Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-11-19

Wei , dSSocldllOu. IT showed ~ more
people employed than year ago and
Al more than month ago.
Neenah.-George Buser, Edward
Ehrgott, John PingIe and Albert
Zehner, tried here on charges of hav-
ing killed prairie chickens within the
county, were found not guilty Their
defense was that they had killed the
birds in Outagamie county.
Madison.-The next legislature will
be urged to vote compensation to
farmers whose animals may be
slaughtered in the campaign against
the foot and mouth disease. This &C,
ton was decided by members of the
Wisconsin live stock sanitary board
and other state officers.
Beloit.-An unusual number of. rob
berries have taken place in Beloit
recently. Half a dozen houses have
been ransacked and last week a
horse and carriage were stolen from
in front of a theater An automobile
owned by M. c. Howard was taken by
thieves from business street.
Fond du Lac.-Henry Eckel. 322
Bannister street, boasts of straw
berry plants which are still bearing
fruit. The plants were put in the
ground last spring and bore fruit all
summer, and continue to flourish de-
spite sharp weather in October
OconOmowoc.-M. H. Tichenor of
Ocononomowoc has IA of his fin
est Guernsey cattle quarantined in
Chicago, though none of the Tichenor
cattle are affected by the hoof and
mouth disease. Among the cattle are
Roxie's Glenwood, the champion
Guernsey yearling bull
Kenosha.-The quarantine of the
city of Kenosha against the small
pox-infested Zion City was made
more effective when the Northwestern
Railway company issued a strict order
directing its trainmen not to permit
Zion City people to board trains for
KenOsha similar order is to be is
sued by the receivers of the Chicago &
Milwaukee Electric road.
Kilbourn.-One person is dead and
two others narrowly escaped death
as the result of poison by which
ginger ale served to patrons of drug
store contained carbolic acid. Mr..
and Mrs. Edgar Griffith are in a hos
pital badly burned and their farm
hand, youth named Lyle, died after
the three drank ginger ale in drug
store following the visit of the three
to a moving picture show
Racine.-Racine is to insist on the
education of its public school
janitors The board of education has.
ordered an appropriation of 5000 for
the purchase of instruments with
which measurements of the condition
Of the air in schoolrooms and the mois-
ture present can be determined. Su-
perintendent of Schools Burton E. Mel
son declared course of instruction
for janitors will be inaugurated, so
that the health of the school children
will be augmented in every way.
Superior-For the fourth time in
as many months d. H. Campbell,
night Waterman at Superior salt
dock, has pulled a man from the
water with hook he uses in tending
fires in the dock engine room. A. J.
LOvdahl, a real estate man, stumbled
over some bundles on the dock and
plunged headlong into the bay when
no one was near Campbell arrived
just as he was about to sink for the
third time. Unable to pull him out
because of his weight, Campbell was
able only to hook him by the collar and
hold his head above water until a
patrolman reached the scene.
La CrOsse-Henry Liso, a chauf-
feur, confessed he murdered Miss
Petra Sellers, a servant in the family
of his employer. Liso was taken be-
fore Judge E. c. Higbee in circuit
court, pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment at Wau-
pun, all within thirty minutes. Liso
said he killed the girl because she
threatened to make known her physi-
cal condition unless he paid her $500
All he could raise, he said, was 5000
After killing the girl with an automo-
bile hammer, Liso said he cut her
throat with a pocket knife. Then he
dragged the body 300 feet through the
woods from a lonely country road and
dumped it into the La Crosse river.
where it was found 16 hours later by
a farmer boy.
La Crosse.-After Is years contine-
Gus service as quartermaster OF
the Third regiment, Wisconsin Ma
tional Guard. Capt. w. l.. Howes OF
Tomah has resigned. Lieutenant Wick
land, company K, Tomah, with whom
Mr.. Howes enlisted on May 80, 1899,
resigned on the same day. Neither
knew the other was intending to quit
La Crosse.-George Suffer, thirty
five years old, Madison, a wait
er on the government steamer Alert,
fell from the boiler deck into the Mis-
sissippi and drowned. Suffer had been
discharged and was being called by
the night Waterman to be put ashore.
boygan.-Charles J. Rietz, for
ty-seven years old, proprietor of
the Rietz distillery at Silver Creek,
was instantly killed while returning
from a business trip to Kewaskum and
West Bend, when his automobile
struck a rut in the road one mile
northeast of Boltonville, went into the
ditch and turned over. When found
Mr. Rietz was lying under the over
turned car, his neck broken.
Neenah.-Miss Gertrude Brown Of
Oshkosh, who was terribly injured in IN
auto accident near Norwegian hill,
several miles from this city, a week
ago, viii probably recover.
Waukesha.-John Benson, an cleo
trician for the Milwaukee EIec-
trio Railway & Light company, was
instantly killed when he touched
high tension wire on one Of the com
pany's steel towers at Waukesha
beach. He fell 40 feet His home was
in Boston, but he had been in Milwau-
kee for five years. He roomed on
Prairie avenue.
Shawano.-Williar- Quasi was in