The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-11-05
Badger News
Briefly Told

Johnson Of this city is in jail facing
charge Of robbing store. He has the
distinction of being the youngest BAN
dit in Marinette.
Madison.-The supreme court OF
Wisconsin finished hearing arguments
on the second assignment of cases for
October and adjourned until Novem-
Der 16.
Kenosha.-The seventy-fifth ami
versary of the founding of st. Mat
thew's parish of the Protestant Episco-
pal church was observed with services.
Rev. William Walter Webb, bishop OF
the diocese of Milwaukee, officiated.
Chippewa Faiis.-Fire of unknown
origin entirely destroyed the saw
mills owned by E. L. Hawn OF
Ruby The planning mill and lumber
yards were saved The sawmill is the
largest in this section of the state.
New London.-The body of Mitchell
Gristol was blown 60 feet in the
air and literally smashed to pieces
by charge Of dynamite near Neopit.
He was helping blast stumps and went
back to relight a fuse thought extin-
guisned.
Antigua bear weighing nearly
two hundred pounds and about
three years old was killed by Frank,
Duchac of this city near Pine river.
Duchac espied the bear just as it
poked it's nose out of it's den and dis
patched it with two blows of an ak.
misunderstanding lists are be-
ing circulated in this city and
Appleton to secure funds for improv-
ing the highway along the west shore
of Little Lake Butte des Mortes be-
tween here and Appleton. 1t is planned
to make the improvements the coming
year.
New London.-The body of Mitchell
Gristol was blown 60 feet III the
air and literally smashed to pieces
by charge of dynamite near Neopit.
He was helping blast stumps and
went back to relight fuse thought to
be extinguished.
Misunderstanding up safe
weighing 400 pounds and carrying
it through front window of the 500
line passenger depot and about 800
yards up the track. 'yegs" blew it.
The explosion was heard all over town.
The robbers got $15.62 in cash and SO
cents in revenue stamps.
Sturgeon Bay.-Hunters are much
wrought up over the fact. just
made known to them, that a closed
season for deer exists in Door county.
A bill passed the 1915 legislature al
lowing an open season in this county,
but during the last days session, in the
very last bill passed, section was in
serted putting Dood county in the list
of CLOSED" counties.
Chippewa Falls.-Basil WOrthing-
ton of Laporte, Ind, pleaded guilty
here to taking two diamond rings
from l.. Williamson of Cornell.
Young Worthington was arrested in
Minneapolis after he had sent one Of
the rings to his sweetheart at Cornell
as an engagement ring. Worthington
claims this to be his first offense.
Marinette.-A report has been re-
that the British ambassador at Wash
ington has interested himself in the
case of Thomas Maxwell, now serving
his forty-fourth year for murder
committed in 1872. He was convicted
of numbering Walter Foster in an al
life sentence, and for many years has
been a trusty in Waupun. He is now
nearly ninety. 1t is reported relatives
have died in England and left him a
large fortune. His parole will be
asked.
Oshkosh. The body of Mrs. Hattie
Schuttler, who was reported miss
ing, was recovered from the bot
tom of the old Prautch stone quarry
near her home Mrs. Schuttler was
the wife of Emil Schuttler. retired
tailor. She had been cleaning house
disappeared. She had complained for
several years of illness on account of
stomach trouble. Her husband says
she had never threatened to end her
life, although she had often expressed
the wish that she might die. She was
fifty-one years of age and was born in
Germany. Her body was taken to Mil
waukee to be cremated.
Milwaukee.-With several persons
of national prominence on their
program, some 5000 members OF
the Wisconsin Teachers association
will open in Milwaukee on Thursday
their sixty-third annual convention.
Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter
of the president, will speak on Friday
afternoon before the community CEN
ter section in Juneau hall auditorium.
Her topic will be Americas Oppor-
tunity-Every Schoolhouse Commun-
ity Center" Frank P. Walsh, chair
man of the United States industrial
commission, which has just completed
year of continuous hearings, will
speak on Thursday afternoon before
the elementary education section in
the Auditorium on Dynamite OF De-
bate-The Community Center for In
drcfria1 AdiuCtm oOtS