Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-09-12
WISCONSIN NEWS
TERSELY TOLD



celebrated their golden wedding ami.
Versary. They had lived near this city
ever since their wedding.
Grand Rapids.-James Walsh, vet
Urinary surgeon and blacksmith and
OGc OF Grand Rapids early settlers,
dropped dead from apoplexy. Doctor
Walsh was well known throughout the
Wisconsin valley
Madison.-Carroll Dyer, twenty
years old. member OF the senior class
OF the Madison high school. son OF
Harry Dyer, drowned in Lake Wau.
besa, near Mcfarland, by the capsiz
ing Of boat in which he and two
companions were riding. The body
was not recovered.
La Crcsse.-The principal feature
| discussed at the national convention Of
the Women's Bohemian Roman Cath.
olic Central Union of the United
States, in session here. is the matter OF
changing the insurance assessments
OF the union to a formulated table to
detnate rates. The present rates were
variable and are ruled by the number
OF deaths occurring in the member.
ship, The subject will be favorably
voted on before the close of the con
vention
Superior digging a we'll on
his farm, about two miles south
of Scion Springs, this county.
Henry P. Haling discovered iron ore,
which appears to be of excellent quail
| ity. AS result business men and
other residents are much excited. see-
ing a possibility that the new iron
range, long believed to exist in this
county. has at last really been discov-
cred. Haling has sent samples of the
ore to an assayer to determine its
quality
Milwaukee.-The Wisconsin Associ-
alton of Photographers tabled a
measure presented by the National AS
ISOLATION of Photographers which
urged that bill be introduced to IL
cense and examine photographers
Prizes were awarded for exhibits, after
which the convention adjourned. The
Nd officers were reelected at the
morning session as follows: President,
George Claus, Eau Claire; first vice
president, c. H. Volquartz. Plymouth;
second vice-president F. ]. Poe, Ocono-
mowoc; treasurer, C. Wright, Beloit;
secretary, E. H. Harwood. Appleton.
| Neenah.-Edward Fahrbach, charged
with writing two alleged Black
Hand letters to c. R. Smith.
head of the Menasha Woodenware
company, appeared before United
States Court Commissioner Kellogg
| Appleton and was bound over to ap-
! pear before Judge Gieger at Milwau-
kee in several weeks. Fahrbach is
! out on $500 bail He waived prelimi-
nary hearing The young man is en-
ployed at the Office of the Island Pa
| per company, Menasha. Two demands
on typewriter sheets ordering Mr.
Smith to place $1,000 at a Chicago,
Milwaukee & St Paul water tank in
Menasha, forwarded through the
mails, was what furnished the evil
dence in Fahrbach's arrest.
Kenosha.-Edward j. Gormley, aged
| twenty-eight years, cashier and
bookkeeper in the offices of the NJ.
H. Petit Mailing company, who a
| short time ago was locked in a water
closet while robbers looted the safe
of the company, is mysteriously miss
| ing. He left Kenosha and left behind
two letters. One was addressed to the
! officials of the company and the other
to young woman to whom Gormley
was supposed to have been engaged
10 be married. In both the man said
he would be dead when they arrived.
His friends claim that he worried so
much over the robbery that he was
mentally unbalanced. Others claim
that his disappearance is due to the
breaking up of a romantic affair with
young woman. Officials of the Petit
company do not doubt the honesty and
integrity of the cashier.
Oconomowoc-The Waukesha Coun-
| ty Historical society held a business
meeting in the Congregational church.
O. P Clinton of Waukesha, chairman
of the Cushing monument committee,
made a report. The sum of 81 ,076 had
| DSOu ItG6lFSQ ny llilS COLuulLl66, anu
after paying 500 for five acres of Al
den estate at Delafield, the birthplace
of w p and Howard Cushing, and
payment of other accounts, the fund
is now S330.79. J. H. Lacher of W,u-
kesha gave a report of donations VI
historical relics Among the new men
bers taken in are: Mr.. and Mrs. H. A
Ernst Rev, Samuel MacNeil and d. ].
Thompson, Oconomowoc; Miss Mabel
Hanson. Hartland Miss Anna Slaw-
son, Miss Olin and Mrs. Castle, Wan
kesha Mayor Hugo Ernst gave the
| welcoming address at the afternoon
session and President Mckenzie the
response, A paper written by Miss
Mary Ticbenor Of Waukesha was read
by 0. p. Clinton. Miss Slawson told
Of the old cannon in Cutler park. Wau.
kesha. purchased during Lincoln $
campaign in 1860 Miss Beth Engle-