Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20

Potatoes are at the soc mark and
the prospects are that they will go
to 81.
No more frame buildings will
be built along Washburn's main bust
ness street.
Martin Tolefson, of Valders, was
hit by 500 train in that village and
instantly killed.
FOND du Lac has abolished the rock
pile and in it's stead has assembled a
huge pile of four foot maple logs.
A petition asks that the district
attorney enforce the Sunday closing
law OF saloons in Langlade county.
+. Campbell, who has been resi-
oent OF Green Bay since boyhood, died
there at the age of seventy-five years
Cumberland's bank has let the con.
tract for the construction of a modern
banking house costing about $4,000
Mrs. B. Wells, ninety-eight years
old, mother of former CONGRESSMAN
Owen A. Wells, is dead at her homs
at Fond du Lac.
the restoration to Dr. A r. Law OF
Madison the right to practice medi.
cine in Wisconsin.
Kenosha is unwilling to pay any
of the cost of elevating the Chicago
and Northwestern and has abandon
ed it's two-year fight for that improve
ment.
The Marathon county board will To-
cate the anti-tuberculosis sanator
ium upon the eastern portion or raG
county asylum farm in the town Of
Settin.
Injuries during the late freeze at
La Crosse when she slipped an a walk
caused the death of eleven year old
Anna Muller. Blood poison followed
the injury.
The case of Arne Nicholson, 50, of
Black Earth, whose will, leaving
$4,000 estate to charity, was contest
ed by his heirs was affirmed by the
supreme court.
In BelOit court Mrs. Fannie Sc
crist Hutchins, daughter of Adell Sc
crist, petitions to be made administra-
trix of the estate of her mother, in.
ventoried at $15O,OOO.
F. Grisen, st. Mary's Ridge, tried to
thaw out a gasoline engine by pouring
oil on it and lighting it. An explosion
followed in which Grisen was SO
badly burned death resulted.
L. Hammond, Woodman postmaster
who took sulphuric acid shortly be
fore United States marshal arrived
to arrest him for the embezzlement Of
$4,000 from postotfice funds, died.
Near Wausau B. Laabs was badly
injured when a charge of dynamite ex-
ploded at the quarry at Granite
Heights He was thrown in the air
and may lose the sight of both eyes.
Mrs. M G.. BrockWay, wife of the
station agent at Okauchee, was Sc
verely injured when she fell from
the bridge at the junction of Okau-
chez and Upper Oconomowoc lakes.
Supreme court has upheld the low
er court which awarded $4,000 dam
ages to Hester Smith, a rural mail
carrier in Dane county, who was i'll
jured when struck by an Illinois Cen
trail train at Fitchburg.
State Bank Commissioner A. E.
Koult at Madison filed his annual
report on banks in Wisconsin with
Governor Philip. The commissioners
said in his report that the condition
of the Wisconsin banks was gratifying
An epidemic Of grip raging in Mani
towoc resulted in two deaths. Miss
Dora Hobson, sixteen years old, high
school student, and Miss Mary Pep
pard twelve years old, were the vic
tins.
Chris Jacobsen, at a Racine fac
tory, had his left arm caught in the
collender in such manner that he
could not be released before the roll
ers had been sawed Off The arm may
have to be amputated.
DR.. G.'Peterson was notified by the
state board of health that a repre-,
sentative Of that body may come to
Waukesha in the near future to col
lect data regarding births, owing TO
the negligence Of local physicians.
Sen. La Toilette, suffering from a
cold, is threatened with pneumonia at
the home Of his brother-in-laW, Judge
r. G. Siebecker, at Madison and on
advice of his physicians Cancelled sew
eral campaign speaking engagements.
G.. Fitzgerald, Wausau, who died in
louisiana last week, was the best
drilled soldier in the United States
while a member Of Company G, Wis
consin National guard. He won $500
in cash and a $500 medal in 1887 by
his drilling.
G. STANCE is in Jail at Racine in de-
fault of 81 900 bail bond TO guarantee
the payment of $3.50 a week for six.
teen years to the girl he betrayed His
brother, Edward, is also in jail
charged with perjury in connection
with the case