Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
BADGER BRIEFS.

Monroe, WIS, cOmHlItSu SuICiue o1
Savannah, H., by shooting himself.
Cornelia Elmira Lathrop was ap-
pointed postmaster at TomahaWk.
Oneida county, vice r. Hughson, re-
signed.
Frank Williams Of Cassian, who
shot himself accidentally in the leg,
died of lockjaw in the hospital in
Rhinelander.
D. J. Bosnian and wife, living one
mile east of Oostburg, were over
come by coal gas. There is little
nope for their recovery.
Frank Burns, confined in the Wau-
sau Jail on a charge of drunkenness,
was nearly sufRocated in the bed
clothes in @ vain effort to secure his
release.
Willie King and Jesse Perham, who
tapped the safe Of the Bunnel mill,
near Sparta, was sent to the reform
school at Waukesha. The boys were
each thirteen years old.
T. Emery Bray will receive the rec
ommendation &C Congressman Kopp
for postmaster of DodgeViIle, where
the commission of the incumbent,
John M. Reese, expires in April.
Dennis H. Kelly, aged Is, yesterday
appointed gateman at the Northwest
ern road crossing at Kenosha, was
struck and killed by train at Ke-
nosha, after he had saved the life or
a Polish woman.
Robert E. GOude of Baraboo, CON
ductor on a Northwestern freight
train, was struck by a passenger
train in the Monona yards at Madi-
son and instantly killed. He leaves a
wife and two children.
Frank Melcznski has been held for
trial at stevens Point by the coro-
ners jury on the charge of having
murdered his father, Joseph Mclean
ski. on testimony given by the
mother.
Michael HaTtzheim, a mason, was
arrested in Lake Mills, charged with
an attack on Laura Wolfram, 10
year old girl of this city. He was
bound over for trial without bail.
The girls mind has become deTanged.
Levent l.. Lefingwell, a travelling
representative for a La Crosse brew
cry and one of the best known busl-
ness men in this part of the state,
was found dead in bed at GAINESVILLE
from heart failure induced by a slight
hemOrrhage of the nose.
Sheriff Hiehne of Sheboygan
county was cleared by the county
board of charges instituted in the
Daily Press Editor Charles E.
Broughton claimed that the attack on
him by a constable Thanksgiving day
was instigated by Hoehne.
Slipping under the wheels of a NOV
ing train at Lacrosse, Charles Mayo,
brakeman an the River division of the
Milwaukee road,h his foot so badly
crushed that it was necessary to am
putate it above the ankle. Mayo was
married a month ago.
John Fixmeyer, a retired farmer OF
FredOnia, was killed in the woods.
Mr.. FiXmeyer was out hunting, and it
is believed in crawling through a
fence he drew the gun after him. 1t
was discharged, the shot entering the
lower part of his body.
Albert Reha. a fireman for the Mar
inette ana Menominee Light and
Traction company, was run down
while attempting to cross the tracks
of the Chicago & Northwestern while
the gates were down. He leaves a
wife and seven young children.
A we'll known young woman disap-
peared from her home in Fond du Lac.
At about tie same time the disap-
pearancc of a young conductor on the
Chicago & Northwestern line was
noted by friends, who say that they
believe the two have eloped.
William Eden and Louis Segel Of
Glidden were arrested on a charge of
mansIaughter. 1t is charged that the
two ran over 60 year old man
named Rothenberger nearly month
ago with a horse and buggy and did
not stop to assist him. Rothenberger
died.
The grand jury has returned in
dictments against $50 saloOnkeeperS
In northern Wisconsin, charging sale
of liquor to Indians. Most of the
cases are at the Bad River reserva-
ton near Ashland. The idicted men
have been notified to appear at Madi-
son next week for trial.
Loretta Rothering, aged 5, Of Bur
al
while playing alone with the awning
ropes in front of her home. She be-
came entangIed in them. Although
the house is on a street where many
pedestrians pass, she was dead when
found.
Henry Knoll was killed at Edgerton
while returning home from a years
absence in the west. Knoll stepped
from the train at the pumping station;
instead of on the platform, falling
heavily. He died from his injuries
fifteen minutes later. His wife was
waiting for him at the station,
The wearing of heavy high top
boots saved Clinton Morris of Viola
from a serious injury. While hunting,
comrade, Perley Joseph, shot at
rabbit. Morris happened to stand in
the way and received part of the
charge in one leg below the knee.
The boots kept most of the shot from
penetrating.
George H. Clark of Beloit has be-
gun suit at Galesburg, H., against his
CORNER wife, who is now Mrs. Edith
Norton of Chicago, for $4,000 dam