Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-23
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
BADGER BRIEFS.

Fooled in his attempt to take his
life, Louis Grassel of Appleton, was
sentenced to one year in state
prison, having been found guilty OF
nonsupport and unable to abstain
from drink,
A petition was sent by the council
of Stevens Point, to the state tax
commission asking the reappraisal OF
valuation Of property in Portage
county. Stevens Point now pays
about % per cent Of the county tax.
Downcast because Of continued poor
health, discouraged through enforced
idIeness. and perhaps made norose
by the cold and stormy weather,
Henry F. Schindel, an Oshkosh Ia
borer, took his life by drinking car
bOlic acid
Frank Burns, who set fire to the
bedding in cell in the Wausau city
hall while confined therein on
charge Of drunkenness, pleaded
guilty to a charge Of arson and was
tentenced to one year in the state
1rison at Waupun.
School children Of the Racine pub"
Iic schools are expected in the future
TO keep their hands and faces clean.
By order of the board Of education,
the public educational Institutions
have been furnished with / 900 towels
and something less than half ton Of
soap.
Hamilton Carr, a coachman en-
ployed by Fred Carney at Marinette,
was assaulted and beaten by parties
whose identity is unknown. The vic
tim of the assault lies at the Menomi-
nee river hospital with one ankle
badly sprained and his face and the
back Of his head badly bruised.
Boys entered the cab Of one Of the
large switch engines of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St Paul railway,
which was left standing on the main
tracks at Racine, started the engine
and turned into an open turn table.
Il smashed large timbers and turned
turtle The damage will be heavy.
The cuIprits were not found.
Perry Rutherford of Petersburg,
Crawford county, was accidentally
shot by rife i'm the hands of a
younger sister. The two children
and another sister were playing with
the rifle, not knowing that it was
loaded. One girl held the head of
match under the hammer of the gun
and pulled the trigger. The ball
entered the left side of the boys
face and came out on the opposite
side. He will recover.
After Investigating the case of OLE
CoodIaXsOn, who was injured in a
quarrel with Warren Nichols at Oak
Center, the complaint against Nichols,
charging him with assault and bat
terry, was dismissed by District At
tOTney ChadbOurne, and the defendant
was rearrested upon a warrant charg
ing him with assault with intent to
do great bodily harm. The changing
Of the charge was caused by. the Sc
rious condition in which the officers
found GoodlaXson.
The IS year old son of Alpha
Snyder of Grand Rapids, narrowly es-
capped being electrOCuted while the
horse he was driving was instantly
killed. A high voltage arc lamp
broke and fell to the ground while the
current was still on, but the young
man, who had started to drive to
Biron, did not notice the severed wire
until his horse ran into it. The ami
NAL was instantly killed and the
driver was thrown from the buggy,
just escaping contact himself.
That injuries he had sustained
caused, it is believed, by holdup men,
were not sufficient to have caused
his death is the opinion of physicians
who examined the remains of Thomas
Nolan for the district attorney.
Nolan, former baggage master at the
Northwestern depot, GAINESVILLE, was
found in an unconscious condition in
the yard Of the Douglass school build
ing and all efforts to revive him
proved useless and he died without
gaining his senses. Exposure is given
as deaths cause.