Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-23
STATE NEWS NOTES.

CHEIEh-MrS. Charles Mcclellan, aged
81, mother of twelve children, is dead.
MARSHFIELD-A straw vote taken In
the high school resulted in 90 votes for
Taft and 80 for Bryan.
n M Man OW0C- the benefit of Holy
Family hospital. Manitowoc will have a
tag day on November T.
GRAND RAPIDS-The old Pioneer mill,
near the Consolidated dam, was burned to
the ground, the loss being $4,000
nd RACiN NE Ne S'e Of the Racine park
record in favor of narrowing and beautify-
in the streets Of the city.
LA CROSSE-Improvemen amounting to
100000 have been completed in the rail
road yards Of the Milwaukee road Oh the
north side.
CHETEK - Four hunters, George SIaw-
son, j; q. Walker, Frank Holmes and VIII
Warden Hubert for shooting ducks from
launch. Each paid a fine of $2j.
MARSHFIELD = Because the mayor re-
fused to permit electric theaters to keep
open sundays, the owners of these estaD-
lIshments will attempt to enforce the Sun
day closing law on all business houses.
NEENAII-The North Western and the
Wisconsin Central roads have put on spe-
cial coal trains to supply coal for factories
and dealers in the Fox river valley on
hurry up orders.
GREEN BAY-Rev. jacob a. Siegrist has
completed twenty-five years service with
the First German Evangelical Lutheran
church of this city. He is the Oldest pastor
in point of service here.
MANITOWOC-The city council has re-
fused to establish a park commission and
undertake the purchase and improvement
of a city park system.
RACINE-Josepn Decker, a saoonkeeper,
was arrested on the charge of selling liquor
without a license and the saloon he con
Quoted was ordered closed by Mayor Hor-
lick.
MANITOWOC-Jacob shimek saved him
Splf frnn nlNoI 10 hy- Loo, hocI
ward when his wagon was smashed and
his horse killed by a Northwestern freight
near the city limits. Shimek lives at Kell-
ncrSville
LA CROSSE-With liabilities of several
thousand dollars and no visible assets, Ole
E. Orvik, a contractor, is being examined
by the referee in bankruptcy. Orvik claims
the money used by him was loaned him by
his wife.
MADISON-E w Whitson of Tomahawk,
former member of the Assembly, who made
an unsuccessful attempt to defeat Senator
Wright of Merrill for denomination, filed a
statement that he spent 5000 in the
campaign.
.SUPER!OR-The explosion of steam
perior caused a panic among the guests and
wrecked the light plant. Archie Bloods,
worth, engineer, and Charles HOlstrum
fireman. were both injured in the accident
NEENAH-A freight car on the Milwau-
Eee road was robbed between this city and
Milwaukee and silverware, whisky and 9TH
er merchandise consigned to dealers in this
city, Menasha and Appleton, valued at
about $500, was taken.
LA CROSSE-The directors of the new
Farmers and Merchants State bank at
GaleSville have elected the following Off
GERS: President A. o. Nelson, La Crosse;
vice president, II. +. ClausOn, Frenchville;
cashier, J. A: Berg, Holman. The bank will
open for business November l.
SUPERIOR-William D. Haywood, one of
the men prominent in the Idaho murder
trials in which Harry Orchard, Pettibone,
Meyer and others were tried for the MUIR
der of Governor Stuenenberg, is to come
to Superior to take part in the big rally
that is being arranged for by the local So
cialists.
,SHEBOYGAN-Cons of the new
Riverside cutoff line of the Sheboygan
Light, Power and Railway company has
been held up by the sudden advance in the
price of land needed for the road to about
S120 an acre and a result an appeal will
be made to the Wisconsin state railroad
commission.
SUPER1OR--A non-sectarian church cen
sus of the city of Superior will be taken
by citizens Of the city under the direction
of Hugh Cork, superintendent of the Inter
national Sunday School association, w. j.
Semebroth, general secretary of the Wis
c0nsin Sunday School association, and A.
NJ. Locker, general secretary of the Mime
sofa Sunday School association.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS GiIlotti, Emanuel
Cappello, and Joe CatCse, convicted of rob
bling Nicholas Sachi, were sentenced by
Judge Belden. Gillotti and Cappello were
sent to the state prison at Waupun for
two years and Catuse to the reformatory
at Green Bay.
La CROSSE-Afiss Gertrude Ida Schmidt,
who was released from the Mendoza asy.
lum was re-eXamined and declared insane
but her case is considered harmless and
she has been allowed to remain III the city
where she will be cared for by friends.
Miss schmidt has an estate of $4,000, con-
sisting of property in this city AM in Mad
iSOu.