The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-05
NetDs Notes of Wisconsin

NISSA Day "A party VI t"ShI"
five narrowly escaped being serious
ly injured and some perhaps being
killed when broken rail caused the
wreck of a Wisconsin and Michigan
logging train in the vicinity of Wau-
saukee. Three cars were thrown in
to a ditch and Conductor Perceh was
badly cut and bruised.
Madison.-The Southern Wiscon-
sin Railway company granted the in
crease in wages demanded by the
der the new agreement will be:
First year, 16 cents; second year, 8
cents; third, fourth and fifth years,
20 cents; sixth year and thereafter,
% cents.
La Crosse Engaged all day
Christmas carrying messages of good
will and glad tidings, the last tele-
gram Frank Rimmert, a IL year old
messenger, was called upon to de-
liver was one conveying to his moth
er the news of his sisters death in
Mason City. Ia.
w DcluB COuSht lO1
over year by the Marathon county
sheriff on a warrant charging for
gerry, Irving Alderman, a Wausau
boy, was discovered serving a SEN
tence in the prison at Waupun for
burglary, having been committed
from La Crosse.
Green Bay.-Fire broke out at the
Green Bay hospital and James Kerr.
former collector of customs, and
other patients had to be carried
across the street out of danger
About $4,000 damage was done
Waukesha.-A mail pouch was
stolen from the 500 depot and robbed
of it's contents, part of which was
found in an icehouse later. The
mail was from Madison and vicinity
and was unimportant.
Madison.-Frank d. Reed. for
seventeen years deputy clerk and
court reporter of the United States
circuit and district courts for the
western district of Wisconsin, has re-
signed to practice law
IIC ui0L ain udt IUdu
school of the Wisconsin highway
commission will be held in the cap
itol February 1916. Moving pic
lures will show various road con-
struction processes.
Madison.-Receipt at the postof
flee here for stamps and envelopes,
for the six days preceding Christ
mas, were s7,272.9S, or an increase
of $3.50 a day over the same period
in 1910.
dgeville.-Thomas James, aged
72, native of Dodgeville, died on
Christmas day after few weeks i'll
ness. His was the fourth death of
prominent citizens within one week.
Shawano--While attending Wit
tenberg academy, Leo Krause of this
city and Martha Luebke of Bonduel
were bitten by mad dog and are
in Madison for treatment.
Janesville.-Thomas o. Birkness.
aged Ga years, of Orfordville. is dead
of fractured skull sustained in a
fall down stairs.
NIL Wduheo.-A movement for
holding corn, grain and alfalfa
show in the Auditorium within a few
weeks has been launched by Secre-
tary Cannon of the Citizens Bust
ness league. The exploitation of
northern Wisconsin as an agricul-
tural section is prime motive of the
enterprise.
manifestation men of Mari
nette and Menominee have been bun
coed out of several hundred dollars
by two strangers who took orders for
whiskey which they said was at Mil
waukee and obtained advances on
each purchase.
Green Bay.-Representatives of
the Field museum of Chicago have
closed negotiations with Miss Clara
Schuette to acquire the plant col
lection of the late ]. H. Schuette, a
botanist of note and a member of
nearly every scientific society of this
and foreign countries. His herbarium
consists of 10000 specimens.
Marinette.-Whilea acting as Santa
Claus at school entertainment at
Lena, Oconto county, Joseph Koz-
lowsky was seriously burned. His
robes caught fire from candles. Koz-
Iowsky ran out of the building and
averted panic.