Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-09-26
News Boiled Down
WISCONSIN NEWS.

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% the Sacred Heart hospital SUFFERING
from a broken jaw and other injuries
sustained by being kicked in the face.
Because the opera house manager
at GAINESVILLE discharged stage car
benter local scene shutters refused to
handle the scenery of the Checkers
company and seriously htndered the
production.
At Grand Rapids John thinner
man attempted to take his LIE Dy
hanging, but a neighbor happened
along Just in time and cut him down.
As it was. Zimmermans neck was
badly Wrenched.
Deserted by her husband and LETT
with no funds to pay her hotel DILL
Mrs. w. D. Wilson Of Detroit, Mlch.'
went to work as a chamber maid to
earn money enough to return nome
from GAINESVILLE.
At Eau Claire George B. Downs, a
sWitchman for the Omaha road, was
fatally injured at Altoona by being
run. over by string OF cars while
switching in the railroad yards. His
right leg was caught in frog.
The Federated Woman's Clubs of
Grand Rapids formerly opened the
year with an open reception at the
home of f. J. Wood. Among the
speakers of the evening was Miss l..
p. Stearns of the state free library
commission.
mt, c,,nd,ty gcbooI conference of
Milwaukee Presbytery met Monday
evening at Beaver Dam in the Assem-
bJy Presbyterian church. The Rev.
w. e. Graham of Calvary church,
Milwaukee, spoke on Better Work IN
the Sunday School"
Joseph r. Farr, United States Indian
logging superintendent, has made an
unsuccessful attempt to take his two
sons from his wife. Farr was awarded
the custody Of the children pending
divorce proceedings, but Mrs. Farr re-
fuses TO surrender them.
This has been a good year for
pickles in Wood county. William
Barney who has charge of the ship
ping station for Alart & Mcclure COM
pany in this city, reports that during
the month of August he received
$4,000 pounds of cucumbers.
The famous Colbert arson case was
dismissed from the criminal calendar
in the Outagamie county circuit court
and Mrs. Lucille Colbert was released
from the $4,000 bonds she gave over
four years ago. The case has at
tracted wide attention.
Marinette bOndsmen for former
Treasurer Jeremiah O'Leary have set
tied the shortage of $501 left by him
when he retired from office, and suit
against O'Leary was dismissed. The
shortage was due to a clerical error,
and no criminal intent was alleged.
The Kenosha Electric Railway
company has put into service in
Kenosha a full new equipment of
cars, and it is claimed that the cars
are the best ever operated on a local
line in a town the size of Kenosha.
The new cars, ten in number, were
purchased at a cost OF more than
$4,000.
State Bakery Inspector Charles J.
Kreger of Madison made trip to
Kenosha Monday evening, and on his
complaint Samuel Clement was ar
rested on a charge of operating a
bakery without a state license. He
was fined $40 and the costs of the &C
ton. This is the first arrest that has
been made in Kenosha on a similar
violation of the state laws.
At Whitewater Jacob Koelzer, in
the employ of the Western Union,
met with an accident which rendered
necessary the amputation Of Doth feeta
He was standing ON the main track of
the railroad, expecting that the train
from Milwaukee would come in on a
siding as usual, but it came On the
main track. He had time to make a
spring that saved him from instant
death.
Two tramps who gave their names
as Douglas and Davis respectively
have been bound over to the circuit
court of Wood county charged with
trying to take the life of Chief of
Police Garihee. Garihee was con-
Quoting them outside of the city limits
on an order that they should leave
the city. When at the city limits
one of the hobos drew razor and at
tempted TO slash Garihees throat,
but the chief was too quick and re-
arrested the men.
The common council of Kenosha
has asked the state board of health
to cooperate with it in an effort to
clean the kenosha river, which for
years has been polluted by the refuse
from the big plant of the N. R. Aliens
Sons tannery, and the president of
the board has consented to come to
Kenosha and act with the council in
the matter. An effort will be made
to force the tannery to put in a
direct sewer leading from the plant to
the lake outside of the intake of the
Kenosha Water company, or a flush
ing tunnel to cleanse the river.
Efforts to reach a kettle of jam
which her mother was cooking at her
home in Sheboygan Falls may cost
the lifee Of the little 11a year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. F. c. Cor
Ip+r Tho l,attIa full of Ccoldino