Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-10
WISCONSIN News
ITEMS III BRIEF
Paragraphs Of i..t5roSt to Read
ers Of Badger State.
Various Points In the State and So
Reduced In Size That 1t Will Appeal
to Ali Glasses of Readers.

The supreme court of Wisconsin has
again upheld the state law prohibiting
the sale Of liquor to Indians.
T. Hanson, 55, a resident of Wash
burn, Wis, was hurled fifty feet 20
his death when struck by a train one
mile out of that town.
James Gaynor, we'll known cranberry
man Of the state, sustained an attack
Of paralysis and is in a critical condi-
ton at Grand Rapids.
VIM. Hawkins, Roberts resident, 35
years, and pioneer creamery man in
Wisconsin, died at his home there after
a brief illness from heart trouble.
Logging contractors say that they
are having the best season in years in
Northern Wisconsin, and larger cut
is being made than for some time.
Art Kellogg, Oshkosh ex-mayor, died
aged eighty-years. He had been ill
about one year. Mr.. Kellogg came to
Oshkosh in 1854 from New York state.
The Wisconsin road school under
direction of the Wisconsin highway
commission was attended by repre-
sentatives from every county in the
state.
Five hundred dollars was the dam
age to Miss Nellie Dummers affec-
tons by DR.. c. w. Watterson's refusal
to marry her, said a circuit court jury
at La Crosse.
Frank Hops, slayer of his brother in
q quarrel in the presence of his par
ents, was bound over. He will claim
self defense. The Hops live southwest
of Neillsville.
The attorney general advises that
agricultural societies are NOT entitled
to state aid en- premiums paid by them
on exhibits produced or grown outside
the state, except live stock
Miss Jessie Widin, the Burnett
woman county superintendent of
schools, has resigned to take effect
Feb 1. She will go to Columbia univer-
sity to complete her education.
The largest haul of fish ever
caught in this state was made at Win
neconne, last week, 10000 pounds
being hauled out of Lake Poygan. The
fish were shipped to Philadelphia
Charles w. Weise, a Green Bay
crockcry salesman, who had been Wis
iting Stevens Point for twenty years,
collapsed and died later in his room.
He leaves g wife and two daughters
Old residents, who are fani lar with
the city's carly history, assert that
Jan. 81 was the first birthday Of Mil
Waukee on which a president of the
United States honored it with his
presence.
Miss NJ. J. Fetch, Racine pioneer,
died suddenly, aged seventy-one years.
She was born in the town of Mount
Pleasant while Wisconsin was a ter
ritory and moved to Racine thirty
years ago.
Hundreds of men we're brought out
to Kenosha to cut ice and with the
coming of the warm weather the ice
harvest was abandoned and most Of
the men had not money enough to
get back to Chicago
Badger road builders to the number
of $50 attended the opening session of
the fifth annual road school OF the
Wisconsin highway commission, which
convened in the assembly chamber of
the capitol at Madison.
Frank Weix, of Amigo, heard q
loud commOtiOn in his chicken coop.
He noticed that the wind had blown
the door open and large black fox
had entered. The animal was captured
alive 1t is worth $4,000.
Employees of the Paine Lumber Co.,
numbering about 1000, struck. The
strikers claim that the company did
not take back 1873 employees when they
resumed operations after the annual
inventory on Jan. II at Oshkosh.
Defying the worst storm of the win
ter. Edward Ellingson, Birch Lake
farmer, and his fourteen year old sou,
the latter strapped to horses back,
reached Ashland after midnight where
the boy was Immediately operated on
for acute appendicitis.
E. J. Worth, a lawyer arrested on
a charge of abandoning his family at
Kimball, S. D., and held at Madison
tried to escape by saving the iron
bars Of a window in the jail, but be-
fore he could get out fellow prison
er nct;fed the turnkey.
B. H. Paul, address, the Globe
hotel, Racine, who is scientific ally in.
clined, is open for Openings" ANY
surgeon who would like to see the
mechanism" in Mr.. Paul and who in
cidentally wishes to make a name fol
himself that will ring down the ages
for medical discovery, has an invita-.
ton to operate on Mr.. Paul and Oh
serve the inner workings of his ansto~
my. ~
Cigarmen of Oshkosh have pre-
sented resolutions against the; Sulp.an
closing, which petition was flee By
the Mems Christian Workers league
e.