Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-21
James B. kirkpatrick. a Brodhead


The State institute for the blind has
/ been closely quarantined by the city of
GAINESVILLE on account of smallpox The
State board of health was summoned to
take action to prevent spreading of the
/ disease.
Ethel Hansen, aged -. was terribly
burned at her home near the village Of
/ Berryville by the explosion of a lamp.
/ Her hair had been burned from her head
before she was rescued and the flames
distinguished.
Edward j. Briske was accidentally
killed while hunting near La Crosse.
| With companion he was in a boat and
when flock of ducks appeared he grab
bed his gun, which was discharged, the
| trigger catching ON the boat seat.
With all plans completed for his mar
riage. Felix Rogafsky sent word to the
| priest and guests that there would be no
ceremony or banquet, as Mary POrfkaty,
the intended bride, had left Racine He
asks the police to find the woman upon
| whom, he says, he expended 5000 in
fitting out a wedding tronsseau.
After an absence of nineteen years,
during which nothing has been heard of
| him, Rudolph Behringer. a former mill
| owner at Manitowoc has been located
| IN Pittsburg, Pa, where he has insti-
tuted proceedings for divorce from his
wife. Behringer left town one night in
1856 and was long thought dead.
While taking the shells out of a shot
gun in Cumberland Joe Flynn accident
ally discharged it, the load tearing a
| large hole in the floor and going through
the ceiling of the room below, where
| Fred Peck was sitting. Peck's head
and hands were peppered with shot, but
the floor prevented serious injury.
Wisconsin State civil service commits
sion has announced that it is nearly
ready to give examinations to candi-
dates who wish to compete for the sal
aried positions in the employ Of the
State. Since the Legislature adjourned
SIX months ago the commission has been
making study of the State service and
OF various systems of civil service re-
form rs found in other States and in the
national government. The commission is
composed of DIR. S. f. Sparkling, pro-
fessor of municipal government in the
State university; Otto Gaffron of Ply
mouth and former Secretary of State
Cunningham of Chippewa Falls There
are some 1850 positions to be filled by
the civil service commission in the State
departments, charitable. reformatory and
penal institutions and in the university.
The first examinations, which will be
held next month, viii be for positions
ranging i'll salary from $50 to $3.50 a
month, including clerks, bookkeepers,
factory inspectors, prison guards, re-
formatOry teachers, game wardens, steam
engineers and firemen.
y loss of nearly $4,000 was caused
the other night by Il fire which orginat-
ed in the millinery store of Mrs. w. Ii.
Hockenberger, and wiped out an entire
business block in Crandon. Famed by
good wind, the fire swept up the row
of wooden buildings in an hour Dyna-
mite was used to stop the progress of
the flames, but without success. The
losses are as follows: Mrs. w. II. Hook
enberger, insured on stock for $500, loss
$500; DIR. w. w. Brown. upstairs, loss
$500, no insurance; building owned by
Zilkeski, insured for $500, loss $780,
next building and stock, owned by L.
$500. loss on stock 81. 500, fully insur-
ed; Otto Becker, barber stock fully in
sured: +. J. Rhodes, insurance on build.
ing $500, loss $500, stock fully insured
at $l,400; Mary Billfuss, insured for
$500, loss $500; Charles Carnes,
fully insured Frank Hillstrom, in
sured on building 81 800 and $500 on
furniture, loss on building 81 800; st.
Paul drug store, fully insured: West
colts law Office, fully insured, also DR..
Crawford's dental office; Pake q Land
reck's old store and stock, fully insured:
Grace Shaw Ross, loss On building ST.
300; NJ. NJ. Ross, nearly covered by in
surance
\ new point has been raised by the
railroads operating in Wisconsin and a
new set of cases have been brought CON
testing the legality of the ad yalorem
railroad assessment made in accordance
with the law enacted in 1908. The first
set of cases We're brought against the
first assessment under the law and these
were decided by Circuit Judge Hast
ings in favor of the State If the law
is sustained on appeal it means an in
crease of about 100000 a year in the
taxes of the railroad property of Wiscou-
sin. The roads attacked the first assess
ment on the ground that the local as
SCISSORS. whose work affects the rate of
the railroad tax was faulty and incom-
plete, resulting in an unwarranted high
rate of railroad taxation. Judge Hast
ings decided that the local assessments
were presumed to be correct and proper
until judicially determined to be other
wise and the railroads have now started
TO prove this point. In the new cases,
started by the Northwestern, Illinois
Central, St Paul and other roads, the
new point is raised that in some local
taxing districts the rate was higher than
the constitutional limit and therefore the
local assessment and rate were illegal
and void. Consequently they claim the
State railroad assessment must be void
as it is determined in part, at least, on
illegal assessments aud rates.
Marinette sophomores raided party
given by freshmen. They stole all the
refreshments, kidnapped eight of the
freshmen and clipped their hair down
the center and sent them back in the
house. The party was given at the
home of Frank Hone Of Menominee.
Theodore Roosevelt and his family
will soon be enjoying milk and cream
furnished by Wisconsin cows. j. E.
Foreman of GAINESVILLE has sold seven
Guernsey cows to f. f. Patterson of
Wilmington, Del These cattle are part
Of the herd that furnish the White
House with milk and cream.
Alderman l.. Ereiburger of Amigo
narrowly escaped death while cumming
a saw on an emery wheel which broke
in many pieces. He received two-inch
cash over his left eye, a piece of glass
out Of the left lens of his spectacles
piercing through his cheek to the mucous
membrane.
The judges in the economic essays
contest have announced Chancey r.
WeIton of the University of Wisconsin
as winner in Glass b. composed of I'M
dergraduates Of all colleges in the Unit
ed States Mr.. Welton is from Madison
and a member of the 1905 class. He re-
ceiyes $500 as his award for the sub
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