Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-04-06
WISCONSIN news
ITEMS IN BRIEF
Paragraphs Of Interest to Read
ers Of Badger State,
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and So
Reduced In Size That 1t Will Appeal
TO All Glasses of Readers.

The council of the city of Wau-
sau adopted the meter system of sell
ing water
Fire that visited Beloit did $4,000
damage to the residence of George
Meld, Lawrence avenue.
Jaeger Brothers, who reside north
OF Oconomowoc, discovered a part of
stick OF dynamite in barrel of salt
purchased in Milwaukee.
Fire at Chippewa Falls in Bartlett's
hardware store spread to the adjoin.
ing general clothing store of Mozette
& Rowe, doing $4,000 damage.
The body of Rudolph Wesele, one
Of the three Madison men who were
drowned in the recent nights gale
on Lake Monroe, was recovered.
The windows of Holbrook jewel
ry story were smashed by thieves woh
'fshed" out watches and jewelry to
the value of several hundred dollars
at Kenosha
The yacht Rambler, tied up at Man.
itoWOc and built for Thomas Law
son by c. H. Thorne of Chicago, has
been sold to ]. G. Ward of New York.
Near Browntown, Wis, just north
Of Winslow, William HORT, station
agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee s
st. Paul railroad at South Wayne,
Wis, was drowned
Word is received that President
Van Hise of the University of Wiscon-
sin will deliver the annual commence
ment address at the Stevens Point
Normal on June 1.
Half the right of way for the pro-
posed Beloit-Delavan interurban rail
way has been secured, according to
statements of men who are working
on the right of way.
Floods in Southern Wisconsin
which cost at least two lives, halted
transportation over miles Of rail lines
and caused property loss that may
reach close to $1,0000O0.
A Northwestern train crew, near
Kenosha, reported it found the body
of a man, supposed to have been
struck by train and killed, in ditch
a mile south of Kenosha.
The ice of 1916 season moved
sissippi river was opened to naviga-
ton at this point. The opening came
two days later than in 1915.
John Hildebrand, of Wausau, and an
employe of the Underwood Veneer
company, was near to death when he
c1innnI on6 foil into xrot Of hot 1x,o+o -
in which logs are cut
Franklin P. Brewster who mas
been the postmaster at State Line,
Wis, was placed in the county jail
under indictment for alleged embez-
element of 81 900 in postal funds.
James D. Quackenbos, aged IA, for
nearly thirty years sexton of Beloit
cemetery, is dead He personally CON.
Quoted over 1000 funeral corteges
from the cemetery gates to grave
sides.
VIM. Sunderman, aged about so,
was found dead in a shed at the Ocon-
omowoc Lumber company's yards, his
neck being broken. 1t is thought he
was climbing into the loft to sleep
and fell.
A carload of Guernseys were ship
ped to Houghton county by the Brown
County Guernsey Breeders associa-
ton. This is the first shipment sent
out by the county since the associa-
ton was organized.
Two are dead in the foods which
were causing thousands of dollars
damage in southern Wisconsin, Will
liam Orr drowned when he was swept
Off trestle. Lester Kelly drowned
near Mineral Point.
Engineer Gregory of Northwest
ern road, was seriously injured when
switch engine on the Milwaukee
road jumped the track and struck
Gregory's engine which was standing
at the depot at GAINESVILLE.
Grand Army encampment at Ripon
June IA to 16 will be entertained by
airship fights. The amusement com
mittee has closed a contract with
Frank Kastory of Chicago, for two
daily flights during the encampment.
Captain c. S. Buck of Beloit, of
company L, First infantry, w. N.
G., is making strenuous efforts to mus
ter his company to war strength. He
has about sixty men now. Objections
of parents is proving a stumbling
block
A process has been discovered by
H. F. Weiss, at the forest products
laboratory of the University of Wis
consin by which a successful substi-
tute' for gasoline can be made from
sawdust at cost of between 13 and
Is cents gallon.
Beloit students will discontinue the
college Round Table, second oldest
college paper in America, in it's pres
ent weekly magazine form and sub
stitute semi-weekly news sheet. The
Round Table, founded in 1852, has
been published continuously for sixty
four years.
Lucy Pliska and Martha Molski, two
Stevens Point misses and assis-
tants in the dental Offices of DR.. j. M.
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