Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-07

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notice, COG Third street j24-f.
Peter Philips, Albert Kent and
Albert Legge, were arrested Saturday
for riding bicycles on the sidewalk
south of the railroad bridge on Grand
Ave. They were brought into court
| yesterday.
One of the popular attractions Wood
man day was the band of Winnebago
Indians which exhibited here under
the supervision of HI. l.. Mumm. The
| Indians gave exhibitions of their native
| dancing and had a collection of curios
and articles of Indian manufacture
Their tent was always crowded with
| visitors.
Anton Subkrowiak, resident of East
hill, was quite badly bruised while at
work in the Barker & Stewart mill last
evening. He was working back of the
gang saw and at the time log was be-
| ing fed through the saws. The man
with the npronouncable name got
caught in some way and was jammed
between the log and a set of rollers.
He was at once removed to his home,
suffering great pain. Although badly
bruised about the lower limbs it was
found that no bones were broken
Schlatter, the self styled divine heal
er, left the city Wednesday after
soiourn of several weeks, and went to
Merrill where last Sunday he attempted
to exchange some of his divinity for
Merrill cash. While here Schlatter
called two meetings with the intention
of healing all the sick and afflicted in
Wausau in consideration of scads He
was greeted with very slim audiences on
both occasions. Among the predic-
| tons he made while here was that
certain Wausau paper, which had
previously held him up in bad light,
would have its business destroyed by
the wrath of God within a year.
There will be meeting of the COM
mon council this evening. One of the
petitions which will be presented is one
prepared and signed by property
owners living in the Fifth ward, who
will ask that the Stincnfield creek
sewer be extended from Sixth street to
Seventh. The sewer is nearly com
pleted to Sixth street. AS an induce
ment to build, JOS Throm has offered
| to pay one-third of the cost of construc-
| ton through his land which is 120 feet
or about $500. The cost of the extern
sion about 500 feet is estimated at
So, 750. The stone abutments of the
Sixth street bridge have been torn out
to allow the sewer to pass through
The bridge will not be rebuilt, but the
street will be leveled up with dirt over
the sewer
Miss Josephine kirkpatrick died
Wednesday at st. Mary's hospital
after lingering illness with consump-
ton. She was the eldest daughter of
Mrs. John kirkpatrick, who resides at
1705 Third street. The bereaved moth
er has had more than her share of sorrow
/ in the past year during which period
she has witnessed the death and burial
of her husband and son. Miss Kirk
patrick was a young lady held in the
| highest esteem by a very large circle
| of acquaintance, and her death, COM
| ing as it did in the flower of young
womanhood, has caused them the deep
est of sorrow. The young lady was
| seventeen years of age at the time of
| demise. The funeral was held Friday,
the Rev. +. II. Brigham conducting
services.
For SALE-Good farm and ginseng
| garden for sale. Ginseng will pay for
farm in two years. For particulars in
quire of f. O. BULLOCK,
| j24w5. Irma, Wis
Hobart S. Bird, of Madison, has
brought suit against eight of the highest
officials on the island of Porto Rico, in
Guiding the present governor and his
predecessor. The suit is brought in
the supreme court of Brooklyn, n. Y,
and Mr.. Bird seeks to recover 5000 900
damages from the defendants Mr..
Bird is son of Col. Geo. w. Bird, of
Madison, and brother of C. b. Bird, of
J this city. He formerly conducted a
| newspaper in San Juan, Porto Rico, and
his strenuous career is familiar to most
of our readers. He charges that the
parties who are defendants to The suit
wrecked his business, ruined his repu-
tation aud forced him ont of the island.
Mr.. Bird is certainly fighter and not
| lacking in courage and no doubt viii
make if warm for his traducers, He is
at present praeticing law in New York
John Donnelly had narrow escape
from serious injury Friday morning
aud is now nursing a broken rib and a
badly bruised hand. He has been en-
gagged for some time in hauling lumber
from the Brooks x Ross mill in Soho
field TO the city and was so engaged on
the day of the accident. While coming
along the road near the Means place
one of the wagon wheels went into a
deep rut which caused the wagon to
sway to one side and the load of lumber
J was thrown off A few minutes later
\ Mr.. Donnelly csme out of state of
4 Inconsistencies and found that his left
side gave him great pain. He tried to
/ ride TO the city on the wagon, but the
] injury caused him so much pain that
! he was forced to borrow a bicycle and
4 ride TO physicians Office, where the
1 broken rib was set and his hand band
aged up.