The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-03-09
BADGER STATE
HAPPENINGS


loon, each paid 5000 and costs, i'm
posed in circuit court by Judge b. Il.
Park for liquor law violations
The Green County Beekeepers' as
sociation will hold an important meet
ing at Brodhead March Is. p. White
head, agriculturist of the University
of Wisconsin, will discuss topics OF
interest to the beekeepers.
Digging out from the two-day biz
card, which covered Superior with
drifts in many places % feet in depth,
has already cost the city about $4,000
and will probably cost twice that sum
before the city again resumes a nor
NAL aspect
Suddenly changing his stand after a
talk with Attorney Bechdolt, sent to
his aid from Portland Ind, Fred Nc
Bride confessed slayer of Edward
Thielen his closest friend, entered a
plea of not guilty before Judge Oscar
NJ. Fritz, of Milwaukee, at Elkhorn.
Trial was sent for April 4, at 10 a. m.
The cooperative marketing of eggs
is proposed by farmers of st. CroiX,
Polk, Burnett and Barron counties
who already have taken action to form
a selling organization through consoli-
dation of local cooperative units, the
state department Of markets an
nounced.
Gas rates charged by the WisCon-
Minnesota Light and Power Co.
operating in the cities of Chippewa
Falls and Eau Claire were ordered
reduced by the railroad commission,
The cut amounts to Is cents for 1000
cubic feet for the first step OF the rate
schedule
The Hayward Rod and Gun club has
been organized with a membership Of
35. A rapid growth is assured. The
club will lease certain springs along
the river in Sawyer county, whereby
the propagation of trout fry may be
accomplished without molestation I'M
til large enough to be turned into the
the streams.
Mrs. Carrie Trentino was fined 10
cents and the price of her fare to
Italy by Federal Judge C. u. Luse at
Madison after she had been arrested
on a charge of making moonshine.
Mrs Trentino told the court she pre-
ferred to live in the land of her BIRTH
where the flowing Lowl was less sus-
cepible to the prying eyes of the law.
Emil Wanatka, former Kenosha sa-
loon keeper, was arrested in Chicago
and brought to Kenosha on a charge
Of killing Charles PaCini, wealthy Ke-
nosha theater owner, for whose muir
der on the night Of Aug. IA, 1920,
Frank Lang is serving 20-year term
in Waupun prison. Wanatka waived
extradtion, declaring he knew moth
ing about the killing of Pacini and
that his innocence would be estab-
lished
A fake prohibition officer entered
the saloon of Charles Pavlot, Green
Bay secured evidence" displayed a
badge and informed the bartender he
would have to have 500 to guarantee
his appearance in court. The till
yielded only $50, which the agent"
accepted, saying he would return
later for the balance He has not re-
turned but three men have been ar
rested, suspected of being confeder-
ates.
Four payroll bandits, working with
daring and precision, seized satchel
containing $4,000 from a taXicab oc-
cupied by Paymaster Fred Wallner Of
the Palmoive Co., Milwaukee, and
eluded pursuit in high-powered au-
tomobiIe. The bandits, armed with
revolvers and sawcdolf shotguns, in
undated an armed guard and a taxi
driver in the car with Wallner and,
without firing a shot, sped away be-
fore hundreds in the vicinity were
aware of what had occurred. The
paymaster, accompanied by the guard,
were transferring the money from the
First Wisconsin National bank to the
Palmolye plant.
Fire, which claimed the lives of
three young women and completely
destroyed the 100000 plant of the C..
A. Shaler Vulcanizng company, Of
Waupun,- broke out following an ex-
plosion Of undetermined origin, in the
punch press room of the factory. The
five hundred employees of the com
pany were in the building, a two
story frame and stucco structure COW
ering about block and half, at the
time of the explosion, and in less than
five minutes the whole factory was
a mass of flames through which the
employees rushed to safety--with the
exception Of Mrs. Howard Carney, 81
Mrs. Emma Michaels, q, and Miss
Bessie Cuckoo. 20, who were trapped
on the second floor Of the building
by the mad rush Of the flames, and
who are believed to have been Gre
mated in the burning factory.
Ernest Ellis, of Green Bay, locomo
tive fireman employed by the c., NJ.
& ST. p. railroad, was injured severely
when a dynamite cap exploded and a
piece of the brass entered his body
an inch above the heart Ellis was
throwing coal into an engine on run
between Green Bay and Hilbert when
when the accident happened.