The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-12-19
WISCONSIN NEWS
TERSELY TOLD

La Crosse-Peter Helm was found
planned to celebrate his fftieth BIRTH
day anniversary.
Baraboo-John Kramer of Green
field sold 720 pound hog for s50.40.
| twenty-five years ago a hog Of this
weight would have sold for $20.S0.
Grand Rapids-The breaking of a
high tension transmission line carrying
1000 volts caused the instant death OF
Samuel Zdnok
Manitowoc.-Rev William Reynolds,
who resigned as pastor of the Episco-
pal church here, will become assistant
rector Of ST. Peters church at Balti-
more.
Rhinelander-Bish Weller has ac-
cepted the resignation of Archdeacon
James Madison Johnson of Rhineland-
er, who has accepted call to the
Church of the Redeemer at Elgin, III.
Necedah.-Miss Beatrice Liver
nash, seventeen years old, died as
the result of taking an accidental
dose Of acid. Suffering from tooth
ache, she intended to take a mouthful
of wine and took the wrong bottle.
Racine-An old Rookery in the
downtown district was condemned by
the fire chief. 1t was once the
residence of Senator Doolittle and
sheltered Abraham Lincoln over
night.
Fond du Lac.-Charles Koschnick,
twenty years old, Of Eden, was
designated as champion corn grow
er of Wisconsin by Prof. c. p.
Norgard, Judge at the Fond du Lac
corn and grain show. Koschnick raised
1873 bushels SO pounds of corn on one
acre.
Wautoma.-Theodor eight-year-old
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. T. Songe,
west Of this village, drowned while
skating on a small pond On his faith
ers farm. There were several other
small children on the ice at the time
and when young Songe broke through
they became frightened and ran.
Ashland.-Poval Jasurda, a twen-
ty-one-year-old farmer living near
Phillips. went to the village and
boarded logging train, intending to
try to get a job in a lumber camp. He
fell from car and was fatally injured,
dying before he could reach an Ash
land hospital.
Marinette.-A. Herring, aged fifty
five, was killed and Mrs. X. For
binski and her daughter were seri-
ousIy injured when a horse ran away
with the two last named. The horse
mounted a sidewalk and the buoy
struck a ladder on the top of which
Herring was painting his home. The
woman were hurled to the sidewalk.
Shawano.-W. L. Eslein, secre-
tary of the Shawano chamber of
commerce and manager of the Credit
Protective association, died of pneu-
monia contracted while searching for
| the bodies of Charles StoeStz and
| George McEachron, Milwaukee men
who drowned in Shawano lake in Oc-
tober.
Madison-That insanity can be
traced directly to heredity in 29.4
per cent. of the 878 original ad-
missions tc the Mendoza state hos
pital during the last biennial period
is a conclusion drawn from the re-
port of the superintendent, Dr. Charles
Gorst. OF the S7S cases 275 had one
or more relatives who were insane.
Waupaca-Rev William r. Brown,
seyenty-fve years old, a veteran
of the Twenty-frst Wisconsin in
fantry in the Civil war and for ten
years postmaster at the Wisconsin
Veterans home, died He also acted
as chaplain of the home for many
years and had been well known as a
temperance lecturer. His body will
be buried at New Richmond by the
side OF that of his wife
Janesville.-Three Stoughton boys,
all under seventeen years of age,
who ran away from home because
they were required to sign a pledge
not to use tobacco, were captured by
GAINESVILLE police and returned to their
homes. The boys, Harry Doolittle,
Harold Drotnigg and Arrow Solgraa.
are all sons of prominent business men
at Stoughton. They had been able to
collect $37 among them for their wan
behring's. The anti-smoke order was
perpetrated by the high school princi-
pal
Appleton. = The funeral Of the
late mayor, DR.. James V. Cana
van, was held from ST. Mary's church,
Father Fftzmaurice officiating. The
Knights of Columbus. Catholic
Knights, Foresters, the Outagamie
County Medical society and city Off
Gals attended in a body Details from
the fire and police departments acted
as escorts. There are several candi-
dates mentioned for the vacancy. The
council will probably designate a day
ton viii be held in January. Under
the new law the mayor will receive
| only $4,000 instead of $500, the sal
airy which Doctor Caravan received,
there having been a cut in cities OF
this size under the commission form.
Milwaukee.-Prof John NJ. Coul-
ter of Chicago university declared
In lecture here that Cugenics is prac-
tically a failure, saying: Voluntary
selection plays 8 more important part
In the laws of heredity than anything
eugenics has yet dreamed Of" he said,
and asserted that a consonance OF
sympathies takes precedence in i'm
portance over other acknowledged
abilities and determining factors.
Speaking of tendencies to insanity, he
cold fbot uboy-or- both porc0fc noma