The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-06-04
WISCONSIN
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I details for the convention oil
June s. Not less than fifty of the
! men most prominent in the movement
! are here to decide on the convention
{ program, including the naming of
temporary and permanent chairmen.
/ Politicians are becoming active in the
state campaign. Capt. William Mitch
| ell Lewis has returned from Europe
| and will spend considerable time at
| his headquarters at the Plankinton
| house. The McGovern and Fairchild
| headquarters also are in complete OPP
Grafton, the former in the Merrill
, building and the other in the Empire
! building.
! La Crosse-As the result of
| two serious accidents in practise
| Sunday, one of which may result
| fatally, the interstate motorcycle race
program for Monday afternoon was
called off. The injured men are Will
liam j. Hilton, both legs paralyzed,
| back may be broken, may die; Frank
| r. Mum" collar bone broken, COM
| pound fracture of arm and other
| bruises. Both men were going faster
than mile minute when a tire ex
| ploded and the riders were thrown
| through the fence.
Waukesha. NJ. p. Rayenel
OF the department of bacteriology
of the state university who ex-
| amined the head and spinal cord Of
| foh ~ fun
boys here last week, has reported to
| Health Commissioner w. b. Strong
that there was no sign of rabies al
| though the head was so badly blown
to pieces by the shot which ended the
CANNES life that an absolute dag
nosis was impossible. The boys who
were bitten, George Plain and Allen
| Carstens, are recovering.
| Mathematician w. Aron, a grad
uate student in German at the
| University of Wisconsin, has just been
| awarded the Ottendorfer memorial
fellowship, established at New York
| university in honor of the late Os-
valid Ottendorfer, editor of the New
York Stats Zeitung. The fellowship
| provides an income of $500, with 500
! for books, and permits the holder to
study at any institution he desires.
Mr., Aron will pursue his graduate
work at the University of Leipzig.
| Shawano.-F. NJ Stein, who was
! charged with burglary and who
! conducted his own defense in the cir
cult court, was found guilty and sen,
| fenced to Waupun for three years NJ
| &. Cooksten was found guilty of per
! jury, but sentence was suspended
! Leading business men, merchants and
professional men signed the petition
,or the suspension of sentence. Cook
ston was witness for l.. NJ. Goldberg
& Co in civil action
Milwaukee.-Mrs. Elizabeth Eagel-
shield of Grand Rapids, Mich,
was sent to Jail because she refused
to pay a $500 fine for selling potatoes
from steamboat without a city Ii.
cense. She claimed the interstate
commerce law protected her, and con
Quoted her own case with unusual
ability.
La Crosse-Mathilda Knudsen
was awarded damages of $1,000
against the La Crosse Stone company
for the death of her husband, CLAUS
Knudsen, who was killed by a fall in
quarry on Grandad bluff on Deem
Der 81, 1909.
Chippewa Falls.-Isaac Isaacson,
aged twenty-five years, fell IS
feet from silo, striking on his
head and receiving injuries from
which he died in few hours. He is
survived by a father and ten brothers
and sisters,
Wausau.-Mrs Harriet Harri-
man, plaintiff in the suit against the
orth-WesteIn Railway company for
$4,000 damages for the loss Of her
husbands life on trial in circuit court
since May "a, was awarded $1,000
damages.
Sheboygan.--SS Cyril and Meth,
odius church the Slavonian con.
gregation recently organized with Rev.
James Cherme as priest. purchased Il
site here at a cost of $4,000 and will
shortly erect a $4,000 cement block
church,
Kenosha.-Frauk Hoffman. arrest.
ed at Orlo, Ill. on a charge OF
stealing Prince, the fayorite driving
horse of Senator Isaac Stephenson
from the Stephenson farm in this
county. was taken into court
Manitowoc Peter Leick, a farm
err of Greenleaf, died in hos
pital from the effects of injuries re-
ceived when he was caught in belt
and thrown against the fly wheel of
farm engine
Chippewa Falls-The county board
defeated the plan to build a county
agricultural training school at a cost
OF So, 900 by a vote of q to Q. The
project has so far cost the county
$275.
Askeaton Peter Lejck died from
Injuries received when he was
caught in the fly wheel Of a gasoline
engine.
! Observation-Disclosures Baker, leader
in the labor unions of this city
dropped dead while al work