Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-01-17
SEEN AND HEARD
In WISCONSIN

La Crosse.-In an address here
President Fassett A Cotton of
the La Crosse Normal school, former
superintendent of public instruction OF
indiana, declared that children are
starving midst of plenty because par
ents are ignorant of simple and nat
ural rules of nourishment There have
been hundreds of deaths of little ones
n Wisconsin says Doctor Cotton which
would never have occurred had par
snts known how to feed them.
Fond du Lac.-Accused of steal
Ing ticket and IA cents from
companion, Thomas Lemar is in jail
awaiting trial on the charge of lar
ceny. Lemar met Mike Steyens Ste
vens Was intending to go to Escanaba,
Mich. Stevens went to sleep in the
depot and when he awoke he found
that his train had gone and that Lee
mar was on it with his ticket Lemar
was arrested at Oshkosh and when ar
raigned waived preliminary examina-
ton
Racine-A Chicago & Milwaukee
Electric railway car struck 0
horse and wagon at the Asylum ave
nue. crossing and Jacob Sorenson of
Somers, Kenosha county, and Peter
Nelson, occupants of the wagon, were
hurled 30 feet. Sorenson was cut and
| bruised and was taken to the hospital
badly hurt, but Nelson escaped injury.
The wagon was wrecked and the horse
! escaped.
Leon.-Awakening al night to
! lind their home in flames, and bare
iy escaping in the bitter cold, was the
misfortune of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Van
Netten and grandson. Henry. They
saved only such clothing as they could
hastily gather up. They found refuge
with relatives mile distant.
Racine.-Thousand of bottles of
catsup were destroyed on the lake
shore A carload of the catsup was
seized, not conforming to the pure
food law.
Grand Rapids.-Ernest Eager, a
bartender, died while visiting with
other occupants of the saloon. He
was sitting near the stove, smoking
his pipe, and apparently in the best of
health. A wife and four children sur
vive him.
La Crosse.-Senator Otto Bosshard
has been elected president of the
State bank of Holmen Thomas joan
son, former assemblyman, is vice-pres-
ldent.
La Crosse.-DT. j. H. Mcdonald
an old and well known resident OF
this city, is dead, aged seventy years
When he was six he came with his
parents to Wisconsin, then a territory
It took them q days to come from Os-
wego to Milwaukee tv water, making
the trip in a sailing 5sel.
Madison.--The Wisconsin grain
and warehouse commission report
ed to State Treasurer Dahl that
the fees received during the last six
months amounted to $6,915. AS no re
turn had been made of the fees for the
preceding six months, the treasurer
requested that they also be turned in
Bangor.-As soon as Mrs. Dietz
gets the bail bond approved by
| the courts, John F. Dietz, defender
of Cameron DAM" now in Jail in
Sawyer county, will come to this vii
lage and make his home with mem.
bers of the Bangor Hunting club, who
furnished $22,500 of the bail, and
who for years have hunted deer from
the Dietz cabin. Three DietZ chill
dren are already temporarily housed
with families of the club members
Kenosha - The hearing of DR.
John B. Spaulding, health officer
who is charged with conspiracy in
connection with the alleged kidnapping
of child of Emily Humphrey OF
Kenosha, was concluded and the mag
istrate took the motion to hold
Spaulding for trial in the criminal
court under advisement.
Sheboygan.-The SocialDemocratiC
party in Sheboygan has drafted
a memorial to the state leg
islatur) requesting the enactment OF
a law providing for inspection of
methods of transportation of coal and
ore in the yards where tramways and
large pieces of dangerous machinery
are used
Madison.-The state railroad com
mission dismissed the petition
| of John Bruins, a commission mer
| chant Of La Crosse, to compel the La
| Crosse Gas and Electric company and
the La Crosse Telephone company, to
remove poles from his property to
allow the installation of switch
! track.
Madison.-The state railroad com
mission granted the petition OF
the Interurban Telephone company of
Sun Prairie, Waterloo and Lake Mills,
to increase its rates about 20 per
cent. This will bring the annual re-
ceipts up to $15,109
Fond du Lac.-Thirty employees
| in the lacking department at
| the Rueping Leather company's plant
went on strike demanding that they
receive more pay.
Wausau.-Wausau will probably
get a proposed municipal light
| ing plant if the state rate commission
will consent to the city operating it.
Eau Claire. - Fire in S. NJ.
! Greenbaum's cloak and suit emporium
caused damage to the stock to the
amount of about $4,000 Damage was
caused mostly by smoke. The build
ing, owned by H. w. Stocking of St
Paul, suffered about 1880 damage,
fully insured. The insurance on the
stock is not known.
Racine.-Tony Ruffalo, an italian
hotel keeper at Lakeside, lies
at local hospital in precarious con-
dition, suffering from three stilletto
wounds. He was lured down into a