Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-03-02
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The postofice at Beloit contributes
1000 letters annually to the national
dead letter office.
DIR. F. A. Soles has purchased the
Spencer Record and will conduct that
paper in the future.
Mrs. John Williams, of Dodgeville, is
dead at the age of eighty-one years.
She is survived by nine children.
Fred Stein, employed at Goodrich,
was seriously injured by the explo-
sion of a steam pipe which scalded his
face.
j. B. Fleming, serving Eau Claire
six years as mayor, has announced he
will not be a candidate for renomina-
ton.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Sanger, IS, widow
of William H. Hearding, is dead. After
funeral services at Delafield burial
was in Detroit.
Twenty-Five of Rusk county banks
formed the first bankers organization
in that county, known as the Russ
County Bankers association.
Dan E. Mowry, who has been
assistant treasury agent, handed his
resignation to Governor Philip. Lii
liam Brown of Madison was named as
his successor.
Petition for a special election for
Ladysmith is being circulated by the
leaders Of the wet faction to deter
mine whether or not the city shall
have license or no license.
The C. & N. w. and 500 railroads
must establish flagman's towers and
suitable enunciators operated by track
circuit to warn off approaching trains
at Scott street, Fond du Lac.
c. G. Wilcox, Depere business man,
resigned as president of the Brown
County Fair association. Elmer Hall.
county clerk of Green Bay, has been
elected to fill the position
J. Carbon, convicted of manslaugh-
ter. in the first degree for having
killed James Tyndal on Nov. II, 1915,
near Coria, Wis, was sentenced to
life Imprisonment at Waupun.
Gideon King will not be tried at
the spring term Of the Barron circuit
court for shooting Lawrence Penz-
kover. He passed away at Chippewa
Falls from cancer of the stomach.
James Mcdonald, 46 years old, we'll
known town of Brunswick farmer fell
between the ties of the Milwaukee
railroad bridge at Eau Claire and was
dashed to death on the ice below.
Word has been received by Wau-
kesha from Minneapolis of the
death of DR.. Hugo Philler, aged sew
enty- eight years, one of the leading
physicians of Waukesha for many
years.
An: effort is being made in this
state to locate relatives of former
Governor Edward Solomon of Wiscon-
son, word having been received from
New York that some property was
about to be divided.
A coroner's jury sitting at Medford
brought in verdict that John Thorn
erskewsky's death was due to heart
disease. He was found frozen on the
road and his horse, becoming in
tangled in a fence, also froze and had
to be shot.
Jacob Hamus, aged IA, son of Mr..
10 IF Arb
dale, lost the greater part of his right
hand in a feed cutting machine. Ha-
mus was attempting to clean it out
without stopping it when the accident
occurred.
Wisconsin farmers and.7Aankers will
participate in an excursic1 y to the agri-
cultural school Of the University of
Wisconsin on March % and 20. The
excursion has been arranged by the
agricultural committee of the Wiscon-
sin Bankers association.
VIM. Larson, aged %, son of Fred
Larson, of Thomas, left the Home res
taurant at night to be gone but few
Not returning as soon as ex-
pected, search revealed his dead body
near the alley at the rear Of the build
ing with his throat cut and a razor
nearby.
In a ruling just made the Wisconsin
supreme court held in the case of the
State of Wisconsin in relation Of
Judge A E. Richter against Judge F.
W. Chadbourne, that the law passed
by the last legislature creating the SUI
perior court Of Fond du Lac county
and abolishing the Fond du Lac coun-
ty court, was unconstitutional.
The village of Bristol almost ran red
with blood when more than 300 ice
workers, following an argument be-
tween nationalities, engaged in a
pitched battle. The men had started
to Kenosha by train and when Bristol
was reached they left the train and
began the battle. NOBODY was hurt
and they were finally forced to board
the train again.