The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-12-21

window.
One man was killed, another in
jured, and seven cars were piled in a
twisted mass of wreekage when
Northwestern road express train left
the rails at Schlitz pond, between
West Bend and Barton.
DR., V. w. kapp Wayside, physician,
charged with wife abandonment,
pleaded guilty in municipal court at
Green Bay and was sentenced to one
year Imprisonment in the Wisconsin
state reformatory by Judge N. j.
Monahan.
Ruben r. Hudson, widely known
Superior politician, died of pneumonia
at his home in that city following a
five-day illness. Mr. Hudson was a
candidate for the state assembly from
the Second Douglas county district at
the fall election.
Everett II. Randall, SO, grandson of
Adm Randall, one of Eau Claire's
founders in 1856, died at an Eau
Claire hospital. He was president and
one Of the founders of the Eau Claire
Outdoor Sports club, a member of the
American Legion and knights of
Columbus.
Cold weather, car shortage and an
improved demand at terminal markets
are given by the state department of
markets as causes for the greatly i'm
proved cabbage market during the last
Few weeks. Where growers through
out the fall were receiving an average
of 81 ton they now are receiving
from $1l to S12, the department says,
Peter Denoylles. deranged man, who
set fire to the barns on the George
Il. Stanchfeld farm, near Fond du
Lac, causing a loss of $4,000, and
then slashed his throat, was commit.
ted to the Northern hospital for the
insane. He will recover. Denoylles
said that he set fire to the barn to
destroy "a mob of a million men who
were chasing him"
Russell Griffen, Janesvill- :, arraigned
in federal court at Ma iison on a
charge of ticket scalping, entered a
plea of not guilty and his case was
continued. Forest Angle, Milwaukee,
was dismissed Meyer bernstein and
Leo Dagget, arraigned on a similar
charge for ticket scalping, entered
pleas of guilty and paid fines of $25
imposed by Judge Luse.
Capt. A. r. Brunei, 40, who com
manded Co. b. One Hundred Fiftieth
machine gun battalion, Rainbow divi-
sion, in the World war died at Fond
du Lac of cancer caused it was be-
lieved. by bruise when thrown from
horse while the command was at
Camp Douglas in 1917. He was mem
Der of the Wisconsin National guard
since 1897. He had served as deputy
game warden since 1909.
Members of the Clintonville Wom-
ans club have begun a campaign to
clean up the city and secure enforce
ment of state laws and city ordi-
nances. They have begun their efforts
by calling upon the mayor to compel
observance of city ordinances on the
part of pool hall arrangements, which
ordinances they claim are openly vio-
lated, not only as to closing hours but
also as to harboring boys under 16
years old.
Charging negligence in not provid-
ing proper burglary protection, 40
separate suits for damages, aggregat-
ing $4,000, have been filed in the JEFF
ferson county circuit court against
the Farmers bank of Sullivan. The
plaintiffs are depositors of the bank
who seek to recover for their losses
when their safety deposit boxes We're
robbed May 10, 1921, when the bank
was raided by burglars. The suits,
said to be the first of their kind in
Wisconsin, will be tried at the Febru.
Oh I'i ~ ~ 10 'NRNAINh'
A movement to GUST the aldermanic
government and return to government
by commission, was started in Apple
ton Petitions seeking LOO signatures
will be placed in circulation at once
so that a special election can be held
before the end of February. Appleton
4, k,pJopad oov, m, ic ciop crnuorpp,on+ II,
1918, after six years trial, to return
to government by a board of IL alder
men. High tax rates and alleged in
efficiency in the city hall are blamed
for the desire to go back to the com
mission form.
Need of more soy bean raising on
Eau Claire county farms was pointed
out by e. J. Delwiche Of Green Bay,
in an address before the Farmers in
stitute at Drammen. Location OF a
soy bean oil mill in Eau Claire or
some other northern Wisconsin city
within the next ten years was pre-
dicted by Mr.. Delwiche. Beside a
good investment from the financial
viewpoint the soy bean was urged as
a soil builder and producer of protein
feeds for live stock, by Mr.. Delwiche,
and also by Charles Ristow Black
River Falls. Following talk by Mr..
Ristow, Drammen farmers pooled or
ders for more than sixty tons of
ground limestone to be used as ferti-
lizer.
r. T. Glassco, for three years coun.
ty agent in Rock county, was renamed
for this office during a meeting held
by the Rock county board agricul.
tural committee.