The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-10-09
WISCONSIN NEWS
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

versity of Wisconsin Nov. !.
Fred A. Knauf has received his
commission as postmaster of Sheboy'
gan. Mr.. Knauf was superintendent
of mails and has been in that post of
fee many years.
The Oconto county board of super
visors authorized the rebuilding of the
county Jail by state inspector who
said it was the worst building of its
kind in the state"
After serving for % years as super
intendent of the state home for the
feebleminded at Chippewa Falls, DR..
A..W Walworth resigned to the state
board of control on account of advanc-
ing age.
Following announcement weeks ago
of the forthcoming merger of the First
National and Neenah State banks, al
Neenah, directors of the institutions
issued a statement that negotiations
had been dropped.
Menasha will entertain its first in
ternational convention in September,
1920. Menasha has been selected as
the place for the 1920 gathering of
members of the International Associ-
alton of Electrotypers.
c. T. Edgar, Wausau, and L. d.
Martin, Kearney, Neb,, purchased
from Edward Faust and e. A. Yahr
the interior finish plant and lumber
yards formerly operated by the Krause
Lumber Co. at Amigo.
Fire, believed to have originated in
a hotbox, consumed the Chippewa
Consolidated Construction and Manu-
featuring Co.'S plant at Eau Claire.
The loss is 100000, The Steinmetz
building, foot away, was uninjured.
What looks like an effort to defeat
the purchase of a municipal dock site
is seen in a petition submitted to the
Green Bay city commission with re-
quest that the question of issuing
bonds for purchase of the dock prop
erty be submitted to vote of the
people at a special election.
Despite the handicap of the strike,
Superior docks shipped 2,040,51S tons
of ore last mouth, an increase of more
than $4,000 tons over the same period
of last season. With the three dock
systems working, and only one show
ing d decrease for the month it is be-
Viewed that the season will go far
ahead of 1918.
Gov e. l.. Philip appointed Gen,
Charles King, Milwaukee; Myron E.
Keats, Oconomowoc, and John Reese,
Dodgeville, as members of the Wis
consin war history commission to
chronicle the part played by the Bad
ger state in the winning of the war.
The appointments were made pursu-
ant to a measure passed by the 1879
legislature
Payment of $4,000 has been made
toward the purchase of the Pennoyer
sanatorium, which will replace the
present St GATHERINGS hospital at
Kenosha. The remaining $4,000 of
the purchase price was covered by a
mortgage. The hospital will be closed
for ten days for repairs and improve
ments, including installation of mod
ern operating room.
Hevige Heiss, minor, is suing the
Standard Oil Co., of Indiana, for Sc
we're and permanent injuries in his
hand and leg, caused by an explosion
of gasoline in the basement of the
company's station at Madison. The
suit alleges carelessness and negli-
gence of the agents. who permitted a
fire in the furnace while gasoline was
being used to clean the floor.
Judge C. A. Fowler took the Ives
murder case away from Green Lake
county and sent it to West Bend,
Washington county, to be tried by
Judge Martin l.. Lueck. His action
was the result of an affidavit of pref
udice filed by the defense against
Judge Fowler. The first trial, in Fond
du Lac, resulted in a disagreement. A
change OF venue was then granted to
Green Lake county.
Acting on orders from Atty. Gen.
Brundhage, Illinois, officials of Zion
city will set fire to 100000 worth OF
beer confscated by them during raids
on beer trucks from Wisconsin pass
ing through that city. The event will
take place the first week of November
and will be the largest celebration the
city has ever known. Drys from miles
around Zion City will gather for the
conhagration, it has been announced
La Crosse county appropriated $40,
900 for the repair of the roadway lead
ing through the town of Holland &c
the McGilvray bridge. This action, il
is believed, will end controversy OF
Is years between Trempealeau and La
Crosse counties over responsibility
for the upkeep of the bridge and road
long since condemned and for years
impossible. Trempealeau county will
be expected only to repair the APP
proach OF the bridge on its side of the
structure.
Daniel Tracy, 76, assemblyman from
the First district in Manitowoe coun
ty, in 1887, died at his home at Mani
towoc. He leaves no relatives excep
his aged widow The funeral was helC
at Osman, the former family home
Tracy was hotelkeeper in Mantle
voc for 80 years and retired two years
ago.
Superior owners of tugs, the crews
of which are striking, made an offe
of S125 month and bonus of 10 pc
cent. They refused to grant a deman'
for one day off each week and refused
to grant back pay for any wage in