Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
State News in BRIEF.


master at WATERFOWL.
While unloading potatoes John Dagon,
a well-known farmer at Eagle Point, fell
from the wagon and was killed.
The Supreme Court in Madison decided
that fine cut tobacco in leaf wrapper
is not a cigarette and that the sale of
such product is not violation OF the
anti-cigarette law.
Prof. +. G. Smith of Beloit college and
his daughter, Rebeccah, were both victims
of ptonaine poison as the result of eat
ing sandwiches Both will recover with
out serious result.
Four strangers attempted to rob Steve
Quale, landlord of the Commercial hotel
in Hudson. Quale was struck, but not
seriously injured. He knocked one down.
Help arrived and the four were jailed.
The property of the Randolph Canning
Factory Company has been sold to Mr..
Deming of Chicago, formerly editor and
owner of The Gamer, the national publ
cation of the canners. The price paid
was $26,500.
At the session of the Evangelical gen
eral conference in Milwaukee the Cana
dian delegation offered a resolution that
the name of the conference be changed to
Evangelical Episcopal church. 1t was re-
ferred to the committee on revision.
Burr Brakeman, the 12-year-old son of
Harry Brakeman, was accidentally shot
while hunting in cornfeid near Della
van, dying shortly afterwards. The trig-
ger of the shotgun the boy was carrying
caught on cornstalk and the charge blew
off the boys lower jaw.
\ military company is about to be
formed in Shawano to become part of
the National Guard. w. +. Strehlow,
late Of Company A. Fourth United States
infantry, is the leading spirit in the move.
Pouge Dickey of Shawano, one of Roose-
velt's Rough Riders, is assisting.
Jacob Gerbovitz, the Kenosha man who
WIS sent to the State asylum at Winnie
ha 20, has been paroled and returned to
Kenosha. Before he was sent to the asy-
lum Gerbovitz attempted to kill his wife
and then fired a bulle4 into his own
throat. At the trial the jury held that
he was insane. The man now seems to
be in perfect health.
The Woman Christian Temperance
Union home for women, located in Eau
Claire, is having a fight for life. The
directors of the home who are Eau Claire
women and prominent in the State union,
express great surprise at the methods of
the board of health. They state that they
are prepared to meet and disprove any
and all charges rejecting on the home.
Earl Hopkins. a high diver, met terri
BILE injuries in Kenosha when diving from
a platform 80 feet high into tank > feet
square Hopkins threw out his arm to
save himself and the arm was broken in
two places. He was taken to the hos
pital unconscious and it is feared that he
has sustained fatal internal injuries. Two
thousand people witnessed the accident.
Orville Rath. the 12-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs Otto j. Rath, lost both legs
just below the knee by crawling beneath
a Wisconsin Central freight train in Osh
kosh. The boy with companion was go
ing from the Park school TO his home and
attempted to crawl beneath a train stand
ing at the crossing. His companion got
through safely, but Rath was caught
when the train started.
Everett Brown, aged %, well-known
resident of Sussex, vas drowned in Lake
Keesus. The body was recovered. Brown
and his brothers-in-law, William Palm
and Walter Hardiman, were in a rowboat,
not far from shore, when he was suddenly
seized with an epiieptic fit and fell into
the lake. His companions We're unable to
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mother, two brothers and two sisters.
Rushing from the kitchen with her
clothing ablaze, Miss Inez Harlacher fell
unconscious at the feet of other members
of the family in Waukesha. Before the
flames could be extinguished she was ter
ribly burned and is dying. 1t is believed
that the unfortunate woman spilled kero-
sene on her dress and that the garment in
some manner caught fire. She was 30
years of age and is daughter Of George
II. Harlacher.
An important deal in real estate was
closed in Washburn when b. Ungrodt,
hardware dealer, purchased seveEty-five
feet of business property on Bayfield,
street 1t is Mr.. Ungrodt's intention to
De1lu the erection VI Il i.iISe DITCH SloEt
Hugh Fl. Byrne, chief Of police of La
Crosse for the last seventeen years and
one of the best known officers in the coun-
try, died at ST. Francis hospital in that
city after an operation for gall stones,
aged % years. Chief Byrne has taken
part in the capture of sons Of the most
noted criminals in the Northwest during
his long term
a hunting accident resulted in NeIs
Nelson, a lj.year.Old bOg helng manned
at Kenosha The boy hat been hunting
when John Kettlehut pulled the trigger
Of a ten.gauge shotgun in fall and the
charge entered the Nelson boys right
hand The hand was terribly mangled-
Robert Clark has sold the Otter Creek
mill property and twenty-five acres to the
Northwestern Lumber Company. The con-
sideration was about $4,000. The sale
means that the Northwestern company
viii eventually place new dam on the
Eau Claire river. converting the large
power available for general manufactur-
ing purposes.
Henry Roe OF Milwaukee, a conductor
on the Wisconsin Central railroad, held
on the charge of manslaaghter, was found
not guilty, the jury returning a verdict
after being ont many hours. Roe was
charged with being asleep on bis engine
which, without guiding hand, plunged
into another train near Lake Beulah last
March. David Jordan, Chicago, a brake
man. was killed in the wreck. The testi-
mony in the case showed that Roe at the
time he was supposed to be asleep, was
unconscious.
An order issued from the adjutant gen