Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-10-29
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS
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lect funds for them. An enterprisiug
Superior beggar turned the idea to ac-
count. On one of the principal down
town corners at an hour when the
street traffic had ceased to be heavy
a cleverly prepared and natural ap-
pearing figure was doing business with
upturned hat in an outstretched hand.
nlckels and dimes clinking frequently,
Until charitable person of an inyesti-
eating turn of mind happened along.
He looked once and then several
times, with the result that he called a
policeman, and his suspicious that the
cripple" crouched on the sidewalk
was not real were verified The Off
Ger arrested" the dummy" and is
waiting for some one to claim it.
There was nearly a dollar in the hat.
New Richmond.-Rt Rev. ]. NJ.
koudelka, bishop of Superior, has
completed a confirmation tour of
the Catholic parishes of ST. Croix
county, having visited Hudson, Ham
mond, Glenwood City, Stanton, Erin,
Prairie, New Richmond and Somer-
set, administering the rites of confir-
nation to total of 292 boys and girls
IN this county. The balance of the
week the bishop is spending in Polk
county on a like mission.
Observation-Disclosures Dorsey. a ne
gro, aged sixty-eight years, was
found living in a wood two miles east
of this city, by Sheriff Whipple and
Turnkey Wogan. The fellow had been
leading a hermit's life owing to i'll
health, for which he was taking the
back to nature" cure. On rainy nights
he slept in barns or abandoned houses.
he will be given further medical as
sistance at the county Jail.
Kenosha.-Luigi Aulozzi, aged nine
teen years, confessed to the Ke-
nosha police that he fired the shot
which on Sunday killed John Luss,
prominent farmer in Soners. He
claims, however, that he shot in de-
Tense of his father when the irate
farmer hit him on the head with
brush hook and attempted to take the
gun away from him.
Menasha - The Hartwig-Eliason
SANDER case was brought to a close
in circuit court when the jury
awarded both parties damages in the
sum of six cents. Hartwig, state vet
erinarian, filed a counter claim for
damages in the sum of $4,000.
Racine.-Coming to Racine from
Beaver Dam in search of employ
ment, Charles Ineacine was held
up in the freight yards by three
masked men and relieved of his purse
and the greater portion of his cloth
ing. His wild flight caused his arrest.
Superior-Probably the only wom-
an in the history of Douglas
county to be charged with violating
the game laws was fined $25, in the
person of Mrs. Daisy Richmond of
Amnicon Lake, for possession of deer
meat in the closed season.
La Crosse.-An army of $50 tramps
marched into the city, but upon
orders of the police was sent
across the wagon bridge into Mime
sofa. A committee of three was left
behind to solicit food from the city of
La Crosse.
Kenosha-The coroner's jury called
to investigate the death Of John Luss.
Somer farmer shot by hunters, re-
turned a verdict of murder and placed
the crime at the hands of Luigi AulozM,
an Italian. Luigi is held without bonds.
Antigo-Robert Boyd, twenty-five
years old, accused Of jumping his bond
in Kentucky about six months ago, was
arrested at Elton by UndersheTiff Will
lis Jones. 1t it probable he will be
taken to Prestonburg, KY.
Rhinelander. Rhinelander and
Oneida county will hold big potato
show in this city on October 20. From
the exhibits about one hundred bushels
will be sent to the Grand Rapids potato
congress in November.
Washington-A pretty eighteen
year-old girl, claiming to be Miss Anna
Anderson of this city, is held in the
city Jail at Faribault, MINI, charged
with stealing a horse.
Antigo.-Carl Yankee, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Yankee of Marion,
was killed when the automobile
in which he and three friends were
riding turned turtle.
While attending services
at the Zion Lutheran church Mrs.
Catherine Tugend, eighty-three, moth
er of Mrs. Henry Borchardt of Milwau-
kee, dropped dead.
Racine.-Gustave Zimmerman, aged
twenty-four, drowned here when the
boat in which he and George Jensen
were fishing eapsized. Jensen was
saved.
Racine. - Three-year-old Harry
Berteman disappeared mysteriously.
His frantic mother found his body in
the cistern in the back yard
Wausau.-John Kerhahn, a we'll
known farmer living ten miles south
Of Wausau, was found dead on his
farm.
GAINESVILLE. - William Wheelock,
Earl Wheelock, Albert Orban, all I'M
Ter twenty-five years of age, and Ray
nond Joholshe, aged fifteen, are in
all here in connection with a series
If store robberies during the past six
months. The boys are said to have
confessed.
Beloit.-The BeIoit Poultry and Pet
Stock association will have it's win
er exhibition January % to 80. T.
7. Roundtree o. Nora, H., will Judge.
Neenah.-Artnur Brown, giving his
lome as Oshkosh, was robbed of s19
nd a gold watch in the Chicago &
depot here.
Madison.-Since the establishment
f the agricultural Short course"
t the University of Wisconsin,
ust Att students have attended.
statistics show that 90 per cent OF
hese men are now engaged in active
arm work. Of the All students, 524
7ere not residents of the state.
Neenah.-John Tuchscherer, forty
light years old, was ground to.
cath under the wheels of a Chicago
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