Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-05-22
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Rhinelander. - Roger Fngs,..
aged six, was killed when he s~
thrown from a buggy and kiosas
in the head by runaway horse ~
father was also thrown OUT bp, =.
capped unhurt.
Shawano-The government
mill, grist mill and electric Ush.
plant at Kenosha, on the Menominla
Indian reservation, was DESTROYED h.
fire. The mill has been built ovo.
fifty years and the total loss is abogt
$4,000. 1t will be rebuilt on largo,
scale than before.
Neenah.-Employees raking n.
fumes at the plant of the Neen.h
Paper company here recovered the
body of Cornelius O'Brien. a resi-
dent of this city. 1t is not known
whether he fell in or committed sni
eide.
Edgerton.-In the oratorical and
declamatory contest by EdgartoD
Stoughton, Jefferson, whitewater and
Fort Atkinson, the declamatorv va.
won by Miss Marguerite Melaas a
Stoughton, and the oratorical BY Mar
tina Severson of Stoughton.
Racine.-Myron Sutherland. thirty.
three years old. a painter whosa
wife secured a divorce last De-
eember, committed suicide by drink
ing carbolic acid. His body was found
by his mother-in-law. He left a note
in which he said he could not live
without his wife and two children
Observation-Disclosures since last Mon
day, the corpse of Hans O. Jacob
son, Edgerton baker, was found hang
ing in a loft of a neighbor's barn
Jacobson lost all of his property in
a fire last January and through fail
ure of his brothers business in Chi
cago.
Neenah.-"Red' Cleveland. an anna.
teur aeronaut, attempted to make
a balloon ascension at Wayerly
beach. The parachute failed to open
and the balloon sailed six miles before
the gas was entirely out OF the BAL
loon and it fell to the ground. Cleye
land was entangled in the folds Of
the balloon, but was uninjured
GAINESVILLE. - Seventeen hundred
dead flies, as the result Of
weeks swatting campaign, were count
ed out and paid for by the committee
Of the civic league that is behind the
movement. The success OF the two
days of cleanup is evidenced by the
removal of many breeding places and
refuse piles in the city
OconOmOwoc.-St. Paul's Lutheran
congregation at OconOmowoc has
voted to erect a $4,000 church
building this summer on the property
recently purchased on Lake and Pleas
ant streets. J. F. Dreger of Oshkosh
is the architect. The new church will
be of brick. with terra Gotta finish,
and will seat roo persons.
Grand Rapids.-Mrs. Johanna Her
man of Auburndale was instant
ly killed in a runaway accident She
was in companv with her husband
en- route to the creamery near Marsh
field, when the horse they were dry-
ing took fright and became unman'
ageable and Mrs. Herman was thrown
out, receiving fatal injuries.
Wausau.-Ida Manning. nine years
old, was accidentally shot and
killed on train at Mositee when
her fourteen-year-old brother George
tripped and fell. causing a riff which
he was carrying to discharge The
bullet pierced her forehead over the
left eye and entered her brain The
girl was accompanying her brother to
kill sparrows.
Green Bay.-Trapped in tbeiF
rooms when the only stairway
was cut off by fire. Jules RoublcS'
eighteen years old, and his sister
Rose, thirteen, were burned to DEAN
at Langes Corners, near this city
| The rooms were over a blacksml'A
shop owned by Jules Roubick, lne
AoNACAg anu TIE DidIV " tAS otAi --e
spark in the forge. The fathet
mother and three other children were
rescued, but were badly burned bolA
bodies were charred beyond racognF
ton.
Kenosha.-Kenosha had an ola
fashioned border robbery, with Ias
black masks. big revolvers and d"
that go to make up the setting ioF .
movie. when a lone bandit walked l-'o
the Mountain House inn here anu
flashing two big Tevolvers. stood l''
customers of the place. half a Dozen
in number, against the wall and ae'l
/ them there while he calmly Na'A'l
to the cash register and eAtTsc's.
money. The inn is only a couple q.
blocks from the Kenosba police oL's
but the bandit got away HAN ..
hour after he left the report was s5I'
TO NJ police and officials foan1 VIZ
men n the saloon still hud3.ed ~
gether. fearing a return Of the oaa-.-
The loss from the register was r7f..,
ed in the neighborhood of l-
bandit made no effort to fris6 .a7 "
/ rified men.
Madison.-Gov. E. L. 'A-fY
conditionally pardoned d "a's'-