Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-16
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HSuUluS.
Shawano.-Peter Schafberger. six
teen years old, was drowned in the
Wolf river, four miles from Shawa-
no, while bathing with two other com
panions He could not swim. The
body was recovered.
Racine. = Charles Carlson. ware
houseman with the Goodrich Trans
it company, was killed and two
companions were seriously injured
four miles north of Racine when the
horse they were driving ran away and
the buggy overturned
Racine.-Mrs. s. Hanehe of Cor
liss lost her touring car after collid-
ing with another car on country
road. Her chauffeur struck a match
In order to ascertain if any damage
was done and the leaking gasoline ex-
ploded. The car was devoured by the
flames.
Neenah.-John Dombroski, forty
five years old, met instant death at
the plant Of the Bergstrom Paper
company here. He attempted to board
an elevator after starting it, when he
slipped and fell, meeting death in
stantly between the elevator and the
floor Of the building.
Neenah.-Jumping from his boat
and clinging to the guard rail on
the dam was all that saved Gustav
Brietreiter of this city from certain
death when his craft was Whirled
through the sluice gates of the dam
here. Breitreiter chung to the rail IN
til able to pull himself to safety. His
boat was smashed.
Mad1son.-Mrs. May Delany Rus
sell, wife of Dean Harry L. Russell of
the college of agriculture, died at
the university farm residence after a
lingering illness of several months
She was born on November II, 1868
in Poynette, and was married to Dean
Russell, playmate of her childhood,
on December 20, 1898.
Madison.-Letters of invitation to
$50 mayors and other city execu-
tives in Wisconsin to attend the
annual convention of the Municipal
league Of the state were mailed by
Mayor Kayser. The convention will
be July q to %. The council commit
tee is arranging for the entertain
lent.
Princeton. = While their mother
watched the fire, ignorant of the
fate of her twin sons, Arnold Brust-
man and Walter Mawlson, seven
years old, were cremated in burning
barn. Their presence in the barn was
revealed when the walls fell, exposing
the charred bodies. 1t is believed the
boys were playing with matches and
set fire to the hay.
Oconomowoc.-At the district school
meeting it was voted to purchase
the William Thompson property ad-
joining the high school site for S.
600 and to install domestic science in
the schools The free text book sys-
TEN is to be continued. Dr. Russell
Jones was elected clerk and Dr. NJ. R.
Wilkinson and W. F. Notbohm re-
elected members of the school board.
Madison.-Emanuel Philip, Repub.
lican candidate for governor, fled
his first expense account, enumer-
ating items totaling S468.87, of
which 1870 was for general campaign
purposes paid to Cameron Fraser, sec
rotary Of the state committee. Repub-
lican state headquarters at the New
Park hotel during the recent Madison
convention cost $3.50. Other items
were for railroad fare, kilograms and
telephone service.
Fond du Lac.-Prompt action on
the part of Martin Warden saved
the lives of Miss Alma Drews of
Milwaukee and the Misses Johanna
and Clara Brayman of Compbellsport
at the latter place. The three young
women had gone bathing in the Camp
bellsport pond and became confused
and were swept out into deep water
Young Warden, attracted from the
mill by the cries, ran to the dam,
plunged in and after hard struggle
rescued the two Brayman girls. Miss
Drews was sinking the third time
when Warden dove and brought her to
the bank in an exhausted condition.
Miss Drews is a guest at the Brayman
home.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. G. A. Bading
said he would oppose any attempt
to change or rescind the tuber-
culin milk test ordinance governing
milk supplied to the citizens of Mil
waukee by dealers, as proposed in the
city council. "The law is supported by
the highest medical authorities, Mil
waukee enacted it after much delay,
and the courts have sustained it as rea-
sonable," declared the mayor. Health
Commissioner Rutland likewise will
oppose changing the law. The supply
of milk received in Milwaukee per day
is about fifty per cent of a normal
days receipts, the falling off being due
to the fact that only milk that con
forms to the law is permitted to be
received and delivered by dealers.
lwaukee.-President Carl Cause
WITT, pastor of Grace Evangelical
Lutheran church, will call the annual
conference Of the Lutheran Church Of
America to order on the morning OF
August II in Bethlehem Evangelical
Lutheran church, West Twenty-fourth
street and Cold Spring avenue. Dele
gates representing 100000 communi-
cants in America and Canada will at
tend. Women of Bethlehem church
will serve meals to the visitors. The
proposition of uniting the Lutheran
bodies Of the country viii be discussed.
The sessions will continue for six
days.
Racine.-The cornerstone Of the
new Methodist Episcopal church at
YorkviIle was laid by Rev. DR.. Rol-
Inns Of Milwaukee, assisted by Rev. T.
Parker Hnborne, pastor of the new
edifice. Rev Mr.. Cartwright OF Racine
and Rev. Messrs. Snyder and Rollings
of Union Grove also participated in
the, ceremony.
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