Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-09
STATE NOTES IN BRIEF

Beloit.-The Wisconsin industrial
commission has allowed the claim of
Mrs Lulu Hoey, widow of Sergeant
Harry Hoey, who was killed during
rife practice in the armory at Mil
waukee last winter. The decision is
the first to affect the state as it re-
lates to national guardsmen. Mrs.
Hoey is to receive a sum not yet an
nounced.
Grand Rapids.-Thomas Lake and
Charles Washburn of Oshkosh, started
from this city to make the trip home
to Oshkosh by canoe via the Wiscon,
sin river to Portage and through the
government canal to the Fox and
down the Fox to Oshkosh The dis
lance to be travelled is pa miles by
water
Pot Westinghouse Gun
Their, president of the Gunther & Sons
East Valley Brick and Tile company
Of this city, was killed and his nephew,
Felix Gunther, was seriously injured
when brick kiln in the course of
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both. Mr. Gunther was 66 years of
age and had lived in Port Washington
since 1860
Depere.-A unique dinner was Civ
en- the members Of the Wisconsin
branch of the American Institute of
Criminal Law and Criminoiogy, which
met in Green Bay in connection with
the Wisconsin state reformatory near
here. The dinner was prepared and
served by the inmates
Kenosha.-A joy ride has ended in
a prison sentence. Leo Jahnico, II,
Bristol, was charged with horse steal
ing. Tahnico was attending dance
at Bristol and borrowed a horse Of
William Krahn to go to Salem for
liquor. He pleaded guilty. Sentence
was deferred.
Portage.-Mrs. Wilhelmina Kleist,
in walking to a neighbor's house,
grasped a high tension electric wire
among the branches of trees that had
fallen in her path. About 1900 volts
passed through her body but she was
released by passersby. She is recov-
ering.
Kenosha.-The summer home for
children of the Sisters of St Mary, To-
Gated on the lake shore at the south
limits of Kenosha, has opened and $50
children were brought from Chicago
to spend the summer.
Madison.-Papers have been served
in a suit by August Anderson for
$4,092, he claimed to have paid the
state illegally for timber On swamp
lands in Shawano county He con,
tends the Indians owned the land. The
legislature gave him the right to sue.
Grand Rapids.-Arthur Postley Of
Milwaukee, an employee of the Barnes
circus, which showed in this city, had
his foot crushed by one Of the ele
plants stepping on it.
Gordon.-The plentiful rainfall Of
this summer will produce a bumper
hay crop for this vicinity, although
there are some complaints of potatoes
and other tubers rotting in the ground
Oshkosh. The unwilling of the
statue of Carl Schurz, presented tc
this city by John Hicks, publisher o.
the Oshkosh Northwestern, took place
July 4.
Milton.-Stanley Kueger, aged 10
son Of August Kruger, a farmer OF
Milton Junction, was accidentally shot
and killed. A younger brother was
playing with a rife which had beer
left by hunter without removing the
she'll
Sank City,-Harry, the 9-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. o. N. Nelson, lost
his life while swimming in the Wis
consin river. He stepped off a sane
bar into deep water.
Antigo.-The Amigo Electric com,
pany will install new $50 horsepower
boiler in the near future, which viii
give the plant 1000 horsepower.
Grand Rapids.-While the E. w. Ell
lis family was downtown viewing the
parade of the Barnes circus their
home on Third street was entered and
4 valuable gold watch
and s25 in cash was taken. No clew
has been obtained.
Crandon.-The cornerstone of the
new Catholic cruhch at Armstrong
Creek was laid with the Rev. Francis
Menel of Pulaski as master of the Ger
emonies.
Danbury-The residents of this city
saw the first Iogrolling contests in
years at the celebration Of the fourth
Of July.