Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-22
WITHIN OUR aoRpERs
The elevator at Jersey. owned by Peter
Westerdahl, burned. Loss $1,000, insur-
anoa c1 zoo

Z. r. Penny, for fifty years resident
Of the village of Springdale, died sudden
y from an apoplectic stroke.
Mrs. Angelina Blake, the oldest resident
of Necedah, died at her home as the re-
suit of paralytic stroke. aged -.
Joseph Meinck. a woodsman, was struck
by falling branch of tree while work
in5 near Odanah. suffering fatal injuries.
Mrs. Fred Fisher, residing on Kewau-
nee street, Racine. was brutally beaten by
a burglar at her home and robbed of SO.
Crank Lapdig, farmer residing near
Neenah. was nearly killed by a bull on
mis- farm. He had four ribs broken and
suffered internal injuries.
Michael Gettzlaff. who died at his home
in the town of Grand Rapids, was one of
the pioneers of Wood county. A wife
and nine children survive.
Guy Potter, son of the well-known
cranberry man, NJ. o. Potter of Gran
moor, was married in Chicago to Mics
Mabel Brooks of that city.
Thomas Wade of Orfordville, who left
home tor GAINESVILLE with considerable
money, is missing, and the police have
been asked to search for him.
William Ashton was probably fatally
injured when he was struck by st. Paul
passenger train in GAINESVILLE and thrown
thirty feet. His horse was killed.
Sheboygan's four banks have a grand
total of ST., 135, 925.6S in deposits at the
present time. The figures exceed all pre-
yious ones in the history of the city.
T.. \. Wcckline and r. " Graves have
made definite proposition to erect
$4,000 hotel in Madison on condition
sworn statement was filed at Madi-
son. stating that the committee in charge
of Senator La Follette's boom for the
presidency last summer spent S1T,629.
The State board of health will estab-
fish an agency for free distribution of
antitoxin to the poor in Manitowoc and
the agency will supply the entire county,
Grieving over the absence of her hus-
band, who disappeared suddenly from his
home in Menasha five years ago, caused
the death of Mrs. Oswald Linsdau there.
Failing twerty feet from a telephone
pole in GAINESVILLE, Thomas Kiger of Graf
ton, w. Va. was iGspaled on stee Jar,
which entered his body. His condition is
serious.
The deal for bringing the Outing Boat
Company of Kankakee, ILL.,, to La Crosse
has failed because the Eote-Berger Com
pany decided to resume work in its north
tide plant
The GAINESVILLE aerie of Eagles has de-
cided to give the Mercy hospital an en-
dowment of 500 a year to be used for
caring for sick members if any should need
assistance.
IN Neenah, Edna the 6-year-old daugh-
ter of Edward johnson. was terribly
burned when her dress caught fire while
she WAS playing near stove. The child
is not expected to live.
Lawrence L. Ladshaw, who swindled
GAINESVILLE hotel out of S7460 by forged
check, and also victimized a Madison hos
terry, has been convicted of a similar of
Tense at Washington.
=. c. Lang was elected president of
Marathon City al a special election, which
election was made necessary because of
the resignation of Herman Vetter, recent
~ elected county treasurer.
The German Benevolent Society has
decided to build new hall on the site
of the present building on East Columbia
street Chippewa Falls, which was erected
about thirty-eight years ago.
Sheboygan physicians say typhoid fever
is on the increase and new cases are re-
ported almost daily. meteorological ex-
animation of the lake water indicates that
it is dangerous for drinking purposes.
4 jury in the Racine Circuit Court rem
dered verdict for $122.5o in favor of
Henry Kortendick against the town of
Waterford Suit was brought for 1928,
the value of horse owned by Korten-
DICK
Dr. John Baird of Superior has been
elected president of the Douglas County
Medical Society. Or. Lewis Moody was
elected vice president: DIR. I. j. OLeary,
secretary treasurer. and DIR. l.. Il. Shee-
han. censor.
As result of injuries inflicted by
thugs i'll Texas. while on his way home
after leaving the army. Parker Townsend
OF Milton Junction. aged 20. has been tax
en- to the home Cor feeble minded at Chip
p,wa Falls.
The retail groeers of Eau Claire have
organized with Hans Peterson as rresi-
dent: r. b. Moore. vice president Adolph
Baehman. secretary. and J. II. Men.
treasurer. Special attention will be paid
to legislative matters.
This season has been the record break
or for building in the history of New
London. Upwards of forty new resi-
dences. four new factories, two big brick
blocks besides numerous smaller build
ings. have been erected.
The Portage county board has taken
preliminary steps toward securing a loan
from the State of 100000, the money TO
be used TO pay like amount of bonds
issued in aid of the Wisconsin Central
more than forty years ago.
Through the efforts of Cashier l.. A.
Baker of the Manufacturers bank of New
Richmond. and the Pinkerton detective
agency, stephen Syckie has been arrested
in Chicago charged with swindling and
held for trial in that city.
Thomas b. Coon died at his home in
Nii0ourn. aged o. years. MT. Coon was
nephew of John Il. Nliet. formerly of
Milwaukee. and came TO this locality as
BOY with Mr.. Vliet when he surveyed
he ground for the location of the village
Of Kilbourn.
With her horse browsing by the road
side Mrs. Julia lane one of the few fe-
male rural mail carriers in Wisconsin.
was found dead nine pailes from Brodhead.
After being absent from the kitchen a
few minutes Mrs. l.. Sezatkowski. at
Thorpe. found her daughter. 4 years old
enveloped in flames. In putting ont the
IRE the mother was badly burned. The
child died few hours later.
One Of the heavy interurban cars of the
Milwaukee Northern Railway Company
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