The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-01-02
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dS8O IIlTIS-INe. came GOWN from tue
logging camp and was taken to the
county jail, where he died of delirium-
Oshkosh.-Lieut. Leonard Schmidt,
Company B, Wisconsin National
Guard, has rendered his resignation.
Schmidt is employed in Neenah
Antigo.-Abraham Thompson of the
town Of Neya was thrown from a heav-
lily loaded wagon and the wheels
passed over his chest, killing him.
Fort Atkinson.-The seventh annual
poultry show of the jefferson County
Poultry association viii be held here
December 80 to January 4.
Superior.-Karl Huber. policeman,
shot four members Of a gang when be
was trying to arrest one for threaten
ing a woman with a razor. All were
arrested and one may die.
SheboyRan- Douglas Gibbs one OF
he oldest railroad agents in Wiscon-
sin, retired a year ago by the Chicago
e. Northwestern railway on pension,
is near death following an operation.
Green Bay.-During 1913 Rt Rev.
Joseph J. Fox, Green Bay, admins
tered confirmation to $3.50 persons.
blessed eight churches and parochial
schools and ordained FIVE priests.
eau Claire.-August Glynn, aged
ffty-two. living four miles south
OF Cornell, while working on his farm
stubbed his toe and fell, breaking his
neck He died instantly He leaves
a widow and three children.
Modfarp ba trCryrauan
business is growing, and by Jan
uary the commission expects TO have
about 300 policies on its books. These
do not run over 81 900 each, and there
are a few under that figure
Appleton Harry Trettin, aged
fourteen, town Of Ellington, killed
Il lynx in the swamp near his home
and collected four dollars bounty, the
first money paid by the county for
the killing Of an animal Of that specie.
Rice Lake-George Clark acct
dentaIly shot himself in the leg in
cabin near Tuscobia. Before help
could be summoned he had bled so
profusely that he died shortly after
reaching a hospital
year-old son Of Thomas j. Wavru-
mex. merchant. broke through
the ice in Shawano creek and was
drowned The body was recovered in
% minutes. Efforts to revive him
failed.
Eau William Luebkeman,
forty-fve years old, well known com
mercial traveller, died here from
blood poisoning, caused by prick
ing a blister with a needle. He was
prom inent in athletic circles and or
ganized the first bicycle club in this
city He leaves a wife and two chill
dren.
Milwaukee. ~ Herbert Schneider.
twenty-five years old, Well dressed
and dapper youth, said by the
police to be q kingpin of youthful
crooks, made a confession in munich
pal court to entering two east side
residences at night and armed He
was sentenced to ten years at hard la
Dor in the state penitentiary at Wau-
pun on q burglary charge. When given
chance to plead for himself Schnei-
der made a clean breast o. the rob-
berries Beginning with his imprison-
ment in the Mansfield 90 reforma-
tory for a theft of $40 while boy,
Schneider told remarkable story OF
his career. He charged society and
the Chicago police as being RESPONSE
BILE for his downfall.
Madison.-That murder was not
proper charge to bring against
John r. Dietz was the contention of
his counsel in a plea before Governor
McGoyern for pardon. Dietz is seFv-
ing life term for the murder OF Dep
uty Sheriff Oscar Harp near the Cam
eron dam in October, 1910 1t was
commended further that the crime
lacked the element of generalization
and that DietZ' general disposition
was such that it was clearly a case
of manslaughter if he killed Harp.
Counsel also said that the fatal bullet
could not have come from Dietz' gun;
that DetZ had no ammunition of the
kind that killed the officer and that
from his position he could not have
struck Harp. With hundreds of vol.
,leys fired 1t was not certain that Harp
was killed BY Dietz
Waukesha,-Mrs. Ellen Sage ALA,
Mrs Ellen Rogers, was granted
divorce from Alonzo Sage 1t de-
veloped in the examination in
county court that the plaintiff had
married while a first husband still
lived. but showed to the satisfaction
of Judge Agnew that she was unaware
of the circumstance. The plaintiff and
defendant were married in 1882 in Illi-
nCis and the woman alleged that Mr.
Sage deserted her two years later and
failed TO contribute TO her support. Be
lieving that her husband was dead, she
testified, she married J. Rogers at Om-
TO more than twenty years ago. Last
summer Mrs. Sage said that her first
husband who had been living in Can
ada, visited their daughter at Vernon,
where Mrs. Rogers and her second
husband also reside Mr.. Sage allowed
the divorce to be granted in default
Superior-Walter D. Egan, act
ing president of the Superior Steve
dore company and one OF the most
widely known dockmen on the great
lakes. died in a hospital here Egan
had been in charge of a local merchan-
disc dock for the last 20 years. He
served term in the Wisconsin legis-
iature in 1900 and was prominent in
political and fraternal circles here.
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