The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-06-09
State Notes In Brief

register of deeds of Waukesha county,
died from injuries received when run
! down by motorcycle driven by Chas.
! Stubs, q, town of Pewaukee. Mr..
! Slawson received two fractures of the
leg, one OF the arm and fracture of
| the skull. Stubs was arraigned to-
night charged with assault regardless
of human life, and released under
$4,000 bonds.
Beloit-The city of Beloit, by new
contract with the water, gas and cleo
trio light company, gets a reduction in
the price of street lights All night
| lamps will cost $50 year. instead of
| $50 as in the past, and l o'clock lights
will be $50, instead of $50 year. The
saving to city will be $4,000 a year
| Madison.-Gov. McGovern and Pres
ident Van Hise were the principal
/ speakers at an all-university outdoor
convocation here as part of the cam
paign waged against campus cutting
by students. Both, will talk on Beau
| tifying the Campus
| Superior.-Hans Silver, Haw-
| thorne farmer, was run down and al
most instantly killed by an Omaha
train while walking the track home
from Southrange in the early morning
hours
| Racine.-The body of a man still
unidentified was found in the river this
afternoon. There is a belief that he
met with foul play as the skull was
! fractured and there is a deep cut on
! the left temple
Sheboygan.-John Stockdyk, who OPP
crates a local fishing tug, caught
sixty-eight pound sturgeon in one of
| his nets off Amsterdam, south of here
and sold it for $50, nearly so cents per
| pound
shkosh-Henriette Heckner,
woman who gives her home as Me-
nasha. has filed a claim for 500 with
| the council of Oshkosh, alleging that
she fell over defective railing on the
Sixth street bridge into the water and
was severely bruised.
/ Eau Claire-C. A. Stanley and Guy
| Allen, solicitors, were arrested on for
gerry charges made by Thomas Lucas
! of Durand. A check, alleged to have
been forged by Stanley on A. C.
Isaacs, was cashed by Lucas
/ Jefferson-At the spring meeting of
the jefferson county board of super
visors, J. F. Prentiss, republican of
Waterfowl, was elected chairman to
succeed Alexander Buchanan of Lake
! Mills
Ashland-The body of Frank Marx,
who was drowned last October, has
| just been recovered The body of Da-
vid Doherty, who was drowned with
Marx, has been recovered.
Sparta.-John Lawrence is dead at
his home at Ontario, aged 1914 Law
renee and five sons served through
| the civil war The youngest is still liv-
| ing and is 6S years old.
| Superior.-Hans Silver, we'll known
| Hawthorne resident, met death under
! the wheels of an Omaha freight train
while walking from the nearby town.
/ Manitowoc-The marriage of Miss
| Martha Rahr and Walter Spindler.
| society event was solemnlzed at the
! st. James Episcopal church here
has determined to erect a new build
ing. he present SlIuCtuT0 Is 10 De
conv verified into a guild hall
Madison-Burr w. Jones' Madison.
| gave the principal address at the six
! tieth annual banquet of the Hesperian
/ Debating society. Michael B. Olbrich
and Alfred H Bushnell, both of Madi-
son, gave the principal addresses at
| the sixty-second annual banquet of the
Athenaean society.
Madison.-Holding that his partici-
patton in boxing match at the Mil
waukee Athletic club was chiefly re-
sponsible for the permanent disability
of his RICH hand, the industrial COM
mission denied compensation to Ed
ward A. Kill, well known boxer in
Milwaukee.
Racine-Just few minutes before
he was to have marched in the Memo
rial day parade, DR.. Samuel G. Smith,
aged rs years, veterinary surgeon and
veteran of the civil war, died sud-
denly. Heart disease was the cause.
Jefferson.-NIr. and Mrs. Martin Wa.
laski of this city have celebrated the
fftieth anniversary of their wedding.
Mr.. Walaski is "a and his wife is s.
years old. They have eight children.
all living iB this city
Green Bas.-Charles Bletcher made
an unsuccessful attempt to commit sui
eide in the police station here whe.
he gashed both wrists with a penknsfa