The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-04-08
WISCON SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Larson saw action in france with the
A. &c. f. and was gassed.
Census figures for two additional
Wisconsin cities We're announced from
Washington recently as follows Y u
paca, 1888, increase of so or Is pei
cent, Marshtield, 1894, increase OF
1,611, or 279 per cent.
The 60,mile lap between Sturgeon
Bay and Green Bay is now being GOV
cred by an auto truck freight line. All
points between the two cities are
served by the new line which in many
respects eXcels express service.
At a special meeting of the board
of education the resignation of Edgar
F. Strong was accepted as superin
tendent of Oconto city schools Oak.
man A. Ellis resigned from the board
following the acceptance of Supt
Strong's resignation.
Cot. Joseph E. Barzynski, a Mani.
towoc man, has been called from
Poland to Washington by the state de-
partment to give information wanted
first hand, concerning the new repub.
lie. The colonel has been serving as
liaison officer in Poland. The officer
IS a son OF Mrs Anton Chrapikowski
of Manitowoc
Demands of the International Tim.
Der Workers of America for an eight.
hour day have been presented to the
| manufacturers of District No. 2 which
comprises all of northern Wisconsin
and Michigan, Decision of the manu-
facturers is now being awaited and
plans made for a strike vote in case
the demands are denied.
Monroe county is to have pea
Viner machinery and material for the
plant having been shipped by the
Bangor Canning Co. The company is
encouraging farmers to raise peas for
canning and has contracted for a
seventy acre crop in this district.
Beans and tomatoes will also be raised
for the canning company.
The proposed action before the rail
road commission against the w. Z.
i. H. & p Co. to compel the latter to
supply adequate" electric light serv-
ice at Neenah will probably be
dropped. Company officials have given
promises for betterment of the serv.
ice providing full cooperation on the
part of the city council is secured.
Judge E. B. Belden, in circuit court
at Racine, denied the appeal of Dr.
Frank Newell, Burlington, from the
award of the court commission of TEN.
porary alimony of 1925 a month to
Marie Newell, who is suing for divorce.
The court ruled that the amount is
not excessive in view of the fact that
DR.. Newelps income is $1,000 a year.
Arrangements have been completed
by the Oconto Chamber of Commerce
with the Montana Tractor Co. of Chi.
cago for the erection of a $500
plant at Oconto. Oconto was chosen
| by the company after many weeks
| looking over sites in Wisconsin for a
| place to build a distribution plant for
the tractor, which will be known as
the Badger"
Maj James ]. Quill, Milwaukee, re.
Gently spent two days in LadysmitB
arranging quarters for the cavalry
| Is. Arrangements were completed for
the use of the stables on the Rusk
County Fair grounds. The matter of
making necessary Improvements on
the buildings was taken up with the
officials of the fair association.
BY drilling a well six inches in
| diameter for a depth of 407l2 feet,
!rillers have completed an unusual
contract at Beaver Dam The drillers.
Dowd and Malwaitz say that it is sell
| dom that such large diameter is
maintained TO the entire depth of a
well. A satisfactory flow of pure
water was struck at the plant of the
Badger Canning Co, where the shaft
was sunk.
Streams in the central part of Mari
| nette County have been swollen by
The recent rains and melting snow.
Bridges have been carried away. cul-
yerts washed out and roads greatly
damaged. The bridge over the south
| branch of the Pike river was totally
destroyed, The bridge was built on
what is known as the old Stoddard
dam. Four bridges east of Amberg
near the X, C. camps are also demol-
| ished and the roadway covered with
water.
Charles Vite. 43 years old who,
twenty years ago, was acquitted of
| the charge of numbering TONY"
| Bruno, king of Kenosha Italians"
died at the Willow Brook sanitarium
at Kenosha from tuberculosis Vite's
trial years ago was one of the most
sensational in the annals of Kenosha
crimes. The killing took place in the
engine room Of the old Allen tannery.
and Vite had killed Bruno when the
latter tried to tell him that his bride
to be was untrue to him. Following
his trial Vite was hailed as a hero
among Kenosha Italians
Carl Carlson was electrocuted while
working for the Ashland Flour Mil
Co. Young Carlson was clearing a
space near the mill when tree felled
by him, struck high powered cleo,
trio wire, breaking 1t and throwing II
on him. A widow and one child sur.
yive.
Henrietta Boucher, J. years old, was
drowned at Niagara while trying TO
rescue a younger sister Marion, 3
who had fallen in the river. A man