Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-02-24
News Notes of Wisconsin.

Racine-The Mitchell-Lewis Motor
Car company of this city has sold it's
wagon factory and will retire from the
wagon business, devoting it's entire at
Iention 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 $2,2O0,000 is per
manent capital and $500. 600 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,
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.
Madison.-Miss 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.
Observation-Disclosures of Banking
Kuolt approved the articles of incor-
poration of the State Bank of Cornell
at Cornell, capital $4,000. The incor-
porators are George F. Sowle, Anna
R. Sowie, ]. H. Al Foster, Gustave
Falk, P. L. Raville 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 100000.
Madison.-''ln 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
Gratz, 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 it.
Racine.-The Racine Commercial
club has applied to the Carnegie medal
commission for recognition of Joseph
F. 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.
Occnomowoc-Frank e. Boyle be-
comes the owner of the Hotel Wood
land property on Lac Labelle, Ocono-
mowoc, and H. II. Parker has the Ard
mere Duck farm, owned by Mr.. Boyle,
as a result Of a real estate deal closed
here. The Woodland property consists
of twenty acres.
Green Bay.-The proposition of so.
cial centers and social work for Green
Bay will be considered.
Oshkosh.--According to the register
of deeds, there were thirty-six mar
riages in Winnebago county during
January and twenty-five Of them we're
reported from Oshkosh. During she
month there were seventy-six deaths
and eighty-two births.
Racine.-W. NJ Conlon, former con
vict, who has served forty of his IS
years of life behind prison bars, must
serve five more. He was sentenced to
five years following the theft of coats
from residence.
Rhinelander.-The mayor issued a
call for special election for Feb. "a,
on commission form of government.
Green Bay.-Judge Henry GRASS,
who is serving his first term as Judge
of the Circuit court in the Fourteenth
district, has set a new reccCd for time
in keeping jurors il service. The 5ur-
ors have served Twenty-Five days.
Green Bay.-A fire which for time
threatened the Britton coopersge mill
of this city was checked. The fire had
been started in the rear of the plant
by sparks from the engine house.
Green Bay.-Plans are being made
at Depere for the organization Of the
Holland-American club. 1t is planned
to have the club embrace all points il
the Fox river valley.