Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-24
SHORT STATE ITEMS.

twenty boy DaDleS TO TWO girls were
born in Whitewater the last six months.
Reinhold Bonack died at the age of 81
years at his home, two miles west from
Mayyille.
August Anderson, unmarried, section
hand, was instantly killed by train at
Stockholm.
Joseph Beaver, aged %, of Loyal, who
was fatally injured by fall from a rail-
road car, is lead.
William Winlock, colored, is accused
of the murder of Albert Neumann in SUI
porior. The evidence is circumstantial.
The citizens of Appleton think they are
entitled to dollar gas. For years the COM
pany has been charging $1.45 for illumin-
ating and $1.30 for fuel gas.
The shipment Of deer from Glidden this
year is ia, against 145 last year. Gid
den is considered one of the largest deer
shipping stations in the State.
Crawford Wheeler, 13 years of age,
while bathing in an Eau Claire club nata-
forum, got beyond his depth. He was
under water for several minutes and near
ly drowned.
Two farmer boys, who were hunting,
found the body of Alex Linn, aged so,
who disappeared last September, frozen
in the ice in a marsh near Friendship.
The body had to be chopped out of the
ice, only the head being above the water.
A $500 fire destroyed the entire stock
Of groceries, wall paper, paints and holt
day goods of Charles Sommers in Reeds
burg. The building was owned by George
Hilbert and was damaged $1,000 to ST.
500. The losses are partly covered by
insurance.
jerome Schifman, aged IA, employed
by the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany as a messenger and son of j. A.
Schifman, proprietor of the Wisconsin
Central hotel, drowned in the Fox river
while skating near the second" bridge,
two miles north of Waukesha.
Because Frank Follan's horse is alleg-
ed to have eaten the hair stuffing and 9TH
er ingredients of the cushions of s. J.
Stones buggy, damaging the vehicle to
the extent of $3.50, Stone is suing be-
fore jury in Beloit municipal court to
recover the amount from Fallon.
Twenty-Five years ago Mrs. George
Hearle of Fond du Lac lost a valuable
brooch which was stolen from her home
The other day she received it through the
mail, but refused to say who sent it to
her. 1t is believed that the person who
stole the jewel became conscience-stricken
at the approach of Christmas and repent
ed.
Appealing in the name of good order to
enraged citizens, who threatened lynehing,
to let the law take its course, Mrs. John
Fryslie saved the Efe of Fritz Tedeson,
accused of attacking and seriously injur-
ing her daughter in Neillsville. The mob
needed her appeal. Tedeson was placed
in Jail. The girl was rescued from her
assailant by a boy.
A second attack upon woman in
Beloit was made by foreigner, supposed
to be an Italian. Mrs. Fred Perkins was
on her way home when she was attacked
by a stranger. Her screams aroused a
resident, who came to the door and fired
a revolver in the air and the man fed.
Fire totally destroyed the planning mill
and electric light plant of Frogner Broth
ers & Sons g. lola. The loss is partly
covered with insurance. The company
viii sustain loss of at least 5000 As
the company furnishes the business places
with lights, the fire leaves the village in
darkness.
If the Racine board of education has
its way the curfew law will again be
revived in tae city and children viii be
forced to he for home at night before
the hour Of 2 O'Clock.
President Beggs of the Milwaukee
Electric Railway and Light Company es-
Inmates the loss Of the recent fire, which
destroyed lie Fa1well avenue barns and
contents at $4,000
Mrs. Charlotte E. White, daughter Of
the late Gov Ludington- fled suit in Mil
yankee Against Mrs Frances l. White.
her motlier-in-law, for S125,vge on the
charge Of alternating tbs affections Of her
husband
Frederick Koeiialer- 10 years old. lies
unconscious at bis home, and Fred Last
and Fred Olson. about the same age, are
seriously ii. the result of drinking the
contents 81 bottle which they claim
an old mao gave them on the street in
Racine The police are investigating The
boys declare that an old man asked them
If they wanted bottle OF root beer; that
they took II and drank the contents An
became ussconscious and were in that con-
dition for hours.
Leonard Knoll, a boy Is YEARS old
whose houe Is in Berlin, has beta taken
home by his father. after having run
away 10 Oshkosh. He left home because
be was lonesome for an older brother.