The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1913-05-09
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

| | OlAlE NEWS |
| Marinette.-Boys smoking ciga-
rettes are believed to have started a
fire which destroyed the Thompson
school, one of the public schools
which had not been occupied for a
| number of years. The loss is about
$1,000, with insurance of $1,000.
Waukesha-While a number of
Milwaukeeans were wandering
through the John Renders woods.
Elm Grove, they came across the
body of an unidentified man suspend
! ed from a limb of tree by small
rope. He was about fifty years old
and well dressed. The body was SO
decomposed that it was necessary for
the authorities TO remove it by means
Of sheet. Coroner John Schaeffle
ordered it taken to this city, where it
was buried in a pauper's grave.
Janesville.-S Sixty teachers in James
vil1e's graded schools, constituting
the entire force, presented an ulti-
matum to the city school board de-
claring that increased salaries for the
ensuing year were absolutely neces-
sarr. They pointed to the fact that
there were a large number who re-
ceived $40 month, while none re-
ceived more than $50. The minimum
for the GAINESVILLE high school teach
ers is $780,
Dodgeville. of the loss
by fire which destroyed the greater
part of the village of Ridgeway, ten
miles northeast of here, were placed
at 100000. Only about one-fourth of
the loss is covered by insurance.
Miss Alice Ryan, assistant postmas-
ter, saved the complete records,
stamps and money orders supplies of
the office. Ridgeway was visited by a
$4,000 fire two and one-half years
ago. This village is now without a
meat market or restaurant: The only
business houses remaining are a no
~
store and one general store.
MadisOn-That the superintendent
of public property may not furnish to
the state highway commission fixtures
to furnish the Offices of the six divi-
sion superintendent in charge of the
work with headquarters at Milwaukee,
La Crosse, Green Bay, Eau Claire, Ash
land and Stevens Point, is the opinion
of Attorney General Owen, given to
Superintendent of Public Property Ess.
man.
Madison-President Paul Reinsch
and Secretary of the Alumni
l.. P. Lochner will be the Wisconsin
delegates to the peace congress at ST.
Louis.
Marinette-The body of an uni
Identified man was found in the
woods near this city. The cause of
death has not been learned.
Ladysmith Peter Fluri, we'll
TODD farmer, in a fit of despond-
ency committed suicide by holding
lighted stick of dynamite against his
body.
La Crosse.-Believing that it was
Impossible for Charles Boucher Of
this city to have committed suicide
while in box car with large sum OF
money the Minneapolis police have
been asked to investigate the death.
Ripon.-In the first of a series of
triangular debates between -Ripon,
Carleton and Dakota Wesleyan col
leges, Ripon won the negative unani-
mously, while they lost the afirma-
tive. Carleton is at the head of the
triangular. The question was, 'Re-
solved that all corporations engaged
in interstate commerce should be re-
quired to take out federal charter on
such terms as congress may by law
prescribe, constitutionally granted"
Sheboygan.-The Northwestern Rail-
way company settled for the death of
twenty-year-old Irwin ZschetZsche,
who was killed on a crossing here, for
$1,000 cash.
Antigo.-This city has been Sc
lected by the federal government as
the location for an experimental sta
ton for the study of the diseases and
cultivation of the ginseng plant. Prof.
Bradt of Washington will take charge
of the station. There are more than
fifty acres of cultivated ginseng within
three miles of the city and there are
more than twice that many acres in
Langlade county, making this the GEN.
ter of ginseng culture in the United
States.
Misunderstanding the Olson murder
case at ST. Paul as a justification, At
torney P. A. Martineau called on a
jury here in the saloon prosecution
against Napoleon Demarsh, charged
with selling liquor on Sunday, to
clear Demarsh under the "unwritten