The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-02-19
News Notes of Wisconsin.

Racine.-The Mitchell-Lewis Motor
Car company of this city has sold its
wagon factory and will retire from the
wagon business devoting its entire at.
| tention to the manufacture and sale
of automobiles. The consideration of
the sale is private, but by the trans
action there will be added to the OPP
Grating capital of the motor company
$2,700,000, of which $2,200,000 is per.
manent capital and 100000 Is an is.
sue of gold notes due Aug. 1, 1915.
Appleton.-Fire caused a property
loss of $4,000 here in the Lincoln
mill Of the Fox River Paper company,
while damage to stock from water
will probably exceed that amount.
Fire Chief MCCLELLAN and Capt. John
| Conroy were overcome by smoke in
the loft, and removed to st. Elizabeth
hospital, where the attending physi.
clan said they were out of danger.
Mathematics Alice Curtis, execu
tive secretary of the Wisconsin Won.
ans Suffrage association, in charge
| here, has been called to her home in
| Iowa by illness in her family. Mrs
Henrietta c. Lyman will take charge
! temporarily.
Beaver Dam.-Kennelus Pashos, the
Greek restaurant keeper who shot and
killed Christ Chanopoulos on Thanks.
giving day, 1912, was found guilty OF
manslaughter in the third degree and
sentenced to four years in the state
prison.
Madison.-Commissi Of Banking
Kuolt approved the articles of incor.
poration of the State Bank of Cornell
at Cornell capital 10000 The incor-
porators are George f. Sowle, Anna
r. Sowle, j. II. A. Foster, Gustave
Falk, p. T. Faville and Alexander
Wiley.
Racine.-The Mitchell.Lewis Motor
company sold its wagon plant to cas-.
| tern capitalists, supposed to represent
the International Harvester company.
The company will pay off its gold
note issue and there will be added
as operating capital for the auto bus
mess s2,7O0,O0O.
| Madson-'In my opinion, the Uni.
versity of Wisconsin ranks with the
| finest universities in this country and
Europe" was the praise bestowed on
Wisconsin by DR.. e. Schonpeter, ex.
| change professor at Cornell, who is
touring the country. He comes from
Grat2, Austria.
Madison.-The executive board OF
the Wisconsin Federation of Woman S
clubs met here to elect delegates and
alternates to the biennial convention
to appoint program committee for
the next state convention, and to Sc
lect a place to hold 1t.
Racine.-The Racine Commercial
club has applied to the Carnegie media
commission for recognition of Joseph
+. Dodd. fire fighter, who, last sum
mer, at the risk of his life, jumped
into the river and saved a chauffeur
from drowning when his car went over
the bridge railing.
Oconomowoc.- Frank Il. Boyle be
comes the owner OF the Hotel Wood
land property on Lac Labelle, Ocono
mere Duck farm. owned by Mr.. Boyle
as a result of real estate deal closed
hero. The Woodland property consists
of twenty acres.
Green Bay.-The proposition of SO
cial centers and social work for Greer
Bay will be considered
Oshkosh .--According to the register
of deeds, there were thlrty.six mar
riages in Winnebago county durinf
January and twenty-five of them wer,
reported from Oshkosh During tn,
month there were seventy.six deaths
and eighty-two births.
Racine.--W. M. Conlon, former con
Wet, who has served forty of his 81
years of life behind prison bars, mus
serve five more. He was sentenced t,
five years following the theft OF coat
from residence.
Rhinelander. The mayor issued
call for a special election for Feb "a
on commission form of government.
Green Bay.--Judge Henry Grass
who is serving his first term as judg
OF the Circuit court I'm the Fourteent
district, has set new record for tim
in keeping jurors in service. The jul
ors have served twenty days.
Green Bay.--A fire which for tim
; threatened the Britton cooperage mi
Of this city was checked. The fire ha
been started In the rear of the plar
by sparks from the engine house.
Green Bay.--Plans are being mad
At Depere for the organization of tn
lolland.American club. 1t is planne
! have the club embrace all points
The Fox river valley.