Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
state News in Brief.

Ctate views IN brtSt.
A 1914 pound pickerel was caught in
Rock lake, the largest this season.
Jack Bradley, an old soldier of the Iron
Brigade, died at his home in Mauston
aged 67 years.
Farmers near Marshfeld are making q
good thing out of having their land clear
ed from brush by goats.
Peter Christen of Sparta was instant.
II killed by falling under the wheels OF
caboose at Dickinson, n. d.
Peer Schoat, blacksmith at Ply
mouth, was struck by st. Paul trails
while picking berries and killed.
Frank Hedenreich, aged 16, was
drowned in Fox river, near the st. Paul
railway bridge at Omro while bathing.
Henry G. Baker, formerly of Madison,
has been appointed chief of police of RIA
cine at a meeting of the board of fire and
police commissioners, to succeed the late
Fred Pfster, The vote for the appoint
nent was to /.
Charles Burton of Reedsburg lost
barn filled with hay and grain and
valuable team Of horses by fire. Two
little girls went into the barn to see some
kittens and while there lighted a match
which set fire to the straw.
Fred La Blad, Ashland teamster, fell
dead of heart failure. La Blad was
known as Fatty and had received repeat
cd offers to allow himself to be exhibited
as a freak. He was about 80 years OF
age and weighed 400 pounds.
Milwaukee and Northern railway off.
Gals reported to the Milwaukee police
that 25,000 feet of trolley wire, covering
five miles of roadway between Milwau-
kee and Cedarburg, had been cut down
and carried away by thieves.
The general store, saloon and opera
house owned by Thomas ]. Mccarthy in
the town of Rhine, four miles east of
Elkhart Lake were burned. The cause
of the fire is unknown. The building
and Stock valued at $4,000, were totally
destroyed.
Elsie Kressen, 16-year-old girl, who
has been deaf for years, suddenly regain
ed her hearing while at play in Appleton.
She was seized with a rumbling sound
in her ears, then felt shock like a heavy
blow on the head and thereafter could
hear perfectly.
Miss Fannie Spooner has been appoint
ed superintendent of Pepin county schools
to succeed her sister Lucy, who resigned
The appointment was made by State
Superintendent Cary. The salary Is
5000, and Miss Spooner will have fifty
five schools under her supervision.
Oscar jacobson of Jackson was sem
fenced to seven months at Waupun for
the theft of $50 from his father, a citi-
zen of the town of Martell. He took the
money and started west when he was
caught. His father prosecuted him, and
was very indignant when the MAXIMUM
penalty, one year, was not imposed upon
him.
The finding of the body of Kovack
Geser, aged "a years, IN the water near
the Goodrich dock in Racine, gave riss
to theories of murder Geser disappear
ed Aug %. His body when found had
been Invested Of coat, shoes and other
articles of apparel and there was no
money. He leaves a VIE and child in
Hungary.
James Boss, a farm hand of Milton,
WIS DedlEu anu IDbDtu ny Two tDmpdu-
ions Ross received some money from
his employer, and on the way home took
the two men into his buggy. They re-
lieved him Of his money and threw him
out of the wagon. Fred Chapsey and
Tom Welsh OF Beloit are arrested in con-
nection with the affair.
Joseph Francois, a machinist at the
Ashland division shops of the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad Company in
Kaukauna, narrowly missed being killed
by a peculiar accident. He was turning
a heavy car axle, and in removing il from
the lathe the steam hosting apparatus let
loose of the 7oO-pound burden, and one
Of the hooks caught Mr. Francois full in
the mouth and tore itself loose, tearing
out several teeth and decorating the roof
Of his mouth and upper lip.
The hot, damp weather has caused
acres Of potatoes which were green AID
growing to be struck with a blight. 1t
will make some potatoes worthless for
digging while some, if dug at once and
placed on the market, may be utilized.
'staR Captain" G. H. Davis, arrested
in La Crosse on a charge Of bein. the
head of an interstate movement which is
grating on charitably inclined people by
collecting funds for charitable institu-
lions which do lot exist pleaded guilty TO
the charge Of obtaining money under false
pretenses and was sentenced to the State
penitentiary for one year.
The investigation into the case Of Bony
Lombard, whose body was found in the
town Of Barnes Saturday, point strongly
10 murder, and John Speck, trapper,
hunter and fisherman, has been arrested
The body Of Lombard was found lying
twenty feet from Speck's shanty.
i romantic story of the recent storm
comes from Plum City. Leslie LEWIS,
living near Ellsworth, was to wed Hiss
Carrie Moser at the home of her parents
IN Plum City, and mar of the wedding
guests had gathered @nen the storm came
and turned Rus G.eer into roaring tor
rarst. which young Lewis tried 70 cross In
vasn The wedding has been postponed
AssembIyman G. f. EstaSTook Of Mil
Eaukee vas appointed at a conference be-
<ezeen Gov Davidson Secretary OF state
Frear and Attorney General Gzibert to
revise the town laws TOR separate publ
csSssOD- The Ieglsia tlre Appropriated @soO
FOR this work. Mr.. EstabrooS has fer
number Of years made study Of the
town laws which have been passed by the
LEGISLATURE and is especially fitted for the
work
The blue book win not be ready for dis
tr.bution before the latter part Of Sep
fen1ber or the first Of October. The index
this year viii be an Improvement over
other years, and the additional work i'm
this aranch has delayed the publication.