Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-09-28
NelDs Notes of Wisconsin

NeLDS Notes OF Wisconsin
Kenosha.- Starting a fight for
what the United States courts have
declared to be dream fortune,
consisting of upward of 100000, oO0s
Mrs. Harriet L. Blaisdell of Cham
paign, Ill, and Mrs. Caroline c. john
son of Fayette, O., appeared in court
here and filed a petition demanding
an administrator de bonis non of the
estate of Charles Durkee, first United
States senator from Wisconsin, and
former territorial governor of the ter
ritory of Utah. For twenty years
the story of the Durkee millions has
been in various courts of the country,
but this is the first time the heirs OF
Charles Durkee have taken any for
NAL action to have an accounting
with the government.
Madison.-The Wisconsin indus
trial commission has instructed j. A.
Waller, deputy commissioner at Mil
waukee, to swear out a warrant
against an assistant foreman in Pfst-
er & Vogel Leather company's en-
ploy on the charge of having violated
the law prohibiting the removal of
safety device from an enclosing ma
chine in the companys factory. A
17-ye&r-old employe running the ma
chine was injured after the safety de-
vice was removed.
La Crosse.-In a fight at the
Vernon county fair at Viroqua, one
of the planes of the aeroplane failed
to work after the aviator had risen
The machine dragged along a row of
bNggies, striking the horses and
causing forty runaways in the crowd
of thousands of people. The aeroplane
finally came down on top of
buggy and was wrecked. The aviator
was badly bruised, but not danger
ously injured.
Fond du Lac.-Arch Sampson,
aged %, of this city, was killed in
stantly while operating a threshins
machine at Rose Lawn, a short dis
lance from Shawano. Sampson was an
an engineer and had crawled under
the machine to repair it. Another
the engine, causing SIMPSONS death.
Hudson.-As a sequel to the con-
vietion of George r. Hewitt for for
gerry, the suit brought against James
A. Frear, former law partner of How
lit, for the recovery of $4,000, has
been settled out of court and the ac-
ton brought by Joseph Hockstein
against Dir. Frear and Hewitt has
been dismissed.
Washington, D. Celia A. Els
worth has been appointed postmaster
at TaYora, Wis, vice E. NJ Ellsworth,
resigned
La Crosse.-The La Crosse Rail-
way company is contemplating the in
stallation of the new ''pay-as-you-
enter" ears on the local system.
Wausau.-The board of education
has decided unanimously to proceed
Immediately to have daily medical
inspection in the public schools.
Observation-Disclosures Sawyer, so,
was instantly killed by 500 line
train one-half mile south of here.
Bayfeld.-Nary Henderson, Rose
Ferten and Ellen Lumberg, between
the ages of 16 to 10, were drowned az
Houghton, three miles from here. The
fourth, Annie Henderson, was the
only one of the party who reached
shore. The party was out in small
canoe which was overturned about
200 feet from shore.
Stevens Point-Struck by an auto
mobile owned and driven by Matt
Kruger of Stanley at railroad cross
ing near Junction City, Frances Luty,
aged 10, sustained injuries from
~hich she died four days later.
Racine William Duncan, Jr., an
Ozaukee county farmer, has started
suit against Leo and Frank Miller,
commercial printers, demanding &c.
600 damages because of alleged reck-
less driving Of the defendants a year
ago when, it is claimed, their auto
mobile forced Duncan's rig iato the
ditch and he was thrown out AMI in
ternally injured.
Manitowoc seven year fight to
secure municipal ownership of the
waterworks was ended when con-
tract was signed to transfer the plant
to the city on Oct. 2 for S247,500.
Green Bay.-John Anderson, car
repairer for the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul railway company, was
run over by car and died from his
injuries later in the hospital A
switch engine backed a car into the
car he was working under. and a
wheel passed over his body
Superior. Although William Ira
cey pleaded guilty to violating the
new state white slave law, certain
circumstances brought out at the
trial resulted in his being given two
years in prison, the minimum sem
tence under the law