Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-12
State News in Brief.

Six young women were held up by three
masked men near Cadott and robbed of
$13. The women resisted pluckily.
Eli Eastman. aged 50. the oldest resi-
dent of Hartland, and a charter member
of the Masonic lodge there, is dead.
Richard Conner. one of the most promi-
aent lumbermen in northern Wisconsin,
died with tuberculosis, at the Cunning.
ham hotel in Spooner.
Frank Byers. aged SO, night Waterman
at the Conner Lumber Company's rail
road roundhouse at Laona, was fatally
burned attempting to extinguish fire
which threatened the building. He died
twenty-four hours later.
Charles Quagin. an Indian, has been
arrested by the sheriff pending an inves
tigation as to the killing of his wife. a
full-blooded Indian, near Brentwood. The
husband it is charged, was intoxicated
at the time the wife met her death.
W. j. Diehl, who pleaded guilty before
Judge Sanborn of the United States court
in La Crosse to the charge of securing
carload lots of wood and sawdust through
fraudulent use of mails, was fined $500
for the offense. Dehl at first pleaded
not guilty. but later threw himself on the
mercy of the court.
In Oshkosh the jury in the case of the
State against Michael Madl, charged with
the murder of Louis Conroy, agreed upon
a verdict finding the defendant guilty of
murder in the second degree. Judge Hal
sey of Milwaukee presided over the case.
DIV of
from fourteen to twenty-five years.
District Attorney Baker of Kenoshs. it
is said. has secured a confession in the
mystery surrounding the death of William
Dryer. who was killed by an automobile
in July Edward Collier is under arrest.
charged with running down the man. Bits
of glass from the shattered lamp of the
machine gave the district attorney clue.
Two brothers. bachelors, Daniel and
Charles McCarty of Manitowoc, have
been summoned to appear March 10 to
defend sanity inquiry which is to be
held upon complaint of relatives who al
lege that the two are incompetent to adj
minister their property, valued at S10,-
900 to $4,000. The complaint alleges
that the two sold farm for which they
had been offered over $1,000 for $1,000
and it is claimed the property is easily
worth $1,000. A brother makes com
plant.
The Wisconsin Dairymen's Association
elected these officers at the convention in
Tomah w. ]. Gillette. Rosendale, presi-
dent: c. l.. Hill. Rosendale. vice presi-
dent Fred Burchard, Fort Atkinson, sec
rotary. and II. X. Loomis, Tomah, Wis,
treasurer.
4 plague of what is popularity known
as the 'seven-year-itch" has descended
upon Chippewa Falls in a very severe
form Physicians are busy trying to
check the epidemic but have thus far been
unsuccessful. The antics of some of these
afflicted with the disease are exceeding
strange.
Henry Dreier. the first settler of How
ards Grove. was found dead in bed after
living down for a nap. He had enjoyed
the best of health He was SO years of
age.
Michael Haley of Oconomowoc was
struck and killed by a fast Milwaukee
road train while walking to work for the
Knickerbocker Ice Company. He was 43
years old and single.
Detective Chris Norbeck famous in the
.Ames administration at Minneapolis. is
on a farm near Chippewa Falls He says
that he has more pleasure in working
around COWS tkan he had as a sleuth. He
will not return to Minneapolis.
The saw and single mill of the Roddis
Lumber and Veneer Company at Park
Falls was burned to the ground. Fire
broke out in the shingle mill addition TO
the saw mill and the whole building was
IN flames almost as soon as the alarm was
given. Heroic efforts of firemen kept the
flames from the planning mill. other build
ings and the lumber piles. The loss is
500 900 and the insurance $4,000.
No actor has been taken in Manito-
woe in the tSse in which Milton Torrison
was alleged tc hare uttered forged pa
per for $40 and prosecution win not be
had. 1t develops that the entire affair
was hoax and that the money was imme-
diately returned.