Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-08-29
WISCONSIN NEWS
TERSELY TOLD


OcontO.-EuWard MerClGs, MAMMA.
Mich, slipped in boarding a train here
and fell. His foot was crushed and
had to be amputated.
Hurley. Thieves who entered vii.
liam Kyro's saloon between MeIen
and this city. obtained $1,000, several
watches and reyolvers by cutting out
the door of the safe.
kenosha.-Dr. J. H. Holm had a
narrow escape from death when
the automobile in which he was rid,
ing collided with a Caxieab. Both
automobiles were wrecked
Evansville DIR T. F. Woods,
and DR.. r. w Nuzum, who were
in England when the European
war broke out, were the first of the
GAINESVILLE tourists to return to Amer.
lea
Neenah,-A strip of rural highway
south Of this city. known as the
Dixie road. under construction by the
state highway commission, has been
completed. The crew has loved on
to Fisk to do similar work
Oshkosh Michael Kleist of Keno
sha, deputy state game war
den, was arrested here by Sheriff
Iweifel on warrant charging him
with assault and battery on Carl Fol
lett a son Of former Deputy Game
Warden C. f. Follett.
Kenosha. Charles Busek chief
electrician for the Wisconsin Gas
and Electric company was cleo
trocuted He answered a call to re
pair a street arc lamp. Half an hour
afterward his body was found beside
the disabled lamp
Antigo.-Arrangements have been
made by County Representative r
Swohoda with Prof f. r. Jones OF
Madison. drainage expert of the col
lege Of agriculture. to visit the city
this week to study the drainage in
this county
Spring Greenland Lindbloom.
forty-fve years old, gardener for
Frank Lloyd Wright died of in
juries sustained on Saturday at Love
cottage. he is the seventh person to
die Of those injured and burned at
that time
Madison - Governor McGovern
granted a Communication of sentence
to Rudolph Schroeder of Milwau-
kee, now serving a five-year sentence
in WaupGn for larceny, and directed
that Schroeder be given immediate
release.
Waukesha Ewald Twitter. fifteen
years old, an orphan, became exhaust
ed while swimming in the Pewaukee
quarries and after reaching shore
tainted and rolled back into the water
and when rescued by Cecil Wilkinson
life was extinct
Neenah Fire of an unknown origin
destroyed lumber sheds OF the
Wieckert Planning Mill company here.
the loss being nearly $4,000 Sew.
eral nearby frame buildings were de
stroyed. The buildings were located
in the heart Of the manufacturing cen
ter Of the town
Maiden Rock-Mrs John Giebler,
aged seventysix. a resident OF
drowned in the Mississippi river Her
body was recovered In three feet of
water by her son The aged woman
had tied her handkerchief to a tree
on the bank of the river Mrs Gieb
Ter had been in poor health for some
time.
Eau Claire. Someone crawled over
the transom at the Laursen Pump
company office and stole pad
of blank checks trail Of forged
checks for from $25 to SIS marks his
path from here to Milwaukee includ-
ing Madison The sheriff seems to
have been just behind him all the
time He is supposed to have gone
to Chicago and then 10 Canada. whore
another of the checks just turned up.
Waukesha. DR. w. o. Carrier pres
ident OF Carroll college received
consul at Florence, Italy. saying
Miss Blanche Wilson of the musical
faculty Of the college was safe In that
city. She is spending her vacation on
a tour of Europe and is expected home
September Is. Doctor Carrier said
nothing had been heard from Prof Clar
ence Shepard, head 81 he Carroll mu-
sical department, who is also spend (
ing the summer in Europe. lie is
thought to be IN Germany
Madison Norman Gallagher. TWEEN /
y-four years old, nachiuist /
employed by the University OF /
Wisconsin. fell 40 feet in tho heat. /
ing plant Of the university and WAS
killed He was repairing an electric .
motor near the roof or the plant AID I.
stepped backward from 70 platform on I
which he was standing and fell on .
pile OF coal d skull ~as crushed +
lie had worked 9r the university as .
macainist two airs. He was son .
81 70 W Gallagher 2709 Elm street I
Milwaukee
Madison. The Society Of American
indians viii hold its convention
here October 10 d. bout one
hundred Indians from all parts Of