Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-15
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returned home after an absence or a
few hours. Mrs Kasch died from an
attack Of heart failure.
WISCONSIN NEWS.
sam Moen of Amherst had a foot
taken off while trying to board a
moving freight-train and died follow
ing amputation.
John Zarek, who dismantled a To-
connective engine standing on the
tracks at Green Bay, was given one
years term in state prison.
Miss ZeIIa Harris died at the
Mercy hospital at GAINESVILLE, where
she was taken two weeks ago after
= fall from a second story window.
The report of the commissioner Of
g59ns.ong shows the number Of pen
Fsoneers in Wisconsin we're 24,595,
end the amount paid them $4070,114.
Charged with passing worthless
checks amounting to 800, Mrs. F. H.
Rogers Of Minneapolis was arrested
at La Crosse and taken back to that
city.
Theft Of a lot of honey from the
farm of Al Buckeridge near Beloit
has been traced to three boys who
have been arrested and are being held
for trial at Rockford, III. i
Henry Stokes, aged 70 years, while
in the woods near BTodhead, tripped
over wire and fell, injuring himself
so as to be unable to move He was
found in a critical condition.
When A. 0. Hilgermann Of the
RhineIander Brewing company
checked up his bank account he dis
covered that TX q ecks. each Of $40
demonstrations, were forgeries.
w, Z. Sawyer, wanted on the
charge of forging a $125 note in
dorsed by DR.. o. W. LapIout of Port
age was arrested at Battle Creek, !
Mich. He will be returned for trial.
Joe Stickeneyer of Merrill was ar
rested on a charge Of horsestealing
and taken to Stevens Point for hear I
ing. He had six horses with him when |
arrested, but said he was a horse
trader !
Mrs. Elizabeth Boucher of Fond du .
Lac, has commenced suit against the .
Wisconsin Central for $4,000 for the
death of her husband, David Boucher, /
who was killed at North Fond du Lac
on Aug. 4. l.
The Watertown Poultry and Pet +
Stock association has been organized
with William F. Greutzmacher as
president, and Arthur Gamm, secre-
tary. 1t is planned to give a show next
January.
Robert Holland, a 10 year old
Green Bay boy, was the victim of an
accident when an unknown autoist
ran him down, throwing him off his
wheel to the pavement, One of his
eyes was badly injured /,
Henry DeMar and Harry Smith, ar
rested at CIarno, where they terror
lied the train crew after having been
put off, were given Jail sentences on
charges of vagrancy and carrying
concealed weapons. /,
Assistant Postmaster A. n. Mirlach
of Beaver Dam was injured while dis
charging fireworks on the premises of
d. P. Lamoreaux for the amusement
of d party of friends of the latter. His
right eye is badly bruised.
Pending an investigation, Mayor
Downey, of Portage, has suspended
James Cavanaugh from the police
force. Cinnamon conducting a laundry
alIege that the officer held them up
tor So ON a threat to arrest them for
smoking opium.
While r. Hetland a La Crosse
county farmer went to town to dis
pose of some produce, three strangers
whom he had hired to dig potatoes,
OverpOwerod his wife and ransacked
the house, securing some jewelry and
other valuables. /.
Passing over a section of track
twenty miles south Of La Crosse
where a piece of rail two and one-half
feet in length was missing, the BurI-
ingtOn limited literally "leaped the {
gap The imperfect track was two I
miles from the village Of Genoa.
Frank Noyak Of Manitowoc a char !
acter recently sentenced to four
months in Jail as a vagrant after he
had resisted arrest and had caused
the police much trouble, is violently
insane and has been committed to the
Oshkosh asylum for the insane.
William F. Howard, who ran down
and killed William H. AIlard in an
automobile at KenOsha was exoner-
ated by the coroner's jury. All of the
eye witnesses of the killing testified
that it would have been impossible i
for Howard to have prevented the &C.
cident
Henry ole, of Racine, accused of
causing the death of John Hermes, 4
must answer to the charge of murder. i
His examination was continued until
Oct. Is. \ post mortem examination
held revealed that Hermes died from
heart disease, his condition being
such that any undue excitement
would have caused his death. The
inquest will be held Wednesday af-
ternoon. The two men quarreled over
some family affair. when Ole struck
and knocked Hermes down three
times.
Charles Stewart, aged % years, of
Couer D'AIene, Idaho, was sentenced
to two years in state prison for
theft of goods from the Northwestern {
cars. He was caught near Evans
vile after a chase of several miles.