The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-10-22
WISCONSIN
| STATE NEWS
Oshkosh.-Gov. e. l.. Philip will be
the speaker at the Opening meeting of

SnS opodhoT at tu6 Op0uluS mcotIHS Vi
the Candlelight club on November /.
Plainfield.-Mr. and Mrs. n. G. Smith
celebrated their golden wedding ami
versary, and large party of guests
were present.
New London.-The forthcoming an
nual report of the Waupaca coun-
ty insane asylum show that dur
ing the last year the Institution netted
$8.266.52. besides $2,0S5.09 that went
into permanent improvements.
Portage. - With a bullet through
his head, Esil Bush. resident
of Rio, is at st. Mary's hospital.
Columbus, chatting with the attend
ants and intending to be out within
a few days. The wound is alleged to
have been inflicted when Bush at.
tempted to break down the door of
his divorced wife, who had denied
him entrance
Eau Claire.-August Birkel, prom
inent farmer of Hay Creek, was 5ad-
ly bitten and gashed by a boar as the
result of which he is in a serious con-
dition. The boar attacked Birkel when
he entered the pen and although he
defended himself with G huge club
the animal was getting the better of
him when he was rescued by members
of his family.
OcOnomowoc.-St. Paul's Lutheran
church at Oconomowoc will cele-
brate the fiftieth anniversary of
it's founding on Sunday, October 81.
Prof. August Pieper of the Evangeli-
cal Lutheran seminary at Wauwato-
sa, Professor Henkel of the North.
western college, Watertown, and Rev.
John Bremen of Milwaukee will
preach.
Cumberland.-John Lundstrom, ad-
ministrator of his son. Henry
LundstrOm, has started action against
the city of Cumberland for $4,000
damages for the death of his son, who
was electrocuted by a live wire con-
nected with the municipal lighting
plant. Axel Ecblad. who was seri-
ously injured, has also brought action
for $4,000 damages against the city.
Stevens Point.-Owen Clark, four
times mayor of this city and 16
years member of the common
council, died after an illness of two
years. He was prominently identified
with the lumber and water power in
terests of this district and for twenty
five years operated Stevens Points
largest sawmill. He was a veteran
of the Civil war.
West Allis.-Prof. T. ]. Jones
gave an interesting talk before
the Parent-Teachers' association of
the Mckinley school. He spoke on the
work of the West Allis schools. the
continuation school and also the work
of the Parent-Teachers' association,
explaining how the mothers could aid
the faculty in educating their chill.
dren.
RipOn.-August Monty, manager of
the Berlin Brewery company, esr
capped death by an inch when a bull
let fired through the window of a
speeding train grazed his cheek. The
shot was fired when the train was half
way between Berlin and Ripon. 1t
came through the window, grazed
Monty's cheek and lodged in the wood
work of the other side of the coach,
where it was later found.
Madison.-The second day of the
grand encampment of the |. O.
0. F. ended with public ceremony in
the assembly chamber of the capitol.
at which talks were made by Gov. E.
l.. Philip, Mayor Kayser, Grand Mas
ter Paul E. Mahoney and Brig. Gen.
Burne Pollock. The decoration of
chivalry was conferred on G. C. Soper,
Rice Lake; c.. l.. Beebe. Appleton. and
DR.. w. j. Clement, Berlin.
Madison.-That cities and villages
have not the right to prohibit
peddlers and hawkers from doing bus
mess by city ordinance making the
license fee prohibitive or by other reg
ulations. is the opinion of Attorney
General Owen to Treasury Agent Mi
sufficient for peddler in any city or
village, unless the charter specifically
gives it that right. This business can
not be prohibited directly or indirect
ly. Municipalities may make rules and
regulations of a general character gov
erning the length of time that vehi.
cIe may stand in a certain place, but
this is all. A city cannot declare the
whole town a public market place"
Waupun.-Old John Hotter. who
was sentenced 20 a term of five
years in the state prison from Ken
osha, has confessed to officials of the
state prison at Joliet, ILL.,, that the
keys which he used to get into houses
in Kenosha were manufactured in the
machine shop at the Joliet prison.
Hotter seems to be ready to start
over and to aid the officials in starting
other men over. After the Joliet Of
ticials got the facts from Hotter a
search was made of the men who work
in the machine shops at Joliet and a
great pile of skeleton keys were found.
Hotter says that making skeleton keys
and other burglars tools was one Oh
the chief industries of the machine