Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-01-31

oshkosh-Petitions are being circa-
lated IN Winnebago, Fond dd Lac and
Green Lake counties asking the legis-
lature TO enact a law to permit the
taking Of fish by nets or other de-
vices from the Fox river, Wolf river
Lake Winnebago and the tributary
lakes and streams. The petition pro-
vldes, however, that the law should
be so worded that no person shall
nave in his possession a net with less
than four inch stretch measure mesh.
Racine-Three, men We're seriously
burned in the foundry of the Case
plant at Lakeside when the bottom of
large ladle filled with molten iron
dropped out, the spreading metal
causing panic. One of the employees
threw a pail of water on the iron caus-
ing II to fly into the air, striking sew
eral men and burning Charles Thomas
and Robert Neiss, both foremen. Gere
Antula, who threw the water, was also
badly burned.
Appleton - Sergt Harvey j. Piett,
who was reported missing in action
during the first battle of Chateau
Thlerry, is home on a furlough from
the hospital in Columbus, o. Sergt.
Piett was struck on the head by a
piece of shrapnel He was able TO
crawl out of no mans land to the first
aid station and after that became un-
conscious, losing his powers of speech,
hearing and eyesight for over three
weeks.
Fond du Lac - Becoming despond-
ent over the loss Of q tax receipt
Julius Elwin. Green Lake county farm
er, AZ years old, committed suicide by
hanging. Elwin rose early, MIXED two
cows, then stood on the milking stool,
fastened rope to rafter and kicked
the stool out from under him. He
'stTangled before help came.
Oshkosh - w. H. Oliver, a repair
tailor here for thirty years was found
unconscious in rooms over his shop,
as the result of gas escaping from a
hot plate gas stove. and died at a To-
col hospital shortly afterwards. In
dications pointed to the asphyxiation
being accidental.
Rhinelander - At the coroner's in
quest in the deaths of Frank Buris and
Chris Filos, who were killed in 4
wreck on the. North Western road
here, the jury found the railroad re-
sponsible for the accident, but did not
place any blame on the train crews.
Rhinelander - Zcan Strcpe, son of
Frank Strope of this city, has arrived
in this country on the Italian liner
Kiuseepi Verdi. Strope enlisted IN
Milwaukee in March, 1917, and has
seen twenty-one months of service as a
navy flier in France and Italy.
La Crosse-President e. A. Birge OF
the University of Wisconsin will be
the guest of honor and principal
speaker at the fifth annual banquet of
tie University of Wisconsin club Of
La Crosse in the Chamber of Com
merce Feb. s.
Fond du Lac-Dorothy c. Roberts,
20 years old, of Cambria, and stu
dent at Ripon college, committed sui
eide by throwing herself in front of a
train. Dependency over the death Of
her father is believed to have led her
to end her life.
Rhinelander Lumbermen operat-
ing in Oneida and other northern Wis
consin counties declare that it will be
necessary to lower the wages of
the woodsmen, the present scale being
too high. Men for logging work ale
reported plentiful.
Green Bay-Arthur Hendricks was
electricuted while working inside q
boiler in the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul shops. he was using an elec-
trio light and short circuit was
formed within the boiler.
JaResville-George School, a section
laborer of the Chicago & Northwest
ern railroad. shot and killed himself
when he became violently insane
while suffering from an attack Of
Spanish influenza.
Oshkosh - Benjamin Edwards, for
many years a member of the county
board of supervisors, and former
treasurer of Winnebago, died at his
home in the town of Utica, aged 6S
years.
West Bend-W Washington county has
voted its entire $3.50 of the Arme
nian-Syrian relief quota out of its
war chest. This is the third county to
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