Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-05
BRIEF STATE HApPEN1NGs.

mas been sold to r. 4. Zacher of Mllwau.
kee
While sitting at breakfast table. James
j. Winter of Cataract was stricken with
heart disease.
The contract for remodeling the La
Crosse public library has been awarded
to John A. Miller for $17,9T1.
Students of Beloit college won in de
bate at Belot with a team representing
Knox college.
Charles knaack of York reports that
cow on his farm has given birth to three
calves and that they are perfect in ev
cry respect.
Burglars broke into the Fi6eld post.
office and stole $40 in stamps and money
Later they broke into the depot. got
dollar and escaped
The Chicago and Northwestern refuses
to pay 5000 for the loss of toe by
Kenosha workman and has appealed t.
the Supreme Court.
George Gillett. one of the oldest ant
wealthiest retired farmers in Racine
county. while unloading cinders from
fat car, dropped dead.
John Blenker, merchant and lumber
man of Sherry, had his /g crushed be.
tween,.t logs while working in his mil
yard. His condition is serious.
Because of domestic trouble lately. Err
nest Hantke, proprietor of hotel al
Grafton, committed suicide by severinc
his jugular vein with penknife.
The new gasoline motor car which viii
be put on by the Northwestern road tt
run between GAINESVILLE and Beloit OF
Monday, is now in the round house.
Two girls who reside about eight miles
south of Eleva nearly killed horse be
longing to an Eau Claire livery firm by
fast driving, and We're placed under ar
rest.
The eighth annual summer school will
open in the normal buildings in White
water on June 30. Prof Pray of Nil
waukee will have charge of depart
ment.
The illegal voting case growing out OF
the primary election in Superior on
March "a had to be dismissed on accom-,
of the alleged spiriting away of wit
nesses
At the quarterly conference of the
American Society of Equity at Knapp il
was decided to establish central slaugh-
ter house and a cold storage plant at OF
near Menomonie.
Nearly 800 Greeks have left Sheboygan
during the last few weeks and the eity's
big colony is almost a thing of the past.
Many of them have left for GAINESVILLE
to do railroad work.
That Joseph Hall, whose mutilated
body was found in homestead shanty
near Washbnrn. died by violent means is
the opinion of the coroner's jury, but no
blame is attached to any one.
Electricity has been installed at the
quarries of the Standard Lime and Stone
hereafter be set off by electric sparks.
Blasts will be planted forty feet down.
The skeletons plowed up By ID. W. Poe
are pronounced by Prof Collie of Beloit
college to be the remains Of mound build
ers. probably 800 years old. Further
plowiag revealed half a dozen more skeie-
tons.
Frightened at a merry widow hat, q
horse belonging to +. {. Kenyon ran
away in La Crosse and was stopped just
as il was about to plunge into the Mis-
sissippi The carriage was demolished.
but the driver was unhurt.
Isaac Stephenson spent $1,000 in Sc
curing the election OF twenty-five La Fol-
lette delegates from Wisconsin. The
United States Senator made the follow
ing entries on the expense blank Paid
to city committee. $lOe. December %,
to II. Ekern $1,000. Total. Sl.ioO" No
explanation Of what city committee is re-
ferred to is made.
The jury in the case OF Anna Kelley
as administrative against the Lake Su-
perior Terminal and Transfer Company
and the Great Northern Railroad Com
pany-a suit for the death of Mrs. Kee
ley-s husband. killed by cars al Superior,
vas returned verdict for $6.t1J for the
plsist;;s
The Croker Chair Company of Sheboy-
gan has closed deal by which il be-
comes the owner of 6.103 acres of timber
land in Houghton and Baraga counties
in the State of Michigan. Ii is covered
with hardwood timber and win be cut for
use in the Sheboygan factories. The
price paid was SS6.369.
A collision occurred on the eastern out
skirts Of La Crosse between street car
on the La Crosse City railway and a
tsreen Bay and Western train The
street ear was smashed into kindling
wood ard the train was wrecked Sew
eral persons are reported injured
For months the Wisconsin Central has
been annoyed By petty thefts from its
freight cars AZ Ashland. AfsSr long in
vestigation Edmund Shant. store keeper
for the company. was detected in the act
and he was sentenced to q year in the
Green Bay reformat0ry An acromplice,
author Seegar. A locomotive engineer.
was fined 500 Ed Jones. wiper. who
assisted. has pleaded guilty