Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-11-13
News Notes OF WISCONSIN.

Wausau.-A COrOner's jury was
summoned to ascertain the cause of
death of George Cramer of the town
of Weston. He was injured August
"a by a setgun placed in the orchard
of William Schmidt, Rothchild.
Schmidt is under indictment for ma
licious shooting, which may be
changed to murder if the jury find
the shot to have been the cause OF
death.
Racine.-Althoug the nomination
for the local postoffice is more than
two years away, several candidates
are working for the post. The most
prominent are George HerZog, state
democratic committeeman; Ward c.
Clemens, former city treasurer and
state committeeman; Clarence Sny-
der and George Gates, a Wilson pres
idential elector.
Fond du Lac.-The recumbent fig
ure of the late Bishop Grafton, carved
out of white Carrara marble in Italy, is
now in place on the top of his tomb in
st. Pauls cathedral. The carving is
exquisite and represents a full length
figure of the dead prelate attired in
eucharistic vestments.
ilwaukee.-Defnite steps toward
fighting the Baker law in the United
States Supreme court will not be taken
until the committee of fifteen, APP
pointed by the 263 saloon keepers who
have fallen under the ban of the Baker
law, have decided upon what counsel
to retain and made arrangements to
apportion the expense of the action
among their number.
Madison.-Clarence II. Fertig of Mil
waukee, a senior in the school of let
tiers and science at the University of
Wisconsin, committed suicide at Ten
ney park. No reason is known for
the act He shot himself four times
over the heart, and then walking
twelve feet, plunged into lagoon.
Madison.-To make it easier to rec
ognize freshmen and enforce the new
conference rule forbidding them to
enter saloons, the student conference
at the state university has voted to
require all male first year students to
wear green buttons. Violators of the
tradition will be subject to a ducking
in the lake.
Milwaukee.-A storm of indignation
has followed the action of Supt A: ].
Hutton of the Waukesha Industrial
School for Boys in bringing Roy Hopp,
aged Is years, to Milwaukee In
prison suit to testify for his father,
Matthew Hopp, who was acquitted Of
murder in court here.
Madison.-That the $4,000 appro.
priated by the legislature for state
and for highways under the direction
of the highway commission is ayaila-
BILE for present use, is held in an
opinion by Attorney General Owen to
the highway commission.
Racine.-P. Nielsen, only Socialist
alderman, who was asked to resign by
his colleagues, has refused He con.
tinues to occupy his seat at the coun.
ell meetings.
Madison. Forty-six representative
of fourteen colleges and universities
attended the annual convention of the
Gamma Phi Beta convention here
Ashland. ALI Masons in this city
attended banquet in honor of the
final payment of the debt on the Ash
land Masonic temple.
Madison-The manual arts class
is distributing bird houses and feed
ing boxes for the winter over the
campus, in an effort to promote the
beauty of the university. Shrubs will
also be planted to prevent students
from cutting over the hills, there
by leaving unsightly paths.
Sheboygan.-The Dairymen's as
ISOLATION, furnishing two-thirds of
the daily milk supply of 5000 quarts,
agreed to insist on its demand of an
increase in the wholesale price to
dealers from $155 to $1.75 per hun
dred pounds. Milk is being shipped
in from various outside points.
Racine-John H. Broecker, alder
man Of the Third ward and presi-
dent of the Racine Paper Box com
pany, is lying at the point of death
from blood poisoning in his right arm
due to smashed finger.
Madison.-The state railway COM
mission on Monday held that pur-
chasers of bankrupt public security
corporations who fail to reiHcorpor-
ate within sixty days will lose their
franchises.
Portage While laying the foun-
dation of a building, j. N. Ashley
stepped on a rusty nail. Tetanus set
in and he died