The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-09-07

Oshkosh construction company, was
electrocuted in that city when he came
in contact with a high voltage wire,
carrying 1890 volts. Martin Schultz,
who also touched the wire, was seri
ously injured, it was reported.
Made in Racine week, a period in
which entertainments, street fairs, ex
positions and exhibits of local pro
ducts will renew contact between
manufacturer, dealer and consumer,
will be held late in September, the
Racine Advertising club has an
nounced,
William Patrick and Frank Gage,
Barron county residents, have been
engaged to perform during the next
thirty-eight weeks at the Hippo
drome in New York City. Their hay
rack, acrobatic rube act has been
booked, They have appeared in that
city before.
Neil Maher, Peshtigo, motorcycle
policeman, Communicated large au-
tomobile owned by Emery Place, to
trail a speeder. The machine struck
an obstruction in the road turned
flip-fop, and Maher and Place were
pinned underneath Place suffered
fractured shoulder.
Four days of dancing, feasting and
games will feature the siXty-ninth an
niversary of the treaty of September
at Odanah, Ashland county. The cele'
bration will begin on Sept. 10, and will
be celebrated by Chippewas from all
the Wisconsin reservations. the
treaty of 1854 was signed at La Pointe,
Madeline island, ceding large por'
ton of northern Wisconsin to the
government.
Capt Frederick Bird, one of the best
known G. A. r. men of the state, and
for many years assistant custodian of
G.. A. II. rooms in the state capitol,
Madison, is dead. Capt. Bird joined
the Eleventh Wisconsin regiment as
Quartermaster sergeant Sept. 26, 1861
Capt Bird had been affiliated With the
Madison G. A. r. post since Nov g.
1888. Prior to that time he belonged
to the Sun Prairie post.
The Sank county board of super
visors has offered a reward of $1,000
to anyone providing information that
will lead to the arrest and conviction
of the hammer slayers of Mary and
Julius Balzer near Sank City several
weeks ago. William Balzer, third
member of the family, died from his
injuries received at the hands OF the
slayers Of his brother and sister. Au-
thorid,s are pushing their search with
redoubed effort.
Seeking damages of $4,000 for in
juries received in an automobile
wreck, Andrew f. Stahl, prominent
Kenosha county resident, has filed
suit against the 500 Line railway. The
suit is an outcome of an accident oc
curing last February when Mr.. Stahl
was in an automobile struck by a 500
line train at the Wheatland crossing
Kenosha. Joseph Sweeney, driver OF
the car, was killed. His widow has
sued for $4,000 damages.
M. A. Bodenstein, Sheboygan, is not
biblophile, but when he saw pom
derous old bible in a second hand store
he bought it for a song" The bible,
the Martin Luther translation, was
printed in 1856 at Nuremberg. 1t Is
profusely illustrated with steel and
wood cuts, printed from hand made
type on hand made paper. Mr.. Boden-
stein is going to submit the book to
the judgment Of experts to determine
its real value.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kollock, widow of
the late George Kollock, hotel opera
tor in the early days of Merrill died at
the Lincoln hospital. Mrs. Kollock
came to Merrill when the community
was but a village. Her knowledge of
the early Indians was more complete
than that of any other woman in the
city, as her husbands hotel was fire.
quently visited by hundreds of the red
skins on their way to and from the
Indian pay station at Wausau.
Sunday baseball is included within
the prohibitions of Wisconsin's blue
law, j. L. Messerschmidt, assistant at
torney general ruled in an opinion to
r. T. Jackson, district attorney of
Iowa county The state Supreme
court has passed on this question hold
ing that ball games on the Sabbath are
illegal, Mr.. Messerschmidt pointed out
The district attorney asked if the blue
laws were not restricted to prohibit
ton of gambling and sports of an inn
moral character.
Otto j, Wojahn, Fond du Lac, one of
the most prominent Masons in the
state and widely known in railroad
circles, died suddenly after a brief i'll
ness which had not been considered
more than a slight ndisposition. Mr..
Wojahn was born in Ripon in 1869,
and had been in the employ of the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad since
1889 He was a member OF Fountain
Lodge No 26, Darling Chapter No. %,
Fond du Lac Commandery No, 5, Wis
consin Consistory and Tripoli Temple.
The large barn on the dairy farm OF
Hiram Pickett, near Woodford, La
Fayette county, burned to the ground
with loss of $1,000. William Foley,
tenant, lost his seasons crop of hay