The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-10-20
BADGER NEWS NOTES


uperior.-Chinese buried in Twin
Ports cemeteries are to find rest
ing place in burying grounds of the
land OF their nativity. Hun Toy.
agent of the Chinese Combined Bene-
lit society, is arranging for the ex-
humation of bodies, which are to be
sent to San Francisco and held there
until the number gathered from vari-l
Gus parts of the United States totals
enough to warrant chartering a boat
to carry them to Hongkong.
Madison.-The Wisconsin railway
commission dismissed a petition by
the highway commission of Wood
| county for an order requiring the
Wisconsin Telephone company and
the Lindsey Farmers Telephone
company to conduct their lines for
the benefit of road building crews.
Port Washington.-Geor the
son of Frank Welsch, was drowned
in the Wisconsin Chair company's
reservoir because his little compan-
ions, fearing they would be punished
| for crawling through the fence and
feeding the fish, failed to call for
help.
Sheboygan.-Capt. E. A. Hickey of
Co. G, Second regiment, made two re-
markable scores on the range here at
rapid fire. He led his company with
81 out of a possible 100 with the pis--
toll at Is, rs and so yards, and then
-
| the rifle, rapid fire, at 800 and 500
yards
Sheboygan.-The local life saving
crew made run to Seven Mile
Creek, north of here, and rescued a
gasoline cruiser owned by Theodore
| McCauley of New York, which was
headed for Chicago. The crankshaft
of the engine was broken and the
cruiser had been drifting all day.
Baldwin.-The fire department
here has quit in body because the
village council voted against paying
memb ers their annual salary of SIS.
Instead the council wanted to pay the
| fire fighters SO cents for practice
meeting twice month.
| Kenosha. - Considerable excite
ment was caused in Kenosha by the
| announcement that the French gov
| eminent had placed an order with
| the Thomas B. Jeffrey company here
| for $50 artillery wagons, motor
| driven, to be used on the battIefields
of Europe.
| MISUNDERSTANDING are in cir
culation asking the Wisconsin worlds
| fair commissioners to send the She
boygan Concert band to the San
Francisco exposition in 1915. The
petitions will be circulated over the,
state, and it is proposed to secure
| $4,000 signatures.
Appleton.-Tne body of John Noes
| of this city was found washed up on
the shore of an island in the Pacific
He was passenger on the Inflated
Francis H. Leggett, which went down
! Sept. 18.
Hudson.-Mrs. Elizabeth Graves
son, one of the founders of the First
National bank of Hudson, died at her
! home in this city after long illness.
| She had been resident of st. Croix
county almost sixty years.
Neenah.-This city's Industrial
school opened with the largest en-
rollment since this method was insti-
tuted here Plans are for organizing
an English class for foreigners.
Madison.-Charged with an at
tempt to assault two university stu
dents, Leonard Miller and Richard
Boyle were sentenced by Judge Cas-
son to fifteen days in Jail.
Plymouth.-This city is not salts
fed with the reapportionment of
taxes in Sheboygan county recently
ordered by the state tax commission
and is preparing to take the matter
| into court.
Superior.-Struck on the head by
| a lump of coal falling from a rising
coal cIamshell, Edward Murysse, an.
employe of the Northwestern Fuel
company, was almost instantly
| killed.
! Beloit-John McGavock of Nc
Gavock Bros, family connected
with the large business interests Of
the city, is dead. He was an alder-
man for many years and member
of the board of public works.
La Crosse.-An epidemic of diph-,
liberia has caused the school boardl
TO close the Cashton schools. A num-
Der of children are seriously i'll