Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
State News in Brief.

makes the fourth appendicitis case in the
physicians family.
In an explosion at the Coming mill of
the Latin & Rand Powder Company at
Pleasant Prairie. Norman Phillips Of
West Virginia. 30 years old, was killed
ard Walter Harren and John Nolan were
fatally burned. The cause of the explo-
sion is not known. The damage to the
buildings is slight.
II. H. Bartells, a civil engineer of
Crivitz, was arrested on the charge of
forgery, committed at Springfield, Mo.
Bartells was taken into custody at Cri-
souri, is behind the prosecution. Friends
expressed the opinion that Bartells is
mentally irresponsible.
From Wyandotte comes the report that
the towns record of freaks has again
been broken. Lee Du Mond, aged 8, has
parted company with a live lizard two
inches long. The child was taken with a
vomiting fit, and when given medicine the
lizard was, brought forth. 1t died from
the heat, and the boy now eats as he
never did before.
Lightning struck the Ellsworth high
school building during a storm. The bolt
tore off large section of brick wall, de-
stroyed the electric meter and put out all
the lights in that section of town. 1t
also blew the fire whistle. which is auto
matically worked by the electric alarm
system, and had the whole town out in
the downpour of rain.
At 10 o'clock Tuesday, in the presence
of 200 people, the first stone of the new
$6.000,000 capitol building was laid in
Madison. There was no ceremony The
boulder, which weighed about a ton, was
hoisted into place on the northwestern
corner of the foundation by derricks, OPP
Grated by four men. A second stone was
laid just before noon.
Rose Gallatin, the 14-year-old daugh-
ter of John Gallatin of Menominee, was
attacked and nearly killed near that city
the other night. She was struck down,
several teeth knocked out, and was finally
left in an unconscious condition in a grain
field near the highway. Her assailant
used bicycle in escaping at the approach
of teams. Three suspects have been ar
rested.
While attempting to initiate the hang
ing Of a criminal about whom he had
read, Carl Justman, the 10-year-old son
of Louis Justman of Unity, lost his life.
The little fellow was playing about the
barn while his father was hauling in
grain. When the men returned from the
field they found the boy hanging from
one of the barn posts by a short piece Of
rope attached to a staple.
After living in poor circumstances near
~ all of his life, Tom Hendrickson, a
farmer living near Sioux River in the
town of Washburn, thinks that riches are
now in sight and claims to have discov-
cred an iron mine on his place. Mr..
Hendrickson is so enthusiastic over the
discovery that he refuses almost any price
for the land although lana adjoining his
is being sold at S15 an acre.
The largest log cut in many years in
northern Wisconsin was split into four
sections by dynamite and sawed into
boards of large and rare size at the
Chippewa Falls mills. The timber was
6 feet in diameter and IA feet long 1t
was cut two years ago and was since
on exhibition Thousands of people have
seen it and gone away in wonderment at
the size of the famous Chippewa log"
Attorney General Frank L. Gilbert has
rendered an interesting opinion relative
to the raising of license fees under the
local option BILL District Attorney Hust-
ing of Fond du Lac county has asked the
Attorney General whether the village of
Eden, which now charges its saloons $3.50
for a license, can be permitted by a vote
under the law to decrease this license to
5000. The Attorney General holds that
under the law a license fee could be in
creased until it reaches the maximum, but
never decreased unless a no-license period
interyenes.
Frederick Craneheld, secretary of the
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society,
after a trip of inspection of the crop
situation. said the farmers of DaDe coun-
~. this State, alone will lose 100000
because the climate conditions of this
year have been against the tobacco crop.
Monday" tie 19-vear-old negro bog
who was picked up in South Carolina as
a mascot by members of the Second Wis
consin infantry during the Spanish-Amer-
jcan war. was arrested in Fond du Lac
on the charge of attacking the mother of
his benefactor, Capt. L. Seeve Of Com
pany E.
Theodore Kronshs e. Jr.. Of Milwaukee
was appointed normal school regent by
Gov. Davidson to succeed John Roemer,
resigned. The appointment takes effect
at once and continues until 1913.
Rice at weddings has been placed under
the ban Of ST Mary's Roman Catholic
church of Racine Bridal couples hence
forth will not be annoyed by the custom
until they get out of sight Of the edihce.
While Henry Highland, a Beloit sa-
loonkeeper was attempting 10 eject Al
bert johnson from his saloon, the latter
slashed the saloonkeeper on both arms
severely with a pocket knife Johnson
was arrested.
That domestic corporations which fail
TO file an annual report Of their opera
tons will suffer a penalty and may have
their charters revoked is the spirit of
letter sent BY Secretary Of State Frear
to the $1,000 corporations of the State.
He calls attention 20 the law, which com
pels these concerns doing business for
profit and incorporated in this State, to
file an annual report He has construed
the law 10 include reports Of business for
the years 1905 and 1906. If not filed BY
March / the Secretary demands a penalty
Of SO, and if delayed until next Janu-
arr the articles OF incorporation will be
forfeited. A number Of the corporation
have already fled