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the Wisconsin state bar examination
in the assembly chamber.
Edward Pesheks, 80, was injured sc
severely in fight in saloon that he
died at Amigo. A suspect is being
held.
Oshkosh boomers took trade
boosting trip to the cities and villages
on or near the shore of Lake Whine
bago
Annual examinations for embalm-
ing in this state will be held at the
Elks' club rooms in La Crosse on Fri.
day, Aug. 4.
At Oshkosh one hundred and
thirty saloon licenses have been is
sued up to date This is within three
of the number allowed in that city.
The headless body of J. Bartsch was
found in tie woods near his here,
sixteen miles from La Crosse. He
is believed to have killed himself with
dynamite.
The state approved an amend
ment t0 the articles of incorporation
of the Bank of Downing, village OF
Downing, increasing it's capital stock
from $4,000 to $4,000.
George r. Roth IS, who lived on the
same farm in Omro from 1854 to 1915,
is dead of heart failure at the home
Of a daughter in the village Omro. He
was born in Jerrico, VT
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young lady, is with the Red Cross
workers in France. She writes her
parents that she is installed in hos
pital at Neuilly sur Seine.
Mrs. Bridget Martin, 73, mother of
Attorneys P. H., Joseph and John f..
Martin of Green Bay and of William
H. Martin, deputy Internal revenue
collector of Depere, is dead.
w. Scott Sutton, at GAINESVILLE, ma
chinist from the Rock Island arsenal
until recently, jumped from a railroad
bridge into Rock river and was dead
when picked up by a passing launch.
Fred Drager, aged 80, head lineman
of the GAINESVILLE Electric company,
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foot pole after receiving a shock from
a live wire. His skull was crushed
by the fall
While swimming in Fox river, Mi
chael Hanlon, Green Bay man,
twenty-seven years old, of the crew
of the steamer Sacramento, was
drowned. Companions made futile eff
forts to rescue Hanlon
John G. Riley, fifty years a resident
of the town of Erin Prairie, of
which he was one of the pioneer set
tiers, died at the family residence in
Seattle, Wash. He was a resident of
GAINESVILLE, Wis, from 1853 to 1856.
A large new building will be erected
Immediately by Doctor J. H. Vote
at his Oconomowoc lake sanato-
rum, Waldheim Park, to replace the
building destroyed by fire several
months ago. The new addition will be
OF tile and steel.
A pop bottle exploded in the hand
of Vivian Marteau at La Crosse. The
flying bits Of glass cut an artery in
his left arm and also gashed his
throat DR.. H. e. Wolf took fifteen
stitches in closing both wounds Mar
teau will recover.
That the president will visit the
lake country for at least two weeks
of fishing and to hide away from the
cares of office preliminary to his fall
presidential campaign is the word that
came out Of the northern lake region.
of Wisconsin.
Norman Clipp, a Grantsburg youth,
was killed while returning home from
a dance. The auto he was driving
ran over a ten foot embankment, pin
ming him between the steering wheel
and the ground. Miss Jennie Terra,
who was with Mr.. Clipp, escaped with
slight injuries.
Judge Clementson at La Crosse after
hearing the suit of the La Crosse
Land and Investment company against
Thomas Morris found that Mr.. Morris
and Edward Lyons had paid fully for
their stock in the corporation and
were entitled to it, the deal amounting
to about $4,000
A plea against prohibition, not be
cause it is opposed in principle, be-
cause it is dealing a death blow to a
number of crafts, was made before
the Federation of Labor convention
in Fond du Lac by Joe Proebstle, sec
rotary of the International Brewery
Workers union of Cincinnati, O.
The Wisconsin Pharmaceutical as
ISOLATION decided while at Wausau at
business meeting to petition the
board of regents of the state univer.
sity to make the school of pharmacy
a separate institution, and not simply
a department to be known as the col
lege of pharmacy, with it's own pro-
fessors.
Lyle Parker, aged IA, Menasha, and
a younger brother, Albert Parker,
were bathing. The former cried for
help, calling his mother, his younger
brother clinging to him in the mean