Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-05-20
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the committee of his acceptance.
Rhinelander. = Roger Engstrom,
aged six, was killed when he was
thrown from a buggy and kicked
in the head by runaway horse His
father was also thrown out but es-
capped unhurt
Shawano.-The government saw
mill, grist mill and electric light
plant at kenosha, on the Menominie
Indian reservation, was destroyed by
fire. The mill has been built over
fifty years and the total loss is about
$4,000 1t viii be rebuilt on a larger
scale than before
Neenah.-E raking the
fumes at the plant of the Neenah
Paper company here recovered the
body of Cornelius O'Brien, a resi-
dent of this city. It is not known
whether he fell in or committed sui
eide.
Edgerton.-In the oratorical and
declamatory contest by Edgarton,
Stoughton, Jefferson, Whitewater and
Fort Atkinson, the declamatory was
won by Miss Marguerite Melaas of
Stoughton, and the oratorical by Mar
tina Severson of Stoughton.
Racine.-Myron Sutherland, thirty
three years old, a painter whose
wife secured a divorce last De-
cember, committed suicide by drink
ing carbolic acid. His body was found
by his mother-in-Iaw. He left note
in which he said he could not live
without his wife and two children.
misunderstanding since last Mon
day, the corpse of Hans o. Jacob
son, Edgerton baker, was found hang
ing in a loft of a neighbor's barn.
Jacobson lost all of his property in
lire last January and through fail
ure of his brothers business in Chi
cago.
Neenah.-"Red" Cleveland, an anna
teur aeronaut, attempted to make
a balloon ascension at Waverly
beach. The parachute failed to open
and the balloon sailed six miles before
the gas was entirely out of the bal
loon and it fell to the ground. Cleve-
land was entangled in the folds of
the balloon, but was uninjured
GAINESVILLE. - Seventeen hundred
dead flies, as the result of
weeks swatting campaign, were count
ed out and paid for by the committee
of the civic league that is behind the
movement. The success of the two
days of cleanup is evidenced by the
Tp0onUn1 Of hraadinn TIonnC orH
refuse piles in the city.
Oconomowoc.-St. Paurs Lutheran
congregation at Oconomowoc has
voted to erect a $4,000 church
building this summer on the property
recently purchased on Lake and Pleas
is the architect. The new church will
be of brick, with terra Gotta finish,
and will seat 700 persons.
Grand Rapids-Mrs. Johanna Her
man Of Auburndale was instant
ly killed in a runaway accident. She
was in COMPANY with her husband,
en- route to the creamery near Marsh
field, when the horse they were driv-
ing took fright and became unman-
ageable and Mrs. Herman was thrown,
out, receiving fatal injuries.
Wausau-Ida Manning, nine years
old, was accidentally shot and
killed on a train at Mositee when
her fourteen-year-old brother George
tripped and fell, causing rifle which
he was carrying to discharge. The
bullet pierced her forehead over the
left eye and entered her brain. The
girl was accompanying her brother to
kill sparrows.
Green Bay.-Trapped in their
rooms when the only stairway
was cut off by fire, Jules Roubick,
eighteen years old, and his sister
Rose, thirteen, were burned to death
at Lange's Corners, near this city.
The rooms were over a blacksmith
shop owned by Jules Roubick, the
father, and the blaze was started from
spark in the forge. The father,
mother and three other children were
rescued, but were badly burned. Both
bodies were charred beyond recogni-
ton
Kenosha.-Kenosha had an old
fashioned border robbery, with the
black masks, big revolvers and all
that go to make up the setting for
movie, when lone bandit walked into
the Mountain House inn here and,
flashing two big revolvers, stood the
customers of the place, half dozen
in number, against the wall and held
them there while he calmly walked
to the cash register and extracted
money The inn is only a couple of
blocks from the Kenosha police Office
but the bandit got away. Half an
hour after he left the report was sent
to the police and officials found the
men in the saloon still huddled to-
gether, fearing a return of the bandit.
The loss from the register was report
ed in the neighborhood of $50. The
bandit made no effort to frisk the ter
rified men.
Madison.-Gov. E. L. Philip
conditionally pardoned D. Watson
Crombarger, sentenced from Milwau-
kee on November 26, 1913, to three
suffering from tuberculosis. He
would have been eligible to parole on
May &c next. The conditions attached
to the pardon are that Crombarger
reside with and support his mother,
abstain from the use of intoxicating
liquors, and report to Rev. Paul B.
Jenkins, pastor Of Emmanuel Presby-
terrain church in Milwaukee, once a
week
Oshkosh-Ruth and Irene Erdman,
aged eight and five, when crossing
street hand in hand, were hit by auto
mobile, rolled under car and escaped
still holding hands, unhurt except
bruises.
Racine.-LIoyd Turner and Alfred
Wardeu, sixteen years old, both
from BeIoit are in jai! here for safe