Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-23
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WISCONSIN NEWS
TERSELY TOLD


WtnteT.-The grain fields In Sawyer
county look better than for many
years at this date, and the out
look is for a bumper crop here as we'll
as IN the west An unusually good
yield of hay is being gotten in now.
Grand Rapids.-Whiie bathing in the
Little Eau Pleine river, Joseph Drax-
Ter OF Auburndale, aged thirty-hve, lost
his life. He could not swim and was
carried by the swift current beyond
his depth.
Wautoma.-James Carpenter. twent-
ty-tWo years old, son of Isaac Car
penter of Spring Lake. was drowned
while swimming with a number of
young men at that place. 1t is sup
posed he was taken with cramp.
Racine.-Rev. D. Ellis Evans, for
merly pastor of one of Racine's
churches, is being tried at Ar
mour, Douglas county, S. D., on a
charge Of fraudulently disposing of
mining stock bearing an incumbrance.
Mr.. Ellis sold considerable stock of
his corporation in Racine
Kenosha-Charles Miller, farmers
town of SOmers, was held up on
the Milwaukee road near the state
line and knocked senseless by a blow
on the head. He was robbed of SIS
and a gold watch Miller was driving
his automobile along the road when
his engine stopped and he got out to
crank the car.
Neenah. - Ferris Griswold, aged
sixteen years. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Griswold, attending the
Y. NJ. c. A. camp at Camp Onaway,
Waupaca, was awarded the govern
ment emblem and scored a total Of
10 IT in the field meet against a field
OF a dozen contestants. Boys repre-
senting Boy Scouts and similar organi,
cations from all over the state were
in attendance at the camp.
New London.-Max Schwartz, with
a wife and three little children
in Russia dependent on him for
support, was crippled for life when
a Chicago & Northwestern passenger
train severed both his feet. He was
coming to New London from Milwau-
kee to work and fell beneath the car
wheels while alighting from the
train. In few weeks he would have
been able to send for his family to
come to America
Portage.-Five skeletons of Indians
were exhumed by workmen while
excavating for the new residence
Of J. w. Smith on East Cook street.
Relics were also unearthed, among
them huge pipe made of red pipe
stone, perfectly shaped, such as used
by the chieftains in the primitive days.
The five skeletons were taken from
where the remains of Pierre Paquette,
the scout and Indian trader, were ex-
humed in 1904
Grand Rapids.-FranE Norlock, an
employe of the MacKinnon Hub
& Spoke factory, was arrested for
wife beating, complaint being made by
Mrs. NOrlock. The wife was a pitiable
sight when she appeared in court, her
eyes black and swollen, and with cuts
and bruises about the face and head.
The husband tried to make excuses,
but Justice Roberts made out double
punishment to the wife beaten. He
must pay a fine and the cost OF prose-
cution, also go to Jail for go days at
hard labor.
Madison.-Joseph Dragnic. who is
said to have shot and killed
Mike Jelaca, fellow workman, in the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad
yards here, as a result of an assault
by Jelaca on Dragnic, pleaded not
guilty to charge of murder in munic-
ipal court. In court Dragnic told the
judge that he acted in selfdefense.
He said he went to the railroad yards
to give in his time and quit because
of his trouble with JeIaca, but when
he got there he was afraid Jelaca was
about to assault him again and so he
shot him.
Prentice.-Axel Vixen and Henry
Riedel, two young men of the
town Of Prentice, are buried at the bot
tom Of an 80-foot well on the farm Of
Peter Lund, three miles east Of this
city. Vixen was imprisoned under 40
feet of earth a month ago while work
ing at the bottom Of the well. Relief
work has been going on night and day
since that time, a new shaft being dug
16 feet from the original, but this also
caYed in at depth of 70 feet. A larger
p-yn
around the original well and the body
of Vixen was found standing upright
in the bucket that had been used for
raising the dirt at a depth of about
sixty-five feet, but while working to
release the remains Riedel was impris-
oned under about thirty feet Of earth
by the caving In Of the shaft The
last excavation was six feet square and
curbed by three-inch hemlock plank.
An expert mining engineer viii now be
employed in an effort to recover both
bodies.
New Acknowledgement by the
death from infantile paralysis Of
a son Of John B. Johnson, the city
began campaign to eXterminate flies
TO prevent such Infection. City au-
.horities, the Commercial club and
physicians are aiding. The city is
1Iacarded with warnings Of the danger
md directions to fight the evil.
Madison.-Joe Drugnic, an Austrian,
3hot and killed a fellow workman
lear the Northwestern roundhouse
The name Of the victim was Mike Je-
AGA. Fellow workmen held Drugnic
Until Chief Shaughnessy arrested him.
)rugnic is in jail charged with murder.
Fifeld.-The disappearance Of
wo-year-old child, presumably lost
n the woods, has caused the entire
male population of this city to organ
re itself into a searching party. The
,aby Is the son Of o. o. Ball The
hid is believed to have wandered into
he woods.
Oconomowoc.-Dudl Cook is the
)osgessor of Boy Scout honor
medal in recognition Of his heroic ef-
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