Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-12-15
SEEN AND HEARD
In WISCONSIN


F. Barteau as postmaster at Appleton.
| 1t is said that Richard ]. Meyer is
/ the Kuestermann candidate; B. c.
Wolter the La Toilette candidate and
Attorney A. NJ. Spencer the Stephen
son candidate. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Kuestermann will go to Washing
ton next week and Immediately rec
ommend the appointment of Mr.
Meyer. If the appointment is held up,
as many appear to believe will be
done, since Kuestermann's chance of
retaining his seat in congress is ques-
toned, it is expected there will be a
fight for the appointment between
the two senator's
Racine.-Thomas Burns, former
marshal Of Corliss, was refused
a new trial by a decision of the SUI
preme court and must serve one year
in the state prison, in accordance with
the sentence given MIN in April, 1910.
Burns was convicted of the larceny of
S120, the property Of Paul Adamsh,
| demented man of Two Rivers, who
came to Corliss in April, 1909, and,
when pursued by two men, threw
away his money. The money was
| picked UP by the pursuers and they
claimed to have turned it over to
Burns, then village marshal.
Superior.-A wedding was per
formed on the interstate bridge
between Superior and Duluth, Mimi.
when Miss Margaret Maxwell Glen
denning Of Duluth was married to
Walter Dacey of Virginia, MINI. The
young couple came to Superior to get
Rev. L. K. Grimes to perform the
| ceremony. They had Minnesota IL
| cense, but the minister said that he
would wed them on the bridge con-
Meeting the two states. With the
couple standing in Minnesota and the
minister in Wisconsin the service was
| read while snow flew.
Madison.-At the second days
| meeting of the Wisconsin inter.
UNCONVENTIONAL conference here the
following officers were elected: Chair
man, President R. L. Eaton of Beloit;
! vice.president, Rev. Vernon Phillips,
Madison; secretary, DR.. E. A Dixon
Madison; treasurer, DR., W. ]. Mckay,
Madison; publicity committee, Rev
Henry Coleman, D. D., Milwaukee
| and Rev. Edward W. Brakeman, Madi
son.
Waukesha.-Hugh Stroud, mar
| shall of Pewaukee, who shot and
| killed Paul Lehr in the EdgemooI
hotel, Pewaukee, was exonerated by
the jury at the inquest before Cor
oner Charles Hill. The jury found
| that Stroud shot in self-defense
| Stroud is charged with manslaughter
and is at liberty on $4,000 bail
Milwaukee.-No decision in the
tuberculosis test case was handed
down by the supreme court. 1t was
| expected that a ruling in this litiga-
ton would be forthcoming Assistant
| City Attorney Cook was in Madison to
argue the street sprinkling case, and
Assistant Timlin argued the district
and municipal court fine case.
Madison-The petition of Secre
tary Of State Frear for a rehear
ing in the application Of Levi H. Ban
| croft to be placed on the Republican
/
eral was denied by the supreme court.
The lower court had ruled for Ban
croft, giving him the regular place on
the Republican ticket.
Observation-Disclosures Auinger, fit.
ty-one years old, western man
ager of the Charles Hellmuth COM
pany, dealers in photographic ink and
in
bathroom adjoining his room in the
Schlitz hotel Death is thought to
have been caused by heart disease.
Racine.-More than 1000 people
attended the triple funeral of
Evald and julius Carlson and Elliott
Johnson, the three boys found dead
on the c. & N. w. railroad bridge
last Saturday morning. The boys
were struck and killed by a passen-
ger train.
Neenah. - While heating taIlow
over lantern, the grease ex-
ploded and Joseph Rieckey, this city,
son of a wealthy New York family,
was so badly burned that he died.
Sheboygan-Hei Heinrich Bill, an Aus
trian, employed at the plant of the c.
Reiss Coal company, fell from the
tramway and died of his injuries.
La Crosse.-The Fashion shop,
within half a block of police
headquarters, was entered by bur
glars and $1,000 worth of rich furs
and plumes were carried off. The
thieves worked leisurely, rearranging
cheap furs in place of the expensive
ones to ward off immediate detection,
and pfucked costly willow ostrich
plumes from high priced bonnets.
NATURALIZATION have been for
warded to Senator La Toilette
at Washington asking that he
nominate William A. Devine, now as
sistant postmaster of Madison, to be
! postmaster in place of Judge E. w.
( Keyes, deceased. Mr. Devine has
been president of the local civil
! service board IL years and has been
/ In the postal service % years.
/ Reedsburg-A barn on the farm
i of John Laughney in the town
! of Ironton, about six miles southwest
! of this city, burned, together with
/ twenty u6du u fdIudD1S IOIoSS. uS
origin of the fire is unknown, but it is
! supposed that the fire was started by
| the engine which had been running a
| corn shredder during the day.
Baraboo.-John J. Pendegast, aged
sixteen years, of Chicago, was
| shot and killed. He had been
hunting and was drawing his rife
rom a wagon when it was dis
charged. The ball entered his body
and he died soon afterward.
! Wausau.-Wausau may have a
horsepower street car line. That
much is threatened by J. H. Kell, a
| West side man who has a skating
rink near the outskirts of the city
that is not reached by the present
| street car line.