Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-24
State News in Brief.

In a fight between non-uniOn molders
at the Case Threshing machine works in
| Racine Samuel Kris was struck with a
| clamp iron Ii is feared his skull is frac-
tured.
Not since 1883 has the Wolf river been
as high as at present. The Hatten LHm-
Der Company at New London is the heav-
lest loser by the breaking of a boom which
held together hundreds of logs.
John Spear. a wealthy bachelor of Will
mot, dropped dead in a hotel at the vii
| lage. Spear, who was GO years old. re-
Gently came to the village from the East.
! His sole heir is said to be William Spear,
barber.
Rev. Edward S. Barkdull. rector of
| Christ church, Delayan, at a special veStry
meeting resigned his charge that he might
accept the office of curate of st. James
Episcopal church in Brooklyn. where DIR.
| George Thomas Bowling is rector. His
resignation was accepted. Rev. Barkdull
came here in September, 1902, from To-
edo Before entering the ministry he
was city editor on the Toledo Blade. He
served as private secretary to Congress
man Mckinley two years.
John Thill of Somerset, charged with
practicing as a physician without a Ii
eense, was found not guilty. Thill, known
as the Somerset doctor" is a peculiar
character. His hair was unkempt and he
wears a black flannel shirt. His face il
almost black from the fumes of drugs he
brews from herbs, it is said. He is be-
ing sought by hundreds of sick people
Thill is a bachelor. As many as $50 pa
tents have Waited him on single day,
although he lives ten miles from a rail-
way station.
The ice in Lake Winnebago has broken
up and cottages and lighthouses have been
damaged along the western shore. causing
big loss.
Announcement was made by Coach
Koehler Of Lawrence university in Apple
ton that in all probability the entire ex-
pense incurred by the visiting teams who
participated in the State basket ball tour
nament will be paid by the Lawrence Ath-
letic Association. The total receipts Of
the three days amount to $500, while the
expense was $500 lawrence originally
agreed to pay only the transportation Of
players.
A jury II the Circuit Court in Keno
sha returned a verdict giving John Zens
aS administrator of the estate of Vim
cenzo Petracci $500 damages against
the Kenosha Gas md Electric Company.
Petracci was killed by coming in contact
with a live wire.
The Chicago and Northwestern has
bought the C. c. Beebe farm of 123 acres
near Racine 1t is said that $500 per
acre was paid. The Chicago ana Milwau-
kee Electric was after the land A re-
port is current that the Chicago and Mil
waukee has made deal with the MiIwau-
kee railway whereby taey will enter Ra-
cine over the right Of way of that corpo-
ration.
A gang of twenty tramps who had
been driven out of Prairie du Chen and
boarded a freight train for La Crosse.
were met al Grand Crossing By a force
of policemen. who refused 10 allow any
Of the party to land.
Reuben +. Little. a resident of Clay
ton since 1866, Is dead Of heart disease.
He was born in England in 1920 and
came 10 Canada in 1888. He enlisted in
the United States regulars in the spring
of 1861 and served in Gen. Thomas d.
vision. Little was the last man to leave
Rossville Gap in front of Chattanooga
after the battle of Chickamauga. He
was wounded at the battle Of Hover's
Gap, SMYRNA, and Corinth.