Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-04-24
State Items in Brief.

BARABOO-Thc Elm Grove creamery has
been sold to T. {. Zacher of Milwaukee.
LA CROSSE-George L. Rose, Jr., and =.
c. Wolfe viii try TO walk from La Crosse
to WinOna in seven hours on Sunday
La CROSSE-The contract Tor remodclng
the public library has been awarded to
ohm y. Miller for $17,977
Ia CROSSE-While sitting at breakfast
table, james J. Winter of Cataract was
stricken with heart disease.
MARSHFIELD-The odd Follows from
this and surrounding cities will celebrate
the eighty-nnth anniversary of the order
III this city, Friday, April "A.
RACINE-George GiIlett one of the old
est and wealthieSt retired farmers i'll Ra-
cine county, while unloading cindcrs from
a fat car, dropped dead.
WAUPACA-The coroner's jury on the
death of Mrs. J. Frank Fisher of Ashland
absOlyed the Waupaca Electric Light ana
Railway company from all blame.
FIFIELD-Burglars broke into the post
office and stole $50 in stamps and money.
Later they broke into the depot, got a dol
lar and escaped.
JANESVILLE-The new gasoline motor
car which will be put on by the North
Western road to run between here and Be
lott on Monday, is now in the round house.
KENCSHA-The Chicago s; North West
Crn refuses to pay 5000 for the loss Of toe
by Il workman and has appealed to the SD
preme court.
BELO1l-NeXt month Iue uOCiOFS Oh be
lott will hold a tuberculosis exhibit to
arouse interest in the tuberculosis exhibit
to be given in Washington, ID. c., in Sep
TENDER.
MARSHFIELD-John BIenker, mpr-
chant and lumberman Of Sherry, had his
leg crushed between two logs, while work
ing i'll his mill yard. His condition is seri-
Gus.
CHIPPEWA FALLS-BeCause of domes-
tic trouble lately. Ernest Hantke, proprie-
tor Of d hotel at Grafton, committed suicide
by severing his jugular vein with a pen
knife.
MENOMONIE - At the quarterly confer
nnce Of the American Society Of Equity at
Knapp it was decided to establish a cen
trail slaughter house and Il cold storage
plant at or near Menomonie.
WASHB Joseph Hail. whose
mutilated body was found in 4 homestead
shanty died by violent means is the Op.n-
ion of the cOroners jury, but no blame is
attached to any one.
LA CBOSSE.-A new woodenware factory
will he established here by j. Jung Of Mil
Yankee. who for twenty seven years has
been connected with a. 4. Melnecke d
Sons.
MADISON - The Chicago, Milwaukee &
St Paul has asked the state supreme coFrt
TO advance the eight-hOur telegrapher case
for argument. but the court has not yet
taken action on the motion.
RFLOIT-The skeletons plOwed up by d.
" Poe are pronounced by Prof. Collie OF
Reloit college 10 be the remains Of mound
builders. probably 800 years old. Further
blowing revealed a half dozen more skeIe-
tons.
CHIPPEWA FALLs-Tha pupils Of the
public school have voted to give one-han
days work to assist in the beautifying OF
Irvine park. The movement was inaugu
rated by members Of the Boys Progressive
club.
LA CROSSE-Resolution for city appro
priatiOus of $500 and the use Of the mar
kct for the temporary auditorium to be
TO- -F.h a ln.4fr1 how
in July have been recommended by tho
council finance committee.