Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-03
CITY NOTES.

34.0o Guys oO.oO Sn0e at Welnfeld'S
closing out sale.
Judge Silveithorn has had the sound
ing board back of his desk in the cir
cult court room taken down and rail
ing placed there instead.
The Elks are arranging for their an
nual ball to be given on the evening of
Friday, December 27th. The same will
be held at Castle hall and Cones or
chestra will furnish music.
Asher Boyles, son of c. NJ. Boyles
will hereafter act as one of the teachers
at the Wausau Business college. Since
his fathers illness with typhoid fever
he has been principal of the school, and
he has now decided to resign his posi-
ton at Nekoosa with the Kellogg Bros.
Lumber Co and move to Wausau. He
will be of great assistance to his father,
for he has had great deal of exper
fence in school work
Joe Sommers, a boy of fourteen years,
arrested in Clark county last week for
stealing a bicycle from Theodore Del
nodar at the office of the Wausau
Quartz Co., on October Odd, was up
before Judge Miller Saturday morning.
As he admitted taking the wheel there
was but one course for the Judge to
pursue, and that was to place him
where he may grow to manhood free
from evil associations. He was COM
mitted to the Industrial school at Wau-
kesha until he becomes of age.
A dispatch to the Milwaukee Free
Press from Amigo, says that dur
ing an alteration, which occurred in
James McHall's saloon on Sunday af-
ternoon, Frank O'Brien, freight con-
ductor running between Amigo and
Ashland was shot and fatally wounded
by Phil. Ryan, well known lumber
man of Summit Lake. The dispute was
over a freight car which Ryan declared
should have been left at Summit Lake
Ryan was under the influence of liquor
O'Brein died at $50 the same evening
Chief Justice Fuller has handed down
a finding in the celebrated fourteen
diamond rings case" which reverses
the decision of the United States dis
trict court The defendant in this
action was Emil j. Pepke, formerly
Wausau boy. He went to the Philip
pines as soldier and returning home
in 1899 brought with him fourteen dia-
mond rings on which he paid no duty
at San Francisco. He visited here at
WauSau for a time and then went to
Chicago, where customs house officer
seized the rings. In the district court
for Northern Illinois decision was
rendered against Pepke, when he took
an appeal to the supreme court.
A banquet was served last evening in
the gymnasium of the Y. M. G.. A. by
the Ladies Auxiliary at GAO. 1t was
gotten up as a mark of appreciation for
the good work done by the Get One
club in securing new members for the
association. A great many tables were
placed in the form of square, leaving
one side cut out, and these were spread
with eatables and decorated with crys-
anthemumS and at these ITO sat down
and partook of the good things the
ladies had prepared. 1t had been
planned that there was to be some
speaking done but for some reason that
part of the progam was cut out. The
Get One club was organized in October
and since that time its members
have secured "a new recruits to the as
-isociatiomf very ereditablt showing.
Last evening there was presented in
this city for the first Sutton, Vane's
four-act melodrama entitled THE Span
of Life" 1t is play of considerable
merit and the company presenting it
was up to the average. The play covers
a period of nineteen years and takes
one over Il great portion of the globe.
While it presents many sad scenes, in
cident to the drama, yet there is enough
humor at times to carry life with its
presentation. VIM. Clifton, as Nutty
Brown, and Miss Esma Cornwell, as
Schrove Tuesday, were exceptionally
good as fun-makers with their English
cockney accent Good scenery was
notable and one of the pleasing feat.
ures of the play was the span of life or
the living bridge, which act was done
by the Donazetta Bros who are aero
bats worthy of mention. A large crowd
was present.
Tomorrow Hugo Peters and Charles
Cramer, trustees of the county insane
asylum, together with the superintend-
ent and matron, Mr. and Mrs. H. G..
Head, will leave for La Crosse to attend
the first regular convention of the
Association of Trustees and Superin.
tendents of County Asylums for the
State of Wisconsin which will be held
al the court house in that city. This
association was formed last year, aud
is officered as follows: President, A. l..
Gray, Green Bay; Vice President, w.
H. Smith, Dunn county; Treasurer, T. |
ID. Wheeler, st. Croix county; Secre-
tary, Ross c. Grignon, Outagamie. The
work in general is along the lines of
conducting institutions for the insane
and the methods of treating and caring
for patients. The convention begins
Wednesday morning and convenes
three days. On Friday Mrs Head win
read paper before the assemblage,
her subject being How to Amuse the
Insane"