Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-20
AMONG OUR NEIGHBoRs.

w. l.. Spencer, prominent drug
gist, died in Racine. He leaves a wife
and four children.
Fire in Mondovi rined the Meth
odist church. The loss is $4,000, with
about $4,000 insurance
John Berrnan was crushed beneath
an ice box he was helping to move in
GAINESVILLE, and probably will die.
Mayor John Joyce of Ashland re-
signed on account of i'll health. He
was elecetd year ago. w. c. Knowles
becomes acting mayer
DR.. John J. Sherman, aged 80 years,
former mayor of Marinette, died sud
dendy after eating plate of oysters.
He was one of the oldest Masons and
Odd Fellows in the state.
A splendid marble altar presented
to St. Matthew'S Episcopal church, in
Kenosha, by Mrs. o. NJ. Calkins as
memorial to her parents, has arrived
from Italy and will be set up in the
church at once.
One of the most sensational divorce
actions ever tried in Kenosha county
was recalled by the announcement of
the marriage Of DR.. Bradford Allen
Garfield, formerly a well-known ply
stefan of Kenosha, and Miss Augusta
Esther Butts of Chicago.
Wandering around the streets of La
Crosse, with both feet frozen, Peter
FURY, aged TO- was taken to the home
of his sister, Mrs. Dorothy Uhler,
where he died as a result of exposure.
Mr.. FURY was pioneer of La Crosse
county, coming here over half a CEN
fury ago. One sister survives
Judge Higbee, in Circuit Court, di
rected the district attorney of Yer
non county to bring action against
William Setback, a prominent mer-
chant of Rockton, to recover a loan of
$1,000 alleged to have been secured
upon fraudulent representation. Sci
bach is rated as worth $4,000, and
secured thousands of dollars upon
notes and mortgages which were to
have been destroyed, the obligations
having been paid.
Alonzo Kitman, of Galesyille, was
awarded S11, 900 damages for injuries
received while employed by the Bur
jumped the track and Kitman receiv-
ed serious spinal injuries.
H a Arpke, former sheriff and
chairman of the Sheboygan Republi-
can County committee, was elected SUI
perintendent of the county insane asy-
lum to succeed A J. Whiffen, who re-
signed after twenty-five years as the
head of the institution
Casper Isaacson, aged so, was found
unconscious and partly frozen, lying
beside his sleigh. near Meteor. He
was drying from his home up on the
Flambeau to his brothers place on
Chetac lake. He was unconscious
when found and died soon after.
The State Board Of Control has made
a preliminary examination of the
charges filed by DR.. S. Sorenson to the
effect that the Racine county insane
asylum was not properly managed and
that inmates were mistreated. A date
for the hearing will be fixed and the
charges sifted.
The man who was found hanging
from tree near the Northwestern
cutoff. at Oshkosh, has been identi-
fed as Edward Olson, unmarried and
80 years of age. His parents reside
on a farm near Medina. There is
disposition to regard the death. as
mysterious No theory has been adj
vanced as to why he should have
taken his own life, except that he
might have been despoadent because
of lack Of work, but opposed to this
theory is the fact that Olson, with
his two brothers, owned a valuable
ranch in Montana.