Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-31
State News in Brief.

James Summers, a wealthy lumberman
of Askeaton. died in Tacoma. He was
40 years old
Eugene Phelps, aged 40, a blacksmith,
was killed by a switch engine in Eau
Claire. No relatives can be found.
The tax levy for Milwaukee for 1905
will be $3.379, 1882. as compared with
3.213, 449.5S for last year, an increase
of $165, 94494
A carload of honey has been shipped
to Cincinnati valued at $1,000, by Tur-
tie Lake farmers. This is the second
shipment of this size.
The Armenians of I[enosha are plan
ming to open a public library for the
use of that nationality only. \ fund of
800 has been raised.
Mrs w C. Krembs has been bound
over in Stevens Point on a charge of
attempted murder under $4,000 bail. She
is alleged to have shot Miss Clara Pc
terson Sept. 8 Miss Peterson has re-
covered.
Owing to repeated strikes of work
men, the city of Madison has come to
the aid of the Columbia Construction
Company in its work of improving the
streets about Capitol park. The city
will haul the stone and the Barber AS
phalt Company has imported a gang of
negro workmen to lay asphalt.
While working 100 feet in the air,
Peter Baker, boiler maker employed
on the new Menasha water works reser-
voir, got his head caught between two
immense jaws used to carry large plates
of boiler iron. 1t was found that the
bones in the ears We're broken and his
head badly crushed. He will live.
The resignation of W. C. Harvey. for
merly assistant warden at the State
prison, has been accepted by the State
board of control. No successor has yet
been appointed. but it is now decided
that it will be filled by promotion among
the deputies.
1t is reported in grain circles that
members of the Duluth board of trade
have entered into an agreement to resist
any attempts on the part of the Wiscon-
sin grain commission to collect fees for
inspecting grain passing through Supe-
rior and consigned to dealers who are
members of the Duluth board.
Henry Gloudemans of Little Chute
has taken possession of the Michael Me
Carly farm near Kaukauna. with the
privilege of buying it at $4,000. \ few
people still hold to the opinion that
McCarty is alive
Edward Pingel has been acquitted of
the murder of Daniel A. Doyle. a bach
elor farmer living near Chippewa Falls.
last December, aud now faces forgery
charge. Doyle was shot and killed while
milking. Pingel soon after produced a
receipt for payment for hay he had re-
ceived from the murdered man and adj
mitted that he had signed Doyle'S name,
after the latter's death, to the paper.
covering S325.
j. NJ. Castro. a wealthy university stu
dent of Spanish descent, was fined $40
in court in Madison for exceeding the
speed limits of automobiles. His income
is said to be $3.50 a day He is taking
the agricultural course preparatory to
taking charge of big estate in Chill.
]. l. Campbell. agent for the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul railway in Fond
du Lac, has lost one eye. He was COM
ing from Milwaukee on a Wisconsin
Central train and when near the outskirts
of that city a shot was fired through the
window of the smoking car. The shot
just graIed his lett eyeball. cutting the
lid, and his face was badly cut by bits
Of flying glass. There is no cue.