Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-25
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

kesha.
Genoa has a baseball club composed of
young women.
The Loveland waltz has been adopted
by State dancing masters.
At La Crosse they get rid of tramps in
the parks by turning the hose on them.
Mrs. Andrew Lapp of Reesevilie lived
only seven hours after her aged husband
died.
According to the school census just
completed Burlington has population of
2,910.
New charts are being made of the Mis-
sissippi along the west boundary of the
State.
Prof. Seffel of Dayton, Ohio, has taken
the chair of geology at Lawrence uni
versity.
Shipments of ore from Superior are
100000 tons short of the same period
of 1907.
Fishing has not been so good in years
in Mississippi waters as during the pres
ent season.
The Great Northern ore docks at AL
louez are tied up by a strike among the
laborers
Jared Fox, station agent for the North
western road at Elroy, died from injuries
caused by falling from a handcar.
Eleven ounces of cancerous growth
were removed from a valuable setter dog
at Fond du Lac, but the dog died.
Frank McHensey of Elkhorn attended
a circus in Racine and lost his pocket
book containing $50 and check for $40
Because his mother refused him money
Frank Kenosha. a half-breed Chippewa,
kicked her eye out and nearly killed her
at Spooner.
Although she had never learned to
swim, by a superhuman effort Fannie
Jackson managed to rea III Eeenah dock
when the boat in which she was rowing
capsized on the river. Miss Jackson was
| pulled from the water by Anna Foth just
as she tainted at the edge of the dock.
As a result of a quarrel at the Leath-
EN- & Smith quarry near Sturgeon Bay
| one man is dead and another is being
hunted under suspicion that he is the
murderer. The name of the dead man is
not known; the alleged murderer is Mike
Habeck. Both are Macedonians.
Harvey L. Wells, a former bookieeper
in kenosha bank, who is charged with
embezzling 5000, pleaded not guilty be-
fore Judge Quarles in the United States
District Court in Milwaukee, and was
held to the grand jury in the sum of
$1,000 bail. Wells was captured in Bos-
ton.
AS the result of negotiations during the
last few weeks between Mayor DECK
man of Sheboygan and the City Water
| Company officials, the water works intake
pipe will be extended 5000 feet into Lake
| Michigan. This extension, it is thought
will give the city pure drinking water
| and will do away with polluted water
which is said to be the cause for the
| typhoid epidemic.
The greatest swimming feat that has
| been pulled off in the Duluth Superior
| bay for years took place when Edward
| Thompson, Superior man, swan from
the White City to Connors Point. a dis
| lance of over two miles, in l hour and
| - minutes. Thompson intended to swim
! back to the White City, but be was so
| chilled by his long say in the cold water
that he decided not 70 undertake it.
| At the Sixteenth street crossing of the
Northwestern road in Racine, south
bound passenger train struck horse and
carriage containing J. c. Jorgenson. his
wife and two children, throwing the We
hicle and occupants twenty feet and
wrecking the rig and breaking the legs
| of the horse. Mr.. Jorgenson was cut and
bruised and injured internally, but Mrs.
Jorgenson and children escaped without
! a scratch.
Dominick Bach, aged IS. turned over
| all his money, $500. and has entered the
poorhouse at Ashland, fearing he would
become a public charge when his cash
was gone.
While swimming around the Racine
| breakwater, William Abessor, an expert
swimmer, was taken with cramps and was
| brought to shore unconscious by the life
saving crew.
William Upton, famous as a horse
owner and trainer in the Northwest, died
the other afternoon, aged 81 years. He
had been 8 resident of Kenosha for the
last twenty-six years.
1t is alleged that a deliberate effort
was made TO burn the Four Corners. a
resort in the town of Pleasant Prairie.
The Inmates were routed out at l o'clock
in the morning. when the entire east end
of the building was found to be in flames.
Harold Zonne, formerly of Appleton.
J had a narroA escape from being eremated
in Omaha. He has. been operating one
of the gasoline cars between Omaha ard
Council Bluffs. The gasoline became ig-
nited and in trying TO extinguish the
| flames and save the car his clothing
caught fire. He remained at his post until
he shut off the gasoline. and was fright
| fully burned about the left side