Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-09-12
WISCONSIN HAPPENINGS.

Robert Barlow, a machinist aged
rs, dropped dead of heart failure at
Racine.
The Wisconsin Congregational con-
vention will hold it's annual meeting in
Oshkosh, Oct. 1 to 3.
Next month it is expected that the
first cars will be run over the new
Waupaca-Green Bay railway.
The blue book will be ready for dis
tribution by the latter part of Sep
TENDER or the first of October.
PtOmaine poison in ice cream caused
the seriousness illness Of sixteen per-
sons at a party ut August Rehbein's,
in Appleton.
Sheriff Hawkes. of Portage has cap
tuTed one of three prisoners who es-
capped Jail near Judge R. D. Marshall's
farm ia Sank county.
Miss Fannie Schooner was appointed
superintendent Of schools in Pepin
county, to take the place of her sister
Lucy who resigned. The salary is
$500
The washerwomen of Menomonie,
recognizing the increasing cost of Iiv-
ing, have formed Q union and agreed
upon a uniform scale of prices to be
charged for all kinds of laundry work
On a charge of numbering Barney
Lombard, whose body was found near
SpeCks cabin in Barnes township,
John Speck, d hunter, trapper and
fisherman, has been arrested at Wash
burn.
At Eau Claire, an action has been
started by Eugene Virgins against
Theodore Roosevelt to GUST the latter
from farm he is now living on in the
town of Seymour. Roosevelt claims
to be first cousin of the president.
After getting permission from the
camp chaplain to work on Sunday,
twenty members of the Madison camp
farm of a sick member, hoed up the
weeds and fixed the crops and every
thing that needed care.
Rasmus Iverson of Racine died on
shipboard while on his way home
from Denmark and was buried at sea-
Rev. Julius Bing pastor of a Racine
church, who had been abroad, happen
ed to be on hoard the steamer, and he
conducted the services at the funeral.
At Grand Rapids, Sheriff WEIGH and
Justice Brown have returned from the
Pacific coast with two prisoners.
William H Cummings and Thomas F.
Cummings, accused of embezzlement
from the town Of Remington. Some
years past the Cummings brothers
held Office in the town.
The officers of the jefferson county
fair have made arrangements with
Mayor Becker Of Milwaukee to give an
address on good roads at the fair to be
held Sept. 24-27. 1t is proposed to
have Mayor Becker speak on Thurs
day, Sept. 26, and have a special train
carry himself and party to Jefferson
and return.
w. H. Fleming, who taught in the
MERRIAM high school last year, has
just returned from Duluth where he is
a government custom official to find
that his wife and family have gone to
parts unknown. 1t is reported that
she packed up what household goods
she wanted and left on one of the
night trains couple of weeks ago.
Confronted by the evidence against
him produced by a detective, Henry
Micka, employed as caller at the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul COM
pany's depot in GAINESVILLE, confessed
to having broken into the office and
stolen $40 and to have Systematically
robbed the till to the amount of S155
additional. He entered a plea of
guilty.
Nils P. Haugen. member of the state
tax commission. has returned from
two months trip to Europe much i'm
proved in health. He spent a month