Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-29
SHORT STATE ITEMS.
TIE Menomonie IRE departmeEf. is
worI ing for an electric fire alarm system
Lake Monona has already frozen over
from Shore ~ shore Maado+a - S.ill

charge.
samuel NJ Honaker. prominent pio-
neer resident of Vernon county, died al
Fort Gay. W. Va.
AT meeting of Fan Claire business
men the Eau Claire Commercial Associa-
ton was reorganized
-Four horses burned to death in the FIRE
which destroyed the barns of the Bostwick
farm. six miles from Beloit.
Ignatius Negeli. charged with robbing
the interurbsn station at Sheboygan
Falls, was bound over for trial.
Il The annual convention OF the Wiscon-
sin State Osteopathic Association will be
held ir Ian Clair Dec 30 and 81
Aifert J. Smith Belrit glovemaker,
who has a cork leg. stumbled over his
artificial foot and broke the other leg.
The Racine Busipess Mems Association
after having been in existence since 1886,
has dissolved. consolidating with the RAJ
cine club.
II. Berman's dry goods store in Wau-
saukee was entered by burglars and the
contents of the money drawer were car
ried away.
Hotel Glynn was destroyed by fire in
Eiand The loss is estimated between ST.
600 and $4,000 The building was owned
BIZ s. A. Glynn.
The Charles Pope Beet Sugar works of
Riverdale are making contracts with Ra-
cine county farmers for planting sugar
beets next spring.
| R.,doInb nnn,or-ta, t3,o loe+ H..
legged counterfeiters, was brought TO the
Rock county Jail to join his two brothers,
Albert and Hugo.
Clifton Weldman. brother of Prof.
Weldman, State geologist was accidental
ly shot by William Simon. near Alderman.
/ Weldman will recover.
George Boynton, an old resident, was
found lying in front of his planning ma
chine at the Page & Lyon factory in New
London. stricken with paralysis.
Automobiles have been prohibited from
entering Mound cemetery, Racine. because
serious runaways have been narrowly
averted when funerals were held.
A branch of the American Woman's
League is to be organized in Appleton and
a movement has been started for the erec-
ton in Appleton of home for aged wom-
en-.
| While riding on a railway velocipede
| Charles Lind and John Bailey were struck
| by a locomotive on the Robbins narrow
gauge road near Rhinelander and serious
ly hurt.
Nicholas Moser was gored by a mad
| L,,ll IL & II
five miles from Monroe the horn entering
the left side, making cash of about four
inches.
There is a local agitation beginning in
| favor of the new system of placing all
New London city enterprises under a reg
| uiar business manager who will have
charge of all work and be responsible
therefor.
The body of David Lloyd of the town
of Cambria was found in a barn at the
rear of the Rio house in Rio. The body
fasad evidently been lying in the barn for
about one week. The cause of death is
not known.
John b. Wilcox OF Wyalusing in plow-
ing his field picked up the tooth of a mas
todon which weighs nearly six pounds.
| The channel through which the nerve
passed is large enough to admit quar-
ter-inch rope.
Richard Taggart, I-year-old Chippewa
Falls boy. had remarkable escape from
meeting instant DEATH He was run down
by horses hauling a large load of hay.
lie was dragged thirty feet before the
| team was stopped
A survey has been completed by l.. X.
PITT of the property purchased by the
i government for a postoffice in Manitowoc,
and forwarded and bids will soon be call
ed for on the building which will be
erected next spring.
The Fellowship Club has taken the
first steps toward securing a modern OPP
era house for Baraboo. 1t is proposed TO
buy lot on which to erect the building
| by private capital. the lot being given
as a bonus to the enterprise.
! Flocks of Labrador crossbeaks have ar
rived at Chippewa Falls and are feeding
on box elder seeds The birds have visit
ed the city only six times in the last TWEEN
/ ty-ive years, and each time they have been
here it has been cold winter.
Woodsmen have found the dead body of
Samuel Kowalski near a trail leading
from Gilman to one of the John s. Owen
Company's camps. 1t is believed that
Kowaski. in walking from Gilman, lost
his way and was frozen 10 death.
! While trimming a Christmas tree in his
store decorations in Neenah, j. b. Mo-
land became ignited from candle and
before he could be removed from the blaze
which soon enveloped the tree and him
self, Moland was seriously burned.
The Dells Paper and Pulp Company
will be the heaviest taxpayer in Eau
Claire this year, the total sum of the COM
pany's taxes amounting to negrIy $4,000.
| o. II. Ingram is the heaviest individual
taxpayer with sum spproximating ST.
600.
The attorneys for the Sheboygan
Light, Power and Street Railway Com
pany have concluded to condemn the adj
| ditional land wanted for the right Of way
through the Riverside for the new route
of the interurban line through that dis
| trict.
Howard Heup. aged 10 years. of Me
nashE. was rescued from drowning by
his companion, Orrin Johnson. aged 16
years. while skating on Lake WinHebago.
| The Heup boys clothing was frozen TO
/ his body in such a manner that he was
pushed to shore in a standing position by
| johnson.
The little daughter Of Edward Johnson
| of Neensh lies at her home in a critical
condition as a result of burns received in
an accident when her dress caught FIRE
while she was playing near a stove.
| The Chicago and Northwestern. Raj
road Company has given another donation
to the Amigo \. NJ. c. A. in the sum Of
500. The local association is q com
/ bined city and railroad Y. NJ. c. A.
After eating hearty breakfast. Mrs
Margaret Speich. widow Of Matthias
Speich. pioneer furniture manufacture
and undertaken OF Racine. tell over on a
sofa and died Of heart trouble aged 81
years