Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-02-17
WISCONSIN news
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VIM. Rohn, Amigo farmer, has been
granted a patent for a heater for silos.
Merrill has succeeded in getting
an automobile parcel post delivery
service, according to an order recent
ly issued by the postoffice department.
Philip Wade, rs, veteran of the
civil war and one of the best known
residents of that city, is dead at his
home at Kenosha.
Ex-President Taft will be the prin
cipal speaker and guest of honor at
the annual ST. Patrick's day celebra-
ton of Milwaukee Hibernians on
March II.
During the month of January "a
mon were given lodging at the pc
lice station at Amigo During the same
month of last year, seventy-one were
given beds.
A blaze at Depere destroyed
the interior of the Pearl theater, a
moving picture house just before the
spectators assembled for the first
show. The loss is over $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Eelsemeyer,
Sheboygan pioneers, aged eighty-two
and seventy-nine years respectively
have just celebrated their sixtieth or
diamond wedding anniversary -.
Michael Laborowski, 80, supposed to
be from Racine, was ground to death
under the wheels of North Western
passenger train at Kenosha while a
Mortified crowd, mostly women, looked
On.
E. M. Mcmahon, of Madison, who is
general secretary of the Association
Of Commerce, was offered the general
secretaryship of the St. Paul Assoc la
ton of Commerce. He will answer
soon.
Bayfield, is stirred over the fact
that wrong diagnosis was made in
the case of two children, who died
suddenly there, suppcc IDLY of pneu-
monia. Later it was learned diphtheria
caused the deaths.
Mrs. Elizabeth Diack, SO, resident of
Sheboygan, and Ole of the earliest
pioneers, is dead Mrs. Diack was
born at Aberdeen, Scotland, the
birthplace of Andrew Carnegie, whom
she knew when he was mere lad.
M, Johnson, 81, of SheboyCan, for IS
years a sailor on the great lakes and
one of the most noted of the old sail
ors, who retired twenty years ago, is
in a critical condition as the result Of
fall in which he broke his hip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christian Umbreit. old
Cambria residents, celebrated their
golden anniversary with all their chill
dren and grandchildren and other rela-
tives present The Rev. S. J. Umbreit
of Japan was among those present.
Hanging to a rafter in his home c.
Anderson, fifty-seven years old and
resident Of Kenosha for thirty-tWo
years, was found dead by his wife and
daughter who had gone in search fo-
him. He had been respondent TO:
some time.
Postmaster MILFORD at Baldwin got
notice from Washington to discontinue
the postal savings department of the
local postoffice. While in operation
the postal savings bank had one de-
positor who had one dollar on deposit
for a couple of weeks.
A 27 per cent increase in the aver
age value per acre of land in Wiscon-
sin, according to figures compiled by
the state tax commission has been
made in the last five years. The aver
age value of land in 1905 was $685.
in 1910, $4325, and in 1915, $55.25.
The office of the attorney gen
eral advised District Attorney A. NJ.
Warden of Washburn that register
of deeds has no right to retain vii
lage or city plat of lots Of land which
has been left with him to be recorded
after the same has been recorded
John Kelian's little daughter, living
near Stevens Point, is at the point Of
death with half her skin burned from
her body as the result of her dress
catching fire from a stove when she
was left alone in the house with other
children a little boy threw water over
her and saved her.
Mrs. Mary Kaiser, 50, widow Of
Stephen Kaiser and among the pi-
oneer residents of Racine county, dteG
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Charles Dickhaut, Kencsha Mrs. Kali
ser had spent nearly all OF her life III
Racine and went there a few years
ago to live with her daughters.
Discovery by police that the alleged
internal machine which exploded ont.
side of the door of the apartment of
Arminio c. Comic, Italian consular
agent, in Milwaukee, was not powerful
enough to cause even serious damage,
much less the death of any one in the
vicinity, has caused them to start on
another line of investigation.
Mrs. George Webster, who former
lv was a racidpnt of OconOTn0WOc.