The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-10-03
WISCONSIN NEWS.
TERSELY TOLD

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near Fosterville, and died on North
western train while being conveyed to
| the hospital.
Waussu.-Marathon county towns
| and villages have voted s70,017.50
| for 1914 road improvements. Equal
sums from the county and state
will make the total s210,052.50. Al
most every town in the county made
an appropriation.
Msdison.-Principa A. B. Cooke
| of the Howe school at Superior
nag been appointed inspector of day
schools for the deaf by State Superin.
tendent Cary, succeeding A. j. Whine.
who has joined the faculty of the Mil.
waukee normal school.
Superior-Crazed by the absence
u his wife, which he believed
proved her faithlessness, Ole Sjodin
| dock worker, enticed the woman
| back home from the house to which
she had gone ten days ago and, after
cutting her throat with his pocket
knife, put a bullet through his temple.
falling dead on top of her body.
Chippewa Falls.-Speed Johnson OF
Indianapolis died from injuries
sustained in MOTORCYCLE race
at the northern Wisconsi~. state fair.
J He was speeding near tn iop' Of the
motordrome track when t. p rear tire
of his motorcycle burst, throwing him
Aeadlong to the bottom Of the course.
Milwaukee-'Tts only a vacation
rom housekeeping" declared Mrs
| David S. Rose, known to mu-
cical comedy, as Mary Glosz, prima
donna of Merry Widow fame, on the
! eve of her departure for a concert
our in grand opera and classic Tum-
3ers. Mrs. Rose is the wife of David
8. Rose, five times mayor, and says
after her vacation, she will return to
housekeeping here.
Superior.-The Lake Superior Lii
brary association was organized
here. Librarians and library board
members from northern Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota attended. The Of
ffcers are: c.. s. Sunderland, Superior,
president; Miss Frances Erhart, Du-
iuth, vice-president; Miss c. Senenloy,
assistant secretary; Mrs. N. NJ. Green
wood, Washburn. treasurer. The next
meeting Will be in Ashland in Septem-
| Der, 1914.
Racine.-F7red WorsIey, a we'll
known farmer Of Mt. Pleasant,
and brother of George Worsley, known
Throughout the state during the cam
paign of the Prohibition party, was
| killed by a train on the Chicago & Mil
Waukee electric line. Worsley was on
his wagon, driving home, and in cross
ing the line Of the Chicago & Milwau-
llee electric line near the orphan asy-
lum, failed to observe a southbound
train.
Oshkosh.-Robert Lutz sustained a
loss of $4,000 by fire in a
large stock barn and contents, includ;
ing a big crop of oats and other grains.
| The barn sheltered forty horses used
in stone quarry work, but these were
saved by neighbors. The barn was To-
Gated at the city limits and the de.
| partment could use but one line of
nose, pumping water from the quarry
pit by an antique fire engine. Two
mules and prize boar persisted
Beloit.-Harry Edward Chapman of
Saskatoon, Canada, was arrested
at BeIoit after a 1,500-mile flight
from his home city in vain
effort to keep in his possession his lit
tie three-year-old adopted daughter
Madelaine. Chapmans wife left him
III the dominion city several weeks
ago, it is alleged, and in the resulting
domestic tangle Chapman said he gave
up the adoption papers which gave
him the claim to the child. Chapman
is charged with smuggling the child
into this country.
La Crosse.-Alphonso W. Jones
travelling from Minneapolis to Chi
cago, was, overcome by thirst when
his train passed through La Crosse.
In his suitcase was some whisky, and
Jones helped himself literally. The
conductor brought this to the atten-
ktion of the station police and Jones
was taken to central police station for
violation of the Wisconsin law which
forbids drinking of liquor on day
| coaches of trains. In court Jones
journey was further interrupted by
sentence Of ten days to the county
jail.
La Crosse.-While walking in the
woods near Fountain City, Her
man Pulitzer, proprietor of the Eagle
hotel, stumbled over a bar Of metal
one foot long and four inches square,
which is believed to be bar of pure
gold worth $4,000 1t has been sent
to the state university at Madison for
assay. About twenty-three years ago
a Burlington express car en- route
from Seattle TO Philadelphia, with q
shipment of sold, was robbed near Vic
tory, and at the time the robbers were
said to have hidden their loot near
Fountain City
Neenah.-Joseph Hart and Thomas
Kennedy, both held for an attempt to
waylay and rob- have been bound over
to appear in municipal court, on Sep
TENDER %.
Sparta.-There will be a meeting
o. the state vice commission at
Madison Saturday, September p.
Howard Teasdale, chairman of the
commission, says: Our first steps will
be to send circular letters to city Off.
Gals asking them about the white
slave situation. 1t is probable that we
will first take up the problem in the