Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-07-05
State Items of Interest.

A professional milk thief who takes
his plumber direct from the COW is the
very latest brand of brigand in La
Crosse.
Gov. La Toilette has appointed Thos.
A. Walby of Hudson, sheriff of St. Croix
County, to succeed the late Harry o.
Harris.
In Madison John Brennan and John
Hogan were fined $75 each for stealing a
dollars worth Of chickens. They go to
Jail for four months.
Pewaukee is threatened with a scarlet
fever epidemic. There are half dozen
cases reported and one death, the daugh-
ter of Thomas Shields.
Henry Wolff, aged 10 years, was push
ed into the Fox river at Oshkosh by a
companion. Unable to swim, he drown
ed before the eyes of a number of men
who did not realize his predicament.
AT a special town meeting a vote was
taken to bond the town for the purpose
Of raising funds to build two steel bridges
across Little river, on the road east of
Coleman, the vote was carried by fifty
majority.
The Oshkosh Hardware Manufacture
ing Company, with r. p Sawyer as
president and capitalized at $150.O00. de-
cided TO dissolve, as the result of differ
ences between the promoter, f. y. Per
kins. and stockholders.
Gustave Klozirshy, q Newton farmer,
committed suicide by firing a bullet into
has brain. Klozinsky gazed into broken
mirror so as to guide the bullet. He
had met with business reverses. He was
a. and leaves widow and family.
Fire causing loss of about 81 200
occurred in Brodhead. For a tAke the
city was threatened with vers isas-
irons FIRE as a high wind was g0wing
and the department had great dffiiculty
in preventing the spread Of the flames.
The blaze started in the barn Of Ole
Gilbert, which was totally destroyed.
His honse followed, and the barn OF
Martin Ringen was also burned.
After a separation of forty years. Mrs.
Michael Dempsey and Benjamin Gilbert
Of San Francisco, brother and sister, are
reunited in Manitowoc. the latter coming
to visit. 4 peculiar coincident of the ar
rival of Mr. Gilbert is that in inquiring
the way to the home Of his sister he
received the information from her daugh-
ter, whom he met ON the street down
town. The two last met in Milwaukee
in 1862
Willie Schumacher, aged 6, was drown
ed in Spring brook at GAINESVILLE, while
fishing with bent pin and angle worm.
He was missed from home and his moth
er went 10 the bank OF the stream and
saw his little body lying in the water.
Louis B. Bruemmer. County Judge OF
Kewaunee County and one OF the most
prominent men in that section Of the
State from which he comes, disappeared
from DR.. Richard Dewey's sanitarium
at Wauwatosa and search Of the city
and county of Milwaukee has failed 10
reveal any trace Of him. Anxiety Is felt
for his safety.
During the parade Of Ringling's cir
Gus IN Appleton thieves broke into the
home OF Herman Erb. cashier OF the
FIRST National Bank. and made of with
money and jewelry. They
also broke -into the home of ex-Mayor
David Hammel. next door to Erb's, but
were scared off.
Floods at Stockholm washed out fifty
feet Of track on the Burlington. Ia some
places the. wash was eight feet deep.
Lightning struck building on Main
street la CrocSe. owHea by the Heiie-
man Brewing Company, and several tons
OF brick and debris was hurried 10 the
narrowly missing several pass
Eg citizens.
Enraged because Frank Swenson. a
JGrvear-old boy, hired team aud return
ed unable TO pay the BILL la Crosse
IiFeryman stripped him of his hat. ceat
and All clothing except scaa1 covering
il which to make his way home The
father refused to condemn the action OF
the liveryman.
A man by the naase " BFantz If Hill
bert was robbed Of so and then nearly
killed. He was On lis was to the depot
il Appleton when one Of the followers Of
Ringling's circus picked his pocket.
Brantz gave chase and the man threw
large stone and hit BraBz in tie head.
cutting him severely He then made Of
and the police were unable TO loca.s him.