Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-30
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

Mr. and Robt Genrich are the parents
of bran new baby boy which arrived
at their home Wednesday,
Have your watches and clocks re-
paired by Otto Mueller, jeweler. corner
Third and Washington streets. All
work guaranteed. If
WANTED-Dining room girl at the
Tomahawk House Good wages For
particulars address g. o. Kiger, Toma-
hawk, Wis. 16-3t
There was dancing party given at
the Wausau Club house; Tuesday even
ing by number of our young men. 1t
was a very successful as well as pleas
ant affair.
Chas. Eastrick, an employe in the
Wausau Paper Mills Co.'S plant at Bro
kaw, suffered slight fracture of the
skull Wednesday by being accidentally
struck on the head with belt hook
Last Wednesday evening during a
heavy electrical storm at Rhinelander,
Henry A. Swan, an engineer and
machinist, was killed and r. r. Powers,
almost fatally injured by lightning
Residents of the city of Waupun are
paid out of the city treasury bonus of
3 cts. for every square foot of cement
sidewalk laid 1t is said to be one of
the best paying propositions the city
has ever entered into.
If you are going to build or make any
change in your residence, have your
heating plant put in right and your gas
work and plumbing done up in a mod
ern way. We do all kinds of repairing
in these lines. 4. B. Wheeler Il Son.
616 Third Street. If.
Dan Fenelon, who has had horses in
our fair races many times and who has
his horses entered in our fai: races
next month, met with an accident in
race at Galesburg, H., in which he sus-
tanned a fracture of one of his legs.
The socialists of Wood county met a
week ago at Vesper and placed in nom
ination a full ticket AS no socialist
vote has been polled in the county
heretofore each candidate will have to
qualify as an individual nominee
Miss Lula James has been engaged by
the board of education as instructor of
music in the public schools to sue
ceed Miss Gertrude Harger, Who has
resigned. Miss James was an instruc-
tor in the city schools prior to her TAX
ing course in the Hinshon School of
Music, Chicago, from which she was
recently graduated.
Emil BreitkreuUz departed Thursday
for Milwaukee, where he joined a party
of fourteen athletes, who will represent
the Milwaukee Athletic club at the
coming games to be held on the worlds
fair grounds at st. Louis all this week,
beginning yesterday. The contests
will be international and some of the
best athletes of foreign countries will
be present and participate for national
honors.
A Milwaukee paper is authority for
the statement that A. r. Bright, the
well known sporting man of that city is
organizing circuit for the holding of
boxing exhibitions. The circuit, the
paper says, will be composed of the
cities of Wausau, Green Bay, Columbus,
Amigo and Marinette and bouts will be
so arranged that each city viii have
one each month. 1t is said that the
first of these will be held at Green Bay
about the first of September
DR.. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, September 9th.
f. w. Kickbusch, Jr., and M. c. Ew-
ing are the owners of gasoline launch
recently received from the Blomstrom
Motor CO. Of Detroit, Mich In length
| it is sixteen feet, is of neat pattern and
two horse power engine furnishes the
power. The launch will move along at
five mile an hour gait against stream
in any ordinary river and is very easily
controlled and the engine makes but
little noise. Mcssrs. Kickbusch and Ew-
ing will go up on the Big Somo next
Saturday, taking with them the launch,
and will spend two weeks in hunting
ducks along that stream and Somo
lake.
There VIZ some excitement down on
Second street at a very early hour Sat
urday m, rning when officer John Fehl
arrested man. The man, who was
intoxicated, was seen by the officer
acting qneerly and upon being ap-
preached started to run. Mr.. Fehl
| fired several shots into the air, which
had the effect Of bringing the fellow 10
a stop and he was arrested. A story
was at once started that burglar bad
been captured, another that a man had
been shot. Both spread rapidly and
during Saturday the day officers were
Kept busk denying the truth Of the
stories.