Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-10
BRET State happenings

Herman Brown of Grant was struck
by lightning and killed.
The Heinz company of Pittsburg is at
work erecting its second pickle factory
ut Sparta.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franz Kartak Of Water
town celebrated their tifticth wedding an
adversary.
William Brehm of Grand Rapids died
in hospital at Milwaukee, the result of
an operation.
The rural postal service is proving so
successful that the postofIiee at Lafay-
cite has been closed.
A 2-pound baby is a wonder in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs, Charles Harris,
near Trempealeau. The infant is alive
and thriving.
At Hazelhurst the office OF the United
States Express Company was broken into
and three suits Of clothes and other wear
ing apparel taken.
George Nelson died at Sturgeon Bay of
consumption. He was about % years
old. His father died suddenly last
month. He was an only son.
Philip J. r. Kiehl of Mantowoe stood
the highest in the competitive examina.
tion to decide who shall receive the APP
pointment as cadet to West Point.
The striking carpenters and masons
have returned to work at Racine. The
men went back to work at the same scale
of wages they received before they
struck
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail
way people are agitating the project of
erecting a new depot at Augusta and
have asked the city to donate site for
that purpose.
-Four men were badly hurt by falling
Kenosha harbor pier The men were
James Kennedy, foreman; Theodore g.
Martin, Archie Baldwin aud Dennis
Ryan.
Matthew Sullivan aged % years, Sec
Ond son Of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ Sullivan. was
buried at Kaukauna. This is the tenth
child of which they have been bereaycd,
seven of them being Inferred in st.
Mays cemetery. -Four children survive.
The gun that wasn't loaded" got in
its work again at Fond du Lac. Eddie
duptis w yfdfS OiAt Dlllf0 lut lIiEBtsTs
George Pommerich was the target. The
bullet, of the 22-caliber variety, entered
just below the collarbone and lodged in
the neck, missing the arteries,
j. b. Powers has been adjudged insane
at Baraboo and taken TO Mendoza for
treatment He was agent for the Elgin
Creamery Company and was engaged in
establishing creamcries for them. Over
work and desire 10 please his employers
is said to be the cause of the derange
ment of his mind.
The postofIice at Halder has been NOV.
ed thrce-quarters of mile to the north.
Service from Reams to lola and from
North Land to Peru, will be discontinued
on June 30.
Mrs H. A. House of Fond du Lac
made an unsuccessful effort 70 kill herself
by drinking the entire contents OF an
ounce vial Of carbolic acid Prompt med
zeal attendance saved her.
A new train has been put on the
Marshiield and Southeastern road, haul
ing Dulpwood from the Green Bay and
Western road 10 the Nckoosa paper mills. |
The wood is brought from Canada.
After i've months struggle in the
Common Council Of Kenosha the electric |
railway franchise ordinance presented TO
the Council by Patrick Haynes and Gus
rave L. Clausson has been passed. the /
ordinance securing thirteen OF the sixteen /
votes u the Council.
Minnie Spencer. nged 10. and girl |
eompas.son about the same age. were held |
up BY a 14-year old boy in the park at |
Racine. The Spencer girl refused to
hold up her hands and the boy fred a /
pistol close to her face The powder /
severely burned the girls face and eye.
and for time it was thought she would /
lose her eyesight, bat il will be saved /
The girls do net know the hoy
The contract for erecting a three-story |
Office building for the Robinson heirs was
awarded to Hugh Edwards at Racine.
The aas. is estimated at $4,000. and If |
two more stories are added, il viii be
So. 900.
Mrs. Myra C. GrinneIl. the new de
partment president of the Woman's Re
lief Corps. has appointed her staff as
follows. Harriet l. Purcell. deputy secre-
tary, Beloit Belle w Bliss, counselor,
Barabo0: Hattie l.. Wclton. inspector.
Madison: Sophia NJ Straithorn, Install
ing officer, South Kankauna, Martha N.
ShowaIter. patrol inspector. Lancaster:
Annie E. Noyes, press correspondent,
Baraboo.