Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-26
State News inn Brief.

John Robinson. resident of Mantle
voc since 1850, is Dead aged 81. Mr.
Robinson was known throughout the
county as 'Uncle John"
Mayor J. c. Schubert of Madison has
announced that he will not enforce the
curfew law or permit children being tax
en- to the police station. He says instead
of arresting the children, the parents
should be arrested for violation of the
curfew.
The Milwaukee Gas Light Company
one of the properties % the McMillin
syndicate of Boston. has announced that
in future rates in Milwaukee will all be
on an S0-cent basis. Hitherto illuminate
ing gas has been sold at 81 and fuel gas
at so cents net.
Arthur Roth. waif was run down by
an automobile truck in Milwaukee and IA
tally injured The boy was deserted by
his mother and had been in the care OF
his grandparents. He attempted to clint
into the freight truck when he slipped
and was crushed.
DR. J. II. Veitch, former sheriff of ke-
nosha county, has been arrested on a
charge of negligence III permitting the es
cape of a prisoner from the county jail
during his term as sheriff. The prisoner
was John Birk. who was sent to jail
for six months. DR.. Veitch waived ex-
animation and was held to the Circuit
Court. He furnished bond.
Dr. w. r. Rhinehart, proprietor OF
Rhinehart's hospital in Ashland, and one
of the best known surgeons in the North
west, was struck in the eye by frag-
ment from a bullet in the Elks shooting
gallery The bullet pierced the cornea
and lodged in the lens. Permanent loss
of sight of the eye is probable and fur,
Their complications are feared.
The receipt Of threatening letters by the
manager of the Waukesha Stone and
Quarry Company, Adolph f. Hourack
and the subsequent burning of the plant
is now capped by an unexpected climax
when Hourack himself confesses that he
had written the threats and had burned
the buildings Hourack's propensity for
writing letters in the name of the Black
Hand caused his arrest. After he had
burned the plant he became alarmed and
wrote two letters to the officers of the
company which were intended to afford
him an excuse for resigning and fleeing
The Milwaukee hospital formerly
known as the Passavant hospital, located
in Milwaukee, was threatened with de
struction from a fire which started in the
operating room on the fourth floor of the
west wing of the structure Damage to
the extent of $4,000 was done.
While VI. O. Spencer of the town OF
Scott, Crawford county, was hauling a
load of wood to Boscobel his team be
came unmanageable and his son. Orlo
about 20 years of age. slipped off the load
and in an effort to stop the horses was
knocked beneath their feet and instantly
killed.
In plain view Of neighbor Horace
Tibbitts. a resident of bingham for sixty
years. committed suicide by blowing out
his brains with shotgun.
A stranger 40 years of age. believed to
be j. W. Rawson of River Falls, DELHI
erately stepped in front of train al the
GAINESVILLE depot and was instantly killed.
st. Joseph's church at the st. Francis
can 0atnOuc convent nea- AdHllOHOC Nds
destroyed by FIRE. The convent was saved
by an improvised FIRE apparatus and the
sisters who formed a bucket brigade Two
trampS who are suspected of having caus-
ed the FIRE probably were cremated in the
blaze. as both were drunk.
Clinton Babbitt. former member OF
Congress. died suddenly in Beloit. at the
age of - years Mr.. Babbitt was born
in Westmoreland y H.. Nov. Is. 1881.
His father was Nathan G. Babbitt, asso-
ciate judge with Joel Parker. formerly of
New Hampshire When - years Of age
Mr.. Rabbit came TO Beleit.
Mrs. William keeley wife of a store
keeper on the Bad River reservation. re-
ceiyed a message ON recent night an
nouncing the death of her daughter. Mag
gle Morrison. known throughout northern
Wisconsin for years as the "Odanah
Queen at Duluth. The shock caused
her 10 faint and she remained unconscious
antil she died.