Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-09-02
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netting fish in Little Lake Butte des
Mortes.
Nenah.-At the Clark hospital in
Mr., and Mrs. William Hook, Menasha
and half and has been placed in an
incubator
New London.-While crossing the
main city bridge Frank Sehoenrock,
mason contractor, was attacked by
two young bandits. but beat them off
and escaped.
Beloit.-Two former Beloit men
who went into Italy to fight for
| their mother country have been killed
| in battle. The men are Miccione Sar-
ina and Vito Laudicina- They worked
in the foundry of the Fairbanks Morse
works and left Beloit last spring.
Madison.-Attorney General owen
announced the appointment of E.
E. Bossard of Columbus as as
| sistant attorney general with a salary
Of s2,70C year. Mr.. Brossard will
be an additional assistant in the de-
| partment, which now contains five as
| sistants.
Kenosha-Harry Bushline, for
mer farm hand, employed by Ray
mond Powell of the town of Bristol,
secretary Of the Kenosha county board
| OF education, has disappeared. 1t is
claimed that he forged at least TWEEN
ty checks III the name of Powell, and
1t is said that he realized several hun
dred dollars on the forged paper
Hartland.-The eighteenth annu-
al meeting of the Waukesha
County Historical society will be held
here September 8, beginning at two
| o'clock, on Doctor Nixon's lawn. c. D.
Simonds will speak on the early
church history; Miss Mabel V. Han
son on the Swedish Colony on Pine
Lake" and Mrs. Zelpah Swallow on
The Early Teachers"
Green Bay.-Perry G. Wright, al
legged embezzler of a big sum of
money from the United Building,
Loan and Savings association and
| National Fraternal league, waived
reading of the information in NUM-
| cipal court and rendered a formal plea
of not guilty 20 the information charg-
| ing him with embezzling $4,000 from
the savings association. September 81
has been set as the date for the hear
ing Wright was taken back to the
| county jail in default of $4,000 bail.
Madison.-A report received by B.
G. Packer, director of division of
I
ment of agriculture, from the de-
partment of commerce and labor,
gives the percentage Of commercial
failures for 1914. Or forty-nine states
Wisconsin presents the most remark
able record, having 48,850 firms en-
gagged in business and a percentage of
failures less than one half of l per
cent Only one state-South Dakota
with but one-fourth the number of
firms, exhibits so gratifying a show
ing.
Fairchild. - Charged with dyna-
hitting the Eau Claire river and
residents. The boy weighed a pound
killing muskellunge, Albert Lain, Emil
Lain, John Klemak and George Lain
of this city paid a fine of $500 and
costs and were sentenced to two
months in jail, On their promise to
assist the state conservation commits
sion in conserving wild life of Eau
Claire county tn were placed on pro-
baton for the jail term. The men
were apprehended by Conservation
Wardens c. F. Asmath and B. P. Lam
ming.
Racine-At the coming session
of the Wisconsin conference, Meth
odist Episcopal church, a propos-
al for a campaign for an increase
of $150,0OO to the endowment fund.
the interest to be used to pension re-
tired pastors, will be urged. If the
project carries, it is likely that one
of the members of the conference will
be appointed to lead in the campaign,
which will mean a change for some
important pulpit. Among those men
toned in case the project proves ac-
ceptable are: Drs. J. S. Davis, Hart
ford; W. P. Leek, Beloit; Perry Millar,
GAINESVILLE; H. Tippett, Appleton. The
official program TO- the conference,
which conwenes in Racine, September
8, will be sent out within week.
Antigo.-E F. Burns of Stanley
was elected president of the Wis
consin Ginseng Growers associa- !
ton at the annual meeting here. J.
E. Neffe of La Crosse was chosen vice |
president; George Maxwell of Amigo, |
second vice-president, and H. ]. Sleeps
of Rice Lake, secretary A
paper on diseases of ginseng plants /
was read by Professor Brann of the
state university. NJ G. Eberlein of
Shawano, J. H. Koehler Of Wausau,
and H J. Sleeps were appointed as
a committee to investigate the feasibil- |
ity of establishing a selling agency in |
China and to report at the next meet |
ing.
Kenosha.-Deported from Canada |
an insane John Hesse, a former |
Kenosha county man, reached Ken |
osha in charge of an agent Of the /
department Of commerce and labor.
Hasse was discharged in the county !
court, it being held that he was per
fectly sane. Hesse claims that he |
was wrongfully adjudicated insane at |
Battleford in the northwest territory |
and that regardless of his protest the |
Canadian authorities sent him to an |
asylum. He finally declared that he |
was an American citizen and a resi- |
dent Of Wisconsin and the Canadian |
officials ordered him deported
Observation-Disclosures Sudley, aged /
forty-fve, was instantly killed when
accidentally shot at Gresham when
number of young men were
target shooting The body was
discovered when a man went TO
inspect the target. Sudley had evil
IDENTIFY been sleeping. in direct range
of the target, and his body was