Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-12-31
STATE NEWS
IN BRIEF

Wausau.-"Taps" sounded for Helm.
rich Grob, aged seventy-three years. q
veteran of the Civil war and pioneer
resident of Wausau. He was a former
city official
Waupaca. potato ware.
houses have a total capacity of 325
carloads, The number of carloads
shipped from here last year aggregat-
ed 1870, or enough to make up a
freight train nine miles long
Milwaukee. - Detective Eugeue
OGorman. thought fatally injured
when police department detective
automobile killed Alvin Kraus, news
boy, has a chance to recover, doctors
declared. The two other detectives in
jured left the hospital.
Superior.-An experiment in NUM-
cipal humanity is to be tried in
superior court through plans devised
by Mayor Konkel Men who seek
lodgings at the city Jail will hereafter
be provided with a cup of hot coffee
and a sandwich for breakfast the next
day.
Oshkosh.-The students of the Osh-
kosh normal school are busy max
ing up the furniture for the mems
rest room in the Wisconsin building
at the Panama-Pacific exposition. The
furniture is being made by the stu
dents in the Industrial department and
consists of newspaper racks, reading
tables and chairs, rockers and daven-
ports.
Chippewa Falls.-The Belgian relief
committee in this city finished
raising a fund of S728.5O, which
will purchase carload of -four, 155
barrels, to be shipped to the starving
Belgians. The money was forwarded
to the Washburn-C Crosby company at
Minneapolis, which, in conjunction
with other northwest millers, is max
ing up shipment of $4,000 barrels.
Milwaukee. = Miss Dorothy Des.
Chaine of Menominee, aged six
teen, has been found in Milwaukee
and will be returned to her parents
after disappearance of a month The
girl was found in Milwaukee, where
she had been living with Carl Corn
wall, who lived as her husband until,
he said, he had price of eugenic mar
rage certificate. Cornwall got bride
well sentence of four months.
Oshkosh. - Announcement of the
death of DR.. J. w. Carhart, eighty
one, San Antonio, Tex, was re-
ceived here. Doctor Carhart was
known in Wisconsin as the father of
the automobile, having been credited
with inVenting the first machine of
that kind. His first automobile was a
crude affair, but it was from this ma
chine that the present-day automobile
is said to have been perfected.
Green Bay.-George Baldwin, who
says his home is in Milwaukee,
was sentenced to three years in
the reformatory near Green Bay, fol-
lowing verdict by the jury which
found him guilty of stealing from
rooms in the Beaumont hotel. Bald
win also is believed to be the man
wanted for several other petty Fob
berries, as he had in his possession
property secured from places which
recently had been robbed
Chippewa Falls.-The Northern Wis
consin State fair for 1915 is now
fully organized, with John Hori-
gan of Eau Claire as president, F. E.
Andrews of Bloomer, vice-president;
c. E. Johnson Of Chippewa Falls, sec
rotary, and Jerry Palmer, Chippewa
Falls, treasurer. The executive COM
mittee of ten members has been ap-
pointed and its first meeting was held.
The fair will be held September 20, 81,
%, % and "a. Twelve thousand dollars
will be offered in premiums, with ST.
600 for races.
Madison.-Alfalfa was king at the
meeting here of the alfalfa order
of the Wisconsin Experiment as
sociation. Secretary L. F. GRADER de-
clared in his report that where alfalfa
all other crops in yield an acre, feed
ing value, drought resistance and soil
enrichment. The convention listened
to an address on alfalfa Farming"
by Joseph E. Wing, Ohio, agricultural
editor and alfalfa expert. President
James M. Cheesman, Racine, also re-
ported. The experiment association
listened to an entertainment by the
long and short course students at the
university, and to addresses by Dean
H. L. Russell Of the agricultural col
lege and Mr. Wing
Columbus.-Mystery surrounds the
death of Peter Lynch of Elba,
whose dead body was found by
the roadside a mile and a half south
west Of the city of Columbus A blow
upon the back of the head which
gashed the scalp, and which still was
bleeding, appeared to have been the
cause of death. The gruesome find
was made by Frank e. Bell of Hamp-
den, former chairman of that town
He communicated by phone with Sher-
if Mackenzie, who notified District
Attorney Bogue Lynch was bache-
lor of middle age, who has relatives
residing at Elba. Whether it was a
fall or an attack by some enemy that
caused his death can not be ascer-
tanned.
Milwaukee.-Two hundred dollars
for life was the price fixed
when Edward Liersch, who ran down
and killed Mrs. Barbara Schackert
with his automobile and fed, vas fined
this sum for manslaughter The son
of the slain woman asked Judge to