Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-08
NeIUs Notes of Wisconsin

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS out OF
over sixty candidates passed the ex-
animation recently conducted here by
the state board of law examiners.
They are: G. w. Babcock, Charles
o. Bergemer, G. w. Bradford, Joseph
P. Callan, A. l.. Devils, John P. Don
nelly, Alfred Il. Fem, w. w. Hitler,
Frank Jennings, F. G. Kennedy, H,
R. Manager, Thomas r. Manning, Al
fred Newlander, o. M. Peters, j. e.
Tierney, Milwaukee; l.. M. Caldwell
Pewaukee; Richard P. Cavanaugh,
Kenosha; R. w Cook, Green Bay;
Arthur j. Cunningham, Beloit; ]. w.
Frenz, R. w. Mabel, Baraboo; c. c.
Kempley, Packwaukee; R. E. Cor
don, La Crosse; A. J. O'Melia, Rhine
lander; Mr.. Rittland, Elroy; l.. J.
Sommers, Madison; D. Wheelock, De.
pere.
Fond du Lac.-All divorce court
presidents and records were shat
tered when Jacob Mertes of ST. Cloud
appeared before the county judge
and declaring that his wife, aged rs,
had deserted him on his seventy
fourth birthday anniversary, asked
for a divorce. Mertes, palsied and
gray, crept Into the county court
with the aid of a staff and told a
story pitiable and strange Mr.
Mertes declared he had been welded
four years ago, and that last June
his spouse left him alone in the
world.
Marshfield.- The Wisconsin Auc-
tioneer's association elected as presi-
dent, o. E. Allison of Kingston; vice
president, Will Ebbe of Marshfield;
ecretary-treasurer, J. H. DEM
hardt of Neenah, the assemblyman
who fathered the law now in force
prohibiting liquor being sold or given
away at auctions. Neenah will be
the meeting place next year.
Milwaukee.-Henry Klein, charged
with killing Harry Payne, cigar.
maker, on September 10, 1910, has
been found guilty of murder in the
first degree. Klein confessed tc
Staying Payne by crushing his skull
with an iron bar, but entered a plea
of insanity at the trial.
Two Rivers.-Because the board OF
review refused to sanction an in
crease of $4,000 in the personal
property assessment of the Hamilton
Manufacturing company, Fred AL
then, socialist assessor of Two Riv.
ers, has carried the matter to the
state tax commission.
Madison.-The railroad commits.
sion has ordered the Wisconsin Tel
ephone company to comply with the
rules of the La Crosse council, di-
recting that it's poles in that city be
removed and the wires placed under
ground.
Baraboo.-Ad vices from Washing
ton state that President Taft has
nominated Frank E Schultz to be
postmaster at this place.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. have been is
sued by the postofice department for
tic VI pOOtci odNihSS
banks in Milwaukee and nine other
large cities of the country by Sept. 1.
Figures showing the gross receipts of
the Milwaukee Office to have been ST.
506,384 during 1910 decided the de-
partment to establish postal bank
here.
Sheboygan-No arrests have as
yet been made in the Sexton murder
case and the officers appear to have
lost the trail of the suspect who was
traced to Chicago.
Greenwood.-Lynn H. Miller,
wealthy lumberman of Tacoma,
Wash, has shipped a fagpoIe 16S
feet long to the Greenwood high
school, from which he graduated
years ago. The pole tapers from q
small base of IA inches 20 4 inches
at the top. Four fiat cars were re
.quired to ship it from Tacoma
Fond du Lac.-Mrs. J o. FrisI.
who was bitten by a dog suffering
with rabies, has been sent to the
Pasteur institute at Madison for
treatment. The police will shoot al
unmuzzled dogs on sight
Mercer.-Game Warden Con F.
Asmuth arrested three hunters siI
miles west of Mercer for hunting and
killing deer in the closed season,
They were IN the act of dressing their
game when the warden surprised
them. Their rifles were eonfiscated
and each fined $25 and costs.
Manitowoc.-Manito has been
selected as home Offices of the Wis.
consin Merchants & Manufacturers
Insurance company, q 100000 cor
poration which has just filed its pa
pers at Madison and has been
granted a charter.