Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-02-24
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
BADGER BRIEFS.


In letter to the bar associations or
the several counties of the fourth cir
cult Judge Kirwan accepts the call
for denomination.
The State German Kriegerbund, or
German War Veterans association,
will assemble at Neenah in state con-
vention June 18 to 20.
Daniel Jorgenson, of New Rich
mond, aged IA years, while playing
with small rife, shot himself in the
abdomen and is probably fatally in
iured.
Duncan Cameron, aged SIS years and
a resident of Ed Mound, sustained in
juries in logging operations about
eighty miles north of Stanley. He was
crushed between rolling logs.
Slyvanus Stevenowitz, of Sheboy.
zan, aged IA years, fell from dump
cart in the yards of the Carton Toy
company and broke his neck. He was
playing with some boys wkAe tka 40
cident occurred.
check for $1165, pleaded guilty in the
municipal court at Racine and Judge
William Shielding sentenced him
to the state reformatory at Green
Bay for term of one year.
Little Ruth Miller of Sparta n
branded for life with her own initials.
While playing she fell against a
stove, burning her arm deeply. When
the wound healed it was found that
she was branded with the letters R.
NJ.
Joseph PaDka, a barber, was arrest
ed at Racine on complaint of NJ. H.
Whitaker, of the state board of ex-
aminers, charged with operating a
barber shop without the required IL
cense Panka was found guilty and
fined $40 and costs.
John Management, a bricklayer at
Green Bay, lost his balance while at
work forty feet above the ground and
in falling landed on his head and
shoulders. His skull was fractured
and he died in the hospital. He was
% years old and lived at DePere.
Theodore Kostermann, a Racine sa-
loon man, was tried in the municipal
court On charge of selling liquor to
Louise Schultz, a minor. He was found
guilty by jury and a fine of 500 and
costs Or three months in jail was i'm.
posed by Judge Shielding. An appeal
was taken to the circuit court.
The Sheboygan Merchants associa,
ton has adopted a black list 1t has
been decided to work out credit sys.
tenn for mutual protection against
persons who do not pay their debts. 1t
is to be not only list "deadbeats'
and slow paying debtors, but probably
complete list of patrons throughout
the city, giving their relative stand
ing.
George Peterson of Oshkosh and
William Kick of Neenah, paroled from
the industrial school at Waukesha
were arrested, charged with burglary
of two stores at Oshkosh. They were
about to take train for Milwaukee
where they expected to meet a third
paroled boy. They were armed with
revolvers.
William G. Collins, the Richland
Center university freshman who plead
ed guilty to forgery and passing fraud.
ulent checks on Madison merchants
was sentenced to eighteen months il
the Green Bay reformatory, but sen
tence was suspended under the new
parole law, his being the first such
parole in the Madison courts.
The case against the Manitowoc and
Northern Traction company is to be
heard at Oshkosh on a charge of ven.
ne, February 23. The suit is brought
to restrain an advance in interurban
rates ON the ground that it is viola.
ton of the franchise which prescribes
10-cent fare The city also seeks to
prevent the company from carrying
freight and packages.