Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-11-12
BADGER NEWS NOTES

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Madison.-Campaign expense state
ments by political committees and
candidates for election filed in the of
nee OF the secretary of state were as
follows: The democratic state central
committee, $3,765.94 spent, s541.21
owe, $4,657.97 received; republican
state central committee, s4.991.Se
spent, S2,S1S.05 owe, $5,94O.3O re-
celved; social democratic state cen
tral committee, $1,703.77 spent, $1,727.-
90 received; prohibition state central
committee, s4,362S4 spent, s4.66S.34
received. Paul o. Husting, Mavyille.
democratic nominee for United States
senator, $4,41434 spent.
Fond du Lac.-Two Lawrence col
Iege boys, John Summers and Earl
Jones, started out to see the football
game between Chicago and Wisconsin.
at Madison. They landed in Jail here.
Disguised as hobos, the students were
beating their way on freight trains
AFTER being arrested once they man
aged to gain their release. In passing
through this city they were picked I'D
as suspicious characters.
Racine.-Tom Deyine, "a years old
sewer contractor, died from injuries
sustained when he was run over nv an
automobile driven by w. F. Proctor
OF Viroqua, who was held blameless
by the police
kenosha.-Mathias Greenwald aged
65, former president of the common
council of Kenosha and for MANY
years the representative of the Sixth
Ward on the council and present
chairman of the board of water com
m1ssioners, is dead
Beloit.-Charles Thomas of Rock
ford, a Beloit college freshman. was
injured by a special Waterman while
waiting for the football Notification
bonfire on the college campus. He
was struck on the knee with a club
Balsam Lake-The November term
of Circuit court for Polk county CON
vened here with Judge w. B. Quinlan
OF Marinette presiding in place OF
Judge Frank A. Ross of Superior. who
is unable to be here on account of
continued i'll health.
Manitowoc.-After telling the police
that unless they locked him I'D they
would have a suicide case to look
after, Max Arndt was taken into Gus
tody, afterward examined and sent to
the State Hospital for insane.
ManitowOc.-Relatives at Tallahas-
see, Fla, are seeking information re-
garding William Appleyard, said to
be former resident of Two Rivers
He is supposed to have been a purser
on lake boat years ago.
Madison.-It is probable that stu
dent activities at the University of
Wisconsin will be curtailed this year
by the abolition of both the univer-
sity circus and the Union Vodoil. FL
nal action rests with the faculty at
their next meeting.
Superior.-A colony of forty Rou-
manian families will be established at
Gary, near the new steel plant, on the
st. Louis river, southwest of Superior
next spring. Most of the men will be
employed at the steel plant, the off
Gals Of which are said to be aiding in
the new project.
Manitowoc.-After travelling but
twenty-five miles from home, to She
boygan, on a trip which they said
would SHOW them the world" Frank
Gallagher, Is, and Leonard Frosch.
IA, were arrested at Sheboygan and
sent home They had Is cents be-
tween them.
Manitowoc.-Love triumphed over
dollars when Lulu Currie, a Green
Bay girl, who was plaintiff in a S. 600
breach of promise suit against Louis
KaIb, a Two Rivers man, decided that
she would sooner have the man than
a money judgment. The couple were
married
Oconto.-Jim Pasek, a hunter and
fisherman of this city, was left on the
waters Of Green Bay nearly two DAYS.
landing near Sturgeon Bay, after drift.
ing in his hunting boat, without oars
or paddles. He was being towed in.
and was released about a mile from
shore. He called for aid, after discov.
ering he had no oars, but could not be
heard.
eboygan.-Joseph Hoffman. 80.
Jewish laborer, was found hanging to
the rafters in the barn in the rear Of
his brothers residence, but was dis
covered by his brother, who cut him
down before life was extinct.