Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-26
STATE NEWS

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Milwaukee.-The Wisconsin Sc
curities company has been organized
with capital of s1,0p0,000 for the
purpose of underwriting or assisting
the finances of business organizations
whose resources have not been suffi.
GENTLY developed to make their Sc
curities proper for the immediate in
Vestment of banks, trust companies.
or bond houses. At the outset the
company will undertake chiefly invest
ments in. public utilities IN Wisconsin.
Officers were elected as follows:
President, Clement c. Smith; vice
presidents. Oliver C. Fuller, William
Bigelow; secretary and treasurer
Howard Greene.
Madison. The membership of the
committee which will aid the STATE
Industrial commission in devisins
system of administration of the
new apprenticeship acts was appoint
ed as follows: Paul E. Thomas, witt
the Kempsmith company; ]. B. Bird
with the Power and Mining company
G. L. Sprague, with the Allis-Chalmers
company; A P. Smith, with the
Cream City Sash and Door company
and H. T. Redish, with the interior
Woodwork company, all of Milwaukee
The appointments were made by the
president OF the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' association. The report viii
be submitted to the commission.
Madison.-Although the state treas
ury is overlooking with cash the
state university has already Dor
rowed s142, 900, and has but about
200 left. The limit of its borrow
ing, under the law, is S150,000. and as
there are at least three more pay days
before the revenues from taxes be
gin to come in, the situation is likely
to be perplexing. The payments out
of the university account during the
last three months reached total G,
S5O5, 520.32
Superior = Unconscious, suffering
from a fractured skull and other
injuries, which are expected to
prove fatal, Well dressed, unknown
man, aged about thirty-five, was
picked up from beside the Omaha
tracks, south of Gordon. He had laid
practically all night on the ice and
snow 1t is thought he was attempt
ing to beat his way on south-bound
freight and slipped off.
itowoc.-Because Captain Fow-
Ter of a well-known steamer line
is six feet nine inches tall and is
forced to stoop to enter the cabin of
his vessel and cannot occupy it with
comfort, a special cabin will be con-
structed. Captain Fowler comes from
Montague, Mich, and is said to be one
of the tallest vessel captains on the
lakes.
Oshkosh.-At the state grange
convention President George r..
Schaefer of Appleton said that
there was nothing more effective than
the study of the principles OF agricut
ture in establishing universal peace.
Good roads, live grange and tele-
phone are necessary to keep the
young people on the farm, he said.
r. ppleton.-Ernest Schneider, Lang
lade county. pleaded guilty to
murder in the second degree, ad-
hitting that he killed Joseph Schad-
maier, formerly of Appleton, on a
farm near Amigo last week, when he
struck him with an ak in a drunken
quarrel He was sentenced to 20
years in the penitentiary at Waupun.
Green Bay.-Use of stereopticon
pictures to aid in teaching school
children Christian doctrine, geog-
raphy and catechisrl was urged
by Rev. F. X. Barth of Stephenson,
Mich, in an address given before the
priests of the Green Bay diocese.
Madison.-In an effort to en-
force the ten-hour law for women,
the industrial commission OF Wiscon-
sin has issued a special appeal for
early Christmas shopping, suggesting
that buyers cut those merchants
who do not live up to the law.
Ashland.-Assertin that his wife
had been insulted by Thomas
Prues, Alvin Davis of Rhinelander
knocked down Prues, fracturing his
skull. PTues died six hours later. Da-
Wis is a professional boxer.
Manitowoc.-Through mirror on
the wall Miss Ruth Zeger witnessed
the entrance of burglar into
her mothers home and saw him make
away with a purse containing money
and jewels. Before she could recover
from her fright and give an alarm he
had escaped.
Viroqua. = A Greenwood farmer,
who saw that neighborhood
young man was paying tender atten-
ton to the farmers daughter, re-
quired the Iove-sick swain to husk