Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-03-16
WISCONSIN news
ITEMS IN BRIEF
Paragraphs OF Interest to Read
erS Of Badger State.

R. NJ. Lamp, Madison insurance
man, died of Brights disease in local
sanitarium. He was fifty years old.
Mrs. J. G. Hayes, the we'll known
wife of a Grand Rapids hotel
keeper, died suddenly of heart failure.
Many Beloit students may serve
in ambulance corps Or other war re-
lief branches at European battle
fronts.
People of Stevene Point will
vote on the saloon license question
this spring and an exciting campaign
is in prospect.
D. H. Wright, Sc, of Madison, is
dead after an illness of several
months. He was probably the best
known Mason in the state.
John Marciniak, Oshkosh attorney,
who shot his wife the night of Feb.
3, was sentenced by Judge Goss of
the municipal court to one year at
Green Bay reformatory.
Mrs. Ben Hooper, the Oshkosh suf
frage orator, has been called to Iowa.
there to make a campaign for suffrage
when the electors of Iowa on June
will make the decision.
A La Crosse organization helping
mothers who are compelled to work for
a living and unable to find time to sew
for their children, has been formed
by the ladies' auxiliary of the Rescue
Mission
Disliking being named for his faith
er's farm in Norway, Ingebregt J.
Pynton has filed notice with Register
of Deeds Thompson that he has
changed his name to Ipgebregt j.
Johnson. He lives at La Crosse.
Sam WitWer of Arcadia is in a crit
ical condition with broken neck. Mr..
Witwer was thrown from a box on
which he was sitting in a wagon, to
the frozen ground, when the wheels
struck a rut
Seamen in the hold of the United
States torpedoboat destroyer Preble
off San Diego, Cal, were badly burn
ed drought the explosion of can of
gasoline, and Arthur Gossett, of Wa
tertown, Wis, died
Wisconsin postmasters are commits
stoned: Andrew j. Osborn, Barron;
John H. Lewis, Black River Falls; Car
RE Kautsky, Colby; Herman Krohn-
scnab, Dorchester; VIM. D. Schultz,
Stanley; Otto J. Melcher, Wautoma
Dead in Europe one day and alive
the next in America tells the story of
the experience of Elwood Smith of
Rhinelander, former Lawrence college
student, who walked into chapel after
his death had been reported from
France
The attorneys of Mrs. Caroline Pat
zer's of ManaWa, are circulating a
petition to be presented to the gov
ernor, in her behalf, asking for her
pardon. The jurors will all sign, and
they expect to get her out some time
before next July.
The Oconomowoc order of the
Eastern Star will observe it's
twenty-ffth, or silver anniversary, on
March %, and it is expected that the
grand chapter officers will be present.
A banquet will be followed by initia-
ton and other ceremnoies.
The body of Leo Blaze at Racine
was found in White river, direct
ly under the bridge of the interurban
line His head was cut, indicating that
he had struck it against the abutment
in falling. He was last seen alive on
Sunday. Death is supposed to have
been accidental.
NJ B. Olbrich and J. j. BLAME, the
La Toilette candidates for delegates
to the Republican national convention
for the Third congressional district,
filed statements in the office of the
secretary of state declaring that the
former had spent SIS and the latter 81
for campaign purposes
Pneumonia and grip contributed
heavily to the death rate in Wiscon-
sin during January, according to the
monthly mortality report issued by
the state board of health, the total
number of deaths being 1866. This is
more than 1000 in excess of Deem
ber's record, when the mortality was
2,549.
Four candidates are out for mayor
of Kenosha. The list includes Mayor
M. J. Scholey, who is a candidate for
fourth term; Charles H. Pfenning,
former mayor and former member of
the assembly; Charles E. Gundlach,
councilman, and Michael Yabs, who if
credited with having the backing Of
the Socialists
The Wisconsin conservation COM
mission has decided that it will
send a crew of trappers to Ashland,
Bayfield,, Price, Lincoln and Oneida
counties to'catch beaver, which have
flooded a railroad line in that section
and are doing other damage there,
and take them to state lands in For
est and Villas counties.
A radio message has been re-
ceived by c.. D. Rene of that city
from his brother Dr. James A. Rene,