The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-08-03
News Notes of Wisconsin

Madison. --Twenty-se out Of
over sixty candidates passed the ex-
animation recently conducted here by
the state board of law examiners.
They are: C.. w. Babcock, Charles
o. BeIgemer, c. w. Bradford, Joseph
P. Callan, A. l.. Devils, John p. Don
nelly, Alfred e. Fem, w. w. Hitler,
Frank Jennings, f. c. 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; j. w.
Frenz, r. w. Mabel, Baraboo; G. G.
Kempley, Packwaukee: r. II. 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
precedents 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.- Wisconsin Auc-
tioneer's association elected as presi-
dent, o. e. Allison of Kingston: vice
president, Will Ebbe Of Marshfield;
secretary-treasurer, j. II. 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 to
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. d.
recting that its poles in that city be
removed and the wires placed under
ground.
Baraboo. --,Advices from Washing.
ton state that President Taft ha,
nominated Frank E Schultz to be
postmaster at this place.
Observation-Disclosures have been is
sued by the postoiiice department for
the establishment of postal savings
banks In Milwaukee and nine other
large cities Of the country by Sept. /
Figures showing the gross receipts OF
the Milwaukee Office to have been 81 ;.
506,3S4 during Lal0 decided the de.
partment to establish a postal bank
here.
Sheboygan. No arrests have a,
yet been made In the Sexton murder
case and the officers appear to hav,
! lost the trail of the suspect who Wal
| traced to Chicago.
Greenwood.-Lynn II. Miller, 6
wealthy lumberman OF Tacoma
Wash, has shipped a nagpole 16s
feet long to the Greenwood higi
school, from which he graduates
years ago. The pole tapers from
small base Of a inches to 4 inches
at the top Four fiat cars were re
| CURED to ship 1t from Tacoma
Fond du Lac,--Mrs. J O. irish
who was bitten by dog sufferin,
| with rabies, has been sent to th,
Pasteur institute at Madison for
| treatment, The police will shoot
rnmuzzled dogs on sight.
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