The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-02-09
NelUs Notes of Wisconsin

sion Will not bar the United States
fishing steamer Curlew from Wiscon-
sin waters unless proof of the charges
laid before the state commission that
the United States authorities were
depicting Wisconsin waters of game
fish and sending them to other sec
tons of the country is presented. A
number of La Crosse and other Mis-
sissippi river sportsmen joined in the
request to bar the federal steamer.
Madison.-The few county clerks,
who still refuse to send poll lists to
the secretary Of state, face a manda-
mus action in court or trial before
the governor for malfeasance in Of
flee, according to an opinion by At
torney General Bancroft. Further
more, the state need not pay fee for
the lists which are needed to supply
addresses of voters to whom the state
political pamphlet will be sent next
August.
Madison.-The executive commit
tee Of the LaFollette Republican
club of Wisconsin at a meeting here
selected Gov. f. E. McGovern, Con-
gresham l. l.. Lenroot, Superior;
former Secretary of State w. l..
Houser, Mondovi, and Alvin P.
Kletzsch, Milwaukee, as candidates
for LaFollette delegates from the
state at large to the national Repub-
lican convention to be held in Chi
cago next June.
Racine.-A jury in the case of Mrs
Manoni McNear against the Mitchell
Lewis Motor company, brought in a
verdict for the plaintiff in the sum
of $4,000 damages. Frank McNear,
husband of the plaintiff in the case,
was foreman of the Mitchell-Lewis
Motor company and when ovens in
the annealing room exploded McNear
was killed.
Washington, d. C.-Representa-
tive Konop has designated Walter
Anderson, Marinette, principal, Ed
mund Burke, Green Bay, alternate,
for the naval academy appointment;
Louis A. Deceive, Depere, principal;
Charles Butler, Brussels, first alter
nate, and Joseph Yak, Sturgeon Bay,
second alternate, for the military
academy.
Washington, d. C.-Representa-
tive Esch was chosen as chairman of
the Wisconsin delegation in the
house at a meeting held in the office
of Representative Davidson. Repre-
sentative Konop was elected secre-
tary.
La Crosse.-The question of
whether or not Ia Crosse will hold
it's interstate fair next September
will be decided by the business men
of the city. The total receipts last
year were $4,000.
Waukesha.-Fire, said to have
been caused by a plumber who was
thawing a water pipe, in the Foun-
tain inn, caused loss of $4,000. The
guests escaped with their belongings.
Grand Rapids. VoIkoner.
an employe Of the Consolidated
Power and Paper company, commit
ted suicide by taking carbolic acid.
Madison. Senator John Donald of
I1Oi GU do ClSCI0u- PRESIDENT
of the Wisconsin Country Life as
ISOLATION at the closing session of the
second annual country life confer
ence held under the direction of the
College of Agriculture at the uni
versity. Seven hundred farmers from
all parts of the state attended.
Manawa.-The Little Wolf mills.
which for the last forty years has
been a landmark in this section of
the country, caught fire from the ex-
plosion of lantern in the hands of
the owner, P. K. Smith, and was
burned.
Milwaukee.-Dav D. Cooke. aged
30, local manager of the American
Express company, was instantly
killed by falling four floors down the
elevator shaft at the Hotel Pfster
Both legs and both arms were broken
and his skull was fractured by the
fall
Menasha.-Fred P. Downing. chief
inspector of weights and measures.
found some Menasha merchants were
short weighing their customers from
3 to 20 per cent with oottomless
measures and liquid quarts A num-
Der of scales and measures were con-
6scated and destroyed.