Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-08-11
NerUs Notes of Wisconsin

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e. Morgan and Deputy Sheriff August
Kloppman were wounded while at
tempting to arrest Jacob Coll, a
farmer, wanted on charge of steal
ing satchel from G.. S. Fuller of st.
Paul, cattle drover. Coll resisted
arrest and his wife joined him in his
fight. The woman, it is alleged, at
tackled the district attorney with a
Ratchet. Then she rushed into the
kitchen, where the officers found her
examining shells into shotgun. She
was shackled and placed in a buggy.
When the officers returned to the
house to take Coll into custody he
struck the deputy sheriff over the eye
with a hammer, jumped through a
window and took to the woods.
Madison.-The special legislative
committee, appointed during the last
session of the legislature to investi-
gate the alleged school book trust,
will hold it's first business meeting at
the Plankinton house, Milwaukee,
Sept. 1916. Assemblyman Thomas
Mahon, chairman Of the committee,
announces that he is sending out let
ters to school district officers and edu-
Gators Of the state asking for informa-
ton as to the number and character
of text books used and for opinions
on the merits of the various kinds.
Fond du Lac.-In an effort to Sc
cure the names, ages and addresses
of all persons who resided here in
the early days, the executive commit
tee of the Old Settlers club has re-
quested the public to supply the club
with the information sought 1t is
planned to have group picture of
the living pioneers taken at the an
nual meeting and picnic of the old
settlers to be held at the county fair
grounds on August "a.
Madison.-Gov.M cGovern has de-
cided that in the future unmarried
women appointed as notary publics
may not serve under their existing
commission after they are married,
but must apply for a new commission
under their married name.
Madison-Tony Ertl of Cedar
burg and Henry Heine of Reedsburg
have been appointed by Gov. Meow
ern as members of the state board
of barber examiners to succeed M. H.
Whitaker and Chas. L. Wehlitz, both
of Milwaukee, for two-year terms be-
ginning July 1, 1911.
La Crosse.-Mississipp river fish
ermen are organizing to start legal
action against government employees.
whom, the fishermen allege, are sein-
ing understood bass from the Miss
issippi river and shipping them east
to stock the streams and ponds of
eastern millionaires.
Madison. = Miss Iona Bergh,
daughter of M. C. Bergh, former
commissioner of banking, was mar
ried here to Arthur P. Jorgenson.
secretary of the Y NJ c.. A. at the
University Of Wisconsin.
William Mainland, aged
10, one of the oldest and most promi-
nent Scotchmen in Racine, was killed
at his farm in the town of Mount
Pleasant. He rose at o'clock and
cut corn, which he fed to the cattle.
In some way the cows knocked him
down and trampled him and his son
found him dead in the barnyard with
his breast crushed in and his ribs
broken.
Racine.-With hay bringing SIG a
ton, the highest price known in years,
farmers of the county are rushing
loads into the market here.
Waukesha.-Mrs. William Radkev
of Pewaukee, wife of a Milwaukee
road section foreman, upon arriving
at the pier after a steamboat ride.
stepped into the water, thinking that
the boat was nearer the pier. At the
time she fell she carried her infant
child in her arms. The two were re-
covered immediately. but Mrs. Radks
died without regaining consciousness.
Madison.-John MellisL, the bow
astronomer of Cottage Grove, is build
ing factory on the Mellish farm for
the manufacture of TELESCOPES. TO
tas already sold several