Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-01
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

| deputy clerk of the board
Antigo.-Harry Vitos. twenty-three
years old, committed suicide at his
nome in Deerbrook by shooting
himself through the head He was
respondent over i'll health.
Beloit.-The GAINESVILLE District
Baptist association elected Rev. J. c.
,Hazen of GAINESVILLE clerk, Rev. Viii
liam R. Rigell, Clinton, treasurer, and
NJ. P. Treat, secretary.
Neenah. - Unsuccessful attempts
have been made in this city and others
in the Fox valley where paper mills
are located to secure paper makers as
strike breakers in eastern mills.
Grand Rapids-Lottie Richardson
had shoes which were uncomfortable,
owing to nail through the heel, which
scratched her foot. She continued to
wear them for one day. She died of
blood poisoning.
ManitowoC.-Sixty men employed at
the lime kilns near Grimms, a few
miles from here, went on a strike.
They demanded an increase of W. yes
and the return of superintendent
transferred to another point.
Shawano.-Arthur Knudson, who
was out on parole and working on a
state road at Tigerton, skipped and
went to Seattle. When he is brought
back he will have to serve three years
at Waupun.
Grand Rapids.-At a meeting of
the Sons of Veterans it was de-
cided to erect a monument in this
city in honor of the soldiers of Wood
county. The following committee was
appointed: B. NJ. Vaughan, George
L. Warren and R. c. Gets.
Misunderstanding veterans of
the Thirty-second Wisconsin VoIun-
teer infantry met here for a two
days reunion. The occasion marks
the f1ftfeth anniversary of the disband-
ing of the regiment. John Strange and
S. A. Cook were the speakers.
Janesville.-Dr. e. M. Sartel, vet
eran medical practitioner, was sent
to the state insane asylum, driv-
en- mad by suffering of drug fends,
whose pitiful pleas for "shot-in-the-
arm" he could not satisfy because of
new antidrug law.
Janesville.-"There are lot of poor
fellows over there on the battlefield
that l can make SMILE" said DR.. E.
T. Woods as he babe good-by to a
group of friends who had gath
cred on the depot platform to see him
off for New York city where he will
sail for Liverpool. He will serve in
the army hospitals in northern France.
Superior.-WilIiam Whit, known as
champion wolf killer of northern Wis
consin, is under arrest charged with
swindling the state out of $4,000 in
fraudulent wolf bounties in the past
five years. 1t is charged that he and
agents bought Canadian pelts and
turned them in to Wisconsin county
clerks for a bounty of $40 each OPP
erations extended over Douglas, Bur
nett, Polk and Washburn counties, it
is charged.
Milwaukee.-Jim Waupoose, Kesh-
ona, Indian, accused of killing his
white sweetheart, Mary Dickson,
postmistress on the reservation,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to be hanged August 49, If this
sentence is carried out, it will be
the first instance of capital punish
ment in Wisconsin since 1848, when
capital punishment was abolished.
There is no doubt, however, that in
terror department will intervene to
have sentence commuted to life i'm
prisonment. Waupoose killed the girl
when she was riding with a white
rival for her love On Indian reserVa-
ton. Waupoose was a movie actor
for a Minneapolis concern and when
he returned from vacation he found
his white sweetheart's love had
cooled.
Milwaukee. - The following Wis
consin students were awarded de-
gTees by Northwestern university,
Evanston, Ill: William Frederick Fad
ner, Appleton; Henrietta Laura Levy,
Ashland; John Michael Flynn, Camp
bellsport; Gladys Irene Scharfenstein,
CassviIle; John Peter McGalloway, Eu-
gene-Fagan-Traut, Fond du Lac; NAL
colin Chester Prunder, Greenwood;
Henry Curtis Johnson, lola; Howard
Mumford Jones, La Crosse; Alice De-
light Taggart, Lake Geneva; Margaret
Elisabeth Nehler, Lillian Mae Ryder,
Manitowoc; Margaret Grobben, Oscar
Edwin Lindemann Theodore Albert
Mueller, Alexander Frederick North,
Milwaukee; Clark John Laus. Ogh-
kosh; Earl T. Huntington, Platteville;
Iona Bonn Schmidt, Sheboygan; Ar
thur Oscar Hanisch, Waupun; Gene
We've Melody and Samuel Webster
Wells, Wausau; Laureston Winches-
ter Gray, Edward Earl Mahannah,
Whitewater.
Fond du Lac.-The Wisconsin State
Travellers Pharmaceutical association
convention here elected officers as
follows: President, Sylvester Blu
dau, Milwaukee; first vice-president,
William Beech, Chicago; second
vice-president, H. I. Carnahan, Chi
cago; third vice-president, NJ. H.
Pritchard, Milwaukee; secretary, R.
P. U. lillian, Milwaukee; treasurer, e.
6. Raeuber, Milwaukee The associa-
tion favored a return OF the plan of
holding conventions at some summer
resort, Elkhart lake or Delavan pre-
ferred.
Manawa-While working on the
state road works, Weyland Stevens,
son Of Isaac Stevens of this village,
pound fracture Of arm and the loss Of /
one eye and other injuries by the de- /
layed explosion Of charge Of dyna- |
mite
Mausau The Miscon sin cnnference !