Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-08-27
Badger News
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barn was struck by lightning and de-
stroyed by fire with 80 tons of hay.
The loss was $4,000, insurance. $1,000.
kenosha.-Dr. ]. H. Holm had a
narrow escape from death when
the automobile in which he was rid
ing collided with taxicab. Both
automobiles were wrecked
Janesville,-Dr. E F. Woods,
and DR.. T. w. Nuzum, who were
| in England when the European
war broke out, were the first of the
GAINESVILLE tourists to return to Amer
| lea
Neenah.-A strip of rural highway
south of this city known as the
Dixie road, under construction by the
| state highway commission, has been
completed. The crew has moved on
| to Fisk to do similar work
/ Kenosha.-Charles Busek, chief
| electrician for the Wisconsin Gas
and Electric company. was cleo
trocuted. He answered call to re-
pair street arc lamp. Half an hour
| afterward his body was found beside
the disabled lamp.
Antigo.-Arrangem have been
made by County Representative f.
Swoboda with Prof. E. R. Jones of
Madison, drainage expert of the col
/ lege of agriculture, to visit the city
this week to study the drainage in
this county.
Spring Green.-David Lindbloom,
forty-five years old, gardener for
Frank Lloyd Wright died of in
juries sustained on Saturday at Love
| cottage. He is the seventh person to
die of those injured and burned at
| that time
Madison. = Governor McGovern
granted a Communication of sentence
to Rudolph Schroeder of Milwau-
kee, now serving a f1ve-year sentence
! in Waupun for larceny, and directed
that Schroeder be given immediate
release
Waukesha-Ewald Twitter, fifteen
years old, an orphan, became exhaust
ed while swimming in the Pewaukee
quarries and after reaching shore
! tainted and rolled back into the water
! and when rescued by Cecil Wilkinson
life was extinct
Neenah.-Fire of an unknown origin
| destroyed lumber sheds of the
| Wieckert Planning Mill company here,
| the loss being nearly $4,000. Sew
| eral nearby frame buildings were de-
| stroyed. The buildings were located
| in the heart of the manufacturing cen
ter of the town.
Maiden Rock-Mrs. John Giebler,
aged seventy-siX, a resident of
| Oak Grove for so years, was
drowned in the Mississippi river. Her
| body was recovered in three feet of
| water by her son. The aged woman
| had tied her handkerchief to a tree
! on the bank of the river Mrs. Gieb
Ter had been in poor health for some
| time
Portage have been for
warded to the state game depart
ment for the alleged open viola
ton of the game laws in this vicinity.
| The hunters who have procured IL
| censes are indignant regarding the
| permitting of the open violation Of
| the laws. 1t is said that chickens are
| being slaughtered by the dozens few
miles out of Portage.
| MerrilI-An unidentified man, one
of several Finlanders employed on
the 500 railroad near Heafford
| Junction, in company with a
| friend, was crossing a high trestle
when the man fell from the bridge
| and was instantly killed. An investi
cation by physicians revealed that the
man had met death by striking his
head on the bridge before he reached
the water and that his death was
| clearly accidental.
Waukesha.-Dr w o. Carrier, pres
ident of Carroll college, received
cablegram from the American
consul at Florence, Italy, saying
! Miss Blanche Wilson Of the musical
faculty of the college was safe in that
| city She is spending her vacation on
| a tour of Europe and is expected home
! September Is. Doctor Carrier said
! nothing had been heard from Prof. Clar
ence Shepard, head of the Carroll mu-
steal department, who is also spend
ing the summer in Europe. He is
thought to be in Germany.
Madison.-Norman Gallagher, TWEEN
| ty-four years old, machinist
employed by the University of
| Wisconsin, fell 40 feet in the heat
ing plant of the university and was
killed. He was repairing an electric
motor near the roof of the plant and
| stepped backward from platform on
which he was standing and fell on
pile of coal. HIS skull was crushed.
| He had worked for the university as
machinist two years. He was a son
| Of E. w Gallagher, 2709 Elm street.
| Milwaukee.
Oshkosh.-Capt. William R. Ken
nedy died, aged eighty-four. He
was city attorney when Oshkosh was
incorporated in 1853. Mr. Kennedy
was a native of New Jersey and had
as his teacher Miss Cheney, who af-
! forwards became Mrs. Horace Gree
| ley. He came to Milwaukee in 1851
and studied law in the Offices of Finch
& Lyon. He organized Company c
of the Fifty-sixth Wisconsin. He is
survived by daughter, Miss Mary
E. Kennedy, a school teacher in this
city, and two sons, w. N. Kennedy of
California and Redding Kennedy of
Minnesota
Oshkosh.-The remains of Rev.
Roman Scholter were laid to rest
| in the cement vault in the basement
Of St Mary's church. Bishop J. T.
Fox Of Green Bay and about one hun
bred priests attended the services. The
vault was prepared in the basement IN
accordance with the expressed wish
of the deceased.