The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1916-01-07
Badger News
Briefly Told

ed to reach 125,000,000 feet.
Wausau.-The Mortenson Lumber
company will begin the operation
of its sawmill this week, to run
night and day, employing a crew of Is
men. The mill has enough logs to keep
it running for at least eleven months.
La Crosse-C. L. Hedges, superin-
tendent of the Winona Electric
properties, has ben made assistant SUI
perintendent of the Western Wiscon-
sin properties of the Wisconsin Rail-
way, Light and Power company.
Mellen.-Edward Carlson of Hanska
was found frozen to death near
Lake Caroline. He had left here
to walk Is miles to a neighbours near
the lake when darkness overlook him.
A snowstorm added to his difficulties
and it is believed he lost his way.
La Crosse.-The biggest timber
wolf ever caught in La Crosse coun-
ty was found in Carlton Casberg s
double spring trap at Holmen. The
animal weighed 40 pounds. Mr.. Cas-
berg also trapped eight foxes He col
lected $50 bounty as result of his
hunt.
Sheboygan.-When Edward BrunnT
was taken out of Lake Michigan
New Years day. nearly frozen to
death, and declared he had leaped
from an automobile which had carried
him and Arthur Mama into the lake.
he was thought delirious. Yesterday
tug found the auto and body Of MANI
far from shore
Grand Rapids.-Grand Rapids is as
sured of a chautauqua for the COM
ing season. Among the numbers will
be included Prof. and Mrs. Won Geitch
of the University of Wisconsin, Dvorak
trio of Milwaukee. University Of Wis
consin band and Ripon College Glec
club
BOscobel. - Ex-senator John j..
Blaine. who in 1914 was an indie
pendent candidate for governor as the
candidate of Progressives, may seek
the Republican nomination in the pri-
mary Mr. Blaine said he is giving
serious consideration to the proposal
but it probably will be some time be-
fore he makes a decision.
New London-The members of the
executive committee of the Wau-
paca and Portage County Holstein-
Friesian association have arranged
for the annual meeting of the
association at Manawa on January %
unless some other date should be
found necessary to accommodate the
speakers who will be secured from
away.
Whether it was the
eugenic law or the fact that next
year is leap year. the marriage Ii
censes issued N Sheboygan county
this year were again below normal,
only SIT having been issued by County
Clerk Fisher in 1915 and 513 in 1914. a
falling off of nearly 20 per cent each
year since the cugenic law went into
effect.
Madison.-The state industrial COM
mission denied the petition of Mrs
Louis Blank, Sheboygan, for COM
pensation for Blanks death. The
husband was a workman at the Koh.
Ter factory. He quarreled with anoth-
er man over the war and in fight in
the factory was hit over the head with
a templet and died from the wound.
The other workman was found blame
less on investigation.
Grand Rapids.-Extensive prepare
tions are being made for the en-
tertaining of Wisconsin drainage
men who will be in annual session
here on January 10 to 81. An exhibit
of dredging and drainage machinery
will be on exhibition and members
will bring samples of crops grown on
marsh lands. The program, which in
cludes some of the prominent drainage
made up soon.
Waukesha.-Tired of school and
the life of all heiress, Emma Boil
longino, thirteen years old. of Chicago,
ran away lTOm ucT uOluc III NuiCdSO Ou
October II, 1914. She was found
working as a domestic in the home Of
Peter Snyder. former sheriff of Wau-
kesha county. residing at Merton, near
here. After her disappearance, her
mother, Mrs Anna BELONGING, $40
Grand avenue, Chicago. began a coun-
try-wide search for her daughter.
Baraboo.-Al. Ringing, sixty-six
years old, died of Bright's disease.
He had been I'll about year. Mr..
Ringing was the oldest of the Ring
ling brothers, owners of the big cir
cuses of the United States. whose win
ter headquarters are located here Re-
Gently an opera house built at Baraboo
by MIR. Ringing at cost of $l25,0OO
was completed. Infringing is survived
by his widow and four brothers. They
are: Charles R., Evanston, ILL.,; Henry,
Baraboo; ALT, New York, and John.
The fifth brother, Otto, died two years
ago. Mrs. A. Kassner, 372 Twentieth
avenue, Milwaukee, is a sister of the
deceased circus mans mother
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