Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-10
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
BADGER BRIEFS.


stantly killed.
George Carl, keeper of the hotel in
the yards of the Northwestern,
charged with selling liquor without
license pleaded guilty and was fined
500 and costs.
Jacob Schnoor Of the Orbbiscn con-
struction crew at work ON the new
Northwestern bridge across little
Lake Butte des Morris, was badly
scalded by the bursting of a steam
pipe.
The annuity of $21 per capita Is be-
ing paid to the Winnebago Indians.
ordinarily about 700 draw pay at
Black River Falls, but this year they
seem badly scattered and probably
only 400 will be paid OF here.
The game of schmier will have to
be tabooed at La Fargo Alderman L.
L. Rittenhouse, being an advocate of
reform laws, caught the village pres
ident and several councilmen playing
'schmier" and had them prosecuted.
Nels J. Anderson, machinery deal
er, of Fairchild filed voluntary Pc
tition in bankruptcy. His petition
shows liabilities of $3,423.50, mainly
open accounts. The available assets
aggregate face value of $1,581.86.
Washington's birthday brought
nearly $1,000,000 into the state treas
ury in county taxes, the largest being
$727,55265 from Milwaukee county,
which also paid $15,6741S coming
from fines collected in its courts.
Rudolph Wagler, aged 4S years.
died in county Jail cell at Sheboy-
gan. He was sentenced to fifteen
days for drunkenness. His wife was
committed to the northern state hos
pital for the insane at Oshkosh sew
eral years ago.
That the river front be turned from
an unsightly place to a promenade
bordered with green grass, trees,
flowers, and electric lights, Emil T.
Mueller has given the riparian rights
of his property in La Crosse to the
park commission
Modern Woodmen of western Wis
consin have selected La Crosse as
the place for holding their next dis
trict picnic, early in June Contest
ants in the drills will be confined to
those who reside in the territory en-
braced I'M the picnic association.
Rock county doctors have de-
clared war on those who carry lodge
contracts. Resolutions were adopted
whereby any physician who enters in
to contract to treat family during
a certain period of time for a given
rate will be suspended from their So
ciety.
Because an attorney guided the
hand of Mrs. Maggie" Pawling when
she signed her will cutting off her
adopted son, William PawlinT with
a dollar because he married a Protes
ts.nt, the probate court here has al.
lowed a contest.
The Shawano Credit Protective as.
ISOLATION was organized with the fol.
lowing officers; President, G. J.
Schultz; vice president, R. A. Up.
nam; secretary, F. M. Hoenig; treas.
urer, King Weeman. 1t is organized to
keep track of those who do not nav
their debts.
Hiding in a trunk while playing
hide and seek, nearly proved fatal for
little Irma johannesburg, of Neenah.
daughter of farmer. She jumped
into the trunk and the cover fell, the
lock holding it fast. She was finally
released by another girl who went to
the attic to search
A logging train of the Chippewa
Lumber and Boom company at Ca
dott, was struck in its rear end bv
500 road wreck train from Abbotsford
which rounded a curve at a fortv-miIe
CLIP. Thirty cars of logs were splin.
tered and the wrecker's engine set
nre to the caboose, destroying If
Traffic was blocked eight hours.
NICK Donohue, for many years a ho-
tel man and leading democratic poll.
tlclan in New Richmond, has struck
it rich up in the Klondike, accord
ing 10 reports. Donohue disposed of
MS interests in Wisconsin and went
10 Alaska back in the COS, at the
beginning of the craze following the
discovery of gold.
The Northeastern F'iremen's Tour.
nament association was organized at
Glilett and the first annual tourna.
ment will be held in Shawano july 4
1t is expected that six or eight com.
panies will join the association. The
following officers were chosen: Frank
Achten, president; Levi Lane, vice
president; w. C. Schuler, secretary;
II. Spearbraker, treasurer.
DR.. Elias Cole of Fairchild. Wis
has been bound over in 81 900 bail to
the Eau Claire county court Bail
was furnished by Mrs. Kitty w. Eos
ter of Fairchild, the defendants sis
ter. Cole is charged with manslaugh-
ter in the second degree for the al.
legged performance of a criminal OBJ
Grafton on Mrs. Maud Bennett of
Mcmillan. whose death August, 25, it
is alleged, was the direct cause. The
plaintiff is the deceased woman's sis
ter, Mrs. Hannah Vincent of Merrill.
Ian. The dead woman was married
had two children, and had parted from
her husband
DOMESTIC.
Mrs. Albert Kinney on Friday as