The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-02-27
BADGER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD


Madison.-The annual report of the
police department shows that the num-
Der of students arrested during tAe
years was az.
Oshkosh. at the gram
mar grade schools here has been re-
duced about Is per cent. by an cpl
demic Of measles.
Oconto. = Walter Schoenbeck of
the town of Spruce collected $40
bounty on two wolf scalps. 1t took
three shots to kill one Of them and
FIVE for the other.
Valley Junction.-In a cave-in at q
sand pit at Tomah lake, near here, Sid
ney Jones, thirty-two years old. was
suffocated before help could reach
him.
Madison.-A new department, to be
known as the mechanics institute, Is
to be added to the university. The
plans are being drawn by Prof. F. D.
Crawshaw.
Racine.-A farmers institute will
be held at Union Grove from
March 4 to Z. Bigger and better crops
than ever" is the slogan adopted by the
farmers boosting committee.
La Crosse.-Placing a six-year-
old, high spirited horse belonging to
M. Mcdowell Of Preston in a shoe
ing rack, in order to enable the black
smith to shoe it, the animal became go
badly frightened that 1t died.
Madison.-Officers of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin Prohibition
league were elected as follows: Presi-
dent, s. D. Stevens; vice-president,
Irving A. White; secretary, Miss Maud
Neprud: treasurer, L. P. Cummings.
Racine.-The thirty eighth annual
convention Of the Young Mems
Christian association will be held in
Racine on February 81, % and March
1. More than 800 delegates will at
tend.
Neenah.-Rev. A. Andreason will
accept a call to the Danish Luther
an church in this city, succeeding Rev.
G. C. Kloth, who has accepted call
been doing missionary work in Califor-
mia.
Green Bay.-Mrs. Angelina Mon
roe, aged one hundred. died in the
town of Howard, near Green Bay. She
had lived in Brown county all her life.
One Of her sons, Oliver Monroe, is
seventy-five years old and veteran Of
the Civil war.
Green Bay.-A Holland-American
society was organized in Depere,
with the following officers: Pres
ident, J. H. M. Wigman, Green Bay;
vice-president, M. ]. Macs, Depere, and
secretary and treasurer, j. A. Kuypers.
The next meeting will be held at Kim
erly.
Fond du Lac.-Jacob Yunker Of
Princeton died as the result of injuries
sustained when he was struck by an
interurban car near here on January
Is. His right leg was mangled and
his spine was injured. Yunker stepped
from city car just as the interurban
came from the opposiate direction.
Waupun-Daniel Woodward war
den of the Wisconsin state pris-
prison work in Illinois, Indiana, Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Colorado, declared
there was no reason Why 30 per cent.
of Wisconsin convicts should not be
employed either In road building or
farming.
New Richmond.-The United States
pension examining board Of st.
Croix county has been reorganized by
the appointment of DR.. Paul McKeon
of New Richmond, DR.. L. p. Mayer Of
Hudson and DR.. Samuel Phaneuf of
Somerset. Officers were chosen as fol-
lows: President, Doctor Mayer; secre-
tary, Doctor McKeon; treasurer, Doc
tor Phaneuf
Oshkosh.-John Schrank, who on
October IA, 1912, attempted to as
sassinate ex-President Roosevelt In
Milwaukee and has been confined at the
Northwestern Hospital for Insane al
Oshkosh, was transferred to the Wau-
pun hospital. Schrank was brought
here In a bus with three other insane
convicts. He was neither handcuffed
nor manacled, owing to the fact that
he Is a model prisoner at the institu-
ton. He expressed great regret at
leaving the hospital, saying he enjoyed
his time there.
icy waters of Lake Superior,
famed by stiff breeze which made 1t
impossible for a rowboat
to last, three men rescued Roger Camp
bell. keeper of the lighthouse at supe-
rior entry, from an immense ice foe
upon which he was being carried away.
When he was pulled into the boat the
ice was beginning to break up and
Campbell was exhausted from expo
sure. He had started down the shore
to hunt rabbits, going along the Ice
near the shore. About seven miles
from the entry he discovered that the
ice was moving out from shore. With
a gap of more than 100 feet between
him and the shore, he started back on
the run. He attracted his rescuers on
the shore by repeatedly discharging
his rife.
Madison-The White Spades, an
honorary society, announced the fol-
lowing elections: Albert Dexter.