The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-02-19
VISION SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

| The Rhinelander carpenters union
has notified contractors that a raise in
wages to 95 cents per hour for an
eight hour day will become effective
| there on March l.
Margaret Sternberg, 7 years old,
was instantly killed at Wausau by be.
ing run over by a sleigh, loaded with
wood. Her chest was crushed. No
one saw the accident.
Fred Pape, aged 20 years, dropped
| dead of heart failure at the 500 line
depot at Neenah while on his way
from Clintonville to Waupaca to take
out naturalization papers
The Wisconsin Telephone company
| has decided to string new toll lines
| from Marinette to Green Bay and from
Marinette to Oconto Falls. Work will
begin soon, and the two improvements
Will cost $4,000
The supervisors of Jefferson county
reduced the salary of the sheriff of the
county $500, to take effect Upon the
election of a new sheriff The newly
elected sheriff will be given $4,000.
This does not include this amount al.
| lowed for board Of prisoners.
While at Manitowoc to attend the
| funeral Of her brother, Timothy Sulli'
van, Chicago, Miss Ella Sullivan re.
ceived a message from Chicago stat
| ing that another brother, Thomas. was
dying. She departed on the first train
to return TO her stricken brother.
The Masonic building at Viroqua,
newest and largest Office building in
the city, was completely destroyed by
| fire For a time the entire business
district was threatened. The loss for
the building and three stores, which
We're also ruined, exceeds $4,000.
The Sheboygan Business Mems as
sociation win take action on the bond
issue to carry on county highway i'm
provement by eXerting its influence
with the county board. Last year the
county legislators killed a resolution
! providing for a referendum vote on a
bond issue for 100000 Various civic
organizations will urge consideration
That there has been a decrease in
the number of accidenS in the state
| during the past year is shown by the
statement issued by the industrial
commission, For the year ending with
| 1919 there We're l7,2O7 accidents as
compared with 2O,342 for the year
1918. The report shows that for the
year 1917 there were 1855 accidents
and for the year 1916, previous to the
entrance OF America in the war, there
were 1879 accidents.
Expulsion of the big five packers
from the dairy business was demand
ed by the Wisconsin Buttermakers
! association in resolutions adopted at
the closing session of the nineteenth
annual convention, held at La Crosse
The organization also fayors an pei
cent butter standard. OrIcers were
| elected as follows; President, II. b
| Holberg, Coon Valley; vice-president
T. B. Towle, Baraboo; secretary, C-P
Colwell, River Falls; treasurer, F
| Werner, Waterloo.
Little Rosemary Rafferty,, years
old, died from a gunshot wound re
ceived while she and her brother
owen, years old. We're playing with
! the revolver of their grandfather
owen O'Hare, chief of police of Keno
sha. The boy pulled open the top
drawer of the dresser where CHIEF
O'Hare left his revolver for emergency
calls. The grandmother heard the
children laughing and talking Then
| she heard a shot. She went into the
bedroom and found the little girl with
the gunshot wound in her shoulder.
Harold Hanisch, son of Oscar Han,
| isch Waupun postmaster, was placed
on trial in Circuit court there charged
with asSauTJing Sam Darling, police
| man, as an outgrowth Of the so-ealed
Waupun peace night celebration riots.
| The trial was started Immediately
after Bragg Stoddart, chairman of the
| Waupun council of defense and the
| Liberty loan committee there, and five
other defendants werc acquitted on
charges OF rlotlng' The SIX men, Stod-
daft Godlrey, 'oleS' william hedman,
william Iel2iaH' Elmer Luck ana
Oiyde Harris had been accused OF
rang Gus bluenNke' an aged resident,
on ran
The Wisconsin supreme court has
handed down an opinion sustaining
the constitutionalty of the statute
giving the Industrial commission