR.. M. P. Ravenel, of the University
Of Wisconsin, authority on tubercu-
losis, declared it is folly for consump-
tives to go west. stay in your own
State" was his advice, but live in
the out-of-doors with an abundance of
fresh air and sunlight. Climate has
very little to do with it, except in
individual cases."
William Barclay, aged % years, who
came to La Crosse from Peoria, H.,
two months ago, was found dead in
his room at lodging house. An in
vestigation showed he rad taken poi
son. Barclay received Y letter from
his mother that morning but destroyed
it. No reason is known for the deed.
The young man was popular and had
made many friends.
Ward E. Hedger has been sentenced
to life Imprisonment, the penalty for
numbering his wife, Louise, on Sep
TENDER 9, 1909. The sentence, decree
ing that the first day Of confinement
should be spent in absolute solitude
and every anniversary of the crime
thereafter, so long as the convicted
murderer shall Live, was pronounced
by Judge John c. Ludwig in branch
4 of the Circuit Court in Milwaukee
Hedger, pale, emotionIess, stoical as
he has been ever since the cold body
was found that night in the kitchen
of the little home, heard this sentence
unmoved.
Ed Jorstad, aged so, a farmer of
Rush River, whose mind has been
deranged for some time, escaped from
his home while the family was not
on their guard and committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head
The body of Charles HinkeI was
found hanging from a rafter in his
barn at Rome. He was about to go
on a visit to Minnesota and friends
scout the suicide theory. Money and
valuables were found intact in his
clothes.
In her will Mrs. Jane Powell BE-
Queaths her estate, with the exception
of $4,000, which she gives to five
nephews of her first husband, to her
second husband, Thomas Powell of
Eau Claire. The estate is estimated
to be worth from 100000 to $780, 900
"a Journey Godward" is the title of
Bishop c. C. Grafton's autobiography,
prepared while sojourning in Florida
according to information received in
Fond du Lac. The new work is de-
voted largely to personal "reminiscences
of the bishop and is now being printed
in Milwaukee.
The ioint rom I'M ittae of GJnorior ond