Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-09
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.
Quiet Day in wausau-Rain Inter
feres With Sports.


The celebration of Independence day
in Wausau this year was rather fee BILE
and dissipated effort and tame when
compared with like celebrations of 9TH
er years. The scheduled program be-
longed to the feather weight class and
then rain interfered in carrying itsout.
There were not many strangers in
town and great many of our towns
people deserted the city and went to
near by villages, where pretentious
celebrations were la progress Had it
not been for the young element. with
its neryeracking fire crackers, torped-
oes, etc, one would hardly have
Guessed that 1t was the anniversary of
the day made famous by the CONT
mental congress Hancock, Jefferson,
Franklin, ct. al There were q few
picnic parties and the street car line
did a rushing business. The horse
races scheduled for the afternoon did
not maferialize, owing to the fact that
the rain of the night before made the
track soft. A base ball game was
played in the afternoon between teams
representing the professional men and
the business men, resulting as follows !:
Business M. ...... 2 so 0 2 o 90 0-l0
Professional M. g o O o o o.
The batteries for the professional
men were Mathews, Regner and Tenn
pleton; for the business men, Sell and
Thresher
The game was witnesses. by quite a
crowd of base ball enthusiasts and it
furnished much enjoyment.
In the villages of Marathon City,
Schoield, Mosinee aud Edgar, there
were picnics, bowery dances, band
music, ETC., which brought out the en-
tire village population and people from
surrounding country The rural peo-
pie entered into the spirit of the day
with vim that our city people might
well emulate.
MIsHAPs.
M. c.. Thorn. who lives north of the
city, is carrying his left hand in sling
On the night of the Sd he was having
pre- Fourth celebration by inaugurating
a fire works display. In lighting what
is known as a flower pot the fuse
burned slowly and he decided to hOsd it
in his hand until it was nearly ready to
explode. 1t proved an unwise deter
mination. The flower pot proved to be
an internal machine. The charge of
powder, dynamite, nitro -glycerine, ly-
dite zylonits, horse shoe nails and other
things of which the thing was com
posed shot onl of the wrong end, with
the result that flesh was torn off Mr.
Thorn's hand from the forearm to the
tips of the fingers. The next time he
handles flower pots, be says, it will be
the household vsriety.
in Sehofield put several caps in dyna-
mite cane and struck the cane on the
cement sidewalk. There was an ex-
plosion and fragment of the cane
struck Andrew Hryshak's large plate
glass window with the result that it was
cracked from top to bottom.
Frank. son of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Pelke, who reside on the town line road
near the Big Sandy bridge was brought
to town suffering from powder burns.
He, in company with other boys, loaded
small cannon. The fuse lighted the
powder and the powder blew out of the
fuse hole, burning his eyes and filling
his face with powder grains. The in
jury to his eyes is quite painful but it is
thought he will not lose sight of them
A small boy OF the name of Willie
Moser, living in the town of Marathon,
had three fingers of his right hand bad
~ burned by cracker and was brought
to town to have them dressed.
While the Calumet clubs dance was
in progress in Elks' hall, some evil
minded rascal threw large fire cracker
against one of the windows, shattering
the same, the fragments of glass flying
in every direction. A Jail sentence
would do such culprits good.
Lloyd Soper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jos
Soper, living at 100 Greenwich street,
had his left eye burned while firing
toy cannon.
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