The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-09-05
STATE
HAPPENINGS

| city, gain of 90 over the 1912 figures.
Galesville-Rey Thomas Deane of
Trempealeau has designed and con
structed a cake eight feet in height TO
be shown at the county fair here
Eau Claire.-Emmet Fahn, sixty
years old. of Bloomer, crawled into
| the hay in barn on Walter
| Coughs farm, fell to the floor and died
| from broken neck.
| Observation-Disclosures and Schenken-
berg, proprietors of machine shop
| here, have invented self-starter for
automobiles which is being given a
try out on the city's fire apparatus.
| Racine.-Mrs. Elsie Sorenson is
suing her husband for $4,000 which she
| alleges he took from her through
! fraudulent quit claim deed
StOughton.-Dr. David Culham, NJ.
! G. Gerard, Paul Johnson and James ".
| Hunall OF this city won ribbons at the
Rock county fair at the poultry depart
| ment at Evansville.
Menominee.-The city council has
passed an ordinance prohibiting must
| cal instruments of any kind being
| nected with a saloon
Neenah.-There are fully d dozen
| candidates for the office Of city clerk
| here. The vacancy was caused by the
| appointment Of j. P Heating to the
| postmastership
Fennimore.-Will Hugh and
| John Meikle have arrived at their
| home in the town OF Livingstone from
Japan, where their parents are mis-
sionaries. They made the trip alone.
De Pere-Mr. and Mrs. John Coenen
of this city have renewed their mar
rage vows on the sixtieth anniversary
Of their wedding.
Birchwood.-G A Freitag of this
city narrowly escaped being killed by
a meteorite which dropped to the
earth at his feet.
Observation-Disclosures OF the con
gregation of the Sacred Heart
church at Sun Prairie are arranging
celebration in honor of the sixtieth
anniversary of the founding of the
| church.
Ladysmith.--The city of Ladysmith
! is about to issue $4,000 of small de-
nomination certificates for the purpose
! of extending water mains and sewers
and the erection OF water tower and
the drilling of a well.
| Madison.-Four employment agen-
cies have already been licensed under
| the new law which requires the pay
| ment of license fee of $25 except in
cities in which the state has free en-
| ployment agencies, when the fee is
| 500
Portage-Auto thieves entered the
| garage of J. A Carroll here and stole
his car valued at $500 They were
traced to Baraboo and Wonewoc. Off
| GERS say two youths Of about Is years
were last seen in the car.
Beloit.-Jones, alias Elman Owen,
was taken to the state reformatory
at Green Bay to serve a fouryear
term for enticing Catherine Nc
| Gayock, daughter of wealthy rail
road contractor here, from her home.
They went to Rockford, H., where
| they were married.
Appleton.-Martin Christjohn, an
Oneida Indian accused of assault
ing his wife with an ak and in
flicting injuries about the head that it
was feared would result fatally, plead
| ed guilty in municipal court here and
was sentenced to one year i'll state
| prison. He was taken to Waupun.
Racine Joseph Rabetosa and
| Ross Geriasse, Italians, employed
| on the Northwestern road. were
robbed Of over 81 900, their savings Of
| five years, by fellow worker, who en-
tered their box car home and rified
| their savings box. They found him
! leaving the car, but after fight he
| escaped with the money.
Marinette. - Copies Of the new
militia law, received from the ad-
| jutant generals office, show that the
| office Of the quartermaster general in
| the Wisconsin National Guard, held
| since La Follette's first term as COVER
nor by Cen Joshua Hodgins, Mari.
! nette. has been abolished. He received
salary of $1,000 annually, although
there was no work connected with it.
Wausau-The body OF Mike Mosie-
wenski, an employe of the Wau-
sau Paper Mills company at Brokaw,
who disappeared last week, was found
! floating in the Wisconsin river at Bro
kaw. A coroner's jury returned YER
dict of accidental drowning. The de-
ceased had attended q dance the night
before and probably fell from the dam
In an attempt to cross the river.
Fond du Lac-Lester c. Busch
# Bristol, Tenn. who has had
eight years experience as an expert
in community promotion. was elected
secretary of the Fond du Lac Business
| Mems association, an organization
with more than 400 members. Mr..
| Busch who has been identified with
the commercial organizations of La
Grange, Ga, Gadsen, Ala, Mount Yer
non, n. Y, and Bristol Tenn. viii as
sumo his new duties here on Octo-
Der g.
Richland Center.-According to the
| statement Of assessments for Rich
land county, there is ST.. 1929. 617 worth
Of real and personal property in the
county as compared with 81 ,165, 800
last year
Madison-Judge E. Ray Steven
issued an order on State Treasur-
er Henry Johnson for the return to
the Northern Trust company of Chi
| oooo ~ S100 000 in government bonds