Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-01-17

tne basement of the general store of
I Milton Runge caused a fire which
threatened the entirge village OF
Franksville, near Racine and caused a
loss estimated at over $4,000. The
Runge store with a large stock of
merchandise was completely destroyed
as was the Woodman hall building.
saloon and residence of Emil Britzman
and four small homes. The Gutknicht
hotel was threatened when the large
barn nearby caught fire. The village
is without fire protection. Snow drifts
prevented the Racine fire department
apparatus from reaching the village
| Madison-The state board of educa-
tion has recommended a law for re-
duction of the departmental Office
force by permitting the calling in OF
specialists from outside the state, a
low for supplying the central Office
with all publications sent to state edu.
cational institutions and third law to
add representative from the state
board of vocational training to the
state board. Changes were also au-
thorized in the auditing systems of
state educational institutions.
Marinette-J. H. MCCLELLAN, attorney
| of Green Bay and former municipal
judge Of Marinette, has been promoted
to senior lieutenant in the navy. AT
the outbreak of the waI he turned his
yacht, the Killarney, over to the gov
ernment and was placed in command
of her He did patrol work at the
500 locks and was there made legal
aid to the commandant at Great
Lakes.
Wausau Charles Nagler of tho
town of Hull, who was arrested in Oc.
tober charged with failure to register
as an alien enemy and making pro,
German utterances, and detained in
Wausau Jail, was taken to an intern
ment camp at Fort Oglethorpe, by
department of justice officer Nagler
is married and owns a large farm in
the county.
] La Crosse - With the thermometer
registering ten degrees below zero,
Plymouth rock hen owned by C.. L.
Lieb, La Crosse druggist, proudly
marched on the back porch of his
home, leading brood of cight-day-old
chicks. She hatched them in a wood.
shed, where she had stolen a nest.
| The chicks are thriving.
La Crosse - Thirty-three stitches
were required to close a bayonet
wound which Private Frank Sikorski
of Fountain City received while fight
ing the Germans on the western front
shortly before hostilities ceased, ac
cording to word received from the
wounded boy. He will recover.
Superior - Asserting claims based
on squatters' rights, descendants OF
Frank Lemieux, an early Indian resi-.
dent on the site of Superior, have
started suit against the United States
Steel corporation, contesting its title
to land and dock frontage worth sew
eral hundred thousand dollars.
Marinette-A local Russian received
a letter from home folks in which it
was related that the czar and mem
bers of his family were made captives
in a small town where they were put
in Jail. Sentinels prodded them with
bayonets all through the night and in
the morning they were shot to death.
Madison-Wm. Purdy. composer OF
"On Wisconsin" is dying of tubercu-
losis. Madison is raising Bill
Purdy fund.-" that will be for the ben.
eft of the sick writer and his wife
and baby. Dean S. H. Goodnight Of
the University of Wisconsin is receiv
ing contributions.
Superior-H Commercial club plans
carry, a dynamite plant to manufac
ture explosives and supply them to
settlers at a low price to aid in de-
velopment of land will be located near
Superior.
Fort AJklnSOu-hdIIy DiShiC' oAC Va
the four sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Orvin
Bickle of this city who are in service.
writes his mother he is back from
four or five days Imprisonment by the
| Germans.
'Antigo-More than three times as
many foxes were killed in Langlade
county in 1917 than in 1918. Bounties
were paid on thirty-two as compared
with 102 in the previous year. There
were nineteen bounties paid on wolves.
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