Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-31
WITHIN OUR BORDERS.
Fire damaged the home of August
Becklnann Of Mansion, but the loss is
covered by insurance

William NageI of Pleasant Branch,
seven miles west Of Madison, was
killed by being hit on the head by the
fiywheeI of a wood-sawing machine
He was is years old
The Beloit Board of Health is en-
couraged over the scarlet fever situa-
ton Only one new case has been re-
ported in three days The total num-
her of cases in the city is sixty-six.
The stoughton post Office was dam
aged by fire, but the building, owned
by the State Bank, was saved by a
bucket brigade and the city fire de-
partment after $50 damage had been
done
Suffering agonizing pain and so bad
~ injured that he may become blind.
James Fritzen of Neenah is a victim of
fields who threw red pepper in his eyes
when he was winning over his oppo-
nent in a bowling game
Arthur Hotz made a desperate at
tempt to kill his mother at their Mer-
rill nome while temporarily insane.
He was taken to the Northern asylum
at Green Bay. It required several
neighbors to overcome him.
William Miller, S. years old, plead
ed guilty in Racine to the charge Of
forging a check upon Nicholas Ian
ser for $28 last September, and was
sentenced by Judge Shielding to four
years in the State prison at Waupun
The State Civil Service Commits
sion, it is understood, will at its next
meeting increase the salary of it's Sec
rotary, Frank Fawcett, who has plan
ned to take up the practice of law
The board desires to retain his serv-
ices.
Harry Gunderson, Minneapolis
man who had just finished term of
sixty days in the Kenosha county
jail after having been convicted Of
.rcbbing telephone coin boxes, was ar
rested as he left the jail and turned
over to Chief of Police Weboer of La
Crosse.
Bishop J. J. Keene of Cheyenne,
Wyo., closed his series of Lenten meet
ings in st. Paul Chapel, Madison, when
he discussed why Am I a Catholic?"
A meeting of the 5O0-odd Catholic stu
dents was held in the chapel to devise
ways and means for supporting the
church. The plan is to tax each stu
dent 81.
The funeral of William Hesse, for
mer Mayor of Neenah, was held the
other day. Until a year ago, when he
removed to Milwaukee, he was a Nee
nah resident. He dropped dead of
heart disease on a train at Big Tim
and city officials Of Neenah and the
Fox river valley attended the funeral
il a body.
After being closed down for ten days,
owing to the quarantine regulations,
Wausau is again wide open and
breathing easier The quarantine was
most sweeping, including all public
places, churches, schools, Kinks, parties
of all kinds, libraries, theaters, etc,
all activity in the city excepting the
manufacturing institutions and com
mercial houses. Meetings of all kinds
were barred.
While alighting from a buggy, Ben
Foster of Pound fell and croke one
of his legs. He was drunk and when
some men tried to get him on his feet
with man on each side, he was com
PEELED to walk toward the stable where
they were going to let him sleep. The
bones punctured the skin He was
taken twenty-three miles to Menomi-
nee, Mich, where Dr.. w. H. Dohearty
amputated the leg below the knee.
The first attempt of w. T. Ensign,
inventor of a new bip.9ne in La Crosse,
to fly unassisted, met with mishap
when, through the failure of the planes
to tilt rightly, he was precipitated from
a slope of Grand Dad bluff, and, fall
ing twenty feet, damaged the machine
considerably Ensign declares he will
leap from the 300-foot cliff of the bluff,
but first seeks to ascertain the powers
of his machine from lower elevations
Four small boys, Anton, William
and Lawrence Ganter and Francis
Flaherty, killed ffty-three large pine
snakes the other day. The boys, while
at play near the Marinette city limits,
uncovered a nest of the reptiles. The
snakes were numb and half frozen
when dug out, but they nevertheless
put up some fight. The four young
sters, none over IA years, are making
a claim as champion snake killers of
the State
Louis E. SAKE of Milwaukee vas
fined 500 and costs, amounting to-
S136, in Justice w T. Saucerman's
court in Monroe, after pleading guilty
to petit larceny. The complaint was
made by the Huffman dry goods store
after $1,000 worth of silk stolen from
the store and found in the mains suit
case was identified SAKE lifted a $50
bolt of silk at the Miller store, but
slipped it back when he realized he
was discovered.
Richard Kaiser, stabbed by Gustave
Kriebich at the Ten Mile house on the
Mormon Coulee road near La Crosse
in saloon brawl last September,
who has since been confined in the st.
Francis hospital in a critical condi-
ton, has begun a civil suit against
Kriebieh for $4,000 damages. Kaiser
alleges that as a result of the stabbing
he has suffered the partial loss of the
use of one lung, four ribs have been
removed and his life jeopardized, and
he has been rendered incapable of hard
work.
State Oil Inspector E. C. Tracy
has sent to Governor Davidson the
name of J. K. Johnson of West Salem
for approval as chief deputy inspector
in the department. The position is a
new one created by the last legisla-
ture and the salary is $1,000 a year
An average price of $121as for the
next six months will be paid patrons of
the Borden Condensing factory, accord
ing to contracts signed by the farmers