Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-08
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John Champlin died from lockjaw from
stepping on rusty nail, blood poison
ing setting in
Grand Rapids.-C. A bennington.
who, for four years. has been exalted
ruler Of the local lodge of Elks, has
rendered his resignation.
JanesVille.-The police have one sus-
pect under arrest for robberies which
Melted $3.50 from the Brook saloon and
$l5' worth of drugs from the Shere
drug store.
Oshkosh.-The Oshkosh Normal
school summer session has enrolled
42S students. It is claimed this is a
state record for enrolment at summer
sessions.
Neenah.-John Strange of this city
was elected president and Rev. Henry
Stauffer of Menasha chosen superin-
tendent at the Fox River meeting of
the efficiency league.
Sheboygan.-Harry Mueller, eight
years old, fell into the lake while fish
Ing from the breakwater. His twin
sister ran home for help, instead of
calling nearby fishermen. The body
was recovered in four feet of water
Depere.-Louis Manders, badly
burned by electricity here Satur-
day, died in a hospital. He received
1880 volts from a high-tension wire,
and nearly all the skin of his body
was burned black.
Milwaukee.-Sal Saloons in forty Wis
consin communities go out Of exist
ence, following last springs license
elections, by which liquor was voted
out in this number of communities.
Several cities are included.
Beloit. - Sixty delegates to the
sixty-fourth annual convention of
the GAINESVILLE Baptist association here
elected the following officers: Mod
orator, Rev. j. c. Hazen, Janesville;
clerk, Rev. William R. Rigell, Clinton;
treasurer, Nj. P. Treat, Clinton.
Kenosha.-County Highway Com
missioner John Herzog is seeking
the arrest of 100 motor car drivers
who broke down the barriers and ran
over a new concrete road in the town
of Somers. 1t is declared that every
man who drove over the road will
be arrested under the state law for
the protection of newly built state
highways. Considerable damage was
done to the road.
Kenosha.-MTs. Sophia Wilker, who
declared that she had a husband and
two children in Milwaukee, was ar
rested here while masuuerading in
mems clothing. With ler was Joe
Brodis, a Kenosha man, who had
logged himself up in the full garb of
woman. The pair was picked up in a
saloon. They we're placed in the city
Jail on charges of disorderly conduct.
When asked the reason for it all, Mrs.
Wilker declared that 1T was a great
lark"
Racine.-Lester Wells, who last
year played with the Wausau team
Of the Wisconsin, Illinois league, was
held for trial on the charge Of
larceny. 1t is claimed that on Satur-
day while Aurora was playing Racine
here, Wells went to hotel and claim
ing he was Al Dean of the Aurora
team, had the hotel clerk give him
Deans envelope containing $57. Wells
left Racine, stopping in Milwaukee
where he purchased a suit of clothes,
hat, shoes and suit case, then proceed
ed to Green Bay, where he was ar
rested.
Wausau. - twenty-five newspaper
men were in attendance at the
second annual summer meeting or
the Central Wisconsin Press associa-
ton here. Mayor John Ringle gave
the address Of welcome. L. William
son, Neillsville, made response. Bert
Williams, Madison, spoke on "Oppor-
tunities of Wisconsin," urging the
editors to advance cooperation of
urban and rural interests. Prof. w.
G. Bleyer of the Wisconsin School of
Journalism gave talk on Results Of
Survey to Weekly Newspaper Pub
fishing in Wisconsin"
Green Bay-Twenty-one persons,
passengers on an incoming inter
urban car of the Wisconsin Pub
lie Service company from West De
pere, miraculously escaped death
when the car was knocked off the
rails and tipped over by an engine
of a passenger train on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul road where
the two companies tracks intersect
on the South side. Although all OF
the passengers were thrown out OF
their seats and fourteen of them were
injured. none was fatally hurt. The
passengers sustained bruises and cuts
about the head, arms and legs. Only
two women, Mrs. Morris Murphy and
Mrs. Morgan Smith, who reside on
Rural Route 7, out of Green Bay, were
in the car at the time of the crash.
The balance of the passengers, nine
teen men, were all employed in fac
tories and offices in this city. Green
Bay flies are blamed for the wreck.
They made the tracks so slippery that
Emil Clabots, the motorman, was IN
able to halt his car in time to avoid
the crash.
Racine.-Mary Judson, a widow,
ninety years old, found a bundle
in her vestibule which proved to
contain a healthy baby boy about
four days old. 1t was well dressed
but the clothes bore no Identification
marks. The infant was turned over
to the police and placed in maternity
hospital
Depere.-Charles Stadler, farmer
Of the town of Rockland, was shot
in the head and instantly killed
bv his little son, who was playing with
q rife which larger brother had left
living on a table after returning from
a hunting trip.
Racine. - George Hebblethwaite,
twenty-three years old, convicted Of
having robbed the sheriff's safe
of s173 on the night Of the sensational
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