Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-30
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.
Wausau Laundry Co. cleans carpets


Progressive whist, bridge whist and
cineh cards. for sale at the PILOT office.
Prices nominal. tt.
Subject of lesson sermon for next
Sunday, at the First Church of Christ,
Scientist, will be Esprit"
The session laws passed hy the legis-
lature of Wisconsin, the past winter,
will amount to forty pages.
Teachers examinations were held in
this city the first three days last week
and the balance of the week IN Colby.
Six tarantulas, a full sized one and
FIVE young ones, were found in bunch
of bananas Thursday by David Hyman.
The Thomas flyer automobile of Sig.
Heinemann, of Merrill, was in the city
Saturday evening. The car was filled
with members of the Heinemann family
For SALE-An eight-year old horse.
Weight 500. Sound, gentle and good
working animal. Address,
CHAs. GAULKE, Ringle, Wis.
j 3Otf r +. ID. No.
1t is said that Guy Fuller, of Toma-
hawk, caught muskollonge, in Toma-
hawk river weighing fifteen pounds and
in which was found an empty beer
bottle. There is such thing as carry
ing a fish story too far.
Between attending to the affairs of
the city as mayor, arranging for the
county fair as secretary of the society,
and his own private business as citizen,
nj. ii. Duncan is kept pretty busy just
at present But he bears his work
cheerfully and is not growing about
being overtaxed.
Our people had the opportunity on
Wednesday night of viewing the eclipse
of the moon. The sky was perfectly
clear. At nine O'Clock the edge of the
moon began to darken and at 10 o'clock
the moon entered the earths shadow
and from that tine until p minutes past
II the shadow crept further and further
over the moons face, and at Al minutes
past 12 the eclipse was over.
In communication from q. j. Quig
ley, superintendent of this division of
the G. & N w. Ry., Mayor Duncan is
asked to use his efforts toward securing
the removal of the rock crusher from
the Clarke island to some point. He
makes the request for two reasons
The dust is blown into the cars of the
company and the sight of the orusher
located at that point does not speak
we'll for our civic Improvement.
Rudolph Fulweiler. charged with the
murder of Jennie Richie, near Stratford,
June 80, was w for examination Fri
day morning, but the same was post
poned, upon request of the district at
torney. The postponement was taken
because of the fact that some evidence
which will be forthcoming within a few
days was then not at hand. The de-
PENDANT was not represented by an at
torney. The date set for the examina-
ton is Monday, Aug 8,
Frank Trask, an employe of the Wan
sau Paper Mills Co., suffered the lacera-
ton of one of his hands Friday while at
work in the plant. lie was feeding a
torn sheet of paper into two live rollers,
when his hand was caught The flesh
and muscles were tora from the back
of his hand but luckily no bones were
broken or any cords injured He was
brought to st. Mary's hospital, this
city, soon after the accident
The blue book for this session of the
legislature will not be ready for dis.
tribution before the middle of Sep
TENDER, according to information given
out by the bureau of labor and Stats
tics. The book is compiled in this de-
partment aud the commissioner has
been compelled to have the material
which formerly went into the publica-
ton, greatly cut down to get it into one
volume. The book two years ago con-
tanned ,l66 pages and an attempt is be-
ing made this year to keep it within
1900 pages. The large increase in
election statistics and the census figures
gathered by the state in 1905, are the
main things to cause apprehension over
the voluminousnesS of the record.