Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-04-06

there.
Peter Jones, of Green Bay for twen-
ty-ive years, is dead at the age of six.
ty-seveH years. He was born in Den
mark.
G. Evaland, of Fond du Lac commit
ted suicide by shooting himself, while
respondent over domestic troubles.
His wife left him last January.
The schooner Grand Haven, moored
at Sheboygan, one of the largest
schooners still operated on Lake
Michigan, sank in ten feet OF water
at it's dock.
All machinery for the new cream
cry, for Brentwood, partly complet-
ed, has been purchased, and the
creamery will be open for business
about June l.
Anton Schmidt, a new Richmond
youth, sixteen years old, is dead as
a result Of injuries received while at
tempting to stop a portable power
wood saving machine
F. G. Rich of Appleton was killed
at Sharon and about $4,000 dam,
age done by an explosion which
wrecked the municipal water, gas and
electric plant there.
The body of John McMahon, sixty
three years old, Elm Grove, was found
dead on an island in the Menominee
river, at Wauwatosa. The body had
been washed up on the shore
]. Vanbackel, Depere, dying and his
wife, eighty years old, is dead as the
result of being overcome by gas from
coal stove. They were found uncon-
scious by neighbors at noon.
Rev. A. F. Frederick, pastor at Ken
dali and leader of the prohibition par
ty in western Wisconsin, was mobbed
at West Salem after delivering a
speech on the liquor question.
option hits Amigo. Petition signed
by 10 per cent of the voters of that
city was filed with the city clerk ask
ing that vote be taken on the cues
ton OF licensing saloons on April 4.
Ralph E. Switzerland, Kenosha
pioneer seventy-seven years old, died
suddenly He was prominent in Ken
osha business for more than fifty
years and active in the Masonic order
Sister NJ. Romano, of Racine,
in charge Of st. Patrick's parochial
school many years, has been elected
prioress of ST. GATHERINGS academy
as successor to Mother Cecilia, who
died on Nov II, 1915.
The Tabernacle Baptist church.
at La Crosse, has called Ralph c..
Ostergren, the University of Chicago
athlete, as pastor. Mr. Ostergren has
accepted the call and will assume the
DastOrate about July l.
Miss Sarah A. Hannah, 50, who
committed suicide in a rooming house
in Chicago under the name of Sadie"
Hannah, by inhaling gas, was a mem
Der of one of the most prominent
old KenOsha families
Relatives living near La Crosse
claimed the bodies of William j. Gun
Their and C. d. Wells, unemployed rail
road men, who were found smothered
in the ice bunkers of a refriger, tor
car at the Gund brewery there.
Officials of the United States
children's bureau at Washington have
chosen Iowa county, Wis, for a study
of child hygiene, infantile mortality,
ETC., and for detailed survey of the
health environments of children.
The Beloit Savings bank celebrated
prosperity and it's thirty-ffth birth
day with a reception. There was a
great birthday cake with thirty-five
candles. Deposits reached the $1,000
900 mark while the celebration was
in progress
William Boehning, farmer near
Grand Rapids, who brought suit
against the Chicago and Northwest
ern railroad for $4,000 for alleged
damages received when he was eject
ed from a passenger train, was award
ed $500.06 by the jury after being out
twenty-four hours.
Two Wisconsinites, Miss iona
Gale of Portage and Crystal Eastman,
formerly Of Milwaukee, are on the an
preparedness committee which an
nouced that it had hired halls in the
largest cities in the country and
would sponsor speeches opposing
President Wilson's program.
A dog at Green Bay by con-
tinued barking, saved the family of
William Pritchet from death in their
burning home. The canine barked UNI
til he awakened the master and en-
abled Pritchet, his wife and daughter
to escape from the house as it was
rapidly becoming enveloped in flames.
AS Frank Blonde was delivering
milk in Green Bay, his horse ran
away and galloped five miles to De-
PEREZ On turning a corner upon
Broadway it slipped and fell down. 1t
was so tired that it could not arise for
some time The wagon was full or
bottles filled with milk, none Of which
was spilled.
After slashfng himself, near Lady
smith, about the neck and abdomen
with razor, which his mother tried
vainly to prevent, Kenneth Brainerd,