The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-01-09
BADGER
NEWS BREVITIES

Yiroqua.- Former State Treasurer
A. H Diel, who has been seriously i'll,
IS much improved.
Ashland.-John Peterson died here.
He was injured while at work in lum-
Der camp near Saxon.
Marion.-The Marion Poultry asso-
citation has been formed with Is char
ter members. and will hold show in
that place on February Sc
Madison.-In the last six days sc
couples have applied for marriage IL
censes as compared with u on the
same days of the year before.
ReedsbuTg Perry Smith died from
burns received when he accidentally
set fire to his clothing. While lighting
his pipe the burning match fell on his
bathrobe
INSTRUMENTATION viii be invaded
the latter part of January by some 200
master plumbers, who will come here
from all parts Of the state to hold their
annual convention.
MadisOn.-New Jersey has come to
Wisconsin to learn how to collect the
personal property tax. Mayor Helm
has received a letter asking for infor
nation on the Wisconsin plan.
Ashland.-Two Russian woodsmen,
Max Maso and JueI CueI, were arrest
ed on a charge of highway robbery.
They were charged with holding up
another woodsman, robbing him of $50.
Couderay Edward Dugan of BuTl-
ington was found near the rail
road tracks with his throat slashed
He told a train crew he had attempted
to commit suicide, but failed because
his pocket knife was dull.
Marinette.-Carl Sorensen, seventy
eight years old, shouldered his
gun and started for his fifty-first win
ter in the north woods Sorensen is
believed to be the Oldest active woods
man in the state.
Manitowoc.-Mr. and Mrs Chris
tian j. Knutzen, pioneer residents
of this city, celebrated their golden
wedding. They were married at Vraa-
dial, Norway. Mr.. Knutzen is seventy
six years old and his wife seventy.
Kaukauna.-Frank Ashauer of Kau-
kauna killed a chicken, in the
gizzard of which he found shells of
copper cartridges Of various sizes and
one large brass cartridge. There
were, all told, Ga shells and a large
piece of gravel.
Racine.-Frank Gerno, a journey
man tailor from Kenosha, twenty
years old, who snatched a pay check
from a comTade in a local saloon and
had it cashed, after forging his NAME,
pleaded guilty to grand larceny here.
and was sentenced to serve one year
in the reformatory at Green Bay.
BelOit.-The seventy-fiTIn anniver-
sary of the establishment of the
First congregational church of Beloit
was celebrated. The society was
founded with "a members, when the
population of the city was 200. The
present membership is 500. The
church is famous for the number of
foreign missionaries it has supplied.
Milwaukee.-George Hymes, aged
twenty-eight, 275 Thirty-sixth street,
employed by the Johns-Manville
company as engineer, committed
suicide by drinking carbolic acid at
his home. He died less than an hour
later. He is survived by a wife and
three children. His wife declares that
money troubles and i'll health had dis
couraged him.
Marinette.-James Bell, pioneer res
ident of Marinette, aged fifty-eight,
eight, was found dead sitting in
chair. 1t is presumed that he died
while reading a newspaper, as one was
found beside his chair nephew,
calling on him in the morning, found
the door locked. Peering through the
window he saw his uncle sitting in the
chair He tried to attract his atten-
ton by knocking on the window, and,
failing, broke open the door.
Observation-Disclosures Stroud and
Rigby Slight, Peshtigo young men,
saved the lives of William Mort
arity and Bessie Loughrey The couple
skated into open water under bridge
Stroud and Slight climbed under the
structure and holding onto the trusses
let their bodies down until they could
be reached by those in the water
Thus suspended the young men kept
them up until ropes and planks were
secured and they were pulled Out.
Stroud, exhausted from his experience,
afterwards fell into the river, but was
rescued.
Port shington.-Charles Rasche-
lus was captured by the police at
Sheboygan and when brought here
be pleaded not guilty to an attempt to
kill his wife. Conflicting stories were
told by boarders and members of the
Raschelus family. It is said Rasche-
lus meant to kill Alex Walters, one of
the boarders whom he suspected OF be-
ing too intimate with his wife Chief
of Police Stievers also found evidences
of shooting in the dining room. DR..
George Savage removed two bullets
from the body Of Mrs. Raschelus and
an X-ray examination will be neces-
sary TO locate the third. She will re-
cover. Sheriff Gustav Schael says
that Raschelus has written a confess
sion and that the man appears to be
insane.
Appleton.-The Crescent prints a
Washington letter saying that Con-
gresham konop of Kewanee is be-
ing urged to become Democratic can
didate for governor, with Mr.. Konop's
statement that it is too early II con-