The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-12-14
BADGER STATE NOTES.

Madison.-A decision of far-reach-
ing effect on the public utility inter
ests of the state was handed down
by the supreme court in the case or
the city of Menasha against the Wis
consin Traction, Light, Heat e. Power
Co. The high court held that the
city of Menasha is legally entitled to
purchase the lighting plant operated
there, even though 1t was but
minor part of a public utility cor
poration.
Madison. of incorpora-
ton were approved by the commits
sioner of banking for the Stockholm
State bank, Stockholm, Wis. The
capital stock is $4,000 and incor-
porators are Andrew Book, Christian
Olsen, I. Holmes, John Lindgren,
Fred Bruchman, O. G.. Kinney, Levi
W. Newman, Morton Larson, Her
man Larson.
Madison-The laws Of the last ses-
sion are now ready in book form.
There are 637 new acts, as against
IT'S two years ago. The book con-
tains 1852 pages, while that Of 1913
had 1,445-nearly 800 pages more.
There are tbirty-four joint resolu-
tions. The solitary proposal to
amend the constitution that got
through would permit a sheriff to
succeed himself.
Madison.-While the search was
being conducted to find Charles Saba,
who left home following the death
of his child to secure money for the
burial, comes the word that second
child has died. The father Is still
missing.
Antigo.-John Seiger of Oshkosh,
respondent over his inability to OBJ
tain work to support his family and
fearing mental breakdown requested
commitment to the state hospital for
the insane. Ee was refused but Civ
en- money to buy a ticket home.
Kenosha. - Thirty-five thousand
dollars was the Christmas gift Of the
American Brass company to the l.
500 men employed in the Kenosha
plant The distribution was made
and every man in the employ OF the
company regardless of his length Of
service shared in it,
Marinette.-A resolution introduce
ed at the meeting Of the Wisconsin
State Grange association held here,
calls on the Wisconsin legislature to
prohibit saloons within radius OF
twenty-five miles of all Indian reser-
vations.
Madison.-Mrs. P. H. c. 3, SO
years old, was found dead n bed
at her home here. She died of heart
failure. Her husband, P. H. Cass,
who was for more than a third of
century stamp clerk in the postof-
fee, died two months ago Of heart
failure
Madison.-The supreme court held
in the suit of the J. l. Case Plow
works against the J. |. Case Thresh-
ing Machine company that the ma
chine company had right to use the
words J. 1. Case in manufacturing
and selling its tractors and plows
used with such tractors.
Rhinelander. - Seven does and
bucks were found suspended in Roy
Mintons cellar when Forest Ranger
Christian entered that place. Though
Minton pleaded guilty and paid fine
Of $50 and costs, he told Judge Smith
that the deer had been killed by In
dams
Grand Rapids.-Through the eff
forts of the Jewish Agricultural and
Industrial Aid society of Arpin, Miss
Bessie Lipsitz Of that village will be
entered in the short course Of agri-
culture at the state university. The
society is endeavoring to educate the
race along scientific farming lines
and will pay the young woman's ex-
penses.
Mathematician Larko, charged
with the shootin Of Hugo Maxi at
Red Granite and who was captured
at Chicago, has been bound over TO
the spring term OF circuit court.