Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
Brief State Happenings.

A young child of Burton Bingham at
Roekton swallowed carbolic acid and
died.
j. ID. Beebe is at the head of n COM
pany being organized for the manufac-
ture of automobiles in Racine.
John Slovick. years of age. was in
stantly killed in Marinette by falling off
a wagon. His head was crushed.
A passenger train on the Wisconsin
Central was wrecked near Rugby june
tion, All the cars were derailed but no
one was killed.
Albert Weisenborn of Grand Rapids
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head while his wife was sit
ting on his lap.
Charles Ward of Chippewa Falls re-
ceived terrible cut about the head and
face. which will badly disfgure him. y
James Young, an Indian, living near
Mountain, killed thirteen wolves in two
days and received the bounty for their
scalps, which amounted to SIS.
A steam roller in operation at Eau
Claire crushed TO death the 3-year-old
daughter of H. F. Eric son of the Nc
Donough Manufacturing Company.
Two mad dogs were discovered in the
town Of Freedom. Several children and
dogs have been bitten and there is grave
fear of an epidemic of hydrophobia.
A telegram from Postmaster General
Payne to Secretary John NJ. True of the
Wisconsin Board of Agriculture an
nounces positively that President Roose-
Welt will spend Wednesday, Sept. "a, in
Milwaukee.
A rupture has developed in Christ's
Episcopal Church. Eau Claire, between
the rector, Rev. ]. +. Milbank, and the
members, who object TO high church cere-
| monies and to the frankness of the rec
tor in pulpit utterances.
David Whitman. a motorman on the
Oshkosh-Neenah Interurban Electric
Railway. was instantly killed by a shock
| from live wire. An electric light wire
had fallen across the trolley wire and
Whitman tried to break the former off
with a switch iron.
The business men and farmers living
| in Greenwood and surrounding country
have organized the Central Clark County
| Advancement Association. for the pur-
| pose of advertising the advantages of
| that section of Clark County, and 10 aid
in securing new industries for the town.
Rev T. W. .Frizzel and Rev. I. c.
| Grant made a tour of the saloons in Eau
| Claire and found number open after IL
| o'clock, the hour prescribed by ordinance
| for closing They addressed a civic rally
at the Firsa Congregational Church the
1 ,..~hs ~ aAIasre.1
ment of the law.
Eugene L. Mcintyre Of Waldo has been
selected as one OF the speakers for the
Carpenter prizes in the deelamatOry con-
test at Brown University. Providence.
r. I.
The dry kiln and carpenter shop of the
factory of the Gould Manufacturing
| Company at Oshkosh burned. causing
$4,000 loss, on which there is $4,000
/ insurance.
John Zingar resident of the town Of
| Atlanta. while on his way home. fell
between the shaft and the wheel OF the
buggy in which be was driving The
horse continued on its way. and Ziugar
| being unable to extricate himself. was
strangled TO death
| An the cedar timber and some cedar
| poles AT Careys Spur was totally de-
stroyed by Are. The FIRE originated from
forest fire.
| A petition signed BY forty-four saloon
keepers Of Kenosha was presented to the
/ Council. II asks for an ordinance max
ing it a punishable effense for any saloon
| to serve free lunch
A searching party found the body Of
/ Hugh Murray, former city marshal OF
/ Woodruff. who had beer snissing for nine
days. in the forest IN Crooked lake.
twenty eight miles ncr>h Of Woodruff.
/ A part Of the head had been devoured
/ bs eagles. Lit1le is knlwp as 70 how
Murray met his deslth-