The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-10-13
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form


company's pay rolls and was SEN
fenced TO serve four years in the
state prison,
While fishing in a boat, Mrs, George
Kelley was forced to fight off huge
eagle which swooped down upon her
1t is thought the bird was attracted
by Mrs. Kelley's bright colored hat
The bird was killed with stick.
For injuries received when a wagon
in which he was riding was upset
by an automobile driven by Ray For
cier last March, Mrs. Albert Parker
of Eau Claire, was awarded $4,000
and her husband $1,000.
James B. Carpenter, SO, who served
80 years as a justice of the peace
and 80 years as a member of the board
of supervisors of Portage county, is
dead at his home near Stevens Point
He is said to be the oldest justice in
Wisconsin.
Jobs 20 abegging in the state free
employment office at Superior, with
over sixty jobs open, Men out of
work say wages are too low. The
offers are from $25 to $40 per month
and board Married laborers claim
they can not accept such wages as
they barely pay rent and leave moth
ing to feed the family at home. Most
jobs offered are farm hands.
With the arrest of two heavily
armed men and the recovery and
identification of a large amount of
booty including several thousand
dollars worth of jewelry, in Duluth,
police officials of Merrill believe they
have broken up the gang of store
bandits who have been committing a
series of robberies through Lincoln
and Price counties. Merrill deputies
have returned from Duluth with the
two men, who gave their names as
Henry Keto, "a years old, and Earnest
Aho, 80 years old.
With the awarding of a contract to
Walter Meyers of Platteyille, the Bel
mont Capitol commission announced
that work will be begun presently
to completely restore Wisconsin's
first capitol building. The last legis-
lature appropriated $4,000 for this
work of which $4,000 will be used
at this time. The inside of the build
ing, which was once used as barn
following its desertion, will be re
stored, broken windows replaced and
the building will be given the paint
necessary to preserve it for future
generations.
For the second time within six
years, the village of Necedah has ex-
perienced a disastrous fire, which
laid waste a portion of her business
district The local fire department
successfully COPIED with the flames,
which broke out in the Kowalewski
restaurant, and prevented them from
going northward, but the half block
of frame buildings to the south were
doomed. Because of the intense heat
and the danger from charged electric
wires during the first few minutes of
the fire it was impossible to empty
the building. The Melichar bakery,
in the Babcock building; the Kowalew
ski restaurant, the Burke building,
the Security bank, Paulsen restaurant,
Schueler shoe store and the Miner
Opera house were burned to the
ground. The New Lisbon fire depart
ment made a record run to assist the
Necedah fire department The prop
erty and merchandise loss is estimated
at $55,OOO.
A mysterious fire in the warehouse
at the state prison at Waupun on
October Z caused a loss estimated
at $4,000, which is covered by insur-
ance. Convicts assisted in fighting the
fire and there was no disorder, no
attempts TO escape. Scores were over
come by the dense poisonous smoke
from the smouldering pile of Mexican
fiber that is used in manufacturing
binder Irvine. The prison hospital
was filled to capacity with convicts
and city firemen who fell victims to
the smoke and gas. Edwin Luck,
member of the city fire department,
was seriously injured when a motor
truck turned bottom side up at the
prison gate while he was FACING to
the fire barn to obtain gas masks.
His scalp was partly torn off. A
trusty who drove the car sustained
fractured jaw, When the fire broke
out it was feared that dangerous
prisoners might seize the opportunity
to launch a Jail delivery and Warden
Coles doubled the guard The ware
house contained l,500 bales of fiber
weighing 400 pounds each, which were
ruined by smoke and water. There
were also 100000 pounds of binder
Irvine in the warehouse Most Of this
Irvine was carried to safety by con-
victs who formed an endless chain
Following an inquiry into the cause
of the fire, Warden Coles stated that
it was caused by spontaneous com
bustion.
Frank Ayers and John Baron, both
Chicago men and who established the
office of the Cooperative Society Of
America in Racine a year ago and
directed the sale of its securities in
Racine and Racine county have adj
mitted a violation of the state secur-
tiles law. Judge Burgess imposed a
fine Of $500 in each case.
Federal prohibition agents con-
Quoted a raid on the Maple Shade
hotel at Minnesota Junction, and
gaiy,d G,ro oouou opd a harrp1 of