Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-05-29
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pdFtd--SoLhpdhy NJ or the Ia
Crosse National Guard will come ~
this city to try the marksmansbin -,
the Sparta members.
Manitowoc.-Wiscons Odd Fello,r.
viii meet here June 8 to Is. Commit
tees met to complete the program
One thousand delegates are expected
Ashland. - Northland academy
which was burned to the ground re
Gently, win be rebuilt, and President
ID. Brownell has started a campaign to
raise the necessary money.
Janesville-Lake gulls are making
nests in the lower reaches of the Roct
river for the first time in years At.
tracted by the hundreds of dead earn
Beloit.-Albert Snow, alleged IN
have stolen 81 empty whisky Jugs from
brewery, was "jugged" by the police
Judge John Clark gave him a 81 fine
acknowledgement hall will award
degrees to a class of nine vonno
women commencement week beein.
ming June 3. Rt Rev. joseph NJ
Francis, Indianapolis, will deliver the
commencement address. The Kemper
Hall association of Chicago will at.
tend the alumnae reunion June in
a body
Amberg.-When George Young start.
ed back from a weeks fishing
trip his automobile, containing him.
self, mis- sister Dorothy and two
friends, backed into the river
turned somersault and SPRAYED on
its top. The four occupants ESCAPED
without injury.
Fond du Lac.-Floyd Mitchell. a
Friendship farmer, who was sen.
fenced to seven years in the peBi.
Tertiary by Judge Fowler after being
convicted on the charges of his thir-
teen-year-old daughter, attempted to
escape from the county Jail here by
cutting off the bars to his cell. He
was discovered by the sheriff and now
is confined in solitary cell.
Racine.-Deputy Clerk of the Cir.
cult Court Helen Blythe has re-
ceived recognition from government
authorities for the practice she insti-
tuted at the beginning of the Euro
pean war of warning prospective citi-
zens that If they took out naturaliza.
ton papers they would have to fight
for the United States in the event of
war
Green Bay.-Trapped in their
rooms when the only stairway
was cut off by fire, Jules Roubick,
eighteen years old, and his sister
Rose, thirteen, were burned to death
at Lange's Corners, near this city.
The rooms were over a blacksmith
shop owned by Jules Roubick, tho
father, and the blaze was started from
spark in the forge. The father,
mother and three other children were
rescued, but we're badly burned Both
bodies were charred beyond recogni-
ton.
Oshkosh. $Nearly two hundred
teachers and others interested in
industrial education, who have gath
cred here for the three days confer
ence, attended the banquet, closing
the first days program. Gov, E, L.
Philip, who was scheduled as the
principal speaker, was unable to at
tend. Superintendent Of Oshkosh
Schools NJ. n McIver was toastmas-
ter. State Superintendent of Schools
c. P. Cary was the speaker. During
the day large number of papers on
educational topics were read and dis
eussed.
Wausau.-The conservation Of the
new $4,000 church of st. John the
Baptist by Ri. Rev. R. H. Weller,
D. D., bishop of Fond du Lac, was
significant event in the history Of the
local Episcopal church. Pastors who
assisted the bishop in pontifical mass
were Rev. John Lloyd, Wausau, COS
peller; Rev. w. F. Willard James, Mar
inette, crucifier; Rev. A. c. Hiedner
Grand Rapids Rev. c. Reader, Mos
inee; c. Crockston, Tomahawk; Doc
tor Rogers, Fond du Lac. and c. f.
Hinton, Amigo. Bishop Weller con
ferred the sacrament of confirmation
on class of candidates in the after
noon.
GAINESVILLE. - Agnes Baumgartner
alias Anna Smith, convicted on
May on a charge of forgery
was sentenced a third time on that
conviction. BY the last mandate Of tie
court. which, it is believed will be
hnal she is committed to the county
jail for eleven months. When HTst
sentenced, Agnes was to have gone
to the state prison at Waupun for one
year Her pleadings with the court
and that of friends. resulted in Judge
Maxield's reopening of the case re-
seinding that sentence and substitute
ing one of a year at the Wisconsin
industrial home for women, which vas
later found not to exist. Judge NAY
field again reopened the case, resclH0
ed the former sentence, and with iA9
consent of her attorney and the as-
trict attorney, sentenced her 10 the
county jail. under the commitment
law. 1t is believed she will be en-
ployed at the county poor farm where