Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-01-04
Ne,Us Notes of Wisconsin

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five narrowly escaped being serious
Iy injured and some perhaps being
killed when broken rail caused the
wreck of a Wisconsin and Michigan
logging train in the vicinity of Wau-
saukee. Three cars were thrown in
to ditch and Conductor Percell was
badly cut and bruised
Madison.-The Southern Wiscon-
sin Railway company granted the in
crease in wages demanded by the
employees. The wages per hour I'M
der the new agreement will be:
First year, 16 cents; second year, Is
cents; third, fourth and fifth years,
20 cents; sixth year and thereafter,
% cents.
La Crosse.-Engaged all day
Christmas carrying messages of good
will and glad tidings, the last tele-
gram Frank Rtmmert, a II year old
messenger, was called upon to de-
liver was one conveying to his moth
er the news of his sisters death in
Mason City, la.
Wausau-After being sought for
over a year by the Marathon county
sheriff on warrant charging for
gerry, Irving Alderman, a Wausau
boy, was discovered serving a SEN
tence in the prison at Waupun for
burglary, having been committed
from La Crosse
Green Bay.-Fire broke out at the
Groom Row hncrito1
former collector Of customs, and
other patients had to be carried
across the street out of danger.
About $2,0OB damage was done
Waukesha.-A mail pouch was
stolen from the 500 depot and robbed
of its contents, part OF which was
found in an icehouse later. The
mail was from Madison and vicinity
and was unimportant.
Madison.-Frank D. Reed, for
seventeen years deputy clerk and
court reporter of the United States
circuit and district courts for the
western district of Wisconsin, has re-
signed to practice law.
Madison-The first annual road
school of the Wisconsin highway
commission will be held in the cap
itoI February 1916. Moving pic
lures will show various road CON
struction processes.
Madison.-Receipts at the postof-
fee here for stamps and envelopes,
for the six days preceding Christ
mas, were $7,27298, or an increase
of $3.50 a day over the same period
in 1910.
dgeviIle.-Thomas James. aged
Y, a native of Dodgeville, died on
Christmas day after a few weeks i'll !
ness. His was the fourth death Of
prominent citizens within one week.
Shawano.-WhiIe attending Wit
tenberg academy, Leo Krause of this
city and Martha Luebke of Bonduel
we're bitten by mad dog and are
in Madison for treatment.
nesville-Thomas o. Birkness. /
aged "a years, OF Orfordville, is dead
OF a fractured skull sustained in
fail down stairs.
Milwaukee, movement for
holding a corn, grain and alfalfa
show in the Auditorium within a few
weeks has been launched by Secre-
tary Cannon of the Citizens Bust
ness league. The exploitation of
northern Wisconsin as an agricul-
tural section is a prime motive of the
enterprise.
Marinette.- men of Mari
nette and Menominee have been bun
coed out of several hundred dollars
by two strangers who took orders for !
whiskey which they said was at Mil
waukee and obtained advances on |
each purchase.
Green Representative of /
the Field museum of Chicago have |
closed negotiations with Miss Clara /
Schuette to acquire the plant col
lection of the late J H Schuette, a
botanist of note and member Of |
nearly every. scientific society of this /
and foreign countries. His herbarium /
consists Of 10000 specimens.
While acting as Santa /
Claus at a school entertainment at /
Lena, Oconto county, Joseph Koz- /
iowsky was seriously burned His /
robes caught fire fror- candles. Koz- /
Iowsky ran out of the building and /