The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-07-06

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Blaine. Atty. Cen. w. J. Morgan and
McHenry.
William A. Mead, IS years old. SUM.
mer resort owner near Trout lake.
died suddenly from heart disease. He
was well known in Wisconsin Masonic
circles. The body was taken to Wis
consin Rapids. his former home, for
interment.
Three small children of William
Nelson, Douglas county farmer living
three and a half miles from Poplar,
were burned to death in fire which
destroyed the farm home. This bodies
Of the three, Walter, g. Svea, 3, and
Vernon, l, were found by searchers
huddled in clothes closet with arms
entwined.
The L. Klinkert Brewing Co, Ra-
cine, was fined $4,000 by Federal
Judge It. A. Geiger, after pleading
guilty to charges of violating the Vol
stead act through the possession, sale
and manufacture of real beer" The
company was named in an indictment
containing AZ counts. The court fined
the company $500 on each count.
The Washburn County Agricultural
association has announced that the
county fair will be held on September
S to s. The following officers have
been elected: President, S. ]. Nc
Shane; secretary, l.. j, Thompson;
treasurer, e. M. Elliot; first vice-presi.
dent r. A. Meyer; second vice-presi.
dent John Brisbln
The University of Wisconsin sum-
mer school opened with an enrolment
which is expected to exceed that Of
any previous year. More than 1000
students attended their first classes
of the siY-week course. School teach.
ers returning for special studies in
their work make up large percent
age Of those enrolled.
Martin and Elias Simonis, both resi-.
dents OF the town of Alban were given
fines of $50 and costs after they had
pleaded guilty to shooting a deer in
the town Of Alban, Portage county,
county closed to deer hunting all year.
The two were alleged to have shot
the animal last December and Warden
Frank Hornberg first succeeded in OBJ
tainng information leading to their
arrest this spring.
Failure Of safety appliances to work
caused an explosion Of a pea cooker
in the Mayyille Canning company
plant at Mayville. No one was injured.
The accident happened during the
noon hour, Just few minutes after
the crew working had left the plant.
The cover of the giant cooker was
blown through the roof of the build.
ing, tearing a hole ten feet long and
four feet wide.
Night watchmen are not private de-
tectiyes within the meaning of the
law, and consequently need not be Ii
censed in Wisconsin, J. Il. Messer-
schmidt, assistant attorney general,
advised Elmer s. Hall, secretary of
state. while night watchmen, as any
other citizens, may as an incident to
their employment have accession to do
work which is the work of a detective,
this however does not make them de
tectives such as the legislature had
in mind when 1t enacted the statute"
Mr.. Messerschmidt said.
Crazed with jealousy when he saw
his sweetheart walking with two men
after her refusal to marry him, Alex
Lewandowsk, SO, of Kenosha, shot
and killed Miss Josephine Kordaewski,
q, LewandOWsH crept up stealthily
behind the two men and the girl on
the street, and without uttering a
word raised his revolver and shot his
sweetheart in the back Of the head.
She was killed instantly Lewandow-
ski eyaded the two men and ran down
the street about 900 yards, then
stopped and wheeled about and sent
bullet into his brain. He died in.
stantly. The shooting was the result
OF lovers quarrel when Miss Kor-
daewsH gave the man final refusal to
marry him.
Mrs, Ben c. Hooper of Oshkosh presi-
dent of the Wisconsin League of
Women Voters and one of the most
prominent suffrage leaders in the mid
die west, was named democratic can
didate for the United States senate at
the closing session Of the democratic
convention held in Milwaukee. Mrs
Hooper was the unanimous choice of
the delegates and no other candidate
was proposed. Two candidates. A. A.
Bentley, mayor of La Crosse, and Carl
Mathe of Wausau, were selected to
make the race for governor, the conven-
ton recommending both to the demo
cratic voters Of the state and instruc-
ting the state central committee to
aid both candidates in the circulation
Of nomination papers and in the pre-
primary campaign. Jerry Collins of
Sheboygan, a war veteran, was the
unanimous choice for attorney gener-
al, and Emil Tank, city treasurer of
WATERFOWL was unanimously indorsed
as a candidate for state treasurer,
while Joseph Pdffner of Stevens Point,
was selected to make the run for lieu.
tenant governor.
Otto Bitzan, Kewaunee, took his
own life few hours before his wed
ding at Bailey's Harbor His body
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