Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-03
BADGER News
Briefly Told

| OF THIS city Tor the last 20 years, was
| found dead on the rear porch of the
! American house, property belonging to
| him. Death was due to exposure.
Grand Rapids.-Genevieve Schman.
ski, aged eighteen, is awaiting a hear.
/ ing in the county jail on a charge OF
/ having passed forged checks to the
amount of ten dollars.
| Glenwood City. = While hunting
| Clarence, son of Peter Winberg,
a prominent farmer of the town
of Forest, was shot in the head by his
brother. Death ensued almost in.
stantly. Both were schoolboys.
Wausau.-John c. Baesemann,
resident of the town of Rib Falls,
was found frozen in the home
of his sister, Mrs. John Schrbuck.
Coroner Frawley reported that he must
have been dead at least two days. His
dsmtse was due to heart failure.
Kenosha.-The Kenosha county
board at its concluding session
passed a resolution directed to the
state legislature demanding that
changes be made in the game laws of
the state to eliminate the issuance of
licenses to anyone except citizens.
Wausau.-The meeting Of father
and mother, who have been sep
arated for some time, at the bedside
of their son, Ernest Lipdroth, alias
Ernest Johnson, alleged bandit, seri-
ously shot while resisting arrest, may
result in their living together again.
Beloit-Beloit's experience with
public trained nurse has been high
| ly satisfactory. The Nurses asso-
| citation, part Of the Woman's fedora
| ton, looks after the support of a nurse
| whose services are a blessing to many
! families.
Green Bay.-Making the trip in
a stolen automobile, yeggmen dyna-
mited safe in the store of George
Frosch of Wayside and escaped with
| $500 in checks and currency 1t is
believed by the sheriff the men came
from Chippewa Falls in an automobile
stolen there few days ago.
La Crosse.-SeveraI cases of foot
| and-mouth disease have been dis
covered among cattle owned by w.
Lickel at Chairman. Inspector Holmes,
LIE Crosse, has been ordered by the
state veterinarian to examine the herd,
which numbers about two hundred, and
to kill those infected.
Platnffeld.-Walter Scobie has re-
turned from Milwaukee with
$500 order from Uncle Sam as a re-
ward for the capture of the Plainf1eld
robbers a year ago. The prize money
is to be divided between himself and
the other members of the party who
pursued the bandits along a country
road and finally apprehended them.
Neenah.-Every effort is being
made to prevent more cases of
smallpox developing here But one
case is under quarantine in this city
Several more cases have developed in
Menasha within the last week. All
those having the disease are children
attending school and the schools where
those pupils attend have been fumi-
gated,
Green Bay.-Miss Anna Mae Kirk.
who has been in the vicinity of
Woodruff for the last two weeks in
quest of big game, reported to friends
that she had bagged big deer in the
northern woods. According to the mes
sage received here the buck weighed
210 pounds and is now on its way to
Green Bay. Miss Kirk is the first wom-
an hunter from this county to secure
a deer this season.
Oshkosh.-Chief of Police Henry
F. Bowling, Assistant Chief Arthur
Gabbert and Municipal Judge A.
H. Goss of this city have been made
defendants in suit for $4,000 for al
legged false Imprisonment Of Grace Og-
den of this city. Miss ogden is mi
nor and brings suit through her father,
G. w. Ogden, appointed by the court
as her guardian ad Item. The action
was started through the fling Of pa
pers in the county court.
Appleton-John w. Boughton. for
mer Lawrence student and resi-
dent of Appleton, now living in Phila-
delphia, has invented a new type of
flying machine. AS son as the engine
for it's initial fight, unless the British
government, agents of which are wait
ing for the experiment to develop fur
Their, purchases the exclusive right to
manufacture it. 1t is said that by the
time the first flight is made another
machine will be completed, capable Of
carrying freight. The machine differs
=
has taken the principle of the rocket
instead of that of the bird. The ma
chimes have inclosed cabins for the
operator, freight and passengers and
the engines, which are driven by four
propellers, are placed across the ma
chine in front of the cabin. 1t is
claimed that 100 miles an hour can be
maintained.
Antigo.-Charles and Dan O'Brien
of this city hunted near Pelican
several days and succeeded in
bringing down two deer. They hung
them up, attached their license tags
and went into the woods for an hour
of bird shooting When they returned
the largest of the deer had been stolen.
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post office, several stores and
two residences on fire at the same
time, the fire department here per
formed wonderful work in getting IN
der control one Of the worst confagra-
lions in the history of the village. Sew
eral stores were destroyed.
Mcmahon complaint Of Joseph
Nickasch, John Lampert has been ar
rested here charged with stealing 120
pounds Of fish Lampert claims that
as a partner he had perfect right to
the fish.
CONFERENCE.-The tenth annual
show of the Oconomowoc Poultry and
Pet Stock association takes place at
the Auditorium, Oconomowoc, Deem
Der 9 to 13. George H. Northup Of
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