Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-08

Madison.-The new state affairs
commission met in the governors
office and organized by elect
ing former Senator w. H. Hatton or
New London as vice chairman. Under
the law, Governor McGovern is named
as chairman. A secretary will be
elected at another meeting of the
commission to be held in about a
month. The governor was requested
to look up good expert accountant
who can be employed by the commits
sion to devise a uniform system of
state accounting.
Observation-Disclosures because
Of i'll health, Mrs. Barbara Lisko-
WITT, 70 years old, 5S7 Sixteenth street,
committed suicide by hanging. She
had been i'll for some time and her
children noticed she was acting queer
ly. When one of her daughters re-
turned home from work and could not
get in she asked Emil Poetzsch, who
was painting a house next door, to
look in. He saw the body hanging
from hook in the door casing. One
son and three daughters survive.
Madison.-The rate commission
ordered the Wisconsin Telephone
company to comply with the rules
of the La Crosse council direct
ing that its poles on South Front
street be removed and the wires
placed under ground. The company
appealed to the commission on the
ground that the change was mechani-
cally impracticable and unreasonably
expensive.
anesville.-Before the eyes of
scores OF people who were waiting
for trains here at the two passenger
depots, an unknown man threw him.
self before freight train and was
ground to pieces. In the panic that
followed, several women were nearly
run down by the train when they
crowded from the platform of the
Northwestern station.
Madison.-James L. Wilson was
arrested in Lake Mills and brought
to Madison upon the complaint
of w. NJ Brady, groceryman,
who charges Wilson with forging a
check for $13 Wilson signed his
wifes name to the check in her alb.
sence and the bank refused to honor
it. He is also said to have forged
other checks on his wife's name fo1
larger amounts.
Madison.-Prof. Ralph H. Hess,
head of the extension division
of the department of economics and
political science at the University OF
Minnesota, has resigned and will
turn to the University of Wisconsin
TO succeed Prof. Balthaser M. Meyer
now a member of the interstate COM
merce commission. Prof. Hess will
also conduct the work formerly done
by Prof. T. S. Adams, who has be-
come a member of the Wisconsin tax
commission. Prof. Hess has been given
the title of professor in transporta-
tistics.
Racine.-A tramp dog which oft
four persons, was suffering with
rabies. Health officer Henry Baker re-
ceived a message from Doctor Ravenal
Of the hygienic laboratory of Madison
to that effect The dog was killed and
the head cut off and forwarded to
Madison. After a special meeting of
the health board, President Driver of
the city council issued proclama
ton ordering all dogs muzzled within
forty-eight hours, and those not muz-
zied at the expiration of that period
to be killed.
Madison. - Governor McGovern
pardoned Thomas w. Ryan and
John F. Ryan, brothers, VINO were
sentenced on May Is last to term of
six months in the Waukesha Jail for
assault and battery and resisting an
officer. One condition is that they
abstain from intoxicating liquors for
one year.
Fond du Lac.-Herbert Hughes,
aged fifteen, whose hand was bad
ly crushed, has had twenty square
inches of skin removed from his leg
and grated onto his hand.
Madison. - Wesley M. Ketchum
of this city, whose resigna-
ton as assistant engineer and cleo
trical expert at the state capitol took
effect recently, has been appointed to
a position with the engineering staff
of the state railroad commission. He
will become an electrical inspector
with headquarters at Wausau.
acknowledgements of the Wis
consin State Liquor Dealers Pro.
tective association arrived in large
numbers for the opening sessions of
the associations annual convention.
Waukesha.-Th state has pur.
chased the Henry P. MQtz farm of
rs acres adjoining the state indus |
trial school lands on the south, at |
SIPS per acre. Prof. A. ]. Hutton, SUI
perintendent of the school, states that |
he has boys who win make excellen' |
farmers.
Madison.-The board of control /
paroled 20 short term prisoners
The board took no action toward fill |
ing the position of warden, made va
cant by the resignation OF Henry |
Town.