Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-23
Badger News
Briefly Told

( 11-iOSuIe Oh the TOUR English deer at
4 Irvine park zoo and killed the entire
family.
Green Bay.-Mrs. J. Capene, aged
forty-foGr, died of fright caused by
lightning, which did $4,000 damage to
Deaconess hospital adjoining her
home.
Marshfeld.-Wenzel Hasenohrl, Jr.,
of Hewitt, four miles from here,
was kicked in the stomach by a
horse. After several days of in
tense pain he died at the hospital.
He was seventeen years of age.
Beloit.-Alone and uncared for
Mrs. William Sherman, widow. lay
for five days suffering with ap,
pendicitis before neighbors found her,
near the point of death. Alarmed at
her nonappearance friends broke into
her house.
Madison.-Applicatio for a com
mutation Of the sentence of Christ
Johnson, committed to Waupun from
this city August II, 1912, for fifteen
years for a serious crime, has been
made to Governor Philip and will be
heard October IS.
Madison.-The Woman's Christian
Temperance Union Of Wisconsin,
which has headquarters in Madison.
filed incorporation papers with the
secretary of state Election of off.
GERS will be held at the first meeting
on September 20 at Eau Claire.
Madison.-WilEs Inman was con-
victed in the circuit court of
Jefferson county of arson for burning
barn on the farm of the Chapman
estate, near Palmyra, several months
ago. Inman is alleged to have burned
the barn in revenge for being dis
charged from the emT oyment of the
estate.
Beloit.-With next to the largest
freshman class in it's history en-
rolled, Beloit opened it's sixty-ninth
year. There are 10 new studen s,
155 being freshmen. Seventeen states
are represented. Passage of the three
and one-half year athletic rule did not
keep athletes away from Beloit. There
is an abundance of material in the
entering class which promises we'll
for strong freshmen football team.
Collector of - Internal
Revenue Paul A. Hemmy has ap-
pointed Arthur L. Barry of Montel-
10 deputy to work on federal income.
tax matters in the, Montello district.
Collector of Customs August M. Cav
in has named E. D. Lorton deputy
| collector of customs at Marinette. Col
lector Gavin will go to New York next
month to attend a conference of the
collectors of customs from all parts
of the United States The conference
will be in session from October 4
to 8.
La Crosses. o. Sorenson is
in a hospital suffering from ter
rible burns on the face, body and
limbs, received when he swan TWEEN
ty-tive feet through film of blazing
| gasoline between his burning boat
house and the river bank. He was
pumping the bilge of his new speed
boat and had drawn several gallons
of waste oil and gasoline from the
craft, when he stopped to light a
cigar. He tossed the burning match
in the oiEcovered water, and in a
second the boathouse and a blazing
pool surrounded the craft through
which Sorenson had to swim to safe
! ty. The boat and its house were de-
stroyed.
Madison-Senator Timothy Burke,
former Assemblyman Thomas Nc
Grath and other residents of Green.
Bay induced the state board of con-
troll to agree to place fifty inmates of
the state reformatory near Green Bay
at work on rebuilding highway along
the state land on tie road from Green
| Bay to Depere. The work is to be
completed this year. The board de-
cided to confer with Governor Philip
next Monday regarding construction
work on the new 100000 state home
for feeble-minded at Union Grove, Ra-
cine county, and the new $250,000
state reformatory at Taycheedah, Fond
du Lac county. Contracts for the
work at both places need only the
approval Of the governor to become
| effective.
Chippewa Falls.-A weIldressed
masked man held up Kenneth Beals,
night ticket agent of the 500 line,
at the depot at the point of a
revolver, forced him to open the safe
and took sos in cash and $4,000 in
/ employees pay checks. Thanking
! Beals, the rObber disappeared He
was arrested in a lunch car at Eau
! Claire, having escaped from freight
| train. All the money and checks we're
found on his person. The prisoner,
who is thirry-one years old. refused
| to give his name. He says he former
! ly was a travelling man of Fort Dodge,
| Ia He was broke, he SAID and want
/ ed money. Just prior to robbing the
! depot he tried to hold up Walter VIC
! let, night bartender at the Riverside
/ hotel Violet grabbed him and threw
| him out, but could not wrest his gun
away The robber went to the depot
| across the street and in five minutes
accomplished the holdup and escaped.
Beaver Dam.-An explosion Of
gas in the basement of the HaW-
ley block, set fire to the building
and before the flames were eztln-
guished the entire block was Quilted.
Samuel Elfser, proprietor Of the Elf
! ser & Peters clothing store, was sert-
ously and probably fatally burned. He
was in the basement when the explo-
sion occurred The loss is estimated
at $4,000. Besides the clothing store
the offices Of the Western Union Tele-
graph company and the HaWley and
Bork cigar store and billiard hall were
burned out. It is believed a leak in
gas main caused the explosion.
Barron.-Henry Kraus Of this city