The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-04-01
VISION SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form


Wisconsin is soon to get $4,000 as
reimbursement for moneys spent
maintaining the National guard AT the
Mexican border when it was called
into federal service.
G. II. Benkendorf, for eighteen
years a member of the faculty of the
Wisconsin Dairy school at Madison,
has resigned to enter the dairy manu-
featuring industry in Tennessee.
Ten thousand pounds of valuable
coal was lost when the posts support
ing the bin of the GAINESVILLE Electric
company's power plant gave way. The
coal poured into the Rick river.
An explosion of boiling grease while
making doughnuts started a fire which
completely destroyed the farm resi-
dence of Mrs. Edith Clark near Plain
field over $3.50 in bills, which Mrs.
Clark had saved to pay her taxes with,
were lost in the fire.
William Jennings Bryan viii
speak in the gymnasium of the high
school, at Ladysmith, April %, as the
concluding number of lecture and
entertainment course under the aus
pieces of the Ladysmith lyceum board.
Mr. Bryan will arrive on a morning
train and spend the entire day in
Ladysmith.
The war department, through the eff
forts Of Congressman Edward Voigt,
has set aside, subject to the orders of
Sheboygan, one fve-inch siege gun
with carriage which can be obtained
upon payment of freight charges. The
city is expected to take steps to secure
the piece and mount it in one of the
local parks.
George c. Sayle, Madison mayor for
two terms, was defeated in the pri-
mary by Frank c. Billed and Milo Kit
telson, who will oppose each other at
the polls. Mr. Billed has taken a stand
for a referendum on municipal owner,
ship of street car lines. The vote fol
lows Billed, 2,4O9; Kittelson, 1854;
Sayle 1,0S2.
A hearing to determine whether the
railroads entering La Crosse shall be
required to erect and maintain a union
station will be held before the Wis
consn railroad commission in La
Crosse on June l A general commit
tee representing every civic organiza-
ton in La Crosse will take charge of
the union station campaign.
Two hundred representatives of
Twin City labor union meeting in Sc.
Cret session at Neenah are under
stood to have discussed preliminary
plans for the organization of a com
pany to establish and operate a union
store The union men would take this
method of combating the high cost
Of living and have sanguine hopes for
its success.
Mrs. Ole Johnson died Feb 90 at her
home in Clintonyille, leaving a hus-
band and four children. All were
down with influenza. Because of the
demand of the husband, the body was
kept at a local undertaking establish
ment until he recovered that hC
might attend the funeral service, The
funeral was held twenty days
after the woman died.
After thirty-two years of continu-
Gus service, as a member of the Unit
I'd States Coast guard and life-saving
station, Capt. George Sogge was hon
orably retired by the government, at
threefourths pay. Capt, Sogge had
been at the Two Rivers Station for the
past II years and previous to that
time had been at Frankfort, Mich He
is credited with saving and assisting
IN saving 1889 lives, and vessels and
property valued at S1,253, 291.
A representative of the japanese
government was at Ladysmith recent.
~ negotiating with the Flambeau Pa
per company TO accept a three-year
contract to supply six hundred tors Of
paper a month. The stock he was es-
sheet turned out by the mill a few
weeks ago. This paper is to be used
for mouth pieces for Japanese cigar
cites One months shipment would
make 1,388,S8S,5OO cigarettes
The states case against Or. ]. A.
Freudenberg, Markesan physician, ac-
cuscd of causing the death of his
wealthy mother-in-law Mrs Nettie
Duties, blew up when Mrs. Grace
Brehl Washington, Pa, whom the
prosecution counted on as its star wit
ness. testified that the mustard odor
which was noticeable in Mrs. Duties
room on the day of her death might
have remained from a mustard foot
bath which she had given the patient
earlier in the day Mrs. Brehl had
served as a nurse during the illness.
Her testimony so shattered the states
case that it is believed that the case
viii be dropped as soon as formalities
prescribed by the statutes are com
piled with
Can a sheriff who has been appoint
ed to the office OF sheriff succeed him
self in that office? This is one of the
questions submitted to the state su.
preme court for consideration The
case arose in Barron county Gov
Philip appointed j. II Johnson TO fiji
a vacancy in the Office of sheriff
Johnson became a candidate for re-
election to succeed himself. But the
state constitution provides that a
sheriff cannot succeed himself in the
office. The point at issue is whether
| this provision npplies the same in the