Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-01-27

ola, one OF the pest known paper manu-
facturers in the middle west, died in
Appleton from cancer of the stomach,
after a long illness.
Matthias Campbell, a tramp, II years
old, died at ST. Nicholas Hospital in
Sheboygan, where he was under treat
ment for nine different diseases. He
was serving a term in the county jail.
The po1ice of Kenosha have been IN
able to find any solution to the mystery
of Thomas Nilsson or T. Olson, alleged
Kenoshan who committed suicide in a
hotel at Oshkosh. The man purchased
a ticket from Kenosha to SpaIding,
Mich, the previous Saturday.
The big ship Lusitania, aboard which
was P. L. Callahan of Neenah, a well
known sporting man and manager Of
Eddie McGOorty, the Oshkosh boxer,
narrowly escaped being struck by a
huge meteor recently. Callahan writes
that a meteor as large as a box car
fell within a short distance of the
ship.
Department Commander GrinneI Of
the Wisconsin Grand Army of the Re
public, on his way to the Waupaca
Soldiers Home, said emphatically that
he himself, and he believed Wisconsin
Grand Army men generally, were
strongly opposed to having Robert z.
Lees statue placed in statuary hall
in the capitol at Washington.
The Beloit Bankers and Merchants
Mutual Fire Insurance Company ut
their annual meeting elected officers
as follows: President, J. NJ Farms
worth; vice president, L. w Lyman :;
secretary, T. D. Corcoran; treasurer,
T. Gesley; general agent, E. D. Bull,
lock; auditor, ]. A. Janvrin; directors,
L. W. Lyman, D. H. Pollock and J.
A. Janvrin.
Marie Heating has been named prin-
cipal of the new Columbus school in
Kenosha. Miss Heating has been
teacher in the city schools since her
graduation from the high school and
her election is regarded as a great vic
tory for the women teachers, this be-
ing the first time that a woman has
been named as supervising principal
Of a Kenosha school.
At the annual meeting of the Wal
worth County Agricultural Society A.
B. Hare of Delavan was elected presi-
dent, F. Davidson of Lake Geneva,
vice president; F. NJ. Power of Elk
horn, secretary; James E. Bratt of
Springfield, treasurer; w E. Magill of
Elkhorn, superintendent of privileges;
W. H. Reynolds of Geneva, chief of DO
lice, and H. E. Wylie of Elkhorn, mar
shall
In a wreck at Corliss fifteen passen-
gers narrowly escaped being killed.
The milk train bound from Delavan to
Chicago on the Milwaukee road struck
a broken rail at the end Of the switch
yards, ran on the ties for about 80
feet, turned and crashed into a box
car, smashing the side of the coach.
The passengers were thrown from
their seats to the floor and on top of
each other.
Frank G. Logan has just given to
Beloit College the skull of a sabre-tooth
tiger, an animal that formerly inhab-
ited Wisconsin, but has been extinct
about 10000 years, according to DR..
George L. Collie, dean of the college.
This skull was obtained from an as
phaltum spring near Los Angeles, Cal,
where several thousand pounds of
them were discovered by students Of
the University of California.
Scrubwoman for sixteen years IN
some of the largest business places in
La Crosse, Mrs. Maggie Pawling is
dead, aged 68 years. She has an adopt
ed son, but she cut him off in her will
with the remark: He left the church
and married against my will" Her
valued at between $500 and
$4,000, was left to st. Mary's Church,
st. AIMS and St Michaels orphan
asylums, and the House for the Friend
less.
Ward E. Hedger was found guilty
in Milwaukee of the murder of his
wife, Louise, at their home on Sept.
9th. A motion for a new trial was
made by Francis E. McGovern, one of
his attorneys, as soon as the verdict
was announced. If the motion is &C.
MED an appeal will be taken to the
Supreme Court. If that body also re-
fuses new trial, Hedger will be sen
fenced to life Imprisonment at Wau-
pun.
Petitions are being circulated in
requesting that the question
of no license be submitted to the cleo
torate next spring. 1t will require 500
signers to compel the submission of the
question to the voters
J. P Hvid, after being employed in
the Mitchell & Lewis wagon factory
in Racine for forty years, has received
a check from the company for $3.50,
as an appreciation of the company's
officers for faithful service. NJ. Hvid
is 81 years of age.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
new state bank to be organized in
Shawano elected directors as follows:
E. A. Kruger, c. 4. Raisler, P J.
Winters, William Relying, D. Gordon,
Joseph Bibelhaasen, George Klebassa-
bel, August Beversdorf and Fred Kuhn.
Jachim S. Madsen, the gentleman
tramp was found dead in bed in a
rooming house in Madison, from heart
disease He received a pension of s12
a month, having served in the navy
and when anyone talked work" to
him he became offended He was Is
years old.
Three thousand five hundred and
fifty lots and parcels and rs acres OF
land in Superior have been purchased
by the Pokegema Land Company, the
purchase, it is believed, being made
for the 500 read for the purpose of
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