The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-07-10
State News
I'm Brief
ACCA

Madison.-Congress is about to
have legislative reference library SIM
liar to Wisconsin's, according to an ar
ticle in La Follette's magazine.
Waukesha.-The Hygeia spring pa
vilion and statue of Hygeia, erect
ed before the worlds fair at Chi
cago, are being torn down. They had
become delapidated.
Madison.-All funds in the state
treasury totaled s4,300,S54 July
1, compared with $5,S05,191 June 1.
The balance in the general fund is 49,
7,1O3, as against $4,01I,S43 June 1.
Oconomowoc. - Mabel Schuster,
thirteen eyars old, is dead at her
home in Concord as q result of STEP
ping upon rusty nail, lockjaw result
ing from the wound. She was the eld-
est daughter of Herman Schuster, Con-
cord.
Beloit.-Mrs. Fred Mech was seri-
ously injured when an automobile
driven by her husband was struck
by an engine of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul road in crossing the
tracks.
Neenah.-J. F. Cummings, an cleo
trical engineer, broke a leg in
three places and disloctaed his shout
der in an automobile accident in the
town of Clayton, three miles from this
city. Cummings machine struck cul.
vert, hurting him from the machine.
The car was not damaged.
Neenah.-Their buggy struck by a
train, Mrs. Harry Allen and one
of her small children were carried Is
rods on the pilot OF. the engine. They
were found beside the track unin.
jured. Mrs. Allen, her mother and two
children were in the buggy, which was
demolished. The horse was killed.
No one in the party was injured.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. over Carlo Ire
mas success in business, the po
lice believe, prompted an attempt at
wholesale loss of life and destruction
of property when, exploding with ter
rife force, bomb wrecked Trena's
barber shop. The BLACK Hand was
at first blamed. Pieces of the crude
home-manufactured bomb are in pos
session of the police.
Mineral Point.-Binks Alton, thirty
years old, died from the effects
of being struck on the temple in
game here. Mr.. Alton was standing
On the sidelines waiting his turn to bat
when batted ball struck him. He did
not think his injuries serious and con-
tinued to play through the game,
which was between business mems
teams of Platteville and Mineral
Point.
during thunderstorm which passed
over here, Mrs. Olive Bartelfer-
son, eighty years old. was killed when
lightning struck her home. When the
storm was seen approaching Mrs. Bar
jefferson went to her room and COM
menced to pray Fifteen minutes later
she was dead. The bolt crashed
the roof, struck her and tore gaping
hole in the floor Of her room on it's
passage into the ground.
Neenah. = The Wisconsin Sunday
School association, which maintains
it's head Offices in this city, is lay
ing plans for the opening of summer
camp for girls at Camp Onaway, on
the Chain o. Lakes, Waupaca. The
camp will be open ten days and Sun
day school girls or girls connected
with any church group may attend.
Daily Bible study will be one of the
features of the camp. Mrs P. F. Stair
Of Kenosha will be in charge.
Kenosha.-Arrested after a 29-day
hunt near Knowles, Dominick Pre-
tact, claiming to be one of the lead
ers of a band of Italian gunner which
has terrorized the Italian colony here
for. months, was arraigned here
charged with attempting to murder
Anna Blast on June 2. After he had
been held in bonds of $4,000 he made
a full confession, the police say. Pre-
tract disappeared from Kenosha on
the night of the shooting and Chlef
O'Hare refuses to reveal where he got
the tip as to the mans whereabouts.
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knowles for hours and captured Pre-
tract at the point Of revolver as he
was returning from work in a quarry
Eau Claire.-The three-day session
of the German Luther leagues OF
the northwest closed with big pic
mic and athletic events at Lake Halle
for the 400 delegates attending. At the
business session officers were elected
as follows: President, Irwin Duersch-
ner of Waseca, Mimi; first vice-presi-
dent, Richard Kpeu of Eau Claire; Sec
ond vice-president, E. Lippka CT Min
neapolis; secretary, Miss Bertha
of St. Paul, and treasurer, Ar.
thur Goetzmann of Minneapolis. The
were elected delegates to at
tend the meeting of the central adj
visory board at Dubuque, Ia, this fall:
Arthur Goetzmann Of Minneapolis,
Rolf Hartig of Minneapolis and Miss
Bertha Buehrer of st. Paul.
Stoughton. - Tobacco tranoplantin2
Is about completed and farmers
are relieved. Prospects were never