Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-22

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az Bettratli. MIMI. must stand trial on
the charge Of murder.
john Herms, believed to have been the
youngest soldier who went to the Civil
War from Racine. died recently at Fort
Thomas, Ky. aged 81 years.
Tom Burns, employed as nigAt foreman
ut the Rock County Sugar Company's
kiins In GAINESVILLE, was overcome by gas
and was revived with difficr<.y.
The sands of Pacific township in Co
lumbia county have been pronounced by
experts the very finest in existence for
use in the manufacture of plate glass
Fred Ribitsky, proprietor of the Mex
leo House in Two Rivers, has sold his
property to Fred Hemple of East Glib
son, who win take possession at once.
Miss Ellen sBosworth of Merrill, a
teacher in the Ashland public schools.
was found dead in her room \ defective
rubber tube from the gas jet caused her
DEATH
John Reinseii. aged 40, farm laborer.
was Killed by a Northwestern passenger
uain in Madison. lie was walking along
the switching track, when rul down and
instantly killed.
Benjamin Watson Hubbard, former
Assemblynlan from that district, died at
his home near Evansville Besides n
VIE he lercs a family of seven sons
and one daughter
The high water in Black river mas ex-
tinguished the fire in the made ground
between the north side and west La
Crosse which has been smcldering for
many weeks. Firemen had been unable
to eXtinguish the blaze.
Miss Addie Williams has brought suit
for $1,000 against John Stoffel, a
wealthy Racine cigar manufacturer, who
charged her with stealing furs from his
daughter last winter. It was proved that
the fafs belonged to Miss Williams.
At the last meeting of the George d.
Eggleston post it was decided to build
monument which will be placed ON the
soldiers lot at Riverside cemetery, APP
pieton. 4 committee is now at work
raising funds. The monument will cost
s., 800.
The 3-year-old sen az l. Watson Ste
phenson, and grandson of Isaac Stephen
sen, was badly burned while playing with
matches in Marinette The child's night
dress caught fire. Mrs. Stephenson put
out the flames with her hands, which
We're seriously burned.
Taxpayers of Racine asked the City
Council to once more change the plans
for the Sixth street bridge. They claim
that the roadway, 1915 feet wide, will be
too narrow. Should the changes be made
the bridge repairs will probably cost
$4,000. The city officials refuse to com
ply with the request and an injunction
may be sought.
Two masked men entered Louis Gil
masters saloon in Ashland and COM
meuded GilmasteF and his son to throw
up their hands. Instead, they attacked
tic robbers, who, after firing seven shots,
beat Gilmaster into insensibility with a
club, overpowered his son, aud robbed
the money drawer. Gilmaster may die.
The robbers escaped.
The framework of the new dry kiln
building of the Clark Manufacturing
Company in Eau Claire had just been
put up when it collapsed and buried five
men in the ruins. Henry Meyer had one
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seph Roach VAS severely hurt on the
head. Harry Randall, Mr.. Messner and
another man escaped with slight bruises.
Emmett Failon. teamster, jumped into
the icy waters of the river in Milwau-
kee and rescued his horse, switch had
backed in. Fallon did not wait even to.
take off his coat. Catching the struggling
horse by the bride. he guided it between
two piles and anchored its head above
water between two of the piles. Then
the fireboat came and put line around
the horse and towed it to a place where
it could get to dry land.
Thomas Wood of Baraboo was placed
under arrest by Game Warden ii. II.
Hubert. charged with dynamiting fish in
Devils lake The warden, caught Wood
leaving the lake with fifty small fish in
his possession. which showed no marks
of a hook and whose possession Wood
could not satisfactorily explain. Along
one of the shores of the lake the warden
found thousands of young bass and pike
that had evidently been killed by dyna-
mite explosions.
Miss Anna Siegfried, for two months
an inmate of the home for the friend
less. and cripple nearly all her life, has
found that her mother, whom she believ-
ed TO have been dead many years, is
alive and that she is heir to consid-
cradle estate of her fathers near st.
Louis During many years the mother
has been in an insane asylum, or working
as a servant in d poorhouse in Madison
county, III. Hiss Siegfried has been
with relatives III Milwaukee and Algoma.
The city of Appleton has won a point
against the Appleton Water Works Com
pany. In the Winnebago County Court,
an injunction was refused the water
works company restraining the city from
constructing the Mason street sewer,
which is to empty into the river just
above the intake pipe of the water works
plant. The court stated that it would
be impossible to make the injunction per-
manent. as a city had a right to con-
struct a sewer anywhere it pleased.
Work has been resumed on the sewer.
When the city constructs its own plant
the intake will be above the place where
the sewer empties into the river.
Superintendent Showalter Of the State
institute for tie blind in GAINESVILLE is out
with some new statements showing that
the bill of fare from Oct. so to Nov. 5
was much more elaborate than that
which the twenty-six dissatisfied students
sent to the board Of control as a sample.
The students who protested acknowledge
that the menu is correct, but maintain
that it lacked both in quantity and quail
ity. Mr.. Showalter also gives ont a
financial statement which shows that ex-
penses for subsistence during his term
and during those of Hutton and Bliss
vas approximately 5000 a year.
While returning from school, Emma,
the S-year-oId daughter of George Va
Ienta. TiSch Mills. was shot and instant
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