Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-14
WISCONSIN.

/ The directors of the Chetek Chautau-
qua assembly have fixed June 80 to
July 10 as the dates for the next chau-
UauQua.
! Peter Benson, an emplOye Of the
/ Willow River LUMBER company, New
Richmond, fell from a trestIe and
broke his neck.
! J. J. Haasl, a well known Bruce
business man, has been bound over to
The circuit court to answer to the
charge of setting on fire his building,
insured for $1,400.
Max Fleigelman of Chicago spent
tWenty-four hours in Racine looking
after his II year old daughter, who re-
Gently elOped from Chicago with Nor
ris Jomalaski, aged q years.
The state railroad commission has
set the hearing Of the complaint of
Fred c. Lorenz and other citizens Of
Milwaukee against the telephone sery-
! ice in that city on Nov IA
! Sheriff Charles Willard has arrested
at Corvallis, Ore, ]. l.. Fogo Of Rich
| land Center, after a search of three
months. It is alleged tht Mr.. Fogo
shot a Mr. McAvoy 1t Tomah.
( The water in the Fox river is at a
| low stage, and it is only through the
greatest economy in its use that the
millmen are able to make 1t go far
enough to keep their plants in opera
ton.
gents of two Milwaukee breWeries
were arrested in Kenosha, charged
with selling liquor without license.
Warrants were issued for five Chicago
agents and three OF them were ar
rested.
superintendent of Schools Pearse
has compiled figures showing that on
Nov. there were 40,O92 children in
the Milwaukee schools, an increase of
,242 over the corresponding date a
year ago.
At Marinette, Chief Cook Of the po-
lice department has started a crusade
against the small boy who uses fire
arms. He has decided to confiscate all
arms used by boys If they are caught |
using them inside the city limits.
While Arthur TreIor and Frank !
Ostrander were engaged in blasting
rock in the BOscObel quarry the charge |
prematurely went off, filling the faces,
chests and hands OF the young men |
with fine particles of rock and powder. |
The men were concealed i'll a duck !
blind. A flock Of ducks passed over |
and all three fired Carney was dt-
rectly in the range OF one of the guns,
and the shot tore away a portion of his |
lace. Carney was p years Of age and !
not married.
Charles Thompson, a travelling !
salesman and collector for the Lang |
don & Boyd Packing company OF La .
Crosse, is accused of having embez- |
lied 1900 belonging to his employers.
He has been bound over for trial in
the circuit court at Prairie du Chen.
A week ago J. h. Malin, represent
ing himself to be an officer and organ
izer of the International Brotherhood |
OF Papermakers, was in Neenah and
secured men at good salaries to leave
the city for employment at eight hours
a day to take the place OF striking
in the east
The body of w. S. Whiting, former
president OF the old Brown Corliss En-
gine company, who died from injuries
sustained by a freight train cutting Off
his legs, at Racine, was forwarded TO
an estate worth $4,000, which is be-
Queathed to his wife.
At Racine, the Log Cabin saloon
was looted by burglars Sunday night.
Several thousand cigars were stolen,
many gallons of whisky and about 81
in money. This is the place against
which Chief of Police Baker made
asking that the license be re-
yoked.
At Appleton news has been received
of the death o. DR.. R. z. Mason, who :
from 1859 to 1865 was president OF the +
Lawrence university. DR.. Mason was
SO years Of age and is survived by four
children, among them Mrs. o. f. A.
Green and Edward c. Mason OF Apple |
ton.
Rev. Wilbur L. Clapp, for two years
pastor OF the First Baptist church OF
Appleton, has resigned to accept the
Offices of state evangelist for the Bap-
list church Of Wisconsin, general Sec
rotary of the Baptist Young Peoples
union and associate editor Of the Wis
consin Baptist. Mr. Clapp will prob
ably move to Milwaukee.
A freshman class of S31 and a total
attendance of 2,977 on Nov. l are
shown by the new directory of the
University of Wisconsin,. This Is an
increase OF so per cent in the freshman