Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-15
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The precipitation at Madison on
Tuesday was 1872 inches, the previous
record being 81 inches for March Is.
Much of the fall was Of snow. The
precipitation at Baraboo was alsC
great.
At Reedsburg the fire department
on Tuesday afternoon was called to
extinguish blaze in the brewery. The
fire started in the pitch building ana
became hot proposition. The pitch
house is where the leaks in the kegs
and barrels are repaired. This is the
third time the department has been
called during the past few months to
extinguish blazes in this department.
The Sank County Historical society
will meet with Hon. and Mrs. Frank
Avery on Friday evening for a picnic
supper. The following committee has
charge of the arrangements: Mrs. III.
N. Jennings, Mrs. III. A. Fisher, Mrs
l.. M. Stewart and Mrs. Laura Martin.
After supper short program will be
given, and among the speakers will be
Judge James O'Neill.
Persons residing at Devils Lake
have been accused of shooting deer.
The case came before Justice Halsted
this afternoon.
The finished plans an specifications
Of the new Evangelical church are
now in the hands of the building
board. Bids are being received for
the building project.
II. L. Hoard of Fort Atkinson, pres
ident of the Wisconsin Press associa-
ton, has been spending day or two
in Madison, after visit at Richland
Center. He is an active editor of g.
virile weekly, but greatly interested
also in mechanical device of his own
invention for massaging and renew
ing compressed discs between the
spinal vertebrate. BY this squeezing
Mr.. Hoard claims nerves are crushed,
hence about all manner of i'll health.
Restore the discs, or pads, he says.
thus releasing the nerves from pres
sure, and illness vanishes. His appa-
raturs, he declares, accomplishes this
result; and he has actually, in a right
ly way at home, without reward, effect
ed many cures that completely satisfy
him of the efficiency of his method.
Probably early withdrawal of ali
American participation in the Belgian
relief, including the withdrawal of
Brand Whitlock, American minister,
from Brussels, as the result of the
pressure Of the German submarine
campaign, was forecast yesterday at
the state department at Washington.
Serious disturbances among the
German troops in the vicinity of Ma
muir and Huy are reported by the Tele-
it is known that such large numbers
of soldiers have been imprisoned at
Namur and Huy on the charge OF In
subordination that the prisons in the
twotowns are crowded to four and five
times their normal capacity.
The TELEGRAPH also telegraphs an
account of further food riots in which
the chief Of police was seriously
wounded by stone of women rioters.
About sixty German submarines
were captured and destroyed be-
tween January and February IS,
according to reports reaching
Washington on Tuesday, the frat
authoritative word of the entente
success in coping with the under
sea boats.
In the course of an interview grant
ed to the Copenhagen correspondent
of the Berlin Tageblatt, says an Elk
change Telegraph dispatch, Count ven
Bernstorff, Intercepted as to whether
he thought there would be war be-
tween Germany and the United States.
replied:
THAT depends on our U-boat war
fare. If we sink an American ship we,
shall get wars If not, ] suppose we
can avoid it,"
"And it," asked the correspondent,
Germany sinks British ships with
American citizens aboard?"
To this Count Won Bernstorff re,
piled: "That is not the same"
Bills to repeal the Rockefeller foun-
dalton charters have been presented
in the New York legislature. Futile
attempts to obtain investigations are