The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-07-16
State
Happenings

Falls was found In the power room or
the paper mill there with small rope
around his neck hanging from nail
in the wall. His suicide was due to
the fact that he was Tilted.
Green Bay-Joshua King, an Oneida
Indian, has been sentenced to two
years in Waupun for failure to pro-
vide for his wife and children. King
broke his parole On the Fourth of
July.
Janesville.-Henry Robertson, wait
ing trial for forgery, attempted to
escape from Jail here and at the same
time to deliver three fellow prisoners.
The sheriff discovered several bars in
the mans cell which had Leen sawed
through, and prevented the Jail de-
livery
Kenosha-W. w. Dale of James
vile, was elected president of the Wis
consin Commercial Educators associa-
tion at the closing session of the an
nual convention here. Other officers
are: Capt. John Atkinson, Milwau-
kee, vice-president; W. D. McDaniels,
Oshkosh, secretary and treasurer.
Standardization j. Verage, coun-
ty clerk of Oneida county, met his
father for the first time in % years
when he visited him at the soldiers
home at Waupaca. His father went
West in 1887 and has been in Cali
fornia until about two weeks ago.
He then gained admission to the Wau-
paca home for veterans, and the coun-
ty clerk went down to visit him. The
elder Verage did not know his son
when he walked into his room.
Oconomowoc.-The eleventh annual
Master Painters and Decorators as
ISOLATION will be held in Oconomowoc
July q, % and 20. The convention
will be welcomed by Mayor Ernst R.
G.. Harper of Milwaukee, chairman of
the convention committee, will pre-
side. On Tuesday evening reception
will be held, followed by a minstrel
show and ball. John Thomson of
Fond du Lac is president of the asso-
citation, Edward E. Olson of Ocono-
mowoc is vice-president, and Leonard
Forester of Milwaukee is secretary
treasurer.
Monroe.-While the majority of
the cities of the state are seek
ing curtailment of the saloon, the city
council of Monroe is working on the
theory they should be allowed more
liberty. Unanimous action has result
- hn +ba ;oI~
the drink emporiums will be allowed
an additional hour in which to do bust
ness Saturday nights. Under the
new ordinance the saloons will be al
lowed to keep open until 1880, while
on the remaining week night they are
compelled to close at 1890. Restric-
tons were placed on saloons which
will prevent, as far as possible, the
violation of the 3un~ay closing law.
Madison.-A Rhodes scholarship
at the University of Oxford, Eng
land, will be open in Wisconsin this
year, according to an announcement
received by President Charles r. Van
Hise of the University of Wisconsin,
who is chairman of the state commit
tee of selection. The qualifying ex-
animation will be held October 5 and 6.
Competitors must be citizens of the
United States between nineteen and
twentJ five years of age and having
completed their second year at some
regular degree granting American uni
versity or college. The scholarship
pays approximately $1,000 a year, and
lasts for three years.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Davis, who was
convicted three weeks ago of hav-
ing killed Margaret Dunn of Phila-
delphia with a blow of her fist
in the county workhouse, was sem
fenced to IA years in prison, her ap-
peal for a new trial having been re-
fused. Margaret Dunn was a girl with
the most perfect figure in America,
and went to the workhouse as disor-
derby, upon the first offense of her
life. when she slept off night among
bright lights in her mistress dining
room. attired only in said perfect fig
ure. When policemen were called
she tore the tablecloth from the table
u ACk PCAlCCL AOA anu was
arrested for smashing the dishes in
80 doing.
Madison.-Gov. E. L. Philip ap-
pointed former Congressman Samuel
A. Cook Of Neenah, Assemblyman
George P. Hambrecht of Grand Rapids
and Samuel r. Banks of Madison as
members of the commission on the
celebration of the semicentennial an
niversary of the act of. emancipation
of the negroes. This celebration will
be held in Chicago during the pres
ent year The appointments were
made under a bill passed by the pres
emit legislature which creates the COM
mission and Appropriates $4,000 for
the participation of Wisconsin in the
celebration. Banks is formerly of Mil
waukee, and is the coi0-ed messenger
in the governors office. Governor
Philip appointed George A. West and
James F. Drought, both of Milwaukee,
as members of the commission to pro-
mote the Dixie highway.
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