Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-07-31

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notice, COG Third street. j24-tf.
Bert Bibbv. who is at present located
in Fulton, Ala, has announced to his
friends in this city that he will be mar
ried in that city Aug. 30, to Miss Lora
Clark, and expects to visit Wausau
later.
The Brooks & Ross Lumber Co.'S
mill in Schofield will be closed down
Thursday to allow the men to attend
the Nj. w. A. picnic in this city. A
majority of the workmen belong to the
order.
The berry crop in this county is re-
ported to be somewhat of failure, be-
cause of continued drouth. This is
noticeable by the fact that few children
are peddling berries about town this
summer.
Peter Ring, town of Kronenwetter
farmer, has lost his power of speech.
This occurred last Tuesday afternoon
while he was working in a hay field.
He fell to the ground and one side of
his body became paralyzed.
The Northwestern Ry Co. will spend
So, 000, 900 this year in improving the
roadbed of the Ashland division and its
spur lines. Part of the work is now be-
ing carried out on the Marshfield branch
between Wausau and the latter city.
Next Sunday will be big day in
Athens among Catholics. A new
church which has been in process of
erection this summer has been COM
pleted and will be dedicated that day.
Three excursion trains will bring many
visitors to the village.
The past few days of hot weather has
greatly increased the passenger traffic
of the valley division of the st. Paul
road Most of the people going north
are tourists bound for northern lakes.
In another month this traffic will be-
gin going the other way.
The score made by Co. G two weeks
ago at Camp Douglas at collective fir
ing has proved to be the record for the
year. None of the companies of either
the First or Second regiments or the
Tenth separate battalion have been
able to equal it. Co. G's score was 385.
The local base ball team has secured
number OF additional players the past
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Marshfield. The team now has several
players on the disabled list among
them Lang one of the clubs most reli-
able pitchers, who is suffering from a
badly sprained knee which may put
him out of the game for several weeks.
During the present month two at
tempts have been made to burn the
lumber yards of the Yawkey- -Bissell
Lbr. Co. near Hazelhurst At the first
attempt quite a quantity of lath and
shingles were consumed. In the last
attempt pile of lumber was burned
The company has offered $500 reward
for information leading to the arrest of
the guilty party.
On Thursday evening last burg
lar attempted to gain enterance to the
home of Mrs. Adelaide Gamble, 903
Second street. He had cut hole
through a wire screen, which would
have allowed him to crawl through the
window, but Mrs. G. K. Turner, who
lives next door, discovered him, and as
soon as the man saw that his presence
was known he ran away.
Jerry Sullivan, of Wausau. Wiscon-
sins "little man." whose name is a
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States, is in the city this week the guest
of his brother, Officer Michael Sullivan
Jerry has for many years played one of
the leading roles in that we'll known
comedy, "McFadden's Row of Flats" :"
He has large acquaintance in Rhine
ander.-Rhinelande New North.
The old blind man who recently ap-
peared in this city and occupied street
corners while he ground out discordant
notes on an old accordian and solicited
aims from people, was arrested last
week in Marshfield on a charge of
vagrancy and next morning driven out
of town. Although he plays the poverty
act wherever he goes, nevertheless
when searched by the Marshfield
officers his pockets were found to con-
tain enough money to start small
bank in operation. In giving this class
of mendicants assistance, people are
not always practicing charity in the
right direction.
An effort is being made to secure a
pardon for BLACK Bart" Holzway,
who is serving a life sentence in the
Marquette, Mich, prison. Nearly all
of our readers will remember the spec
tacular robberies committed in this
state fifteen years ago by this man. He
started out as q robber of mail stages
and finally became so bold as to hold
UP, single handed. the passengers and
crews of mail trains. He invaded this
section of Wisconsin and held up a
train near Abbotsford. He appeared
in Junction City at one time, but two
detectives of the Central road were hot
on his trail and he left without commit
ting any robberies For a time it was
not safe to travel He finally wound
up by shooting three men near lake
Gogebic, one of whom died, and for
that crime he is now serving a life
sentence. He has manifested evidences
of reformation which has touched the
sentimentalists who are seeking his
pardon. Those who understand his
craftiness take little stock in his
evidence of reform. A gentleman
boarding at the City hotel used to live a
neighbor of "Black Bart" in Shawano
county, and says that he was always
considered to be off mentally.