Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-15

Ward B. Silwell was elected county
clerk of Waushara county at a special
election to fill vacancy.
Isaac B. Sundby was killed by falling
down hay chute in the barn on his
fathers farm, near Summit
J. Gordon Morse, Madison merchant,
was bounded by a blackmailer until le
committed forgery, and then was sent to
prison.
John Clayton, aged % years, employed
at the Berlin Machine works in Beloit.
had his head caught in a pianer and his
skull was crushed, causing instant death.
Henry HaesIer of Madison had his
right leg severed above the knee, his left
foot cut off lengthwise. and his right arm
badly cut while catching a train on the
Milwaukee road at Elgin.
Charles Lapointe was sentenced to
serve four years in the State prison at
Waupun. He was accused of abducting
his own granddaughter from Marinette
on Dec. IS for immorai purposes.
Chief of Police Baker has sent his res
ignation to the fire and police commission
ers of Madison. This action is the re-
suit of the refusal by the Common Coun-
eli to grant Baker an increase of 5000
per year in salary.
Simon A. Sherman, Portage county's
earliest settler and a prominent historian
of the Wisconsin river valley, died at his
home in Stevens Point, aged SO years.
He was pioneer lumOerman. He leaves
a widow and one son.
S. Bieck, a farmer near Helenville,
met with serious accident. While as
sisting in cutting beef, butchers saw in
the hand of another man cut through a
bone and hit Blocks eyeball. penetrating
il and making a wound half an inch
long. He may lose the eye.
C. II. Branch, a rural mail carrier,
was struck by train in Durand and Sc
riously injured. One of his horses was
killed and another was badly hurt.
Branch was carried on the pilot for two
blocks before the train stopped. Mail
was scattered all along the track.
DIR. II. C. Berger. one of the best
known physicians of Milwaukee. was
stricken with heart disease at Racine
while on his way to Chicago to buy an
AUTOMOBILES. and died in a few minutes.
DR.. Berger several times was talked of as
the Socialist Democrat candidate for
Mayor of Milwaukee.
An II per cent gain IN gross earnings
over 1905 for its combined street railway
and lighting departments is shown by the
Sheboygan Light. Power and Railway
for 1QHc
La Crosse will send delegation to the
State board of equalization to PLEAD for
a reduction of the valuation of the prop
erty in that county which has been T.
creased by the State about 100000.
wholesale raid on illicit saloons was
made by officers at Stoughton. Outfits
and goods of eight places were seized and
carried TO Madison. The proprietors were
arrested. Stoughton went dry last
spring.
Rev. Stephen Smith, pioneer Method
ist pastor, died in Winchester. England.
He Joined the Wisconsin conference in
1886 and was an active preacher for
forty-seven years. One of his charges
was at Bay View. Milwaukee. Mr.. Smith
was 76 years of age. He leaves three
sons living at Oshkosh.
Coming to Manitowoe for a holiday
visit at his old home, George c. Flint
was accompanied from Chicago by Miss
Emma Kucera and the two were mar
,ied. Charles Hcindl, who has made his
home at Milwaukee, was accompanied
home by Miss Tillie Thompson Of that
city. and the couple will return as man
and wife