Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-09
WITHIN OUR BORDERS.

Rev. II. Burant of Winona will succeed
Rev. John Sroka as pastor of Holy Cross
Roman Catholic Church in La Crosse.
Mrs. John KeIlner, prominent society
leader and a church worker of Manito-
voc, died after an illness Of three months.
Herman Barrelmann, aged 40. was
found dead on the ice on the Milwaukee
River, about mile north of Cedarburg
The farm dwelling of Reinold AIielke,
al Rib Lake, was destroyed by fire at
loss of about $500, with small insur-
ance.
Joseph Mayhem, lathe foreman at the
Menasha woodenware plant lost his left
hand while at work ON a joining ma
chine.
BY the bursting of a steam pipe P.
Riley, an employee at the WATERFOWL gas
plant, was scalded about the face and
neck.
j. c. Miller, of Kiel, prominent Demo-
cratic politician, candidate for Sheriff
and ex-Supervisor of the town, is dead
at the age of 62 years.
Fire in the cable house os the power
plant of the Sheboygan electric light plant
caused $1,000 damage, AID turned the en-
tire west side into darkness.
ii. Blank, a cheesemaker living south
of st. Cloud, died from injuries sustain
ed when thrown out of buggy onto the
ice below while crossing bridge
In Oconomowoc, Lawrence Kelly was
sentenced to one year at Waupun on be-
ing found guilty of burglary, having en-
tered the residence of DIR. Donnelly.
Mrs. Marie Hanson and her daughter
we're found unconscious at their home in
Racine, from inhaling coal gas escaping
from stove Physicians revived them.
J.. d. Harvey, vice president of the
Stout Institute of Menominee, has en-
phatically declared that he is not a can
didate for the Office of State Superintend-
emit.
In the death of ]. c. Zellinger at the
age of So years, Oshkosh lost one of its
pioneer residents, who drove one of the
first stages between Oshkosh and Mil
waukee.
Henry Guiginger, aged 20 years, EN-
ployed at the factory of the Smalley Man
ufacturing Company in Manitowoc, was
seriously if not fatally hurt in the burst
ing of an emery wheel
The Wisconsin Millers' Association de-
cided to pay under protest the SO license
fee charged all millers. They have been
fighting the law for some time, claiming
it was unconstitutional.
Three men were injured by the fall
ing of the freight elevator in the plant
of the Simmons Manufacturing Company
in Kenosha. The injured men are Matt
Fisher, Frank Taylor and John Beilot.
Twenty passengers aboard a Milwau-
kee, Racine and Kenosha interurban car
were slightly injured when a car jumped
the track two miles north of kenosha. A
]. NJ. Bostwick, head of the firm of
]. NJ. Bostwick & Sons, proprietors of
the largest dry goods establishment in
Southern Wisconsin, dropped dead in
Janesville of heart disease, aged "a years.
Notices have been received by the prin-
cipals of the different schools of the an
nual meeting Of the Northeastern Wis
consin Teachers Association, which will
be held in Grand Rapids, Feb. II and IL.
Judge Fifield of GAINESVILLE held Elmer
L. Ellsworth for trial on the complaint
of Mrs. Kate Kennedy for obtaining
money from her under alleged false and
fraudulent pretenses. Bail was fixed at
1900.
William Mueller, Walter Bond and
James Jorgenson, Menasha fishermen,
narrowly escaped drowning when they
Al, IL, 81 10 Rr1fta
Morris They were rescued 10y neighbor
ing fishermen.
Eloping from Stoughton, Arthur Nyha
gen and Miss Sarah Erdahl went to
Manitowoc and were married. Nyhagen is
former Manitowoc boy who holds re-
sponsible position with the Moline Plow
works at Stoughton.
Jacob Krug, one of the best known
farmers near the town of Forest, is dead
and August Plank, neighboring farmer,
was probably fatally injured when their
cutter went over the side of a bridge,
throwing the men to the ice below.
Efforts will be made to have a Carne-
gle medal given to young Charlie Lee, of
Rice Lake, who recently saved the lives
of his tive sisters. nearly losing his own,
when his four brothers were burned to
death. He is recovering from his severe
injuries.
Search has been begun for Thomas Nc
I.aughlin. aged 50 years. who disappeared
mysteriously in GAINESVILLE. 1t is thought
he may have wandered into the river,
where the swift current, due TO the rains,
would have made it impossible for him
to get out.
William Dillon. cvonvicted in the Cir
cult Court of Racine County of the MUIR
der of Jacob Best of Milwaukee, on
March %. 1907. must serve his term of
seventeen years in States prison, the SUI
preme Court affirming the sentence of the
Circuit Judge.
The long looked for crusade on the
part of the Civic Federation of Racine
was commenced when District Attorney
Thompson called upon Sheriff Gustave
on proprietcrs of all questionable resorts
in the cit, to close al once and leave
the city,
4 fathers suicide last July drove son
TO insanity. Anton Peroutka. a Kossuth
youth. having been committed to the
Northern Hospital at Oshkosh by Probate
Court. Facts in the case show that Pc
routka's mind has been failing since he
found his fathers dead body hanging in
the barn last July.
One of the large icehouses on Brown
Lake. owned by the knickerbocker Ice
Company of Chicago, was destroyed by
IRE. together with the power plant. The
loss is estimated at $4,000 The ice
house was partially filled with ice of this
seasons cut. TO which fact is attributed
the size of the loss.
Manitowoc's first Homecoming last July
| led to a wedding which took place Mon
day. the principals being Edwin Schreib-
er of Chicago and Miss Clara GreuEke
Of Manitowoc Schneider. a former Man
itowoc resident. came here with the Chi