Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-19
All over the state.


gun was accidentally discharged
Mrs. Hanorah Casey venney of Beloit
celebrated her one hundredth birthday.
Her eyesight is good and aer mind is
clear.
f. G. Alton, a brakeman on the Mil
waukee road. was seriously injured by be-
ing caught between two moving cars near
Sayner.
Peter Hoffman of the iowa of Milla-
dore was killed in runaway accident.
His wife suffered broken leg and other
injuries.
Mrs. Hannah Amelia Getting, aged 81
years, of Red Cloud, Neb., died at the
home of her brother, Salmon Epson, in
the town of Bristol.
Glen Godfrey of the liveryman firm of
Godfrey & Taylor, died in Osceola after
an illness of seven weeks, aged 20. He
leaves wife and one child.
Charles Zaun of jackson was acct
dentally shot and killed by a youthful
companion, Louis Laverrenz, who missed
squirrel, the bullet hitting Zaun.
Charging that she used knife on his
COW, cutting several gashes that required
the services of veterinarian, Arnt Olson
has caused the arrest of Mrs. NJ. NJ. Bar
Der, cook at a Hayward hotel.
George Snidervin, who was found gull
ty of conducting blind pig" in the
town of Waterford, was fined $50 and
costs, and took an appeal, withdrew his
appeal and paid the court $1,000.
was probably fatally injured by the acci-
denta. discharge of his shotgun in trying
20 climb through a barbed wire fence
while hunting. One arm was amputated,
Frank Eckes of Mansfield, aged 10,
while showing cousin his new shotgun,
accidentally discharged the weapon and
the charge striking his S-year-old sister
Beatrice in the abdomen, killed her in
stantly.
Many pond net fishermen on Green bay
will be obliged to buy new Irvine before
beginning operations next spring. An I'M
noticed paragraph in the fish law will
cause this additional trouble and expense
for the fishermen.
Max Reinholdt, former supervisor from
the Nineteenth Ward of Milwaukee,
pleaded guilty before Judge Brace to the
charge of accepting a bribe of 500 in
connection with a county hospital con-
tract several years ago. He was fined
$780,
DR.. Herring of New York, an expert en-
gineer, who is visiting in Milwaukee, has
suggested the use of Lake Superior as a
reservoir to allow an increased flow of
water to the Chicago drainage canal and
to keep the water supply at Niagara Falls
up to normal.
Lee G. Bunnell, until recently telegraph
editor of the Eau Claire Leader, and son
of Prof. E. G. Bunnell, a prominent In
diana editor, has become a member of the
faculty of the Laporte, Ind, high school,
succeeding Prof. 0. A. Schotts as prin-
cipal of the departmental grades.
William j. Carney of Milwaukee, sec
rotary to C. C. Wait of the International
Harvester Company, while duck shooting
on Green Bay, near Point Sauble, was
shot and instantly killed by one of his
companions. The party of three was in
blinds When ducks passed over all shot
at the same time. The charge from one
gun went into Carney's head and body.
Lulius Luedtke, a town of Harrison
farmer, who is the father of fifteen chill
dren, residing in Milwaukee, st. Paul,
Peoria, H., Memphis and other places,
will leave shortly for tour of the cities
where his children are residing, paying
them his annual visit. Ten days will be
spent with each child, so he will be kept
away from the farm most of the winter.
While being initiated into u fraternity
of Lawrence university, Henry Jeffers of
Appleton was wrapped in a shroud and
placed in a coffin and carted to Neenah at
midnight, where he was laid in a grave,
and told he would be left there until
morning. The canaidate refused to con-
sent to the ceremony, and kicked off the
cover of the coffin, which was later re-
turned to the undertaken il a badly de-
molshed condition.
Mrs. Nicholas Kitowski Of Carson was
literally blown to pieces by the explosion
of stick of dynamite that had been plac-
ed on the stove to dry. Two of her chill
dren, who were clinging to their mothers
skirts when the accident happened, were
so badly injured that they cannot survive.
third child was struck by piece of
the stove, the iron being imbedded in its
forehead A fourth child was also struck
by flying metal, but will recover.
In a report on the potato experiments
carried on at the various experiment sta
tions of the college of agriculture, j. G.
Willard, instructor in horticulture, says:
The yield of potatoes in Wisconsin for
the last season is estimated al about two
thirds crop. Harvest was earlier than
usual, partly because of the uneasiness
caused by the heavy freeze in the fall of
1906. Those who marketed their crop
early in the season realized aboat 40
cents bushel.''
The statement that athletics as far
as the local high school is concerned have
a tendency to cause the students to be-
come addicted to the use of intoxicating
liquors" made by the Fond du Lac super
intendent of schools, is said TO BE- in the
main partly responsible for the ban plac-
ed on athletics there and the cancelng OF
all football dates of the Fond du Lac
highs since the local eleven was defeated
at Appleton. The actions of some of the
StuueUtS dlttT tue Sdlut II Shlu " nave
caused the displeasure of the teachers.
The State has refused to pay the board
and room rent OF State Game Warden j.
W. Stone of Barron county, while in
Madison The Attorney General holds
chat this is the headquarters of his Office
and that no expenses can be allowed.
The Pittsburg Coal Company has let
contracts to the Barnett Record Com
pany. and the Great Lakes Dredging
Company for work on its big coal dock
at AIlouez bay. Superior. preparatory TO
the enlargement and rebuilding of that
structure. total Of 100000 will be
expended. Complete new steel machinery
is to be one of the improvements.
Born in Lowden county, Virginia. in
1910, being now "a years of age, Ben
jamin II Longley Of Manawa has again
been denied a pension. Mr.. Longley en-