Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-05-19
WITHIN OUR BORDERS.

died in La Crosse, aged so years.
The 1910 convention of the Associa-
ton of Wisconsin Auctioneers will be
held in Eau Claire some time in June.
A series of grand opera monograph
ic concerts has been arranged for the
GAINESVILLE public schools, to teach the
students good music.
Governor James o. Davidson, 1t is
authoritatively announced, will not be
a candidate for denomination as Cover
nor, or for any other office.
The cities of Neenah, Menasha and
Appleton are besieged with bicycle
thieves. A large number of wheels
have been stolen, but none have been
recovered thus far.
The finding of an upturned canoe or
the bay shore has led to the belief that
Delos Martin and Louis Shatchel, two
missing Ashland high school boys,
have been drowned.
George Brumder, aged II, the lead
ing publisher of German newspapers
in Milwaukee, died suddenly from a
stroke of apoplexy. He was rated sew
eral times millionaire.
Carl Bartz, for forty years a resi-
dent of Edgerton, was found dead in
his yard, as the result of dose of
paris green, evidently taken with sui
cidal intent. He was 70 years of age.
Attorneys for the Wadhams Oil Com
pany have filed a motion for new
trial of the case against them for al
legged violations of the State law that
prescribes that all oil shall be inspect
ed before sold.
The case of John NJ. Fox VS.. the
Omaha Railway Company, suing for
$4,000 for loss of life, when an engine
run over his father, Dennis E. Fox, in
February, was thrown out of court in
Eau Claire. An appeal has been
taken.
After contracts for street paving had
been let the GAINESVILLE City Railway
Company, controlled by the Rockford
Interurban Company, has served no
tice that it is insolvent and cannot be
held for assessments The street will
be paved, however, and a lawsuit will
follow against the company.
1t was a case of bring the fire to
the fire department when two big box
cars Oh the 500 line caught fire just
outside the Neenah city limits. The
city fire department was summoned
and waited at the depot for the engine
to bring the blazing cars to the sta
ton, where the fire was put out.
The offices of the rate commission
and of the State tax commission are
soon to be removed from the capitol
building to a suite of twenty-four
rooms on the third floor of the new
Washington building, on East Wash
ington avenue, Madison. The old south
wing of the capitol is being demolish-
ed.
The body of a man, apparently about
so years of age, was found floating in
the Fond du Lac river near the John
son street bridge, in Fond du Lac, by
two boys. The corpse had been seen
in the river for ten days, but it was
taken for that of dead dog 1t is be-
lieved by the police that the man was
murdered.
Jacob Peter Mowers, the citys oldest
Union veteran of the Civil War and 4
resident of Eau Claire fifty-three years
died aged Sc years. He served in Com
pany G, Sixteenth Wisconsin Infantry
three years, and one of his sons was
in the same company at Shiloh. He
was married and had nine sons and
daughters, nearly all surviving.
The Omaha road has applied to the
State railroad commission for author
ity to build line into Superior and
through that city to its ore docks on
ST. Louis Bay, to enable it to compete
with the Great Northern and the
Northern Pacific in the ore carrying
business. Including the ore docks and
other facilities in that connection the
638 mile extension is estimated to
cost $780,00O The commission will
hear the application June 6.
Mrs Victoria Hemenway, wife of DR..
Henry B. Hemenway, a prominent ply
stefan of Evanston, Ill, committed sui
eide in Marinette. She was visiting
under the care of nurse. During the
absence of the nurse for a few min
utes she threw rope, which she evil
IDENTIFY had prepared for the deed, over
the head of the bed and strangled her
self to death. Mrs Hemenway has
been in i'll health for two years and
was an inmate of a private sanitarlum
for some time.
Crepe paper manufactured in Apple
ton will furnish a large portion of the
mourning decorations in Toronto and
other Canadian cities, nearly a hun
dred miles of black and purple crepe
having been shipped from the plant Of
the futile Press Company in Appleton
to Toronto The order was placed by
telephone from an American border
city and instructions to the factory
were that the consignment must be
under way within tWenty-four hours
for the paper is to be used as mourn
ing decoration in memory Of the late
King Edward. Four thousand rolls Of
paper, 1000 of black and 1000 of pur-
pie. each roll containing about hun
dred feet, comprise the shipment,
which is one of the largest of this
stock ever made.
A hearing in the case brought
against Sheriff William Walter Of Iron
County, charged with misconduct in Of
fee, is on before Gov. Davidson. The
testimony of thirty witnesses was sub
mitted to the Governor. The latter
will take the matter under Amusement.
In Superior Mayor Frank R. Crump-
ton appointed three members of the
police and fire commission to take the
places made vacant by resignation and
expiration of term. The new members
are: R. J. Shields and H. V. Gard,
Democrats, and DR.. c. H. Mason, Re-
publican.