Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-14
News Notes of Wisconsin

Baraboo.-Floyd, the 14-year-Old
son of Charles Carpenter Of this city,
who has been missing since last sum
mer, was found at Iowa Falls, Ia. A
constant search for the boy has been
kept up since his disappearance, and
even Clairvoyants have been called
upon to help. One of them declared
that the boy was working for an
uncle in Dallas, Tex, and all the
others that his body was at the bot
tom of the Baraboo river. The father
learned of the whereabouts of the
lad through an advertisement with
photo of the little fellow that was
placed in paper and was seen by an
Iowa Falls resident.
Superior.-Two hundred men, des-
perate from hunger and in need of
the necessities of life, fought in front
of a local stevedore office here for
four jobs. Three of the tickets had
been dealt out when the demand for
the remaining one became so clam
orous that the agent in charge threw
the fourth one in the air above the
mems heads. AS it fell the 200 men
fought desperately to gain posses
sion of it.
Racine.-The palatial residence of
Frank L. Mitchell, millionaire wagon
manufacturer, was entered by sneak
thieves, who gained entrance through
the front door, which had been left
unlocked, and walked boldly up
stairs, where they picked out dia-
mond rings and other costly jewelry,
valued at $4,000.
Sheboygan.-An interurban car
on the Plymouth extension of the
Sheboygan Railway & Electric com
pany collided with city car and the
front of the city car was wrecked.
Both cars were filed with workmen,
several of whom received more or
less serious injuries. All were badly
shaken up.
Madison.-Dr. Meanwell, director
of the gymnasium, who will have
charge of the University of Wiscon-
sin basketball coaching this season,
has announced that in case the Bad
ger quintet won the conference
championship this year he would ar
range a series of games with the east
ern title winners.
Racine.-Charles Scott, a waiter,
q years old, and John Leonard,
structural iron worker, 26 years old,
both of Chicago, have been sentenced
to three years at Waupun for
forgery.
Marinette.-Frank Sillman, secre-
tary and treasurer of the Menominee
and Marinette Paper company, was
arrested on complaint of a state in
spector and fined $40 and costs on
charge of working girls twelve hours
a day, in violation of law
Port Washington Peter Weld
Ike, the keeper Of the Cedarburg
Plank road toll gate, was found dead
at his post at an early morning hour.
He had succumbed to apoplexy.
William Houston, for
merly of Neenah, has entered grand
opera, making his first appearance in
Quo Vadis' on Nov. 10, at the Lon
don opera house.
Green Bay.-While switching load
ed cars in the vicinity of Waukesha,
Conductor Porter of the Wisconsin
Northwestern railway was perhaps
fatally hurt when fatcars loaded
with logs came down steep grade
and crashed into a caboose and en-
CINE. One car was deraiIed and
hurled about twenty feet Louis
EdIbeck, one of the carsmiths in the
caboose, was also badly injured, hav-
in2 two legs broken and being badly
bruised about the body. The caboose
is reported to have been thrown at
such angles by the force of the i'm
pact that it was hung on a tree.
Kenosha.- Mrs. Emma McDer-
mott, aged 80 years, widow of Col
Hugh McDermott, one of the most
distinguished of Wisconsin's civil
war soldiers, Is dead. She followed
her husband into the camp and or
the field Of battle and personally
ministered to soldiers Of the Seven
teenth Wisconsin regiment.
Neenah.-Mrs. AdeIine Merry of
this city has started suit for $4,000
against the lighting company of
MduhtSuds I1Cl nuSDdl4d do ClEG-
trocuted on pole while working for
the company. She alleges the wires
we're not properly insulated.
La Crosse petition calling for
grand jury investigation Of
charges of graft in the local police
department has been mailed to Judge
C. E. Hfgbee at Baraboo.
Approximation 100 cottagers on
the shores of Lake Winnebago have
formed a cottagers' protective associ-
alton as the outgrowth Of a series of
robberies that have been committed
since the last summer season. 1t is
the intention of the members to Sc
cure a patrol of two men, whose duty
t shall be to protect the cottages
Turing the absence of their owners
during the winter season.