Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15

| A wreck on the st. Paul R'y at Fox
Lake Jet. delayed Friday mornings
north bound train on the Valley
division about five hours.
Hooligan and his trusty bicycles will
give free street performance in front
| of the opera house next Wednesday
afternoon. Prices IS, IS and so cents.
| Ed ST. Austin met with serious ac-
cident at the Wausau Novelty COM
pany's factory on Tuesday by having
the thumb of his left hand taken off by
a rip saw.
Alexander Yetskoverk, of Grand
Rapids, was accidentally shot by his
son last week, but as that Slavonic
sounding name serves as bomb proof
shield, the man will recover.
About half dozen people have APP
peared in court the past week to an
swer charges of violation of city
ordinances relating to riding bicycles
on sidewalks and fast driving.
A burglar attempted to gain entrance
to the room occupied by John King
and Wenzel Pivernetz in the Park
hotel Wednesday night. He was in the
act of taking out the fly screen when
he was discovered and frightened
away.
In order to close out the stock we will
sell all Wellsbach and Block gas lights
at one-third the former price. These
lights have no superior on the market
and the reason we cut prices on them
is that we do not desire to carry this
class of goods in the future-A. B.
Wheeler 81 Son. If.
The fire department made run to
the Marathon County Dairy Co.'s plant
on Thursday evening. The fire was
small one and was in the cin6ers back
of the boiler house. 1t was extinguished
before the fire company reached the
building.
Mrs. p. " o. VanVechten has re-
signed as a member of the library
board, because of the law which pro-
hibits office holders from exercising
their rights in riding on railroad mile
age which they have paid for in adj
vertising or otherwise.
At the biennial meeting of the Grand
Lodge of Sons of Herman, which is to
be held in Merrill from the 18th to the
Goth the Wausau lodge will be repre-
sented by Henry Grob as delegate. A
great many of the local members will
also attend on Sunday at the time of
the picnic.
A news item in the Milwaukee Free
Press of Thursdays date gives to Mr..
and Mrs. Jas. Haskin, of this city, the
credit for being the only couple in the
state possessed of three pairs of twins.
The eldest are twenty three years of
age, the youngest sixteen and there is a
boy and girl in each pair.
Stevens Point has just been having
carnival and in commenting upon the
same, the Stevens Point Gazette SAYS:
"When the next carnival company asks
for permission to locate in Stevens
Point for week, it will be we'll to fol-
low the example of our sister city of
WaUsau by firmly passing them up"
Citizens living near the corner of
Sixth and Warren streets called upon
the city authorities Friday morning to
help them locate slaughter house
stencil emanating from somewhere in
that neighborhood, in which quest they
had been unsuccessful. The city
officials evidently are possessed of good
smellers for they soon produced box
of decayed fish and caused the same to
be buried How the fish came there is
a question as perplexing as "How old
is Ann?"
The department of state has made ex-
ira work for assessors through the state
by requiring them to make report on
all property that is exempt from tax
alton. The assessors must also make
report of all dumb persons and their
blocded relations. Considerable work
is required in making list of exemp-
tons. Churches, parsonages, schools
and much public property come under
this head. Assessors in this county are
now at work making the reports.
The Janke & Weisse Manufacturing
Co., recently incorporated, has pur-
chased a tract of land east of the St.
Paul Ry tracks in the Bells addition
and will erect large factory building
There is so great demand for this
firms products that the present quarters
in the old RADIANT building on Jefferson
street have been found too small. Be-
sides this the firm has long wanted to
get side track accommodations, hence
the selection of the site purchased.