Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-06-05
State Notes In Brief

Waukesha.-Fre W. Slawson, 81
register of deeds Of waukesha county,
died from injuries received when run
down by a motorcycle driven by Chas.
Stubs. 81, town of Pewaukee. Mr.
Slawson received two fractures OF the
leg, one OF the arm and fracture Of
the skull. Stubs was arraigned to-
night charged with assault regardless
of human life, and released under
$4,000 bonds.
Beloit.-The city OF Beloit, by new
contract with the water, gas and cleo.
trio light company, gets q reduction in
the price of street lights. All night
lamps will cost $50 a year, instead OF
$50 as in the past, and o'clock lights
will be $50, instead of $50 a year. The
saving to city win be $4,000 year.
Madison. Gov McGovern and Pres
ident Van IIise were the principal
speakers at an alluniversity outdoor
cbnvocation here as a part of the cam.
paign waged against campus cutting
by students. Both win talk on Beau
tifying the Campus"
thorne farmer. was run down and al
most instantly killed by an Omaha
train while walking the track home
from Southrange in the early morning.
hours.
Racine.-The body Of man still
unidentified was found in the river this
afternoon. There is a belief that he
met with foul play as the skull was
fractured and there Is a deep cut on
the left temple.
Sheboygan.- John Stockdyk, who op
crates local fishing tug, caught
sixty-eight pound sturgeon in one Of
HIS nets off Amsterdam, south OF here
and sold 1t for $50. nearly so cents per
pound
Oshkosh --Henriette Heckner,
woman who gives her home as Me.
nasha. has filed a claim for 500 with
the council OF Oshkosh, alleging that
she fell over a defective railing on the
Sixth street bridge into the water and
was severely bruised.
Eau Claire.--C. A. Stanley and Guy
Allen, solicitors, were arrested on for.
gerry charges made by Thomas Lucas
OF Durand. A check, alleged to have
been forged by Stanley on a. C.
Isaacs, was cashed by Lucas
Jefferson--At the spring meeting OF
the Jefferson county board of super
visors. J. f. Prentiss. republican OF
WATERFOWL, was elected chairman to
succeed Alexander Buchanan of Lake
Mills.
Ashland The body of Frank Marx,
who was drowned last October, has
Just been recovered. The body Of Da-
vid Doherty. who was drowned with
Marx, has been recovered.
Sparta.-John Lawrence is dead at
his home at Ontario, aged 104 Law
renee and FIVE sons served through
the civil war. The youngest is still liv-
ing and is 6S years old.
Superior Hans Silver, well known
Hawthorne resident. met death under
the wheels OF an Omaha freight train
while walking from the nearby town.
Manitowoc.- The marriage of Miss
Martha Rahr and Walter Spindler.
society event was soIemnized at the
st. James Episcopal church here.
has determined TO erect new build
ing. The present structure is to be-
converted into guild hall.
Madison.-Bur w. Jones, Madison,
gave the principal address at the six
tieth annual banquet of the Hesperian
Debating society Michael B. Olbrich
and Alfred H. Bushnell, both of Madi-
son, gave the principal addresses at
the sixty-second annual banquet of the
Athenaean society.
Madison Holding that his partici-
patton in boxing match at the Mill
waukee Athletic club was chiefly re-
sponsible for the permanent disability
OF his rich hand the industrial COM
mission denied compensation to Ed