Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-09-25
Badger News
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uIeen bay'-Mrs' J. Capalle. aga
forty-four, died of fright cansas IS
lightning, which did $4,000 dan.
Deaconess hospital adjoiping
home.
Observation-Disclosures Hasenobr,
of Hewitt, four miles from ~. VI
was kicked in the stomach NV
horse. After several DAYS of y
tense pain he died at the bosn,,a'
He was seventeen years of age
Beloit.-Alone and unca7e3 =.
Mrs. William Sherman, widow ~
for five days suffering with n
pendicitis before neighbors found hs.s
near the point of death. Alarmed q
her nonappearance friends broke ~
her house. '1
Madison.-Application for oon
mutation of the sentence Of Cbri..8
Johnson, committed to Waupnn from
this city August IA, 1912. for fifteen
years for serious crime. has been
made to Governor Philip and will III
heard October 10.
Madison.-The Womans Christie,
Temperance Union of Wisconsin
which has headquarters in Madison
filed Incorporation papers with hsl
secretary of state. Election of mn
GERS will be held at the first meeting
on September 90 at Eau Claire.
Madison.-Willis Inman was con.
victed in the circuit court q,
Jefferson county of arson for burning
a barn on the farm of the Cbapman
estate, near Palmyra, several months
ago. Inman is alleged to have burned
the barn in revenge for being dis.
charged from the employment Of the
estate.
Beloit.-With next to the largest
freshman class in its history en-.
rolled, Beloit opened its sixtyninth
year. There are 10 new studen S.
155 being freshmen. Seventeen states
are represented. Passage of the three
and one-half year athletic rule did not
keep athletes away from Beloit. There
is an abundance of material In the
entering class which promises well
for a strong freshmen football team.
Observation-Disclosures of Internal
Revenue Paul A. Hemmy has aB.
pointed Arthur L. Barry of Nontel.
10 deputy to work on federal income
tax matters in the Montello district.
Collector of Customs August NJ. Cav.
in has named E. D. Lorton deputy
collector of customs at Marinette. Col,
lectOr Gavin will go to New York next
month to attend a conference Of the
collectors of customs from all parts
of the United States. The conference
will be in session from October 4
to 8.
La Crosses. o. Sorenson is
in a hospital suffering from ter
rible burns on the face, body and
limbs, received when he swan TWEEN
ty-tive feet through film, Of blazing
gasoline between his burning boat
house and the river bank. He was
pumping the bilge of his new speed
boat and had drawn several gallons
of waste oil and gasoline from she
craft, when he stopped to light
cigar. He tossed the burning match
in the oil-covered water, and in a
second the boathouse AID a blazing
pool surrounded the craft through
which Sorenson had to swim to safe
ty. The boat and its house we're de-
stroyed.
Madison.-Senator Timothy Burke
former Assemblyman Thomas Nc
Grath and other residents Of Green
Bay induced the state board Of con
troll to agree to place fifty inmates OF
the state reformatory near Green Bay
at work on rebuilding a highway along
the state land on the road from Green
Bay to Depere. The work is TO De
completed this year. The board de-
cided to confer with Governor Philip
next Monday regarding construction
work on the new 100000 state home
for feeble-minded at Union Grove, Ra-
cine county, and the new $-50Voy
state reformatory at Taycheedah, Ecoa
du Lac county. Contracts for the
work at both places need only me
approval of the governor to become
effective.
Chippewa Falls.-A welldressed
masked man held up Kenneth seas
night ticket agent of the 500 .lAe'
at the depot at the point al .
revolver. forced him to open The sa-S
and took SOS in cash and sa.5e3 ID
employees pay checks. IhanA'4s
Beals, the robber disappeare1 i4S
was arrested in a lunch car 81 ha-
Claire, having escaped from o tIai-l'
train. All the money and checks "1-'
found on his person. The pTlsAe',
who is thirty-one years old, T1.-s7-
to give his name. He says be IJE-ie'
ly was a travelling man of Fort Dogs
la. He was broke. he said, ana "a-'
ed money. Just prior to robbins --''
depot he tried to hold up Walter
let, night bartender at the R]Fess'-,
hotel Violet grabbed him and '-ls1
him out, but could not wrest MS ---
away. The robber went to the l9F9.
across the street and in five minutes
accomplished the holdup and esear7-.
Beaver Dam.-An explosion -
gas in the basement Of the il-
ley block, set fire to the pune -