Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-03
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF


Rev. Father Larner, aged 10 years,
for many years in charge of the Cath
Ollie church at Montello, is dead in
Chicago.
Fire destroyed NJ. j. Slatterly's tail
oring establishment and damaged the
harness shop of c. H Roepcke, in
Rhinelander
Congressman Morse had recommend
ed Irwin A. White, of Amigo, for ap-
pointment as a midshipman at the
Naval academy at Annapolis.
R. J. Dowd, manufacturer of ma
chine knives, died in Beloit, aged 7t
years. He was president of the saw
ings bank there and a leader in many
enterprises.
Rev.. ]. Salinger, who has for a
number of years been rector of st.
James Episcopal congregation in West
Bend, has accepted a call to take
| charge of a congregation at WerIey.
Three carloads of Hereford COWS from
the Judge Marshall farm, near Bara-
boo, have been shipped to Liverpool,
agement of w j. Marshall, brother Of
the judge.
Hugh Finn died at his home after
suffering eight strokes of paralysis
He was a resident of Marinette for
forty -four years and the father of
George Finn, superintendent of the
Sawyer-Goodman Company.
The death at Stevens Point of Rev
Jacob Patch, removes, probably, the
oldest clergyman in Wisconsin or the
middle West Mr.. Patch was over 50
years old. He was born in Groton,
Mass, and was descended from Puri-
tan stock
Earl Filkins, an employee of the
Watertown Gas and Electric company,
was injured when his body came in
contact with a high tension wire car
rying 1900 volts of electricity. He sus-
tanned a terrible shock and was slight
Iy burned, but will recover.
T. F. Wicker, rural mail carrier on
Route 20, Campbelisport, while cross
ing the tracks of the Northwestern
only slightly hurt. The horse was
badly injured and had to be killed.
The mail wagon was demolished.
In the Kenosha Municipal Court a
warrant was issued for the arrest af
Joseph Siebert on charges Of contempt
of court. Siebert had been directed to
pay alimony to his wife by the court
and had failed to carry out the order.
The sheriff was instructed TO keep Sic
bert in jail until the full amount of
alimony is paid.
The convention of the Northeast
Wisconsin Teachers association, held
here February and 5, will return to
Oshkosh in 1911 for its annual con-
ventiOn This announcement was made
by Principal A. S. O'Neil of the Osh-
kosh High school, who was elected
president of the organization at the
recent convention.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jo-
seph Arle had narrow escape from
death at Sheboygan, and had it not
been for Capt. Troy, would have
drowned. The lad, together with
some playmates, was coasting, and
failing to stop his sled, went into the
river Capt Troy fished the little fell
low out with pike pole.
Charged with making counterfeit
money, Charles Kabat, aged % years,
was arrested while passing some of
the false coin in a La Crosse saloon
and was arraigned in United States
court. A search of the mans home re-
vealed a complete counterfeiting out
fit scattered over the house, and
number of counterfeit nickeIs, dimes
and dollars.
In the examination of Dionisio de
Sacco, charged with having been i'm
plicated in the Windsor dry dynamite
plot, in Hurley, it was shown conclu-
sively that De Sacco had nothing
whatever to do with the dynamiting
of the dry and he was acquitted. De
Sacco was quite seriously injured in
the explosion, receiving a bad cut on
the forehead
With arms locked about each other
in a last embrace, Mary Kuehnlein, Is
years old, and Edward Kufahl, 81,
were found dead on the floor of barn
in the rear of a saloon, one mile north
of the Milwaukee city limits. Each
had left a note before swallowing car
bolic acid. The girl was the daughter
of John Kuehnlein, milk dealer, and
Kufahl was the son of another milk
dealer.
J. w. Purvis, ''right-of-way man." for
the Northwestern, states officially that
the entire right-of-way has now been
secured and paid for, and tract of
1000 acres of land about one mile
southwest of Friendship for station,
roundhouse, shops and division head
quarters, and that when the road and
buildings are completed about 1000
men will be employed there. Ties are
being bought at Necedah.
A dead pig in a trunk, brought by
a Beloit woman from Aliens Grove to
Beloit as baggage, came near getting
the woman into serious trouble When
the trunk arrived the police happened
to be at the station looking for some
butter that had been stolen. The wo-
mans trunk was very heavy and the
| officers insisted on looking inside of
it. They were amazed to find the body
of a pig. The railroad officials were
notified and although they might have
had the woman prosecuted for falsely
declaring her baggage, they decided
not to do so.
While in the throes of nightmare,
Andrew Kadias, an Austrian, fell from
his bed, in Sheboygan, and dislocated
his left shoulder, besides suffering
several minor bruises 1t was neces-
sary to administer chloroform before
the bone could be restored to its place.
1t is thought that the death of
Charles Hinkle, Of Sullivan, whose
body was found hanging in his barn,