The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-10-24
BADGER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD


caught a gray eagle in q trap
which measured IA feet from tip to
tip.
Madison.-Work on the state cap
itol is being delayed by strike OF
marble workers, who want the ques-
ton of membership in the bricklayers
union decided.
Madison-The new wing of the
state historical library, which is to
house the university collection, will be
opened by January l. Trouble with
contractors has delayed the building
several months.
Baraboo - While G. F. Trussell
was driving with his family a re-
port of gun was heard and their
horse dropped dead, shot through the
heart A hunter shooting at small
game fired the shot.
Madison.-Since the workmen's
compensation act went into eff
feet two years ago, 5.074 cases have
been disposed of. Employers paid
S28S,1 indemnity to injured work
men or their dependents.
Sheboygan.-A majority of the
synod OF the northwest of the Ger
man Reform ! church, and also a ma
iority of the board Of trustees, favor
the removal of the Mission House
Theological seminary from Franklin
to Sheboygan. This is the statement
of Rev, w F. Horstmeier Of this city,
one of the leaders of the denomina-
ton.
Racine.-All passenger trains on
the Milwaukee division of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul
| railway switched onto the Northwest
ern tracks at Racine, owing to bad
wreck north Of Corliss, due to a box
car in the center of freight train
| jumping the rails and causing fifteen
| other cars to pile up in the ditch
blocking traffic No one was hurt.
La Crosse.-John Peterson, pioneer
| indian trader, whose influence
with the redskins saved La Crosse
! from a massacre in 1864, died in Min
| neapolis. Peterson was known to the
! indians as Pedes-One Arm. He in
| terrupted a war dance on Barron 6
island in the Mississippi just before
the Indians not to carry out their in
tention of attacking La Crosse.
Marinette.-Gustev V. Tutas. q
blacksmith of Pound, this coun-
! ty believes he has discovered the
long lost art of tempering copper
That tempering copper was known by
some tribe of American Indians has
been proved by occasional finds of In
dian implements which have been
| tempered. Tutas has tempered piece
OF copper SO hard that file makes nc
impression on it. He is having the
process patented.
Eau Claire.-Mrs William Bish-
op, ffty-fve years old, was
burned to death and her husband Sc
verely injured when Mrs. Bishop drop
ped a lighted kerosene lamp. The
house was slightly damaged. Mrs
Bishop was downstairs when the acci
dent occurred. Her clothing became
her husband was sleeping. He tried
TO extinguish the flames with his
hands, but his efforts were futile. Mrs
Bishop died in the ambulance.
Eau Claire.-"God help my little
ones, and may they never know
the sorrow their mother has had,
were the last words of Mrs. William
Crowley, aged thirty. as she lapsec
into Inconsistencies after taking {
fatal dose of strychnine at a hotel
She died while being taken to the hos
pital. She took the poison while seat
ed with her husband at a table eating
dinner. Before dying she told those
standing near that she wanted TO die
because of trouble with her husband
Waukesha.-Mrs c. A. Maynard
Milwaukee, was reelected presi
dent of the Woman's Synodical Mis-
sionary society at the forty-second an
nual convention which has closed IL
Waukesha. Other officers are: FRS
| vice-president, Mrs William Fitzger
aid, Milwaukee; recording secretary
Miss Frances Welle3, Milwaukee; cor
responding secretary, Mrs. H. A vii
son, Milwaukee; treasurer, Mrs. A. G
Weissert. Milwaukee. The final meet
ing was devoted to the subject of for
eign missions.
La Crosse.-When Title Witt
kie, employe of w E Barber
| laundry man, noticed wad of papel
in the toe of a sock which came iatt
the laundry, she shook it out into ;
waste paper basket Then Miss Witt
kie glanced down and saw that wha
she had shaken out of the sock was
roll of bills amounting to $50. The
property was identified as belonging
to Victor Foote. Rushford, Mimi. ant
restored to him after he had authorized
a liberal reward to the laundry girl.
Fond du Lac-The Fond du La;
police station was placed undel
quarantine as the result Of a case Q
diphtheria and police headquarter
have been transferred to the count,
jail until the patient can be remove:
, TO a plague hospital and the station
fumigated The patient is Daniel West
lake of Auburn. n Y. who entered th'
station complaining he was i'll. Thu
health officer diagnosed the case a
diphtheria. Westlake is being care,
for by George Porter Of Milwaukee
! Westlake came here from the south
| ern part of the state and it is fearet
has exposed many to the disease
Kenoshe.-Victor Hikowitz, a Rus
sian ffty-two years ole, died a
| the Kenosha hospital as a result of in