Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-05-12
BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS.

party mas nled statement showing
it spent $3.50 in the municipal cleo
ton.
Charles Dibble of Packwaukee was
found dead. An inquest was held and
the jury rendered a verdict that death
was due to alcoholic poisoning.
Ed Sires pleaded guilty to having set
fire to a barn of Anton Orostrowki in
the town of Harrison, and he was SEN
fenced to two years in State prison.
The Giant Marble Company of Mil
waukee, which has the marble contract
on the south wing of the new capitol,
has increased its capital stock from
S150,000 to $350,0O0
The annual convention of the State
rural letter carriers will be held IN
Baraboo May 80 and 81. About 200
delegates are expected. The president
is R. NJ. Kerney, Milwaukee.
The Linderman Box and Veneer
Company's factory was destroyed by
fire in Eau Claire. The origin of the
fire is unknown. The company's other
buildings and lumber yard were saved
The damage amounts to $4,000, most
ly covered by insurance.
One hundred and twenty-eight build
ing carpenters went out on a strike in
Racine. They were receiving 40 cents
an hour for eight hours work and de
manded so cents an hour The bosses
offered to pay 471a cents as a compro-
mise, but this was not accepted.
While few new cases of scarlet fever
appear now in Wausau, the virulence
Of the disease is still shown in occa-
sional cases and in the death of g.
year-old Neil Alexander. Mayor La
mont's home is still quarantined, the
third case there having appeared.
Ross Green committed suicide in
Weyauwega by shooting. He had been
discharged from the Northern State
hospital this spring, where he had been
for treatment for a mental trouble
caused from drink. A widow and
three children survive He had con-
Quoted a barbershop in Weyauwega
number of years.
James Matthews, of Marion, owns a
hen that he is ready to enter into
contest against that of Clate Conner,
Of Superior. His hen one day laid an
egg weighing AS ounces and measur-
ing s and 6B inches, respectively, in
circumference. The hen is only year
old and so far has laid siXty-one eggs.
Mr.. Connor's hens best achievement is
an egg weighing ounces and measur-
ing rs and 61s inches, respectively, in
circumference
Henry Sprink, of Menominee, was al
most instantly killed by the oyerturn-
ing Of his automobile With his wife,
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. Sphinx
was driving the car down a hill at
high speed when the sand at the foot
Of the hill turned the wheels, throwing
the occupants out. Mrs Sprink had an
arm broken, while Mr. Sprink was
caught by the steering wheel across
the stomach and pinned under the car.
He died fifteen minutes later.
Charles Brown, a harnessmaker, out
on strike, pleaded not guilty to the
charge of burning the dwelling occu-
pied by him in South Madison on
April Is. On that day his supposed
heroic rescue of his sick wife from
the burning building was widely her
aided. Burrows was held in $4,000
bonds and the trial set for May 5.
The officers had discovered that con-
siderable property had been removed
before the fire and subsequently listed
along with a claim for 81, 1000 personal
property insurance.
Assistant United States Engineer
L. NJ. Mann has sent out a notice to-
the waterpower users advising them
that they may avail themselves of the
full flow of water for the time being.
This applies to the paper mill owners
on the Fox River below Menasha and
they will be allowed to use 100 per
cent of the power Several weeks ago
tho government found it necessary to
curtail the supply because of the low
waters in the upriyers, but the heavy
rains and the blizzard have added a
great deal of water.
While the women of the German
Methodist church, in Appleton, of
which he was a member, were holding
an apron sale in his vacant store
building, 2. B. Volgt. for SO years a
shoe merchant and dealer in hides,
hanged himself in the loft of his barn
at the rear of the building. On April
Is, Mr. Volgt sold his stock of shoes
and since then has been trying to dis
pose of his store building and home,
presumably to move to Sheboygan,
where he has brother in the tannery
business. Dependency is believed to
have been the cause.
All but one plumbing firm in James
vile are handicapped owing to a strike
of the journeymen plumbers. They de
manded an eight-hour day and 81 per
day. and the master plumbers offer a
nine-hour day at 1915. The fight
promises to be long drawn out at
fair Masons seeking an eight-hour
day are still on strike, and contractors
are laying foundations themselves, aid
ed by boy helpers.
The barn, granary and hog barn on
the Henry Kranz farm near Lima were
destroyed by a mysterious fire The
loss is $1,000, covered by insurance.