The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-01-30
WISCONSIN NEWS
Importent Events of the Week
Around the Badger State

is the third county to actually make
this appropriation.
DR.. Ronald B. Rogers of the medi
cal corps is back in the country after
seeing active service in France and
on shipboard. He was one of the first
Neenah men 10 enlist
Ross Bankus was bound over to the
federal grand jury by United States
Commissioner Alfred Harrison, La
Crosse, after having been arrested in
Viroqua blind pig raid.
Frank Code, a Rhinelander business
man, caught five pound tiger bass
while fishing through the ice on Man
son lake. To catch bass at this time
OF year is very unusual,
Benjamin Edwards, for many years
a member of the Winnebago county
board of supervisors, and former
treasurer of Winnebago, died at his
home in the town of Utica, aged 6S
years.
The German-American bank il
Manitowoc has filed an application al
Madison to amend its articles of in
corporation so that its name can be
changed to the American Exchange
bank.
George School, GAINESVILLE, a section
laborer on the Chicago & Northwest
ern railroad, shot and killed himself
when he became violently insane
while suffering from an attack OF
Spanish influenza.
Arthur Hendricks was electrocuted
while working inside a boiler in the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul shops
al Green Bay. He was using an cleo
trio light and a short circuit was form
ed within the boiler.
President e. A. Birge of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin will be the guest
Of honor and principal speaker at the
fifth annual banquet of the University
OF Wisconsin club of La Crosse in the
Chamber of Commerce Feb. s.
The federal labor board has denied
reports that in Beloit discharged sol
diers are refused employment in near
ly every case where an application has
been made. Positions have been of
fered soldiers, it was announced.
Dorothy c. Roberts, 20 years old, OF
Cambria, and a student at Ripon col
lege, committed suicide by throwing
herself in front of train. Despond
ency over The death of her father IS
believed to have led her to end her
life.
The Manitowoc council, Knights OF
Columbus, plans to plant trees in the
new parks as memorials for their
members who died in the service, and
offer the suggestion that all other or
ders do the same. Each tree is to be
named for a certain man and record
kept.
BY coneealing himself behind the
body of a dead Prussian guard in the
lighting in the Argonne forest, Ell
Wood, a Green Bay soldier, was able
to save himself while lying wounded
for two full days, until aid reached
him and he was taken to an evacua
ton hospital.
Waushara County Superintendent OF
Schools Coats has requested teachers
throughout the county TO get the
names of all the boys who joined the
United States Boys Working Reserve
last spring in order that the proper
award of certificates to those who full
filled their pledge may be made
Principal r. j. Thiel of the Plainfell
High School is county chairman il
this work
Sergt. Harvey J. Piett, of Appleton
who was reported missing in actor
during the first battle of Chateau
Thierry, is home on furlough from
the hospital in Columbus, o. Sergt
Piett was struck on the head by {
piece of shrapnel. He was able t
crawl out of no mans land TO the frs
aid station and after that became un
conscious, losing his powers of speech
hearing and eyesight for over three
weeks.
Petitions are being circulated II
Winnebago, Fond du Lac and Greer
Lake counties asking the Legislature
to enact a law to permit the taking o
fish by nets or other devices from the
Fox river. Wolf river, Lake Winnie
bago and the tributary lakes an'
streams. The petition provides, how
ever. that the law should be so wordeC
that no person shall have in his pos
session a net with less than foul-incl
stretch measure mesh.
Three men were seriously burned IL
the foundry of the Case plant at Lake
side. near Racine, when the bottom .
a large ladle filed with molten iroi
dropped out, the spreading meta
causing a panic. One of the employe
threw pail of water on the iron caus
ing il to fly into the air, striking sey
eral men and burning Charles Thoma
and Robert Neiss, both foremen. Ger
Antula, who threw the water, was ais
badly burned.
While working in the paper mill a
Grandfather Falls, near Rhinelandel
John Beauparlant, who was recent
released from the army, caught hi
right hand in fan, resulting in tn
loss of four fingers.
Announcement has been received a
Oshkosh of the death at New York G
C. A. Strehle. formerly of Oshkost
but for the last twenty years in tn
navy He was at one time bandmaste
at the navy training station at Grea
Lakes, ILL.,, and at the time of deaf
held that position on the navy vess'
Oklahoma.
Zoan Strope, son of Frank Strop
OF Rhinelander, has arrived In TN