The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-07-07
STATE NOTES In BRIEF

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| Beloit.-The Wisconsin industrial
commission has allowed the claim of
| Mrs. Lulu Hoey, widow of Sergeant
Harry Hoey, who was killed during
rife practice in the armory at Mil
waukee last winter The decision is
the first to affect the state as it re-
lates to national guardsmen. Mrs.
| Hoey is to receive a sum not yet an
| nounced.
Grand Rapids Thomas Lake and
! Charles Washburn of Oshkosh, started
! from this city to make the trip home
to Oshkosh by canoe via the Wiscon-
| sin river to Portage and through the
| government canal to the Fox and
| down the Fox to Oshkosh The dis
| lance to be travelled is z24 miles by
water.
! Port ashington.-Gottlieb Gun
| Their, president of the Gunther e Sons
East Valley Brick and Tile company
of this city, was killed and his nephew,
| Felix Gunther, was seriously injured
when brick kiln in the course of
| construction collapsed and buried
both Mr.. Gunther was 66 years of
age cid had lived in Port Washington
since 1860.
en- the members of the Wisconsin
branch of the American Institute of
Criminal Law and Criminology, which
met in Green Bay in connection with
the Wisconsin state reformatory near
here. The dinner was prepared and
served by the inmates
Kenosha.-A joy ride has ended in
a prison sentence. Leo Jahnico, II,
Bristol, was charged with horse steal
ing. Jahnico was attending a dance
at Bristol and borrowed a horse of
William Krahn to go to Salem for
liquor. He pleaded guilty. Sentence
was deferred.
| Portage.-Mrs. Wilhelmina Kleist,
| in walking to a neighbours house,
grasped a high tension electric wire
among the branches of trees that had
! fallen in her path. About 1900 volts
passed through her body but she was
| released by passersby. She is recov-
ering.
Kenosha.-The summer home for
| children of the Sisters of ST. Mary, To-
Gated on the lake shore at the south
limits of Kenosha, has opened and $50
children were brought from Chicago
to spend the summer.
Madison.-Papers have been served
| in a suit by August Anderson for
| $4.O92, he claimed to have paid the
state illegally for timber on swamp
lands in Shawano county. He con-
legislature gave him the right to sue
Grand Rapids.-Arthur Postley of
Milwaukee, an employee of the Barnes
| circus, which showed in this city, had
his foot crushed by one of the ele-
plants stepping on it.
Gordon.-The plentiful rainfall of
| this summer will produce a bumper
hay crop for this vicinity, although
there are some complaints of potatoes
and other tubers rotting in the ground.
| Oshkosh.-The unwilling of the
| statue of Carl Schurz, presented to
this city by John Hicks, publisher of
! the Oshkosh Northwestern, took place
July 4.
Milton.-Stanley Kruger, aged 10,
son of August Kruger farmer of
Milton Junction, was accidentally shot
and killed. A younger brother was
playing with "a rifle which had been
left by hunter without removing the
shell.
| Sank City.-Harry, the 9-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. o. N. Nelson. lost
his life while swimming in the Wis
consin river. He stepped off sand
bar into deep water
Antigo.-The Amigo Electric com
pany will install new $50 horsepower
boiler in the near future, which will
give the plant 1000 horsepower.
Grand Rapids.-While the E. W. Ell
! lis family was downtown viewing the
parade of the Barnes circus their
home on Third street was entered and
burglarized, A valuable gold watch
and SIS in cash was taken. No clew
has been obtained.
! Crandon.-The cornerstone of the
new Catholic cruhch at Armstrong
Creek was laid with the Rev. Francis
Mcneil of Pulaski as master of the GER
elnonies.
Danbury.-The residents of this city
saw the first logrolling contests in
years at the celebration of the fourth
| of July