Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-10
All Over the state.

hc 1huIlHcttt 0Ouuiy ltNelOpnent AS
sociation has been organized TO work in
conjunction with the new state board of
immigration
May Sweetland, 8 years old, was knock
ed down and run over by an automobile
| driven by Alderman Jones in GAINESVILLE.
The girl was seriously hurt
Michael Wundrash. aged 10, collded
with street car while riding bicycle
on his way home in Two Rivers, and was
50 badly injured that he died a few hours
later.
The village council at Hammond has
passed an ordinance prohibiting any one
from teaching children to use blasphem-
GUS language. 1t is said that some of the
older inhabitants there have taken de-
isgEt in teaching the youngsters how to
US; profane words.
1t has just been discovered that the
last Legislature omitted the name of Lit
| tie Lake Butte DIES Mortes from the wat
ers where the fishing with licensed set
lines is permissible. Hundreds of these
lines are in the little lake and wholesale
arrests will be made if they are not
lifted.
Mrs. Alfred Landau of Madison was
severely injured in rcnaway accident.
The buggy struck telegraph pole on top
of a bluff overlooking Lake Monona. Mrs.
Landau was thrown out and had it not
been for an iron rail, which she struck at
the top of the bank, she would have been
precipitated over forty feet and probably
to her death. She will recover
| Nh Nrtt,
ing with a percussion cap the other even
ing and had three fingers on one of his
hands blown off. The accident was a
peculiar one from the fact that while the
! fingers were blown clean Off the remain
ing portion of the hand was not shattered
in the least. The missing digits were
picked up in the yard the next morning.
Walter Donisthorpe, alias Wilson,
former valet of King Edward VII, died
at the Milwaukee house of correction. He
was 66 years Of age. On June Is Will
son appeared in the police court on the
charge of having stolen coat. He adj
mitted the charge, told the court he was
a physical wreck. and asked for years
sentence so that he might be Strengthened
out. The court gave him six months
Word reached Mantowoc from Madi-
| son that a decision of the State board Of
control on the application of Peter Bach
for a pardon from Waupun would be de-
| ferred until Sept. 3 to permit of hear
| ing by Gov. Davidson on the application
of Bach's wife for an unconditional par
don for her husband Mrs. Bach will APP
pear in person to plead for her husband.
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for an attempt to kill his wife, having
shot her three times two years ago.
A tornado struck the home of l.. v.
Moore, four miles north of Ladysmth,
carried the building several rods, and de-
molished IT, Harry Moore, 20 years old,
had his head so badly crushed that he died
| three hours later Mrs. Moore and her
/ little daughter, Ida, were seriously in
iured. A special from Whitehall says
tornado swept through the country north
and east of there, and Mary and Charles
Clementson, living near Strum, were kill
ed and Mrs. Clementson and boy named
Haughe badly injured
| The tornado which struck in the yicin-
! ity Of Brunswick the other night destroy
| ed six dwellings there, among them the
homes of G. i. Moses and j. III. Neil
roy and injured six persons, one of whom
was child of G. =. Moses. In Pleasant
Valley and Clear Creek, besides the Meth
odist church, which was destroyed, were
the barns of Dan Lewis, William Stolp,
Edward Kneeland Charles Stueber, Dam
lei Hart, all new buildings. Grain stacks
were carried high in the air and sheaves
&c x,rboa In, fbo EofI e..
miles.
President Engel of the First State bank
Of Marion denied that Frank Leake
former cashier, bad absconded with
large sum of money belonging to the bank.
He said that Leake had left the institu-
ton last March and to the knowledge Of
people in Marion was in Seattle or Alas
ka He said the bank was not looking
for him, although there was some trouble
when Leake left. Mr.. Engel declared,
however, that the stockholders of the in
stitution had MOI been called upon to
make up any deficit in the banks ac-
counts
The first arrest under the State law
prohibiting smoking by boys under 16
years of age was made by the Madison
police Monday. The boy arrested was Ia
years old. Several attempts have been
made by the police before, but the boys
proved to be the better runners.
Albert Knoot, aged 40, was struck by
a Milwaukee road train while crossing the
tracks at the Oconomowoc station. He
is badly cut about the head. and his in
juries are probably fatal This is the
fourth member of the Ksoot family that
has been struck by a train within three
years.
Judge n. C. Gimn of Fond du Lac
will present to Lawrence university copy
of the Ulster County Gazette, printed
Jan 4. 1900, which contains notice of
the death of George Washington.
The annual fair will be held in Bloom
ington Sept II. II and 49, Dana's mill
tary band Of La Crosse viii furnish mu-
sic for the three days. Purses of S1,GJ0
are offered for harness and running races.
Lightning struck barn and carriage
house belonging to O. L. Young Of Prairie
du Sac and two horses ia the barn were
killed. The barn and surrounding build
ings were burned. The loss is approx
mately $1,000.
Frank Petri, aged p. drowned by fall
ing into the Rock river from the rear OF
launch in which he was returning to
Beioit from a picnic. The body was re-
covered. Petri came TO Beloit from ST
Louis six weeks ago and was employed BY
the Beloit Water, Gas and Electric Com
panv. He leaves a young wife.
The potato marke. has opened for the
season with the price of 45 cents to farm
ers. Few are being marketed. Dealers
are looking for a lively season. The crop
win be about an average and not as large
as last years Scarcity Of vegetables, it
Il thought will have some effect pSon tSe
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