The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-04-04
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

ndS Deen reledseu on Sl0,OOU DOnuS.
Miss l.. C. Lippitt, assistant profess
sor of physical education at the Uni
yersity of Wisconsin, will leave soon
for France TO take up reconstruction
work. She will have charge OF a unit.
The Oshkosh trades and labor coun-
Gil has petition signed by 5000 ask
ing the government to send a federal
official to investigate the labor condi-
lions with special reference to wages.
John Thomas, negro, arrested in
Chicago on charge of stealing $4,000
worth of furs from a La Crosse firm,
entered a plea OF guilty Judge Hig-
bee sentenced him to serve seven
years at Waupun prison.
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
George j. Weigle has called a three
day conference of sealers OF weights
and measures to be held at Madison
April %, "a and 25. There are now
thirty-siX city sealers in the state.
Thomas X. Thompson, for many
years proprietor of the Northwestern
hotel al Wautoma, was found dead in
his barn. He recently traded the ho-
tel for other property and is believed
10 have worried over the transaction.
Ernest Bannicke, enemy alien, was
arrested at Clintonyile by civil author
tiles and taken to Milwaukee. 1t is
charged that Bannicke had in his pos
session seditious literature, as well as
blue prints, lists of army camps and
other latter arousing suspicion.
Because he was patriotic and refus-
ed to have stain placed on the name
OF the French, a young Frenchman
from Green Bay, 20 years old, insist
Ell on being arraigned before the court
under the name of Oliver Murray He
was charged with rihing express pack
ages and was sentenced to six months
in Jail
The feeding of a 20 months old Ra-
cine child with four hard boiled eggs
within short time caused commissions
and resulted in death. Charges made
by the mother and father of the child
relative to the cause of death resulted
in post-mortem examination and it
was declared overlooking had caused
death.
Women war workers representing
forty-nine counties of Wisconsin called
in conference at Madison by the Won
ans Committee of the Council of De
Tense last week, passed resolutions
asking the President and Congress TO
compel all brewers to release for con
sumption all excess supplies of grain
now in their possession.
Five hundred Oshkosh women are
making house to house canvas Of
the city carrying with them two sets
of cards to be filed out. One is in
tended to cover the status of each fam
lily as regards Americanization so that
when completed the canvas will show
just how many people in Oshkosh can
not read or write English and how
many ore not citizens.
Converting OF eyeral thousand acres
OF cutover lands in northern Wiscon-
sin into sheep ranches is being under
taken by the Wisconsin Sheep and
Dairy Cattle company which establish
ed headquarters in Green Bay. Wis
consin and Minnesota bankers and bus
mess men are among the heaviest
stockholders in this company, which is
capitalized for 100000,
Application has been made for the
pardon of Theodore SteInberg, who
was found guilty of manslaughter in
December, 1916. and sentenced to sew
en- years in prison for the murder of
his iather-in-law. The petition asks
clemency because of his splendid pris
on record and because of his advanced
age, also because he owns two farms,
which need his personal care.
Between fifteen and twenty addi-
tional instructors will be added to the
staff of the College of Engineering to
carry on the instruction of the 400
drafted men who are to be sent to the
University of Wisconsin on April g
as the first group of soldiers to receive
two months technical training in the
university classrooms and shops for
special artisan work in the army.
Sergeant Fred Klema, son of Martin
Klema, farm implement dealer and
farmer of Caledonia, Racine county,
was killed in battle somewhere in
France, March q, according to tele-
gram received by the father from the
war department Sergeant Klema,
who was % years old, enlisted in
Racine battery two years ago, and
later was transferred to the marine
corps.
Green Bay men for the first time
worked alongside of women in the
shop of the Brown County Red Cross
chapter The men We're members OF
the Kiwanis club, and they volunteer
ed to give one evening a week to sew
ing and other tasks. Their record the
first night was to produce 300 pads,
used in the hospital beds. There were
twenty men on the job. and each one
agreed to induce one more to respond
for duty next week
$. Smolenski, Kenosha, member of
the March 20 quota Of selectmen, re-
fused TO go to Camp Custer, saying
that he was a Soldier of God" and
would not kill another man He was
sent to Fort Sheridan, H., where he
viii be afforded an opportunity to ex.
plain his objections to army officers
The city OF Racine turned over 20 the
county treasurer delinquent tax list
OF S5S121.42, the largest amount by