Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-09-04
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was killed by being run over h,,
wagon loaded with grain. =
| Menasha.-Joseph Schneider oua ,,
seph Echrich have been charged ~ 80, ~
netting fish in Little Lake Butte AZ, AZ
Mortes. ueS
Nenah.-At the Clark hospital 9,
this city son was horn
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hook Men, ~
and half and has been placed in rs ="
incubator. al
New London.-While CROSSING -.
main city bridge Frank scboenrocl'
mason contractor, was ATTACKED -
two young bandits. but beat them -,
and escaped. ="
Beloit.-Two former Beloit man
who went into Italy TO fight e.
their mother country have been knloa
in battle. The men are Micc,one sor
ina and Vito Laudicina. They worked
in the foundry of the Fairbanks Morsa
works and left Beloit last spring
Madison.-Attorney General Owe,
announced the appointment Of p
E. Bossard of Columbus as 40.
sistant attorney general with SALARY
OF $2.7OC a year. Mr.. Brossard viii
be an additional assistant in the 10
partment. which now contains five a.
| sistants.
Kenosha.-Harry Busbline. FIR.
mer farm hand, employed by Raw.
mond Powell Of the town of Bristol
| secretary of the Kenosha county board
OF education, has disappeared Il If
claimed that he forged at least twen-
~ checks in the name of Powell and
1t is said that he realized several hun.
dred dollars on the forged paper.
Hartland.-The eighteenth annu-
al meeting of the Waukesba
County Historical society will be held
here September 8, beginning at two
o'clock. on Doctor Nixon's lawn. C. n
Simonds will speak on the early
church history; Miss Mabel V. Han
son on the Swedish Colony on Pine
Lake" and Mrs. Zelpah Swallow on
The Early Teachers"
Green Bay.-Perry G. Wright Al.
legged ,embezzler OF a big sum OF
money from the United Building
Loan and Savings association and
National Fraternal league, waived
reading of the information in mum.
cipal court and rendered a formal plea
Of not guilty to the information charg.
ing him with embezzling $40 ,00O from
the savings association. September q
has been set as the date for the hear
ing. Wright was taken back to the
county jail in default of $4,000 bail.
Madison.-A report received bv B.
G. Packer, director of division Of
immigration of the state depart
ment of agriculture, from the de-
partment of commerce and labor.
gives the percentage of commercial
failures for 1914 OF forty-nine states
Wisconsin presents the most remark.
able record, having 48,850 firms en-.
gagged in business and a percentage Of
failures less than one half of per
cent. Only one stste-South Dakota
with but one-fourth the number OF
firms, exhibits so gratifying show
ing.
Fairchild. - Charged with dyna-
hitting the Eau Claire river ara
residents. The boy weighed a pound
killing muskellunge. Albert Lain, Emil
Lain, John Klemak and George Lain
OF this city paid a fine of $500 and
costs and were sentenced to two
months in jail. On their promise to
assist the state conservation commits
sion in conserving wild life of Eau
Claire county tn were placed on pro-
baton for the jail term. The men
were apprehended by Conservation
Wardens c. F. Asmuth and B. p Ian
ming.
Racine.-At the coming session
OF the Wisconsin conference, Meth
odist Episcopal church, a prOpos-
al for a campaign for an increase
OF $15O,000 to the endowment fund,
the interest to be used to pension re-
tired pastors, will be urged If the
project carries, it is likely that one
OF the members of the conference will
De appointed to lead in the campaign.
which will mean a change for some
important lpit. Among those men
Ssoned in case the project proves &C
ceptab1e are; Drs. ]. S. Davis. Hart
ford; w. P. Leek. Beloit: Perry Millar.
GAINESVILLE; H. Tippett, Appleton. The
Official program TO- the conference.
which con~enes in Racine, September
S, will be sent out within a week.
Antigo-E. F. Burns of Stanley
vas elected president of the Wis
consin Ginseng Growers associa-
ton at the annual meeting here. D..
e. Neffe of La Crosse was chosen vice
president; George Maxwell of Amigo.
second vice-president, and H. j. Steeps
of Rice Lake, secretary-treasurer. a
paper on diseases of ginseng plants
was read by Professor Brann Of the
state university. NJ. G. Eberlein Of
Shawano, ]. Il. Koehler of Wausau.
and H. J. Sleeps were appointed as
a committee to investigate the feasioit
ity of establishing a selling agency IN
China and to report at the next meet
ing.