Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-06-24
STATE NEWS

DS4oAt--EISut Ildlld0S from B6IOltS
colony viii leave for New York next
week and will enlist in King Emman-
uels war against Austria
Milwaukee.-Frank and Louis Krop-
ldIowski were fatally injured and sew
en- others seriously hurt when a jit-
ney containing five passengers dashed
into an Oakland avenue street car.
Neenah.-Countless numbers of eggs
laid by wild ducks are being destroyed
on the upper Wolf, due to the rise in
water. The water has risen eight
inches in the last week.
Madison.-Fire destroyed the Conk-
lin ice storage houses on East Johnson
street, Loss $4,000. 1t is believed
this will cause an ice famine here this
summer, as most of the city's ice sup
ply was stored in the houses destroyed.
Fort Atkinson.-The James Manu-
featuring company of this city has
been advised that it has been awarded
the grand prize fer dairy barn equip
ment at the Panama-Pacific exposi- !
ton.
Stevens Point-George Tyson, an
Odd Fellow forty years, died at the
nome of his daughter, Mrs. D. ]. |
Leahy. He was born in Germany and
educated in France and had lived here |
sixty years.
ManltoWoc.-StXty men employed at |
the lime kilns near Grimms, a few !
miles from here, went on a strike. |
They demanded an increase of wages
and the return of a superintendent |
transferred to another point.
Beloit. - Reports from farmers
near Beloit and in several adjoin-
ing townships are that recent rains |
nave injured their crops materially. |
thousands of chicks have died be-
cause of continued bad weather.
Janesville.-Walter Myer, twelve
years old, holds the record thus
far in the swat the fly" cam
paign, having grand total of 1880
dead ones counted and paid for by
the special committee Of the Civic |
club.
superior.-D. c. Dixon, ffty-eight
years old, manager of large |
manufacturing concern here, died of !
heart disease on Chicago and North |
western train at Missouri Valley, la. |
With his daughter he was en- route |
home from the Panama-Pacific expo |
sition.
CumbeTland-J. NJ. Krans bought |
four pounds of dynamite, together |
with caps and matches, and placed |
MS purchase in the oat bin for |
safe keeping. The dynamite was to |
be used in blowing out stumps, but |
the mice, it is surmised, got into the |
oat bin and sampled the matches and |
dynamite. The granary was blown
into kindling wood, 40 bushels of |
oats sown over the landscape and the
Krans touring car wrecked.
Madison.-Beginning one of the
longest tours ever undertaken by
a college organization, the university
regimental band left Madison for
the coast where it will play at both
expositions. Thirty-fve concerts will
be given in seventeen cities of the
Northwest before the fairs are
reached. The tour will end August
at San Diego, Cal Maj Charles A.
Mann, formerly of Milwaukee, is con-
ductor, and Capt. ]. E. Saugstad is
manager. Sixty students will make
the trip two-thirds of them being pro-
fessional musicians, working their way
through college by their musical abil-
ity.
Wausau.-Mrs. Desa Larson of
Madison was elected commander of
the Daughters of the G.. A. R,
department of Wisconsin, at the en-
nual encampment held in conjunction
with the Grand Army encampment.
The other officers are: Senior vice
commander, Eline Wade, Kenosha;
junior Vice-commander, Mrs. A. Woul-
Ike, Racine; chaplain, Nette Watts,
Manitowoc; Quartermaster, Regina
Klaina, Racine; adjutant, Nellie Doyle,
Madison; sentinel, o. Leichweichs, Ra-
cine; first trustee, Ada Rhodes, Madi-
son; second trustee, Elsie Mae Wade,
Kenosha; third trustee, Miss NJ. Nor
ris, Racine; auditor, Sarah Shaw, Ra-
cine; patriotic instructor, Miss s. Max
Cook, Kenosha; counselor, Cora Lane,
Kenosha.
Kenosha.-Alleging that he had
been held in the insane asylum
at Elgin, H., for seven months, not
the fact that he suffered
from no mental ailment, Joseph King,
a Kenosha nan, demanded an exanin-
alton into his mental condition in the
county court here. Following the ex-
animation he was promptly discharged
and returned to a place In one of the
Kenosha factories. King said he had
gone to Chicago seven months ago
and had SIS In his pocket He was
by thugs, who robbed him
and left him unconscious in the
streets. He was picked up by the
police, and when he recovered his
senses he was patient In the asylum.
Waukesha-Walter Blair, son of
Frank c. Blair, 331 Madison street,
was graduated from the engineer
ing school of Wisconsin university
amid somewhat embarrassing cir
He was arrested by Madi-
son officials with fifteen other students
for alleged Illegal voting and ordered
to appear in court on the day that he
was to receive his diploma When he
proved he had established a residence
at Madison during his course at the
and that he had not voted
In Waukesha since that time, he was
dismissed with the words: You are
a desirable CITIZEN"
Portage-Miss Mary B. Clark as
sumed the position Of superin-
tendent Of the Columbia county
school. She succeeds Chester w.
Smith, who died recently. The ap- :
pointment was made by Supt. G. P.
Cary. Miss Clark has been at Tomah
Tor the past five years and is former
teacher In the Columbia county