Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-17
MINOR STATE ITEMS.

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The strike of $50 limekiln workers
was settled in Fond du Lac, the men
returning to work at the old scale,
SLIGO per day.
According to reports from the fish
hatchery north of Washburn, the dam.
age done by the recent heavy storm
was not as serious as at first believed.
Marcella. Hudek, the 4-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John HUI
dek, who live west of Highland in
the town of Castle Rock, is dead as a
result of a fatal burning by scalding
hot water.
At the joint convention of the w. G.
T. U. of Outagamie and Brown Coun-
ties, Rev. A. H. Zechiel, superintend-
ent of the Wisconsin Anti-Saloon
League, urged the women to work to
get woman on the police force in
every city in Wisconsin.
People living in the country dis
tricts of Douglas County are wonder
ing whether the army worm has made
its appearance in that county In the
vicinity of Scion Springs and Gordon
a strange worm similar in appearance
to caterpillar, but with a grayish
patch on the back without hirsute APP
pendages, has been ravaging the jack
pine districts The worms were first
noticed last year.
Street car employees testifying before
the arbitration board, seeking to settle
grievances growing out of the recent
La Crosse strike, disclosed continued
violations for a year or more of the
anti-pass law by the street car COM
pany. TIE officials admitted distribut-
ing between 5000 and 1900 passes
monthly to firemen, policemen, favored
newspaper men, private watchmen and
their families.
Patrick Hickey was discovered dead
from apoplexy in his room at the
country home of Edwin Bell, residing
twelve miles north of Chippewa Falls,
near Jim Falls He was SO years old
and had resided in Chippewa County
for thirty-fve or forty years. Prior
to his residence there he lived in Mil
waukee and was an associate of Solo,
mon Juneau, of whom he recounted
many personal experiences and anec-
dotes.
Charles Anderson, aged So, pro-
fessional horse jockey of Chetek, was
instantly killed in runaway in Cum
berland. Anderson was driving fast
racing colt hitched to a sulky, when
in passing an automobile standing in
the road the colt SHE'D, throwing An
derson under the rig. His foot caught
so that he was dragged half a mile,
breaking his neck. Anderson had been
a resident of Northern Wisconsin for
over forty years. He i res a wife
and four grown-up children.
The section around Packwaukee is
suffering a most disastrous drought.
Early potatoes are completely dried
up. Late potatoes may make par
tial crop. Corn is suffering severely,
and many acres of oats are being cut
for hay.
F. f. Lewis, a prominent manufac-
turer of GAINESVILLE. a young man
named Topping, and two nieces of Mr..
Lewis. the Misses Ada and Mae Lewis,
were capsized in a storm on Lake Del
AVIAN. They chung to the overturned
sailboat for twenty minutes before be
ing rescued.
Mrs. H. C. Sawn of Milwaukee
caught two pike weighing six pounds
in Turtle lake and later caught eight
bass weighing twelve pounds. Rose
,Kochelt of Chicago caught fourteen
pike. total weight nineteen pounds, in
Turtle lake
Manitowoe. first, last and all the
time. IS the official slogan adopted
by the Citizens Association, the new
ly-organized boom association, al
meeting OF the board Of directors. and
it win be placed on all the advertising.
stationery and other literature used
by the association