Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-03
Rrief State happenlngs

AT Manitowoc the jury in the case of
Anton S. Schauer, charged with emhez-
cling $40, returned verdict of guilty.
Miss Hester jenkins is going to Com
stantinople to become member of the
faculty of the American university of
that city.
a terrific windstorm struck east OF
Blanchardville A number of cattle We're
killed ana everything in the path Of the
storm was torn up.
Del and John Poole, two brothers for
n4arly of La Crosse, later of West Supe-
rior, have been arrested in the former
city, charged with murder.
The city of Rockford, ILL.,, has offered
a $4,000 plant all ready with machinery
to the officers of the Wisconsin Carriage
Company, whose plant burned recently
at Janesville Rockford asks that the
company furnish $1,000 in cash.
The protracted drouth has greatly inr
iured the hay crop and in some sections
where the soil is sandy it will be almost
total failure. In the clay regions the
prospects are not quite so bad and the
promise is that there will be a fairly good
yield.
The well-knomn law firm of Bieekman,
Bloomingdale & Bergh of La Crosse has
been dissolved, former City Attorney
Martin Bergh retiring to practice sepa-
rately. Mr. Bieekman's eldest son, A. u.
Bleekman, Jr., who graduates from the
Wisconsin law school this year, Will sue
coed Mr.. Bergh in the firm.
Lightning rod agents have been agaiI.
operating. Edward Staudemeyer, a
wealthy Caledonia farmer, signed con-
tract for what he supposed was for $27,
but later discovered, he says, that it read
1910. He refused to give UP the contract
ard followed the agent to town, but the
fellow escaped before he could be arrest
ed. The man represented himself to be
i member of the Modern Woodnen camp
of Pardeeville.
The pT eliminary examination of Erack
Paalsen, who is held for the murder of
Mary Ssldon of Pepin on June 16, 1898,
which has beer IN progress il Justice
Bradford's court al DIrand, is closed.
The prisoner was bound over TO the fall
term of Circuit Gedrt,
After a dull and nninteresting tri'h,
quite devoid of sensations of even a mild
type. Joseph r. Clements of La Crosse
has been convicted of grand larceny in
the second degree, which in this partica-
lar case covers the crime of wrecking the
Fillmore County Bank in Preston, Mimi,
which closed its doors on Aug. IS, 1898.
The second mortgage bcndholders, the
Central Trust Company Of New York,
have bid in the propert5 Of the West
Superior Street Railway Company for
$3.50, 600 at a receivers sale. The Thomas
Lowry interests are 20 assume control at
once, connecting it with the Duluth line.
T. W. Orbison of the Appleton engi-
neering firm of 0'Keefe & Orbison has
been IN Park Falls to consult with the
officers Of the Flambeau Paper Company
regarding plans for rebuilding al once
their paper mill, which was destroyed by
fire May 20. The new mill win be some
wnar larger than the old. and equipped
with larger and faster-running PAPER ma
chimes.
Large crowds from the city and points
in the Fox river valley witnessed the lay.
ing of the corner stone Of st. Elizabeth's
hospital at Appleton by Mgr. Fox Of
Green Bay, assisted By visiting clergy
aad societies Of the city and valley. The
hospital will cost. when equipped. &c.
600, and be ready for use New. /
The moth-eaten and weather-worn joke
about the mother-in-law being blight 70
domestic happiness has been put out Of
business in Milwaukee. Louis Hi-seh,
a fireman, who works nights at the cleo
trio power house. took out a license TO
wed his mother-in-law, Mrs. AbrahaLa,'.
The groom is IS years old and the bride
50 years.