Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-05-07
State News in Brief.

MARINETTE-Judg Hastings of Greer
Bay has sworn in the grand jury and delib
erations have started on charges against OF
fcials.
PERIOR-Principal S. A. Lynch
Blaine High school nere has accepted the
position of head of the English department
Of the Iowa State Teachers college, Cedar
Falls. Ia.
BELOIT-The striking of fire bells and
station gongs led to an investigation and
proved that the alarm "2s caused by the
operation of the wireless telegraph system
between the college ana Il downtown ONCE
BERLIN-The new st. Joseph's church
which has just been completed was dcdI
Gated by Bishop Keane of Cheyenne, Wyo
Rev FIR. Clifford of Oshkosh sang the sol
cmn high mass.
RHINELANDER-Th convention of the
northwestern district OF Congregational
churches will be held in Rhinelander May
j. and 10. There are fifteen churches il
this district.
RACINE-The estates of Robert and Clara
Barlow, valued at about $4,000, will go tc
the state. The woman died February 3
1908, and no relatives have been found by
the public administrator.
WAUSAU-Twelve patients from the
Marathon county insane asylum were taker
to the Douglas county asylum, which has
just recently been opened The patients
belonged to Ashland and Bayfield, counties
SPARTA-Frank Thornton and Theodore
Burmeister, aged 10 and II years, are in
the county JAIL charged with incendiarisn
upon complaint Oh lne duluOTllleS Oh ju'
state school for dependent children.
TOMAHAWK-Bert Jackson, a wCodsmaI
and log driver, committed suicide by cutting
his throat from ear to ears He was de
spondent over the loss of his legs six year.
ago which he froze from the knees down.
WAUSAU-It is rumored here that
group of Wausau capitalists have abou
concluded the purchase of the Amigo Elec
trtc company, which owns the electric light
ing and power system of that city. The
sale price is stated to be 100000
MADISON-T. w. Hogan of Amigo, one
of the unsuccessful candidates for judge o.
the circuit court in the Tenth district, flee
a statement in the office of the secretar.
of state declaring he spent S697. 50 for cam
paign purposes
KAIKAUNA-John Reichel residen
here since $780, is dead at the age of 81
years His wife and ten children survive
He was the father of fourteen children
The ten children are all married and ar,
the parents of sixty-two children
MADISON-Prof. NJ. S. Slaughter, heaC
of the Latin department of the university
will leave here July | for Rome, where h,
Latin in the American School of Classica
Studies beginning October /.
BELOIT-The senior class of Beloit col
lege has decided to contribute gowns fo
the yesper choir of the college as its memo
rial 1t is the custom of the senior elias;
to make some gift of this kind to the col
lege.
PoRTAGE-The whereabouts of Angus
Roeske the Hancock Wis, farmer WHIT
suddenly sank into oblivion with $500 oil
his person on April 81, is still deep mys
terry. The officers here are growing more
certain that Roeske went TO Chicago.
MADISON-Gov. Davidson has appointed
Charles L. Wehlitz, Milwaukee, a membe
of the state board of barber examiners t.
succeed Henry Heine, Reedsburg. He als'
appointed +. Ii. Tate, Rice Lake, to sue
coed himself member of the stat
board OF dental examiners.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ducks with fish
hooks is the latest trick of game hogs. Evt
,dence is at hand that lines with fshhook
We're found in Lake Winnebago to which
were attached dead ducks. The hooks hat
been baited and the ducks had swallowed
bait and hooks and were drowned.