Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-28
News Notes of Wisconsin.

Mayor Joseph Fisher,
president of the League of Wisconsin
Municipalities, has appointed a COM
mittee Of five to devise a plan for or
ganizing cities into mutual associa-
lions, carrying their own insurance.
The members of the committee are as
follows: H. e. Marquardt, comptroller
of Wausau; John Mulva, mayor of Osh-
kosh, Henry Stultz, Jr., mayor of Man
itowoc; A. ]. SoTenson, mayor of La
Crosse, and Peter Stoffel, alderman of
Racine
Madison. Losing her mind as the
result of being frightened at the uni
yersity Freshmen-Sophomor class
rush Oct. 8, Miss Othilda Tilch, aged
%, domestic, was committed to the
Mendoza asylum by County Judge Zim-
norman. The rush was the first one
she ever witnessed and when the stu
dents fought for the sacks she became
hysterical and since has been under
the impression that she was being per
secuted.
Milwaukee. -Pietro Manto, aged Is,
who came to this country from Italy
four months ago, was sentenced to
twelve years in Waupun prison by
Judge Backus, for shooting Napoleon
Lindsay, colored, with intent to kill.
Both men were street laborers.
Madison.-The five branches of the
Wisconsin Pea Gamers company,
against whom the industrial commits
sion lodged ninety-five counts for al
legged violation of the womens hours
of labor law, have filed notice with
Attorney General Owen that they will
admit the charge and await judgment
by the courts.
Madison. Work on the state capt.
tol is being delayed by strike of mar
BILE workers who want the question of
membership in the bricklayers union
decided
Eau Claire.-Andrew Nelson, aged
81, of Stanley, died in a hospital here
a few hours after he was brought from
an Ahnnibal lumber camp, where he
was crushed by falling tree.
Oshkosh-George H. Buckstaff rs
years old, retired lumberman, vet
eran of the civil war and former state
senator of Winnebago county, passed
away at his home here of infamma-
tory rheumatism, from which he had
suffered for many years.
La Crosse.-John Granlich, aged ID,
son of a farmer south of here, climbed
a tree in pursuit of a squirrel. Fifteen
feet above the ground he came in con-
tact with an electric wire and was
electrocuted
Racine.-AleX. Miller a prisoner in
the city lookup, probably succeeded in
an attempt to end his life when he
used a pair of suspenders to hang him
self in a cell
Green Bay.-While John Momaerts
was walking in the woods with a gun
over his back the weapon was acct
dentally discharged and tore away half
of his right leg.
Fond du Lac-Max Coll and Charles
Mack escaped from the county Jail by
saving through the bars. Coll was
being held for trial on a statutory of
Tense and Mack for embezzlement.
De Forest.-A fire destroyed $4,000
worth of property of the De Forest
Lumber company.
Madison.-The bonded debt of the
city now is $1,091, 500.
Oshkosh.-County Clerk John Fish
has issued $500 licenses to hunt
Oconto.-To stand in the middle Of
the track when trains were approach
ing was the unusual habit which
caused the arrest here of Truman
Sharply Sharply stopped about
dozen trains by standing on the tracks
and in several instances The engineers
succeeded in stopping their trains only
a few feet from the fellow.
Appleton - The commissioner Of
banking has taken possession of the
Mutual Loan and building association
of Appleton under authority granted
by the state law, in order 70 liquldate
the affairs of the association.