Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-05-24
state Items of Interest.

Albert Roth. who escaped from Jail at
Wabash was caught in La Crosse. He
is rs years old.
Walter Hart, who viciously assaulted
the marshal at Oregon, was sent to
States prison for one year.
1t is said by railroad men that the
Milwaukee road will soon begin branch
line between Lafarge and Tomah.
Game Warden Stuart discovered 5000
feet Of seine set in the Mississippi river
near Feryville which was hauled to
shore and destroyed.
Water works appraisers have fixed the
value of the Baraboo plant at $4,000,
including all extra costs. The city will
probably accept at this figure.
Iowa parties have bought large tract
of land few miles rorth of Crivitz and
intend to start sheep ranch They ex-
pect about 1,500 head of sheep in Il few
days.
Workmen at Neenah unearthed six
skeletons on the site of an old roadhouse.
1t is believed they were the remains of
victims murdered i'll the early days of
the State.
Elmer FIack, former Shell Lake
boy and a soldier in the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, has started a restaurant and
confectionery factory at Manila, Philip
pine Islands.
William Dubinski, aged IS years, COM
mitted suicide in Ashland by shooting
himself in the heart with a revolver. The
act was committed in sight of large
crowd of people who were attending
funeral at the cemetery. Financial diff
Guilty is assigned as the cause.
A gang of boy burglars is believed to
exist in Appleton. The other night two
burglaries were committed downtown
which are laid to them and one of which
gave a clue to the alleged gang. They
got % cents from Lindsay Waters gro
Gerry and woman living upstairs saw
them. They also secured $500 in Ten
MES news depot. They got through the
windows like veterans, cutting out panes
and Opening the latch.
Fl The crew of seven men from the
schooner Ottawa reached Sturgeon Bay
the other morning, their vessel having
capsized off Sturgeon Bay canal. They
succeeded in escaping on the yawlboat
and finally reached shore.
Miss Martha Martinson, the 17-year-
old daughter of a farmer near Mondovi,
recently swallowed pin while fixing
lace curtains 1t lodged just above her
stomach and has remained there ever
since, despite the efforts Of physicians to
dislodge it. She can feel it constantly,
but it causes her no great inconven-
fence.
Nine firemen were overcome by smoke
in big fire that started in the whole
sale district in the Third Ward Of Mil
waukee. Spontaneous combustion Is be-
heved to have been the cause OF the
blaze, which spread to seven business
establishments and caused loss of
500. 900. mostly covered by insurance.
Henry c. Young viii have 10 pay Mel
/ vim Engelstad OF Ia Crosse County 500
for slapping him According to the tes-
timony the Engelstad boy and Young's
son had trouble and Mr.. Young, Sr..
went to the school house and calling out
his sons antagonist. boxed his ears. The
attorneys claimed broken ear drum as
the result.
Dragged into the La Crosse river By
a runaway horse. William Hall had a
remarkable escape from drowning. The
! horse leaped out Of the way Of passing
csir as It neared the approach to the
/ blidges and stumbling, rolled into the
stream. The animal swan the river
/ nd climbed out on the opposite bank.
/ dragging Hall from the water by the
| rAins. which were twisted around Halls
wrist
The capitol improvement commission
has issued a book OF Instructions TO ar
chitects for the proposed new statehouse
TO replace that burned recently. It calls
for a nTestory building 10 cost from
5000. 600 70 s4.go0.o00.