Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-07-15
Wednesday

per, Spring Green, drove In car from
Richland Center to the Wisconsin river
on fishing trip. When nearing the
river at Lone Rock q horse became
frightened and jumped down the bank
Mrs. Pauls, who was driving the car,
turned her head to watch the horse and
turned the wheel at the same time.
The car went over the bank, turned
once and half over and plunged into
the river. All were injured but none
seriously.
New parcel post figure tables have
been issued which makes the rates to
patrons very easy to determine. Bust
ness men and liberal users of the par
eel post will be greatly benefited.
Under the eugene marriage law the
number of weddings in Wisconsin de-
clined from q. O52 in 1913 to l7.245 in
1914, a drop of 3,797, nearly 20 per
cent.
Resources of Wisconsin banks de-
creased 1912, 852, % during the period
from May l, 1915, to June %, 1915, &C
cording to an abstract yesterday by
Commissioner of Banking Kuolt, the to-
tai for the latter period being $244, O94,
463. 46 as compared with 244, ACT, 3l5. SO
eight weeks earlier. The falling off ia
due to less crop shipments at this time.
Word has come to the state depart
gaent of education at Madison, that the
school library exhibit prepared and
sent by the department to the Panama
Pacific exposition has been awarded a
medal of honor, which is next to the
Grand Prize. The award is q crafty
ng testimonial of the high rank viii Oh
Wisconsin holds in school library work,
especially in the rural schools. The
Wisconsin Educational exhibit is in
charge of Prof. F. E. Mitchell, of the
Oshkosh state normal school.
There was circus at Stanley, Wis
consin, this week and two strangers OBJ
tanned the bank roll of aIcitizen there as
slick as whistle. A portly man ap-
preached the Stanley resident, introdu-
ced himself as Judge" Bradley of Eau
Claire.
He talked to the citizen for some
time, ascertaining his name, place of
residence and the sum of cash he pos
sessed. He also found, by adroit quest
ioning, where the coin was deposited.
Later a second crook approached the
unsuspecting citizen. introduced him
self as an old neighbOr, and invited
him to the circus. While in the tent the
man was confdentally admitted to a
scheme with which the erstwhile neigh
bOr' was familiar, whereby he could
make $500 if he could show that he pos
sess $345, the exact amount deposited in
the bank. The man was willing TO pick up
some easy change, and placed the
$345, in the Judges" hands for safe
keeping, and as a guarantee of good
faith. Of course the Judge" depart
ed for parts unknown. Now the victim
ie spending his evenings computing the
time it will take him to save another
$345 during the stress of present bust
ness conditions.
Moral-Give suspecting looking
strangers the ha, ha. They know their
game the best.
When a wounded soldier was operat-
ed on in London hospital, surgeons
extracted several coins from his thigh,
shrapnel having carried pieces of the
pocket and all the coins it contained in
to the flesh.
An ocean steamer, 1870 feet long, is at
Oshkosh waiting for favorable water to
come up the Fox, through Portage canal
and down the Wisconsin river to the
Mississippi and the gulf. We hate to
think of the fate of poor old Portage
when that becomes a seaport and we
rave war with Germany or Japan. Kill
b0urn Events.
M. H. Newellglost horse at Spring
Green. He turned his team into the lot
and one of them kicked the other, break
ng its leg, making it necessary to kill
the animal.
John Buehler has returned to Por-
tage from Merrimack where he has
closed contracts for six of his out door
American Gas lamps for street and pub
lie meeting purposes.
According to advices received by As
sistant Attorney Gen. j. E. Messersch-
midi at Madison, three town chairmer
in Burnetts county pleaded to the charge
nf isnI1ino hounfv ordors with ont shin