Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-08-28
Minneapolis, Aug. IS. 1914.
STATE NOTES IN BRIEF

Superior. Ten actions seeking al
legged damages totaling $59,600 have
been started against the Duluth Street
railway company in the Circuit court
here. The suits are the outcome OF
the recent accident on the Billings
park line In Superior when ear top
pied from viaduet TO the ground
twenty feet below. carrying with It
more than score OF passengers, The
suits are for amounts ranging from
$4,000 to $4,000. The larger amount
Is asked by Edward Brooten. dock
worker. who claims the sight of one
eye was destroyed.
Merrill-An unidentified maa.
one OF several Fmlanders employed
on the 500 railroad near Heafford
Junction. in company with a friend.
was crossing high trestle when th'i
man fell from the bridge and was in
stantly killed An investigation by
physicians revealed that the man hal
met death by striking his head on
the bridge before he reached the wa
ter and that his death was clearly ac-
cidental
Racine. For the first time In the
history of Racine county the coroner
served notice upon the sheriff, re-
straining the latter from destroying
liquor conhscated In raid on a Wind
Lake resort. The coroner IS the only
person who can serve such notice on
the sheriff The action came about
when Edward Pullman was fined $50
and costs for conducting a resort
without a license.
Oshkosh. Louis Wartield, Mill
waukee physician, and HIS wife figured
in capsizing accident during the
heavy flow on Lake Winnebago. They
had been in the water for some time
before they we're rescued by yachts
Both were good sailors and swimmers.
and we're able to take care of them
selves until rescue came to them.
Maiden Rock Mrs. John Giebler.
aged rs, a resident of Oak Grove for
fifty years, was drowned in the Mis-
sissippi river Her body was recoy-
cred in three feet of water by her son.
Grand Rapids The property OF the
Brunei Falls Manufacturing company,
Cornell. was sold under a decree OF
foreclosure for $1.5O0,0O0 TO the Cor
nell Wood Product company.
Oconomowoc.A gift Of 500 from
Mrs. w. B. Cushing of Fredonia, N. ",
has been received toward the fu3d for
the monument to be erected in MEM
DRY Of the three Cushing brothers at
their old home In Delafeld. Mrs.
Cushing Is the widow of William b.
Cushing. one of the three brothers in
whose honor the monument Is TO be
placed
Madison -The state railroad COM
mission ordered the Grange Hall Far
mers' Telephone company of Rockelm,
Pierce county. to discontinue service
on a new line built by the company in
the town of Rockelm because it paral-
lels line of the Highland Telephone
company of Elmwood The Grange
Hall company built the lines without
authority from the railroad commits
sion
| Eau Claire. Aug. Is has been set as
the date for the annual picnic and
field meeting OF the farmers Of Eau
Claire county. Silos, alfalfa, clover
and crop rotation are some OF the sub.
jects to be discussed by speakers.
Waukesha.- Mrs. Andrews oil
| uukwonago, an elderly woman, was
made the victim Of "buncosgame. =
A man pretending to be an eyeglass
sitter. visited the lady saying that he
had been sent there by Milwaukee
physician. He later insisted that shs
| write him a check for SIS. which h,
sashed.
! Kenosha DR.. ). II. Holm had !
narrow escape from Death when tbs
automobile in which he was riding
ollided with a taxicab. Both auto
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