The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1913-10-10
STATEMENTS


has been appointed plumber inspector
by the board of health.
Wausau. Five bears have been
killed in the town of Hamburg. near
this city, within a short time.
Sturgeon Bay.-The Door County
Guernsey Breeders association has
been formed L. F. Henshell is presi-
dent.
Madison Lieut.. P. Wrightson has
appointed Fred J. Hauer. Sun Prairie,
colonel of the university regiment,
and M. T. Ray, Reedsburg, lieutenant
colonel
Racine.--Louis Savanna, aged thir-
teen. Leonard Julian, twelve and
John Baldwin, twelve, were ar
rested charged with shooting at a
schoolgirl. They were armed with a
rifle and revolver.
Racine-The 1914 state conven-
ton of the Young Mems Christian
association will be held in Racine in
February. The executive committee
awarded Racine the honor.
Janesville.-The young peoples
societies of the Norwegian Luther
an churches Of southern Wiscon-
sin will hold an annual conference in
GAINESVILLE on October "a. rs and 26.
Dodgeville.-Joseph A. Kramer
of Mineral Point was brought.
here from ST. Louis by Under Sheriff
W. r. Pengelly for wife abandonment
and desertion. When found, Kramer
was living with another Mineral Point
woman.
Beloit.-Harry Chapman, the Ca
madam who has been held by the
sheriff on charge of kidnapping his,
stepchild, has been released, the au-
thorities at Washington having taken
no action against him. He is in Be-
lott with the little girl.
Madison-The state board of
control has awarded contract to-
the Johnnes Brothers of Green Bay
for grocery supplies for the ten chart
table and penal institutions for the
next three months, of $9.S67.37. 1t.
awarded a contract to the Jewett &
Sherman company of Milwaukee for
teas. coffees and spices for the institu-
$4,000.
Fond du Lac.-While en- route to-
the Beaver Dam fair an automobile
occupied by Edward Beirne and E. G.
Tullege, farmers residing near Oak
field, was overturned when attempting
to pass team. The car went down
an embankment twenty feet high and
turned over several times. Tullege
was caught under the car and sus-
tanned broken wrist and dislocated
shoulder, while Beirne escaped injury
except for painful bruises.
Prairie du Chien.-Sheriff Harris
and Marshal Marvin arrested 49,
Italian laborers for burglary, charged
with entering sealed car In the
Burlington railway yards and help
ing themselves to 1900 pounds Of
flour. quantity of tea, soap, potatoes,
canned corn and other provisions. The
foreigners occupied bunk cars near
the scene of the robbery, and when
the officers swooped down on them
some of them fed to the hills. The
Italian consul at Washington has
been notified and the men will be held
for trial
Madison.-Judge J. H. Carpenter
died, following a long illness due
to general debility. He was nine
ty-one years of age. For sixteen years
he was Judge of probate court in Dane
county and retired eleven years ago.
In 1868 Judge Carpenter was appoint
ed dean of the law school at the state
university and held the position for
several years. He was prominently
identified in city and county affairs,
having been member of the city
council and the board of education.
At one time he was president of the
Dane County Bar association.
Notwithstanding a storm light
ming struck corn shock under
which Henry Neidhardt, Jr., fourteen
years old, had crept to seek protec-
ton from the rain. His father was con"
cea1ed in shock 3 few feet away and
saw his son drop. He carried him to
the house, but the boy had died in
stantly following the fash, according
to Doctor Nixon. Coroner John
Schaeffie will hold no inquest. Light
ming struck the boy in the back of the
head and followed the spine to the
right leg, where 1t was grounded, the
mark being visible from the outside.
Besides his parents, the boy leaves
two brothers and three sisters
Marinette = A skeleton believed
to be that of Alexander Ell Sill
ger was found near Rhinelander. Ell
Sliger was foreman Of a lumber COM
pany and disappeared seven years
ago. In heavy snowstorm he left
his home to look over prospective
road, despite the warnings Of his
friends. Although scores OF men
searched for him for weeks, after
that night he was never seen again.
The skeleton was found within few
miles of where FL Sliger was last
seen, and several pocket pieces known
to have been carried by Ell Sliger have
strengthened the Identification. The
bones were found in dense thicket
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