The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-01-30
STATE NEWS

county fair to be held in Monroe have,
been set for September 8 to IL, the
week following the state fair. p
Stevens Point-valentine Narlock,
who died here, is thought to have been
over one hundred years of age, He was
only about four feet high.
Madison Women's Self Gov
eminent association will offer a schol-
arship of 500 each year to help needy
women students at the university.
Glenwood City.-William Lourie,
one of the earliest settlers of the town
of Emerald and for many years justice
of the peace, is dead.
Grand Rapids.-Clarence Preston.
seventeen years old, of Plover, fell
from the Green Bay & Western plat
form in front of an approaching train
and was killed
Madison. -The capitol building COM
mission will meet the week of Feb
ruary to consider bids for the
structural work Of the north wing. AS
soon as awarded work on the last
wing will be pushed
IL,
president. of the village of She
boygan Falls, was instantly killed on
his farm near that place, when tree
which he was cutting down fell on
him.
Madison.--Plof. George e. Wood,
bury, a former member of the
faculties of Columbia and Cornell uni.
versities, will give several courses IN
literary criticism and appreciation at
the University of Wisconsin.
Racine.--Knud Sorenson, sixty-five
years old, was nearly cremated in his
room on the second floor of his home,
when the house caught fire. Firemen
carried Sorenson, unconscious, to safe
ty through window.
arshfield.-Eastern promoters are
endeavoring to interest local CAP
ital in dynamiting factory to
be located near this city, the idea be-
ing to furnish dynamite at low prices
to farmers for clearing land.
Madison.-Attorney General w. c..
Owen has advised Secretary of State
John s. Donald that the Door County
Fruit exchange of Sturgeon Bay la
entitled to all the benefits and priv.
ileges conferred by chapter 1858, laws
of 1913, On cooperative corporations.
Neenah.--Jay sturgis of the town
of Neenah daily drives a big red
city, where he is a student at Ksmber
iy high school. The animal responds
to the pull of the reins as vel! as
horse.
Madison.-Paul j. Kelly of Milwaur
kee, senior, has been elected presf
dent Of the Catholic Students associa'
tion at the university. Irene e. Den
.leen of New Richmond was elected
vice-president and John Conley OF Eau
Claire treasurer.
Thirty-fve girls en-
ployed in the Ross ellinger glove
factory went on strike, claiming
they have been working on piece work,
earning one dollar day, and were
given work by which they could earn
only 70 cents day.
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to attempted burglary before Judge
Hogan here, George Durler, who
broke into Northwestern freight caa
at Summit Lake June 81, was sen.
fenced to two years in the peniten.
tiary Immediate parole was recon-
mended by the court.
Madison-W e. Lee of Baraboas
has been brought back from Gov
ington, KY, by the Sank county au-
tnorities charged with the abandon
ment and non-suppoort of his wife
and three children, and will be brought
up in the circuit court before Judge
Stevens Lee Is charged with having
left his family six years ago.
Fond du Lac.-Fond du Lac may
vote on the commission form OF
city government at the April pri-
maries. At a meeting at which 800
citizens attended, an organization OF
commission form advocates was
formed, and the work Of circulating
petitions will begin at once. The
movement is fathered by members OF
the Republican party. FL. p. Peske was
chosen chairman of the new organiza-
ton.
Kenosha. = The coroner's jury.
which investigated the death of
John Him., shot and killed by Mrs.
Constantia Benerowicz, returned a yer.
dict of "justifable homicide." District
Attorney Drury told her he thought
she did just what any other honest
woman should have done under the cir
cumstances. Mrs Benerowicz told or
the attempt of Him. to crawl through
window into her bedroom and of the
struggle she had with him.
Milwaukee.-Alfred L. Cary. law
yer and fiiancier, father OF Robert
]. and Irving b. Cary of Chicago, died
after brief illness due to slight cold
and complications owing to old age.
He was seventy-nine years old and
had been practicing law In Milwaukee
since 1850. He was known throughout
the northwest for his mining and
northern land investments, having
heavy holdings of land in the northern