Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-01-03
STATE
HAPPENINGS

,ity, according to the Law and
Order league During the present
Tsar Waukesha has been dry" on
Sunday through an edict of the
mayor, and the league now proposes
% enforce even more stringent laws.
The proprietor of local ice skating
rink has been notified that if he
keeps his rink open SUNDAY his arrest
will follow. II is said that the local
moving picture theaters, roller rink
and billiard and pool halls are also
to be closed on Sunday, and the
Saratoga of the West promises to
become as quiet and peaceful as a
Quaker village.
Waukesha--Caught in the act
Of digging up buried loot in the
woods near Brookfeld, two boys, who
claim Milwaukee as their home, were
arrested by William Shaw, detec-
tive employed by the Chicago, Mill
waukee and st. Paul road, and con-
fessed that they had committed nu-
merous box car robberies in Milwau-
kee, according to Shaw. The two
boys, who gave their names as
Michael Kopp, sixteen years old, and
John Hanson, eighteen years old, were
traced from Waukesha, where they
boarded blind baggage.
La Crosse.-If the plans of the
State Normal regents for one
CIV mil fov ~ nlo a
tons is successful, it will mean Eau
Claire and Oshkosh will be given new
normal schools, according to an an
nauncement here on Thursday. This
tax would provide $4,000 annually
more than is necessary to operate
the present schools. The regents ask
$4,000 for improvements at the Ia
Crosse school.
Manitowoc.-His body lying al
the side of the tracks, his right
arm broken and his right leg crushed
20 pulp, fourteen-year-old Elmer Nick
isch was picked up by trainmen in
the Chicago and Northwestern yards
and died two hours later at the hos
pital The boy was run down while
picking up coal from the tracks of the
company and was struck by a train
switching.
Racine-Directors of st. Luke's
hospital gave notice that I'M
less the institution shows a better
financial report during January it will
he oIoeod Al oDpooI hoe hocp Qant
to physicians requesting assistance
and the sending of some patients to
that institution ard not sending all to
st. Mary's hospital, which has been
crowded for months.
Madison, - Governor Davidson is
being pressed to grant pardon to
Harry Dunn of Portage, who was SEN
fenced to the penitentiary several
years ago after being implicated in a
quarrel in a South Milwaukee saloon
IN which the proprietor was killed.
Madison. = Secretary of State
Frear was served with notice
of an election contest by X. K.
Hagestad against Peter Melton, who
were candidates for the office of as
semblyman from Trempealeau coun-
ty in the recent election.
Scandinavia - Fire destroyed a
building Mt lola and badly dam
aged a bowling alley in a building
near by. BY hard fighting it was held
10 the two buildings. Assistance was
sent from here. The loss will not be
great.
Racine. = The threatened strike
at Racine college is ended, as
on the eve of their Christmas va
cation the cadets were informed that
the faculty had accepted the resigna-
ton of the military instructor who
reduced First Lieutenant
Brandt to the ranks for a slight In
fraction of the rules and afterward
gave him a severe drubbing.
Platteville. = The population OF
Grant county, is ASP, as
compared with 3,340 in 1900 and 2,740
In 1890.
Waukesha. = Miscreants entered
the basement of the First Con-
church here and after
strewing the church silverware and
table and cooking utensils about, en-
joyed a lunch from viands in the pam
try which they prepared on the range
in the kitchen. Nothing Of value was
The Office of the Henk
Mineral Spring company was also
entered but nothing taken.
Kenosha.- Schwan, for
merly president Of the Kenosha
county board, was seriously burned
in gas explosion here. Not
ing the odor of gas in the house,
he went to the Placement to discover
the leak. He was bsnding over the
meter when his wife struck match
and a terrific explosion followed.
Mrs. Schwan escaped uninjured.
Waupaca. = The Farmers State
bank of Waupaca viii open for
business on January ! with capital
of $4,000. Its president is J Rosholt,
vioe-president, K. RosAnlt; cashier, N.
J. Nyhus, and George Skinner, as
sistant cashier.
Milwaukee. - The decreased cost
of dying has become so marked
that living soon will bsscme absolute
fy necessary. Fearing this, the So
cialist administration is planning to
establish a municipal cemetery. The
city engineer has ma9s surveys OF
land near the city limits Tor the bury.
ing ground
Madison. - For the third time
Prof. M. v. O'Shea Of the de-
partment of education has been hon.
cred by being placed at the head OF
the American committee OF the in
tern ational congress on childhood and
youth.
Misunderstanding an adjustment
with the contractors, fifteen struc-
tural workers employed on the
- .ao;toI h,,sld{1O Uho Sfr1-rk for