The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-08-20
WISCONSIN
| STATE NEWS

Assistant postmaster IL. r. RCSontnal
has received a reward from Mark z.
Jones of GAINESVILLE, whose life the
boy saved recently at Delavan lake.
Antigo.-With children, grandchil.
dren and great-grandchildren present,
George Wells celebrated his eightieth
birthday here. Mr.. Wells was born in
England and was one cf The first en-
gineers to operate an engine on the
Chicago & Northwestern.
Baraboo.-Dr. Pearl Thompson OF
this city was instantly killed in
| a runaway accident while driving
to Kilbourn. His father was killed
by the cars at Ableman about a year
ago.
Marinette.-A dam which forms an
outlet to Lake Nocque bay was mys-
teriously blown up and as result wa
ter in the lake was lowered four feet.
Dynamite was used. A nearby bridge
was weakened and the country flooded
Oshkosh - Charles Quewetta and
Otto Schroeder were sentenced to
five years each at Waupun for ar
son. They set fire to the home of F.
A. Strech August f. Both pleaded
guilty.
Mansion. After removing his
shoes, John Pharo committed sui
eide by throwing himself in front Of
a train. The body was so badly man
gled the shoes were the only means
of Identification. Pharo is believed
to have brooded over the fact that
his wife had started divorce proceed
ings.
Beloit.-James Kaplanis, proprie-
tor of a shoe-shine establishment,
shot at and wounded George Hor-
ton Horton had complained about
the attention he said Kaplanis was
showing his wife. Mrs. Horton, aged
thirty, committed suicide by hanging
in the attic of her home in South
BelOit.
Observation-Disclosures Luedtke, four
teen-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Eu-
gene Alden, was drowned in the Wis
consin river Divers tried to locate
him for one hour, and finally the body
was recovered. Doctors used a pull
motor for three-quarters Of an hour
without success. Companions tried to
save him and two others nearly
drowned
Waukesha.-Word has been re-
ceived here that the residence of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Warden of Brit
ton, Okla, was struck by lightning
o,,l i+c &c nfo1 w. DESTROYED
by fire. Four other houses in the
vicinity were struck during the storm,
but did not burn. Mr.. and Mrs. War
den removed from this city to Okla
homa about ten years ago. Mr.. War
den was a well-known publisher here
and served as mayor for several years.
Wausau. - After an absence Of
seventeen years, Paul Dallman of
Harrison, Ark, became united with his
daughter, Elsie Dallman left his fam
lily in 1898 when they lived in Ken
osha. The meeting of father and
daughter was pathetic. Neither knew
the other. Both cried for joy. Mr..
Dallman was called to Edgar. Wis.
by the illness of his brother.
Stevens Point-Alfred COMA was
sentenced to six years in the peniten-
tiary at Waupun by Judge Byron B.
Park in circuit court for breaking into
Grand Rapids jewelry store Three
others, William McNamee, Carl Hagen
gard and Oscar Severn, who assisted
Coma in robbing the store, are all I'M
der eighteen years. They were SEN
fenced to from one and half to three
years in the state reformatory at
Green Bay.
Madison Gov. e. L. Philip
pardoned Alex Greves of Milwaukee
who was convicted and sentenced on
November 20, 1918, to term of ten
years in the state prison on the charge
of rape. The petition for pair don was
signed by the members of the jury
that found Greves guilty and the court
officers who took part in the trial.
While Greves was in Jail awaiting trial
the husband of the woman be was
charged with assaulting tried to shoot
him. Attorney Charles F. Pulls, Jr.,
Of Milwaukee presented the petition
for pardon.
Wausau-Fred Weingert of Milwau-
kee was reelected president of the
Gegenseitige Unterstuetzungs Gesell-
schaft Germania. All officers were
elected by acclamaticn. Others named
are: Vice-president, Fred Jess, Sr.,
Milwaukee; secretary. Charles Wolf,
Milwaukee; treasurer, William
Schnellbecher, Milwaukee; speaker,
Robert Polster, Sheboygan; guide,
Herman Zweek, Milwaukee; trustee,
Bernard Kron, six years, Milwaukee;
member of finance committee, Harry
Flander, six years. Milwaukee; mem
Der of purchasing committee, Herman
Frodmann, six years, Milwaukee;
member of law committee, George
Palmer, six years. Milwaukee. Ke-
nosha was selected for the 1916 con-
vention. A resolution was unanimous
" passed protesting against the ship
ment of munitions from this country
to the warning nations of Europe and
asking for peace.
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