Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05
State News in BRIEF.

Emmett Smith, 19 years %, shot off
his right hand while hunting rabbits
at Cedar.
Carl Winter. a La Crosse contractor,
choked on piece of apple and died four
hours later.
Langlade County's new court house
was dedicated the other night The
building is modern in every detail.
The Naukegan police apprehended
boy named Roy Miller who is believed to
have run away from his home at Beaver
Dam. He was sent back
Benjamin Eastman was killed at Pike
River while hunting He stood on a
stump, resting on the muzzIe Of his gun.
which slipped and exploded.
Acting on the advice of members of
the State Board of Health all cases of
varioloid in the GAINESVILLE school for the
blind have been isolated Thus far the
disease has been confined to pupils rang
ing from to 20 years of age.
Daniel Bernstein of Brodhead. aged
%. accidentally slot himself in the back
while hunting. He stopped to resi-, and
leaned on the muzzle of his gun when It
was discharged The shot entered his
left shoulder blade. He may die.
William Starzewsk was brought to
the KenOsha hospital suffering from ten
knife wounds in different parts of his
body. He was picked up near the Mid
die street bridge. He stated that he had
been attacked by five men. His condi-
ton is critical.
The private club house at Malchow
point, near Neenah, owned by Dick
Scott of Merrill, was totally destroyed
by fire. The discovery of a hunting coat
iii the bushes nearby has led to the con-
clusion that the house was robbed and
then set on fire.
Fire. starting from a traction engine,
burned two barns, the machinery s1eds
with contents, two horses and a consid-
cradle amount of other property on the
farm Of John Steltzer. farmer four
miles from Grimms. The loss will be
nearly $4,000 with small insurance.
A burglar entered the home of Ray
Littlejohn of BaraboO in his absence,
gagged his wife and under penalty of
death made her get her pocketbook. She
dashed through the door with her baby
after giving him the purse, which con
tanned only 81. He overlooked consid-
cradle sum of money
Anton Macho, a farmer was killed by
an interurban car north of Racine. The
mans legs and four ribs were broken
and head crushed to a pulp Macho was
30 years of age.
Christian Sangstand fell dead while
talking with friend on the street n
Hudson. He was Il bachelor. aged Al,
and prominent in affairs. The cause of
death is a mystery. No autopsy was
made.
Eugene C. Shepard of Rhinelander.
who recently negotiated a deal transfer
ring 200,000000 feet of pine in st.
Louis county, Mimi. for 81 900. 900. has
purchased $1,000 acres of heavily tim
bered land in Michigan.
Henry Foth, aged 50, was struck by
st. Paul accommodation freight at Me-
rasha. He was driving cows and start
ed to cross the tracks The body was
horribly mutilated.
Hazel Hazelton, a 6-year-old adopted
child, has been turned over to Humane
Agent Hoehne in Sheboygan by one of
the members of the White Stock Com
pany, who desired that it be placed in a
family where it can 90 to school
Stannie Swatloski was released on the
charge of numbering his father, the cor
oner's jury in Knowlton finding that
while the fatal shot wound was inflicted
BY the son it was done in self-defense,
therefore being justihable homicide.