Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1913-12-06
BADGER
NEWS BREVITIES

MINI, was held up by stranger VINO
escaped with about ssh.
Mondovi-Fire starting in the en-
CINE room OF the Farmers Co
operative creamery damaged the build
ing to the extent Of $4,000
Wausau.-William Schmidt, TWEEN
ty-five years old, shot himself
through the heart with a shotgun He
leaves wife and several children.
Hurley.-Mrs. Pauline Loysen of
Merrill has organized a local col
ony of the Beavers Reserve Fund
fraternity. with charter membership
of "a.
Green Bay.-Members OF the state
board of control have arrived to
make an investigation into charges
of brutality at the Wisconsin state re-
formatory.
Wausau.-William Schmidt. TWEEN.
ty-five years old, of Edgar, shot
himself through the heart with a shot.
gun. Domestic trouble is said to have
been the cause.
Beloit.-Frances Demora. young
Italian girl, was attacked by an
unidentified man and ler face
Blashed with a razor She will be
marked for life.
Viroqua. - Edward Peterson. a
blacksmith, who was kicked in the
knee by horse, has had his leg ampu.
tated because blood poison set in. 1t
is feared that the poison will spread.
Manitowoc.-Pulled under a NOV,
ing freight car when fish nets
which he was carrying became en-.
tangled, John Robbeck had one foot
cut off and the other badly crushed.
His advanced age, seventy-fve. may
handicap his recovery.
Janesville.-Under the direction OF
Prof. John Arbuthno of the high
school faculty. students are in.
stalling a wireless receiving station
over which they will receive the Beloit
college time reports about three
o'clock each afternoon. The work will
be done entirely by high school boys
Marinette.--Jennie Johnson, nine
teen years old, and decidedly pref
ty, for whom Madison authorities have
been searching for six months was ar.
rested here. Her parents live on a
farm near here. To officers who made
the arrest the girl professed innocence
of the forgery charged in the warrant
Oconomowoc. - The Waukesha.
County Rural Mail Carriers asso.
citation has been reorganized. n. c.
Potter, A. A. Billings, w E. Griffith,
S. S. Billings and Robert Billings form
the original society. The admission
of 10 new members made a reorgani-
cation necessary.
Janesville.-Drs. NJ. A Cunningham
and R. w. Edden of this city
have been appointed by the war de-
partment as United States pension ex-
aminers for this city, succeeding DR..
S. b. Buckmaster. a veteran Of the
Civil war, and DR.. James Mills.
Waukesha.-Rev. Frederick D. But
Ter, for the last six years rector
of st. Matthias Episcopal church. has
been elected to he rectorship of St
Mary's church at Braddock. Pa. AL
though Rev Mr. Butler has not accept
ed the call he has taken the matter
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his decisions later.
La Crosse. - Lothardt Engaas,
twenty years old was shot and
instantly killed while hunting with his
brother August near Holmes. August
had chased a rabbit into a brush heap
and. with his gun under his arm,
hurled a stick into the heap to scare
out the animal. The weapon was dis
charged and the shot struck his broth
er, standing 20 feet away. full in the
chest.
Racine. Unconscious from the
smoke that filled his room, Mat
thew Christianson, a sailor. fOrty-fve
years old, was slowly burning to death
while firemen were trying to extin-
guish the blaze from the outside. The
flames. which had started in his room,
spread to the other parts of the house
and the firemen were called. While
they fought the fire, not knowing he
was within, Christianson lay on his
bed Soon his head and the upper
parts of his body were charred beyond
recognition When the blaze had been
! put out the hremen found the partly
/ cremated body. ChristiansOn died
while on the way to the hospital
ee.-No-seat-no-fare adyo-
/ Gates obtained an order from the
state railroad commission which prob
ably will serve as a model for street
railway regulation all over the coun-
! try. The commission issued an order
to the Milwaukee Trolley corporation,
a subsidiary of the North American
company, which controls street car
! lines in St Louis, Detroit and several
! Wisconsin cities. The standard Of
! service is established at s. seats for
each 100 passengers during the lush
hours and 1873 seats for each 100 pas
| sengers at other times. Traffic police
men shall be stationed at important
/ transfer points to limit the loads on
cars to the maximum comfortable car
| rying capacity.