Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-12-08
Ne.Os Notes of Wisconsin

Baraboo.-F1oyd, the 14-year-old
son of Charles Carpenter of this city,
who has been missing since last sum-
| mer, was found at Iowa Falls, la. A
| constant search for the boy has been
kept up since his disappearance, and
even ciairvoyants have been called
| upon to help. One OF them declared
| that the boy was working for an
| uncle in Dallas, Tex. and all the
others that his body was at the bot
tom of the Baraboo river. The father
learned of the whereabouts of the
lad through an advertisement with
| photo of the little fellow that was
| placed in a paper and was seen by an
Iowa Falls resident.
Superior.-Two hundred men, des-
perate from hunger and in need of
the necessities of life, fought in front
OF local stevedore office here for
four jobs. Three of the tickets had
been dealt out when the demand for
the remaining one became so clam
orous that the agent in charge threw
the fourth one in the air above the
mems heads. AS it fell the 200 men
fought desperately to gain posses
sion of it.
Racine.-The palatial residence of
Frank l.. Mitchell, millionaire wagon
manufacturer, was entered by sneak
| thieves, who gained entrance through
| the front door, which had been left
unlocked, and walked boldly up
stairs, where they picked out dia-
| mond rings and other costly jawelry,
valued at $4,000
Sheboygan.-An interurban car
on the Plymouth extension of the
| Sheboygan Railway & Electric COM
pany collided with city car and the
front of the city car was wrecked.
Both cars were filled with workmen,
several of whom received more or
less serious injuries. All were badly
| shaken up.
Madison.-Dr. Meanwell, director
of the gymnasium, who will have
! charge of the University OF Wiscon-
sin basketball coaching this season,
has announced that in case the Bad
ger quintet won the conference
championship this year he would ar
range a series of games with the east
| ern title winners.
Racine.-Charles Scott, waiter,
27 years old, and John Leonard
structural iron worker, 26 years old,
both of Chicago, have been sentenced
to three years at Waupun for
forgery.
Marinette.-Frank Sillman, secre-
| h.
and Marinette Paper company, was
arrested on complaint of a state in
spector and fined SO and costs on a
charge of working girls twelve hours
day, in violation of law.
Port Washington.-Peter Weld
| Ike, the keeper of the Cedarburg
| Plank road toll gate, was found dead
| at his post at an early morning hour.
He had succumbed to apoplexy.
| Neenah.-William Houston, for
merly of Neenah, has entered grand
| opera, making his first appearance in
"Quo Vadis' on Nov. 10, at the Lon
! don opera house.
| Green Bay.-While switching load
! ed cars in the vicinity of Waukesha,
| Conductor Porter of the Wisconsin
| Northwestern railway was perhaps
fatally hurt when fatcars loaded
with logs came down steep grade
| and crashed into a caboose and en-
CINE. One car was derailed and
| hurled about twenty feet. Louis
| Edlbeck. one OF the carsmiths in the
! caboose. was also badly injured, hav-
ing two legs broken and being badly
| bruised about the body. The caboose
| is reported to have been thrown at
such angles by the force of the i'm
pact that it was hung on a tree.
Kenosha- Mrs. Emma McDer-
mott, aged go years, widow of Col.
Hugh McDermott, one of the most
distinguished of Wisconsins civil
war soldiers, is dead. She followed
her husband into the camp and on
the field of battle and personally
ministered to soldiers of the Seven.
teenth Wisconsin regiment.
Neenah.-Mrs. Adeline Merry OF
this city has started suit for $4,000
against the lighting company OF
Waukesha. Her husband was cleo
trocuted on pole while working for
the cOrnnanv She alleges the wiree