Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-24
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! Dane county hunters were rounded
tup for shooting at mudhens.
AT Waukesha, Mrs. Inez Harlacher
was fatally burned. Her dress caught
fire.
At Menasha, James O'Dell, aged 81
years, a car mechanic employed by the
Milwaukee road, was killed.
The party to attend the, Wisconsin
dedication exercises at Andersonville,
Davidson, his staff and more than 100
Badger people went.
James Marshall, Green Bay
painter, fell from a scaffoId at Fargo,
N. D., and broke his neck. A widow
and seven small children survive.
At MenOmonte, the Ludington Guard
band proposes an innovation in the ma
ture of a series of indoor band con-
certs, to be given during the winter
season.
The body of an unknown man was
found at Altoona. 1t had marks of
violence upon it, and the police are
looing for a companion who was seen
with him.
Arthur Horn, aged II years, of APP
pleton, was shot in the left leg below
the hip. With five companions, Horn
had been out hunting, and while re-
turning was accidentally shot.
William Jennings Bryan is to. tour
Wisconsin under the auspices of the
democratic state central committee,
and Will speak at Wausau Nov. is and
at GAINESVILLE Nov Is.
Otto Kleinheinz of Chippewa Falls,
a carpenter working on the Wisconsin |
Central depot at Marshfield, Was IA
tally injured by a locomotive, being, |
struck by the pilot while crossing the |
track.
At Kenosha 1000 people saw Pro
lessor Earl Hopkins, diver and aero |
naut, leap fifty feet from a platform !
into a small tank, but he misgauged |
the distance and struck the side of the |
tank. The accident may prove fatal. |
Robert Green; son of James Green, a |
he left arm while hunting on the t
Oneida Indian reservation and almost |
)Ied to death. His gun was accident
Ally discharged. The arm was am
)utated.
In an attempt to rescue his wife,
who was pinned to the ground under |
he antlers of a deer, E. w. Bland of
5hawano was attacked by the infuri-
lted animal, and sustained injuries |
rom which it is feared he may not
'ecover.
At Merrill, while switching in The
St. Paul railroad yards, John Dono-
IAN, a brakeman, whose parents re-
,tde at Tomah, was killed. His foot !
caught in the crossing between the
blanks and the rail. He was %
ears old and unmarried.
Joseph Dobberstein, a teamster en- :;
oloyed by the Finke-Uhen Brewing
company of Burlington, was killed /
While driving from Brighton, Kenosha !
county, where he had delivered beer. /
It is supposed that Dobberstein fell /
rom his seat over the dashboard.
Arthur ChristiansCn, aged 16 years,
who followed the Barnum & Bailey ::
shows, which exhibited in Racine two J.
ago, died at Bedford, Ind. !,
Tie lad was with the circus during the
entire two months, running away
from his home. At Bedford he was |
with typhoid fever.
Mrs. Mary E. Tibhets. aged rs years, ]
was assaulted at her home in Eau
Claire by a man who has since been
living here. He is said to have been
drunk at the time, and was accompan- |
led by another mans wife, who was
also in an intoxicated condition.
The Chicago, Minneapolis, St Paul
and Omaha railway company may en-
pIoy women as operators in its office
at Menomonie after Jan. next, the
date when the new eight hour law goes
into effect. 1t is said that three
women will work for the wages now
paid to two men.
The yards CO the Northwestern rail-
way at Green Bav are now ready for ;
use in their enlarged area Eleven
miles of track have been laid and d
large crew of men given employment