Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-08-20
WISCONSIN NEWS BRIEFS.

Ocohomowoc.--The annual meeting
OF the Medical Association of the First
wisconsin district, comprising Wauke-
sha' Dodge, Jefferson and Washington
counties, was held at Juneau. Papers
were read by DR. Daniel Hopkinson OF
Milwaukee and Or. Wehle OF West
Bend. Officers elected are: President.
II. b. Sears, Beaver Dam; vice presi-
dent, d. Engsberg, Lake Mills; secre-
tary treasurer S. b. Ackley. ocono-
mowoc, The next annual meeting will
be held at Jefferson.
Grantsburg-The contract for drag
ging the st. Croix river bottom for
sunken or dead head logs, was let to
j. d Burgan and Frank RamsdelI OF
this place. The contract covers a dis
lance of eight miles of river flowaee
and several million feet of logs will be-
pulled ashore. They will be shipped
to saltwater where the logs win be
converted into lumber.
Wausau.--A local lumber firm has
received an inquiry for one million
railroad ties for the Russian govern
ment. The Specifications are for ties
six by eight inches. ten feet long. AS
this length of ties is used in this coun-
try only for certain parts Of switch
track work, very few are on the mar
ket and they would have to be manu-
featured on special order The order.
was refused.
Beloit.- Bromistow Barlosik was ar
rested here charged with being a de-
serter from the United States army
He enlisted at Milwaukee In Septem-.
Der. 1913, and was sent to Jefferson
barracks, st. Louis, Mo-. where he was
assigned to Troop M of the Thirteenth
cavalry He says he was at Ell Pasoi
eight months before the wonderlusti
seized him =
Wausau.-After an absence OF sew,
enteen years from his family. PAM
Dallman of Harrison, Ark. became
reunited with his younger daughter.
Elsie Dallman, 20 years old OF
Wausau. Dallman left his family in
1898, when they lived in Kenosha
without word to his wife, who died
six years ago in Chicago, unknown
to the husband
Wausau--The mystery surrounding
come of the robberies at the Y. M q
A. building during the past several
months was cleared up when George
Schmitt, % years old, was arrested bv
Detective Henry Schwister, and CON
fessed to having committed five of the
robberies. He waived preliminary ex-
animation in court and was remanded
to jail TO await the next term of court
Madison.-The wis consin conserva.
ton commission received information
that Frank Bjorkman. chairman of tho
town of West Sweden, and H. Fl. Bile.
chairman of the town of Luck. Polk
county, had been convicted in the Pollr
County Municipal court of violating
the law providing for state bounties
for the killing Of wolves and had been
fined, Bjorkman $3.50 and Bile 800.
Neenah.-Fred Sorenson and Peter
Nagel left this city on a trip to the
San Francisco fair, making the trim
on their bicycles
Racine.-Attorney from this civ
are consulting with Gov Philip with
a view to procuring the pardon of VIII
liam Dillon, a former saloon keeper. OF
this city, serving an eighteen year SEN
tence for the murder of William Best.
a Milwaukee liquor salesman. The
crime was committed ten years ago
following a quarrel over a liquor bill
Kenosha.-The store of w. H. Robin
son, in the very heart of the business
district Of Kenosha, was entered bv
burglars and $25 and a large amount
of merchandise taken. The only cIew
is a Mexican silver half dollar found
near the door.