Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-12
State Itema of Interest.

John Walruba dropped dead from
heart disease at Milladore.
d. Weller, Hebrew fruit dealer and
novelty store man in Madison, has
failed. Liabilities $1,000.
Kenneth Nicholson, a welI-known CON
tractor of Ashland, dropped dead. He
had just finished conversation with a
friend.
Commissioner of Banking Bergh has
approved the articles of incorporation of
a new State bank at Pittsville, with cap
ital of $4,000.
S. B. Secrist, superintendent of the
sales department of the John Thompson
& Sons Agricultural Works in Beloit,
died at Bridgewater S. ID.
st. Johns parochial school in Marsh
field was Quilted by fire, entailing a loss
of several thousand dollars. No one was
in the building, The origin of the fire
is unknown.
Freight car No 100, of the fast Oma-
ha train, was robbed between Chippewa
Falls and Eau Claire. One box of shoes,
three cases of cigars, valued at $50, and
a box of hats were stolen.
W. H. Horton, of Hillsboro Ohio, and
Miss Lorene, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. G. Ringing, of circus fame were mar
ried at ST. Joseph's Church, in Baraboo,
on the brides nineteenth birthday.
Within twenty minutes after Rev. F.
L. Rouse at services in the Appleton
Congregational Church announced that
the expenditures for the past two years
of the congregation and the receipts did
not balance, and that there was a debt
of 800. over $500 was raised to pay off
the indebtedness.
George Thurwachter, aged Is years,
student of the Waukesha high school,
died at the home of his parents. in the
town of Brookfeld, as a result of a gun
shot wound, sustained in a Christmas
hunt in company with his brother, Yer
ner Thurwachter. who is also student
in the Waukesha high school. Because
the wounded lad would let no one touch
him but his mother, he laid alone in the
woods nearly mile from his home for
over an hour, and when the stricken
mother did arrive she was obliged to car
~ her boy to his home, where he lived
but short time.
Simon Sontana, an Italian, IS years Of
age, was killed at the O'Laughlin Stone
auarries at Ives. He was shoveling
crushed stone in bin when the walls of
the bin collapsed and Sontana was
buried under twenty tons of stone. Death
was instantaneous.
August Skog the engineer Of the Nc
Donough mill at Frederic, was accident
ally killed at the McDonough plant in
Eau Claire. He was overhauling an cleo
trio light outfit, which was to be taken
TO Frederic, when a large pulley fell
upon him and broke his neck. i1e leaves
a family.
Henry F. Carpenter. of GAINESVILLE, has
been appointed by Congressman Cooper
as clerk for the Committee on Insular
Affairs of Congress. Carpenter is
nephew of the late Matt Carpenter.
A new company. Calming they can
make gas for 80 cents thousand-an
unheard of low price-will shortly apply
for franchise in Appleton and other
Wisconsin cities. Details are not given
out.
While suffering from melancholia Mrs.
Emma We'll, wife Of Michael Well, gem
eral agent OF the Security Trust and Life
Insurance Company at Milwaukee, left
her home in the bitter cold and has not
since been heard Of.
The electric light plant at Elkhart
Lake. owned by the late Matthias Gott-
fried. which has been idle for the last
three months, was purchased By DIR.
George Brickbauer. who win open it and
furnish light to the village.
John Thran, OF Omro. who died at the
aIexian Brothers Hospital in Oshkosh,
as A result Of woEals mySterioGsly re-
ceived about three weeks previously in
one of the horse barns Of the Paine
Lumber Company. it Is thought. was the
victim OF foul play. 1t is now known
that when Trial left a saloon where be
was last seen on the night be was in
jured he had considerable money In his
possession