Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-26
short state items.

Orders from the police department
stopped all games of chance in Ear
| Claire. including slot machines, and 9th
ers were strictly enforced.
Elizabeth WE'LL and John P. Lans
were married in Kenosha after the bride
had sent summons in a suit against the
groom alleging breach of promise.
Hans Jorgenson, a grocer has disap-
peared from Marinette and his store has
been closed by creditors. His financial
ruin is said to be due to politics.
Louis Larsen. aged Is years. shot and
instantly killed his brother. James Lar
sen, aged IA. in the town of Salem. The
boys were playing with a shotgun.
The creamery at Witwen. in the town
of Troy. was burned. The fire started
in the woodwork. near the boiler. and
little was saved except the stock of but
ter. The machinery was ruined
William Reid. brother of United States
Marshal Reid of Milwaukee. died in APP
pleton, aged GA. He was connected with
the Daily Post for FIVE years. The body
will be taken to New Jersey, his former
home, for burial.
Frank Hubbard, formerly of Apple
ton, supposed to have committed suicide
in Sparta, has given the lie to the repor:
by writing a letter from Minneapolis.
stating that there must be some mistake.
He was mourned for dead for some time
Fritz Idle Won Ingelheim, who claims
to be scion of one of the oldest and
noblest families of Germany and himself
b,s,.
son of a cabinet official under Emperor
William L.. was sentenced to three years
and six months in States prison by
Judge Braze in Milwaukee Won Ingel-
helm attributes his downfall to gambling
and intoXicants.
A disease which the physicians term
intestinal influenza is almost epidemic in
Milwaukee Some physicians ascribe it
to the condition of the drinking water.
1t is said that on account of the thick
ness of the ice in the harbor for so long.
a period the water became contaminated
by deposits on the ice. Health officers
say the water is pure and that its lnurky
appearance is due 10 sand from the con-
stGnt agitation Of the water. The exam
nations OF the water made by chemists
show that il is pure.
\ One case of smallpox has broken out
in the Home for the Feeble Minded at
Chippewa Falls. and there are eight or
nine other patients under the strictest
surveillance. The first case was that of
a boy recently arrived, who was promptly
quarantined, and everyone who was near
him vaccinated at once.
- gon in Eau Claire because the proprie-
tor had refused to give him ''handout."
Then he fired at Policeman Elliott who
tried to arrest him. Elliott returned the
fire and shot the negro. The negro will
die.
Miss Agnes Kellet Of Appleton lost a
diamond in wash basin Christ
mas. just after she had received il for a
gift. 1t was found by plumbers in
sewer pipe some distance away from TIE
place where il was lost
Several bold burglaries have been COM
mitted at West La Crosse lately, authori-
ties not being able to trace the perpetrs-
tor until the house Of George Phillips
was robbed and a suit of clothes taken
A man who was wearing the suit was ar
rested later. He was identified as Henry
Lowery. an inmate of the Trempealeau
county insane asylum at Whitehall He
escaped from that institution several
weeks ago.
The United Gas and improvement
Company of Philadelphia. which con-
trolls The gas plant in GAINESVILLE. he's |
that on May ] a general re-
iuction Of 80 cents a thousand viii be |
made in all cities where the company |
controls the gas works.
Cooney Mcdonald. aged -. who has |
served several county Jail sentences and |
/ three years term at Green Bay re- /
'ormatory, has finally gotten oat OF his
ness. He was released on swearing hira- /
'elf poverty stricken, and thus escaped /
serving an Indefinite sentence in the /
vorkhouse in Appleton, in default OF pay /
ne fine which he got in addition to his
'sntence Of i've dax.a