Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-29
ALL OVER THE STATE.

Superior coal dealers are experiencing
a car shortage and many western ship
ments are being held up.
The total assessment of the city of She
boygan is $9,605,0S5 on realty and ST.,
257,07S on personal property
Mrs. Neal Issetts of Kenosha was shot
in the arm while passenger on a North
western train near Clybourn Junction,
III.
The Chicago Commercial Association
has succeeded in getting a reduction on
freight rates to Sheboygan of about 10
per cent.
Mrs. Charles Jeske committed suicide
by hanging at Hudson. She was awaiting
an insanity examination. Her husband
and child survive.
After being out three hours a jury ac-
quilted John Strube of Lannon of
charge of attempting to assault Louisa
Zahn, 12-year-old girl
The Kenosha police have been asked to
aid in finding some trace of A. Velebuy of
Zion City, who is thought to have fallen
by the roadside and died.
H. r. Cook of New York City has been
placed in charge of the gas plant of the
Eastern Wisconsin Railway and Light
Company of Fond du Lac.
Albert Mueller of the town of Wien
died from blood poisoning. The infection
came from a scratch received on the sharp
edge of an iron wagon tire.
Children playing with matches caused
fire on the Rummrill farm at Gibbs
lake, Rock county. Two corn cribs and
some farm machinery were destroyed.
At Fairchild women have been bitten
by snakes, among them Miss Jean Foster
and Miss Frederick, but it is not expected
that any serious results will follow.
Owing to the prolonged drought, the fish
in the Manitowoc river are dying by thou
sands. 1t may become necessary to bury
the dead fish on account of the stencil.
The new pier to protect lake shore
property in ManitowOc against the en-
croachment of the waves and which is
3.52S feet in length, has been completed.
If negotiations looking to the purchase
of the old George Mari farm go through,
Kenosha will have a new 100-acre Gene
terry. to be laid out on the lawn and park
system.
While attempting to assist his horses
in pulling a heavy load of household goods
up an incline, c. V. Benjamin of Neenah
was badly injured The load tipped over
on him.
On a ten-year contract the Kenosha
Gas and Electric Company offers to fur
nish lights to the city at the rate of $50
a lamp on moonlight and 500 on an all
night schedule.
J. F. Briggs of Wahpeton, n. D. is in
Oshkosh visiting. He claims to be the
oldest living Civil War veteran. Mr..
Briggs is 90 years of age and enlisted in
the First Wisconsin cavalry.
Dorothy Garner, years DID, fell head
long from the second story of the Taylor
block in Chippewa Falls and struck the
alley pavement. She was picked up in
an unconscious condition and it is not be-
lieved she will survive.
Hazel Goss, 8 years old, was fatally
burned in Racine. The child played with
a lighted lamp, upset it, and her clothing
and the bed caught fire. Only two months
ago the father of the little one sustained
injuries from which he died.
The board of education has taken up a
plan for the opening of night schools in
kenosha for the education of foreigners.
The board is also planning to add de-
partment of sewing and cooking in the
high school as part of the manual train
ing course.
Stephen Bromley and Belle Miller, who
are trying to be released from State pris
on, where they are serving life sentences,
were granted a rehearing in the Supreme
Court. They were convicted two years
ago for killing Thomas McGawin in their
saloon near Jump river.
D. L. Nancy of Fond du Lac, who
was brought to St. Mary's hospital in
Oshkosh, following an accident on a
freight car on the Wisconsin Central road.
died in the hospital Wednesday. He has
been in a serious condition. suffering from
a depressed fracture of the skull.
Andrew Vanlowski. Pole. employed as
a section hand for the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul road. terrorized the residents
of the village of Franksville the other
night. and after he had cut the head of
a man. named Fritz Winters. split open
the head of his mother-in-law, broke two
ribs of one of his children and seriously
injured two others. he was brought to the
jail in Racine and locked up. Nanl0wski
will be charged with assault and intent to
do great bodily harm.
Miss Zelia Harris, daughter of James
Harris. president of the Janesville BARB
Wire Company, fell from third-story
window. breaking her right Il, and sus-
tanning serious internal injuries.
r. ]. Wilton. formerly of GAINESVILLE.
now of Butte, Mont. was assaulted by
holdup men in that place. He was fired
upon when he refused TO halt the bullet
taking effect in his right thigh.
Herbert Lee, a maehinist, employed at
the J. l. Case Threshing Machine Com
pany in Racine, was hit on the head by
a heavy weight which flew from a ma
chine. His skull was fractured and he is
in a critical condition.
A stranger styling himself John Klum
and giving Philadelphia as his home. is
sought for by several Racine persons of
whom he borrowed small sums of money
while waiting for q belated check"
The Racine city council has accepted
the offer of David G. James 10 buy the
Erskine property as trustee OF the city
for S20,S47 for park purposes, the city to
huy of him when money is available
The GAINESVILLE police claim to have re-
ceived from Leo Kingsley, who was cap
tured after hard chase, a full confession
that he is Jack the Hugger, who has been
women after nightfall for the
last six months