Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20
WISCONSIN NEWS
ITEMS IN BRIEF
Paragraphs Of Interest to Read
ers Of Badger State.
News of Al! Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and So
Reduced In Size That 1t Will Appeal
to All Classes of Readers.

to All Classes of Readers.
Beloit will install white wing
crew in the spring.
The fire department Of Beloii
had the novelty of fighting a grass
fire in January.
Wence BreZesinski is new postmaster
at Krakow, Shawano county, vice w
c. Brezezinski, removed.
The Wisconsin Federation of La
Dor has appropriated $4,000 for organi
zing unions throughout the state.
After meeting reorganization
of the International Voting Machine
company is planned by stockholders.
A Menasha hotel, the Fox River
house is about to close after having
been used as a hotel for the last forty
years.
The Tillman Armand sawmill was
destroyed by fire of unknown origin
when it had been in operation only
one day.
An automobile being driven at Colfay
went over an embankment. Nels Hell.
geson died from injuries The driver
escaped unhurt.
Arrangements are completed for
the two day convention of Methodist
Sunday school workers in Fond du
Lac March Is and II.
Fond du Lac has voted down
$4,000 for a county sanatorium. The
vote was % to %, with two members
absent and four not voting.
Mrs. NJ. Leichem, SO, of Kenosha. is
charged with shooting four times at
her husband, Peter Keickem, drank
an overdose of muriatic acid
A letter says Mrs. George Bush
nell, widow of former pastor of the
First Congregational church in Beloit
died Jan. at Peace Dale, R. l.
John Ostrenga, a Marinette man,
was sentenced to thirty days in the
workhouse for stealing a Whitefsh.
The fish was found hidden in his wood
pile.
r. G.. Spenser, aged sc, president and
founder of the Spencerian Business
college and pioneer Milwaukee edu.
Gator, died suddenly from hemorrhage
of the brain.
At a recent meeting the executive
committee of the Wisconsin Potato
Growers association has awarded lau
Claire the next convention which will
be in November
DR.. G. Fox. GAINESVILLE was dismissed
manslaughter alleged to have result
ed from an operation Fox was &C
cused of performing.
Stevens Point Baptists began work in
May on a new $4,000 brick church to
seat 800 persons. The old church will
be remodeled for an annex and will
seat about 300 more
Near Waukesha despite the er.
forts Of her chum, Miss Anna M. Lutz,
thirty-three years old, of Milwaukee,
fell through an opening in the ice and
was drowned in Pine lake
G. A. Avery, Beloit pioneer, cele-
brated his ninety-second birthday an
niversary Mr. Avery's sister, Mrs.
Charles Durkee, with whom he makes
his home is ninety years old
Tiger hunting in interior China is
among the experiences in store for a
Beloit man, Roy G. Andrews, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. E. Andrews of Belojt
and a graduate of Beloit college in
1906.
Mrs Rosa Hanko, of Racine had
the grin for two weeks, and her i'll
ness developed into what resembles
lockjaw, in that she is unable to open
her mouth, and must be fed through
the nose.
A. S. Baker, of Baker Manufacturing
company and a member Of the assem-
bly, in 1905-'07, died at Evansville.
His company was one Of the first in
Wisconsin to introduce profit sharing
with employees.
When Marshal Rock Flint stepped
off a train at Woodman, Grant county,
to arrest Louis Hammond, postmaster,
on a charge of embezzlement, he
found Hammond in a dying condition
from the effects of dose of poison.
Judge G. H. Noyes, member of the
University Of Wisconsin board Of
regents twelve years, judge Of the SUI
perior court of Milwaukee from 1888
to 1890, and president of the Wiscon-
sin Bar association in 1904 and 1905
died at Clearwater, Fla.
Claudia, daughter of A. Gulstad,
farmer of Eau Galee, is now Mrs.
Lloyd Ross and home again Her hus-
band, aged twenty-one, of Beldenville,
is in jail in Red Wing, Mimi, a con-
fessed perjurer, having admitted
swearing that the age of the girl was
eighteen in the application for mar
riage license.
What is probably due to incoIn-
plete reporting of births or to exist
ence of so-called "baby farms" or to
a combination of both, several coun.
ties of Wisconsin show an abnormal
1u hich death rate among infants ac-