Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
MINOR STATE ITEMS.

w. ii. Spencer was reelected president
of the Manitowoc Cooperative Associa-
ton which conducts mercantile estab-
lishment.
The Daniel Shaw Lumber Company
sold 5000 acres of timber land in Taylor
and Chippewa counties to Madison paE7
ties for $4,000.
The La Crosse Cornice and Ceiiiag
Company has increased its capital stoc,
from $4,000 to $4,000. w. S. Cargi-
is president
st. Johns Military academy Of De,G
field will establish a permanent summer
camp for students at Trempedleau bay
on the Mississippi.
A petition is being preaGred asking tie
establishment of a rurs. mail route for
the Danforth and Flat Rock farming set
Elements of Delta cop4ty.
La Crosse county is to have an agricul-
tural and manual training school, proba-
bly, at West Stem. Bonds of $4,000
will be issued tt raise money.
Under the supervision of Major Judson
the extensietl of the breakwater and the
removal of the bar in the Sheboygan har-
Dor will be completed this summer.
Considerable feeling has been shown in
the Lake Halle district over the actions
of Samuel Shafer, farmer, who is said
to lave beaten his sister, Myrtle, aged IL,
in most shameful manner.
Two unidentified men were struck by a
Northwestern train west of Hurley and
killed and horribly mangled last night
They were found by the section crew.
There was nothing found to identify
them.
Eight girls. the Misses Gladys Heddles
Bessie Burch. Lucy Fox. Emma MacLean.
Ida Greene Jean Shearer. Robena Keller
and Pearl Peters, walked from GAINESVILLE
to Milton Junction in two hours. The
distance is eight miles.
DIR. Byron Douglas, aged S3, pioneer
dentist of northern Wisconsin, I, member
of the Assembly in 1862. and for many
years treasurer of the Wisconsin Dental
Society. is dead in Appleton. He was a
direct relative of Stephen A. Douglas.
Facing the alternative of losing his in
heritance in the fatherland, and suffer-
ing Imprisonment should he ever visit
his home again. a young German Of APP
pleton has decided to return to his native
country to serve his enlistment time in the
army.
A message from Washington announces
the death of Charles +. Bowling at Mag
dalena on March %. Young Bowling
was with the battleship feet, being as
signed to the Missouri. He was taken
i'll with pulmonary tuberculosis about
three weeks ago The body was buried
on land and probably will later be brought
to Fan Claire.
No primary elections were held in Me-
nom0n.e. Nomination papers for city Of
fees have been filed as follows: Mayor
A. II. johnson (Republican). John Mat
hews (Democrat) City Clerk, f. w.
Rowe Republican, ; Treasurer, Otto
Glhl Republican,, Edward Bates (Dem-
ocrat1 Assessor, John Hardy (Repub-
lican), John Moody (Democrat).
Tossed and trampled on by an enraged
bull until his collar bone was broken and
the life almost crushed out of him, and
then thrown under a wire fence, was the
experience of William Raichle, a young
farmer living near Frenchville. A neigh
Dor shot the bull.
Not guilty was the verdict of the
jury in the case of John Young and John
Lanto of Barton, on trial as result of
the shooting and wounding by the latter
of John Becker and John Neuy, members
of a gang of boys who threw stones
through a window of the houses where
the men lived.
Charles Stephan. 20 years of age, Of
Caledonia. committed suicide by shooting
himself through the right temple with a
revolver. Young Stephan had been ill
for some time with stomach complaint and
DR. Sifton of Milwaukee made an exam
mat and was to perform an operation
within few days.
Ray Coleman. an actor and musician,
who, il is said. has a wife and child liy-
ing in Buffalo, was sentenced to thirty
days on the rock pile at Omaha on com
plant of Ray Nourse and his mother,
Mrs. Ida Nourse. of GAINESVILLE. Nourse
charged that Coleman had eloped with
his sister. Miss Anna Nourse.
State Insurance Commissioner 81. e..
Beedle has issued a statement showing
that the total gross fire risks written by
joint stock companies in Wisconsin in
1907 was S59S. 297.1770 thu total gross
fire premiums collected $500 p,944.S2, and
the total FIRE losses paid Ss,JS3. $3.50.
The total number of these companies or
Grating in this State during the year was
IA
John Farrell. aged II years, who was
accidentally shot with small rife in the
HANDS of Archie Cunningham. died in
GAINESVILLE of lockjaw. The boys were
walking along the river bank when the
rife was discharged. The bullet lodged
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