Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-09
MINOR STATE ITEMS.

| pIeLed, d crusade against puDllc DeggdrS
will be launched in Fond du Lac.
Drowning is given as the cause of
/ the death of Mack Duffy, of the town
of Bayfield,, found in a shallow swamp
near Cornucopia.
John Clark, a laborer, working on
/ the 500 Line near Colfax, fell from the
top of car, striking on his head and
shoulders. His body was paralyzed and
recovery is doubtful
The Wisconsin Telephone Company
has restored the old rates for local
service in New Richmond, the rates
prevailing prior to the telephone strike
in that city, when scores of business
and residence telephones were discon-
! tinued.
Pinning a flower on the lapel of his
coat and bidding his wife good morn
ing" Edward S. Meacham, of BeIoit,
aged 40, borrowed a gun from a roomer
on the preteXt that he wanted to shoot
a rat, lay down on a bed and blew his
brains out.
Alexander Stewart, while visiting the
Marathon paper mills in Wausau fell
and sustained a compound fracture of
| his right arm. He is resting easily,
but his recovery will be retarded in
! view of the fact that he is nearly so
years of age.
Nothing has been found of the bodies
of Delos Martin and Louis Schatczel
two Ashland high school boys, who
were drowned in Chequamegon Bay
three weeks agot The finding of the
upturned canoe and the hat of one of
the boys indicates that the boys were
| drowned.
William Blazier, aged 60, was fatally
injured in Marinette He had just
alighted from a train at the station
and was seen to reel and fall right in
front of the locomotive, just as the
train had started. He died before he
reached the hospital, having been dis
emboweled.
The pearl season opened with three
extraordinary finds by fishermen be-
tween Prairie du Chen and Lansing
A ninety grain white drop, a seventy
four grain pink baroque, and forty
grain white globe were picked out Of
mussel shells. The value is in the
neighborhood Of $4,000.
Mrs. Anne Braun, of Sheboygan,
while in the pantry with a lighted
lamp in her hand, was stricken with
paralysis. When found by her son
she was in a helpless condition, her
hair and the shelf paper being all
ablaze. It is feared that the stroke has
affected both her speech and hearing
To be blowing in field and have a
swarm of bees alight on his horses and
! his hat was the experience of Kay Nc
| Curry, a farmer living near Roscoe.
He placed his hat on a pole and set the
pole, with the result that the bees left
the horses and swarmed about the hat
! Neither McCurry nor the horses were
stung.
/ The Grant Railroad Company, of
| Mount Hope, Grant County, filed arti-
cles of incorporation in the Office of
the Secretary of State the other day.
1t intends to build road from Fenni-
more on the Chicago and Northwestern
to Bagley on the Burlington, distance
of twenty miles. It's capital stock is
| $4,000.
Game Warden G. w. Rickeman re-
| ports twenty convictions for violation
of fish and game laws in week, the
fines amounting to S605, costs $168.78,
making a total of $773.78. Most of the
convictions are for illegal methods of
fishing, netting or dynamiting, al
| though two are for killing deer in
closed season.
A settlement out of court was reach
ed in the Circuit Court in Oshkosh in
the case of J. Rasmussen & Sons Com
pany, of Oshkosh, against the city of
Fond du Lac. The firm sued as the
result Of being awarded contract for
a cement pavement, the Mayor of Fond
du Lac not signing the contract after
the firm had prepared to do the work,
| being the lowest bidder
Francis, 15-year-old son of Joseph NIey-
er, of the Republic Lumber Company,
was instantly electrocuted, when he at
tempted to dislodge some sparrOws
from their roosting place on two cleo
trio wires in Marinette. The boy was
standing on top of a high lumber pile
which the wirss cleared by only three
feet He caught one wire with each
hand and his body fell lifeless on the
lumber pile.
F. M. Stein, who was charged with
burglary and who conducted his own
| defense, was found guilty in Shawano
and sentenced to Waupun for three
years. NJ. c. Cooksten was found guilty
of perjury, but sentence was suspended.
| Leading business men, merchants and
professional men signed the petition
for the suspension of sentence. Cooks
ton was a witness for L. NJ. Goldberg
& Co., in civil action.
Thomas E. Nash, for many years
president of the Nekoosa-Edward Pa
per Company, of Grand Rapids, resign
ed at meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors Mr.. Nash was compelled to give
up active work on account of i'll health.
The coroner has decided that Lee
Wfnkler, whose body was found near
| LOU4io, clAlCl DCluS LIlooAlA6 A1Onl
| home for a week, came to his death by
natural causes. 1t is thought death
was caused by the bursting Of blood
vessel.
| Rev. A. P. Van Dusen, of Darlington,
has been extended a call to occupy the
pulpit of the First Baptist Church of
Superior. If he stays in the ministry
he will go to the Superior church,
| but is undecided whether to quit the
ministry altogether or not.
In the debate between the New Rich
mond and Hudson high schools in Hud-