Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-11-16
BADGER STATE NOTES.

Madison.-Deputy Insurance Com
missioner F. W. Kubasta is to receive
his salary. This much was settled
by an opinion by Attorney General
Owen to Commissioner M. J. Cleary.
Mr.. Kubastas salary has been held
back since he took office two months
ago because he was member of the
legislature which voted to raise the
salary of the Office from $4,000 to
$4,000. According to the constitu-
ton, this makes him, in ordinary
cases, ineligible for the position.
Madison-The Wisconsin railroad
commission ordered the Elroy Tele-
phone company to discontinue its
practice of furnishing certain of its
subscribers with free connection with
other systems. Authority also was
denied the company 10 fix special
terms on which subscribers may re-
ceive long distance connections. An
application of the BOyceville Tele-
phone company to extend its lines
into the town of Hay River, Dunn
county, also was denied.
Chippewa Falls.-In a fight with
a maddened deer, Felix Lagard, an
animal tender at the zoo here, was
terribly wounded. The animal charg-
ed him time after time and inflicted
severe wounds with his antlers. AL
though Lagard was armed with an ak
handle he was unable to beat the
deer off. He was finally rescued by
Eli Nelson and Onsome Paquette. In
struggling to free himself after be-
ing tied up the deer broke its neck.
Madison.-E. L. Luther, recently
appointed head of the farmers insti-
tutes of Wisconsin, and who served
as superintendent of county exhibits
at the 1915 Wisconsin state fair, I'M
der direction of the Wisconsin de-
partment of agriculture, will serve
in charge of the county exhibits at
the 1916 Wisconsin state fair.
Madison.-That general economic
conditions are a large factor contri-
buting to the decline in the Wiscon-
sin marriage rate, and that the eu-
genics marriage law is only partly re-
spOnsible is maintained by the state
board of health. The year 1914 saw
1907 fewer marriages in Wisconsin
than in 1913.
MISUNDERSTANDING to the report
of trustees of the teachers insurance
and retirement fund, there are now
0,542 Wisconsin educators enrolled
as members of the organization and
11S of them are now receiving annu-
tiles. having served for from twenty
five to thirty years in the schools Of
the state.
BelOit-The common council, by
a vote of 13 to 2, passed a resolution
over the veto of Mayor H. w. Adams
relating to a boulevard lighting sys-
tenn, and will proceed to install lights
that will make Beloit's business
streets white way.
Oshkosh.-Robert W. Anderson, a
magazine canvasser, was given one
year in Waupun. He was convicted
of forging postal note for Sc.
La CrOsse.-Hugh Robertson, who
has prevented his case coming to
trial on a burglary charge by eating
soap which made him sick, has been
denied this delicacy by the sheriff
and his case will come up in Circuit
court in a few days. Officials were
completely taken in for a time and
sent Robertson to tuberculosis hos
pital.
Monroe-Elma Barth, ~ years
old, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Barth, was killed by the accidental
discharge of % caliber rife in the
hands of Adolph Aechliman. a q
year old boy.
Manitowoc. - Emil Shimek, IA
years old, of Reedsville, is recovering
from the effects of an accident due to
his accuracy with a rife. He placed
a dynamite cap on a stump and shot
at it, hitting it the first time. Part
of the shell struck him in the abdo-
men and an operation was necessary
to remove it.
Sheboyga Kunze, So years
old. former brakeman, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the
head. He was an inmate Of the Nor
thern Hospital for Insane up to
short time ago.
Appleton.-George Zwick had