Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-21
STATE NEWS
In BRIEF


Powderly. to agree on plan of CO.
operation between state and federal
labor departments. Commissioner
Beck will on Friday of next week de-
liver an address on the work OF labor
bureaus in Wisconsin.
Superior. = Miss Florence Perrin,
society girl. has been ap-
pointed head of the woman's depart
ment of the state employment office,
a position created by the state indus
trial commission. She is the first TO
hold 1t. She will also act as state
inspector for all factories employing
women, will Issue children's labor per-
mits and enforce the law affecting
working hours for woman in Superior.
Madison.-Sixty-five Madison pub
lie school teachers have applied
for membership in the teachers
pension and retirement fund estab-
lished by the last legislature. or this
number about twenty are not Obliged
to apply for membership. being men,
bers by virtue of having taken up
teaching work after the law was
placed In operation: with older teach
ers it is optional
Madison.-Attorney NJ. C. Meade.
Plymouth, who is on the eligi-
BILE list for appointment as first as
sistant attorney general, held long
conference with Attorney General Ban
croft, and it is expected that his APP
pointment will be announced within
few days. Other candidates are: E.
E. Bossard, Columbus, and Charles
Lamb of this city. The position pays
$4,000 year.
Wausau.-The playing Of football
In Wausau won out. The coun-
Gil ordered drawn an ordinance pro-
hibiting the game some time ago. A
remonstrance of the high school ath-
letes was filed. At a meeting of the
council the vote on the passage OF the
ordinance stood tie and Mayor La
mont cast the deciding vote in favor
of football
Kenosha.-The annual convention
of the members of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary society of the
Methodist church of the Milwaukee
district of the Wisconsin conference
was held at Park Avenue church, In
this city. with 100 women represent
Ing as many different churches in the
district. Prominent mission workers
from this and other states delivered
addresses.
MarshfieId. Frank Getsinger.
twenty-three years old, a patient
at the Wood county asylum for the
chronic insane. committed suicide by
throwing himself head first into the
firebox under the asylum boiler. In
spite of fearful burns, he lived nearly
twenty-four hours after the accident.
Madison. = State Game Warden
Scholts has appointed fifteen adj
ditional deputies. most of whom will
be put into the counties where the
hunting season is open. He has is
sued $50 licenses to non-residents and
about 100, 600 to residents OF the state,
mostly in the deer country
Superior. Redmark of Deer
River, Mimi, was instantly killed
and his companion, Charles Lin
dab mi Urh IL
twelve miles from this city. They had
killed moose and were dressing it
when fired on by party of hunters
who mistook them for game.
Jefferson.-John Kiltz. a farmer
living east of this city, and who
recently finished sentence of
four months in the county jail in ad-
dition to the payment of fine of
$1,000 for having killed John Shan
non, cattle buyer shortly before
last Christmas, was adjudged insane
in the county court and committed to
the state hospital at Mendoza
Madison.-"It is my opinion that
John A. Johnson, who was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment at Wau-
pun for the murder of Annie Lem
berger, has been done a great injus-
tice, and | cannot help but feel that
certain circumstantial evidence in
connection with the case ought to be
cleared up" Rev. Daniel Woodward,
recently elected permanent warden of
the state prison at Waupun, made the
foregoing statement
Madison.-The 1911 session of
the Wisconsin legislature required
only one-third as many employees as
the session of 1901 and the average
cost for legislative clerical help has
been reduced As per cent. in the last
FIVE years, or since the installation
of the civil service system. These
facts are shown by the records of the
state civil service commission issued
by Secretary F. E. Doty.
Chippewa Falls. - The Wisconsin
state home for the feeblemind-
Ell, Will 1,tVb anu IVO RtACh0-
ants, was quarantined because of
6iphtheria which developed several
days ago. Two patients have died.
Miss Ruth Hoffman, an attendant, is
seriously i'll anG there is fear the cpl
demic will become general
Chippewa Falls. II. Kohler,
merchant Of Jim Falls. was arrested at
Cadott, charged with robbing the Oma-
ha depot at Jim Falls of $500. He
pleaded not guilty.
Eau Claire. Dennis Quirk. aged
fifty-seten, left the house OF
his niece, where he was board
ing. and disappeared. He left
his valuables IN the house. He had
been sick