Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-03-30


Judge E. B. Beldon for justice of the
supreme court.
Geo. D. Hart, of Beloit, soldier in
Sixteenth Wisconsin infantry in the
civil war, is dead
Double funeral services were held
Mrs. Fred Pfeffer, who died within
one-half hour at Grand Rapids.
G. Maurer, former supervisor coun-
ty treasurer and president of the
Town of Jefferson Mutual Fire Insur-
ance company, is dead.
VIM. Becker, Beaver Dam, who has
! been a prominent farmer in the town
of Westford for ffty-ive years, is
dead
Samuel E. Tate, of Milwaukee, well
known printer and prominent in Ma.
sonic and other fraternal organiza-
tons, is dead.
H. Beesak, Racine, engine ester at
machine shop, was caught in the fly
wheel and thrown to the floor with
such force as to fracture his skull
Alfred Sahr,, II, son of F. Sahr, an
old resident of Kenosha, was shot and
killed by his cousin, Arthur Boness,
who didn't know the gun was loaded.
The Kellogg Lumber company
reports that it is completing re-
pairs on it's sawmill at Polar and will
begin operations in about ten days.
An unidentified man died beneath
wheels of a 500 line train in city
limits of Melen, the bodv eng 50
badly mutilated that Identification
was impossible.
Judge Smith, Chippewa Falls munich,
pal court, fined ashipper Of cartridges
$685. 81. This is the largest fine ever
paid in the history of the prosecution
Of the game laws in the state of Wis
consin.
State health bureau reports there
were recorded 2,635 cases Of measles
during February, slight decline from
January's total of 2,766. In February
of last year only 422 cases were re-
corded.
Amigo item says the second silver
gray fox that has been captured near
that city lately was brought in by Ben
Mauk of Elton. The animal was cap
tured alive and is valued in the neigh
borhood of $1,000
A dispatch received by his rela-
tives at TomahaWk reported the
death of Dean Black, a former resi-
dent of Wisconsin at Hachita, NJ NJ,
by Villista outlaws.
T. Nodorski, Armstrong Creek, was
placed under $1,000 bond to appear
in circuit court, charged with an at
tack on Frances Yourn, six years old.
He denies his guilt.
Five members of the public schools
faculty, of Stevens Point, jnclud-
ing Miss Rose Morrisey, a direc-
tor of drawing work, and Miss Kate
Foley, teacher of English at the high
school, have resigned
In an opinion sent to Z. Olson
Ellis, at Black River Falls, the
attorney general declares that marri-
age between first cousins is against
the state law and that the contracting
parties are guilty of crime
Albert G. Hayden, aged Sc, a resi-
dent of Milwaukee since 1849, is dead.
Mr. Hayden was head of the A. G.
Hayden company, grain dealers, and
was a member of the Chamber of
Commerce for many years.
The Wisconsin railroad commission
has just recently issued an order
1rric CTR
of the Sparta-Melrose Electric Rail
way and Power company of Sparta
whose railroad project has been aban-
doned.
Mrs. Mary D. Bradford, a Kenosha
educator at the meeting of the board
of education was reelected superin-
tendent of the schools for three
years. Mrs. Bradford has taught for
more than thirty-fve years in Wiscon-
sin schools.
Elsie Baruch Grand Rapids girl,
graduated from the Mount Sinai
Training Hospital for Nurses in New
York city this month and has taken
the highest honors in her class. She
received a prize of 500 and the Gug-
genheim medal
Presiding at Milwaukee Judge Esch-
weller directed a verdict in favor of
the Voters league, against which a
$4,000 libel suit was brought by John
J. Hughes, former alderman at large,
because the league charged he was
unfit to, hold public Office, and cited
his relations with one Erna Curtiss.
Thomas A. Smyser, who, it is al
legged, recently shot Bert Lewis in a
taxi at Grand Rapids was bound over
to the Circuit court, charged with as
sault with intent to murder, assault
with intent to do great bodily harm,
and the aiming and discharging of
loaded weapons. Smyser pleads self
defense.
Thirty-three Kenoshan making up
the first motor truck unit ever recruit
ed for the United States army left
Kenosha early March 16 on a spe-
cial train with the right of way guar
anteed all the wav through tO I'll Pas0