The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-05-11
| BADGER STATE
| HAPPENINGS


be submitted to a vote Of the tax
| payers,
V. Z. McCaskill, for Is years presi-
dent of the Superior state normal
died suddenly of heart failure, He
was one of the states leading educa-
tors and was appointed to the posi-
ton here in 1907,
Fire Of unknown origin in the North
western road roundhouse at Ashland,
destroying the building and twelve
engines The machine shops nearby
were saved. Loss is estimated at
$4,000, as the engines can be sal
vaged.
Four hundred elm trees will be add
ed to the 400 planted on the Memorial
drive between Eau Claire and Chip
pewa Falls by the Eau Claire commit
tee this spring. Chippewa's committee
planted so last year and will add 300
this spring.
John Schieffel, 55, Highland farmer,
was sentenced to five years in states
prison at Waupun for second degree
manslaughter in Grant county circuit
court Schieffel was convicted in
connection with the stabbing to death
of his brother-in-law, Joseph Stalk,
near the GrantIowa county line, Dec.
8, last
The Peshtigo Paper company is the
corporation which will take over the
Peshtigo Pulp and Paper company
and the Peshtigo Fibre company as a
result of the action of the stockholders
of both companies. The result will
bring to the company 100000 Of new
capital. Of this amount, more than
100000 will be put into improvements
in the near future The force of men
employed will be materially increased
The death rate in Wisconsin during
the first quarter of 1922 was the low
est in Wisconsin of any time since
the uniform health law was enacted
in 1907, except for the first quarter OF
1921. The rate was 1113 a thousand
people in the state with total deaths
for the three months Of 1928 an espe-
cially favorable report, according to
the board. The decline in the death
rate was said to have been particu-
larly marked among children from l
to years of age,
The Rev John B. Petite, pastor OF
ST. Roses Catholic church, Racine,
appeared in circuit court as defendant
in two actions for $4,000 damages
for alleged SANDER The suits are
brought by Dennis Fitzgerald, city
sealer, and John ole, wealthy bust
ness man, who charge that Father
Petite accused them Of being liars,
hypocrites and Judases," and asserted
that as trustees of the church they
had failed TO keep adequate accounts.
The wave length used in the Wis
consin radio sending station at Madi-
son, which at present is 4S5 meters,
will not be affected by the new regu-
lations sent out by Washington au
thorities. The decision to leave the
wave length as it has been means
that Wisconsin receiving stations will
continue to pick up messages as at
present. 1t has recently been pro
posed to regulate all interior sending
stations and make them conform to
specified radio. To change the Wis
consin stations length would make
necessary the reimbursement of 80 per
cent of state receiving sets.
The Ri. Rev. Joseph Gabriel Pinten
recently consecrated bishop of Super
Tor, was formally installed Thursday
morning as head of the see at Sacred
Heart cathedral at Superior The
formal presentation of the new bishop
took place in the presence of the
clergy of Superior, scores of priests
of the diocese, and a large crowd of
laymen, who filled the cathedral In
cluded among the clergy were a num-
Der from points outside the diocese,
including the Most Rev. Archbishop
Messmer of Milwaukee, who had
charge Of the installation; Rt. Rev.
Bishop John T, McNicolas of Duluth,
and the Rev. Monsignof David o.
Hearn of Milwaukee, and Daniel Lynch
of Duluth.
Hartwell Farwell, Vienna farmer,
who on Jan. 10, last killed Phil Hos
ten, his neighbor and his sisters
sweetheart, was found guilty of second
degree manslaughter by the jury in
Dane county circuit court The YER
dict was returned after forty-eight
hours of deliberations. Judge Stevens
will sentence Farwell to a term in
prison, ranging from 4 to Z years, as
result of the verdict. The prosecu-
ton had requested a finding Of first
degree murder punishable by life inn
prisonment, Farwell had shot Hosten
after he was seen with his sister in
the Farwell farm lrd near Vienna.
He later attempted to burn the body
In a haystack near Portage. Attor-
neys for Farwell made a motion for a
new trial as soon as the verdict was
read.
President Harding will be unable TO
attend the Milwaukee convention of
the Associated Advertising Clubs of
the World, according to letter re-
celved by the Milwaukee advertising
council from Senator Smoot. The en-
gagements already made by the presi-
dent make 1t impossible for him to
come,
Joseph w. Conner, Brule, was ap.