Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-30
All Over the state.

William Arndt, % years OLD, OF NIL
vaukee was crushed by an elevator ana
died.
The r. ]. Dowd Knife Works at Be
lott were damaged by fire to the extent
of $4,000.
Nora Murphy. aged % years, died at
the City hospital in Madison from burns
received while cleaning a skirt with gaso-
line.
Adam Sickles, the secretary of the
Oneida Indian fair, says the Indians have
already taken steps to give fair next
year.
Mrs. Beyersteadt of New Holstein was
struck by a freight train and perhaps ia
tally injured while driving across the
tracks.
Stefin Thon of the town of Harrison
lost his barns, granary and outsheds by
fire. His loss is $4,000, with Insurance
of 800.
Members of the Carl Weber and Henry
Sturm families of Fond du Lac were poi
soned by eating smoked pork which was
not cooked. Lolita Weber may die.
Bitter litigation is anticipated between
the Milwaukee Electric Railway and
Light Company and the city of Racine on
the question of placing conductors on the
cars.
The congregation of the Roman Cath
olic church of the Immaculate Concep-
ton in Sheboygan has ousted the Rev.
Father Jodyzius, the priest in charge. lie
refuses to quit and sleeps in the church
basement. Archbishop Messner was APP
pealed to by the congregation.
Elizabeth Buss, II years old, daughter
of William Buss, a Chippewa Falls farm
err. was accidentally shot and killed by her
brother John, IA years old. The bullet
passed above the girls heart. John had
been out hunting crows and stopped to
talk with his sister, who was sitting IN
front of the window. He was toying
carelessly with the trigger when the gun
discharged.
With a report that could be heard for
several blocks the cylinder head OF
3,OOO-horse power Vilter engine, in the
pIant of the Milwaukee Electric Railway
and Light Company in Racine, blew out.
The head struck condenser and then
large generator. Other pieces went
through windows and struck the Miller
Manufacturing Company's plant. EN-
pIoyes of the company and also of the
Miller company believed there was a boil
er explosion and ran from the buildings
It is evident that Fond du Lac imbib-
ers have awakened to the real situation.
They realize that if their wives or rela-
lives complain to the Council their pic
lures will be posted in the saloons as
habitual drunkards. The other afternoon
a man walked into the police station and,
while trying to maintain a dignifed air,
said. 81 want to be arrested. / don't
want my wife to have me arrested, as |
would have to have my picture taken"
The patrolman on duty refused to make
the arrest and the man departed.
The thorough drainage of 100000
acres of undrained marshy or clay soil
in Wisconsin would increase its value
s1OO.OO0,000, according to the estimates
Of Prof. A. r. Whitson, soil physicist of
the University of Wisconsin.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the Madison and Fond du Lac
Railway Company, capitalized at $780,
coo. The system proposed is known as
the protected third rail. 1t viii be an
air line and will not be deviated more
than three miles. The route will touch
at Windsor, Columbus, Beaver Dam and
Waupun.
Walking several miles with her chill
dren at night to escape the alleged cru
city of her husband. Mrs. Charles Scha-
cite Of Schleswig is i'll from exposure and
the shock.
Seventy-two Nanitn=0c county corpo-
rations have failed TO file the annual re-
mort with the State as required by law,
according to notices sent out by the Sec
rotary Of State.
The Wisconsin Archaeological Society
will mark a large number of Indian
mounds in ManitowOc and county next
spring. II IS said that Manitswoc county
i richer in Indian mounds and relics than
any county in the State.
stephen kennedy Of Milwaukee.
member Of the East Side Milwaukee High
School team, was rendered delirious in a
gfme between the KenOsha and Milwau-
kee Hizh School teams in Kenosha. Il
required four men 70 hold him in an au-
tonobile when be was taken to the hos
pital. He revived later.
Lon Conroy. a bartender. lies az S..
AIarv's hospital. Oshkosh, with a bullet /
70 his abdomen and Michael Madl a I
hack driver. is in jail accused Of the I
shooting After a few words over a triv- /
isl matter Madl left the saloon. purchas-
"A a revolver. returned and fired point
blank at Conroy. Aladl was then over
powered