Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-26
BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS.


A gas plant at Milton which supplies
two towns blew up, the building and
machinery being demolished No one
was injured.
Burglars at an early hour the other
day wrecked the safe at the Water
ford State Bank, but fled without Sc
curing any booty
Carl Alfred Kurz, the 2-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs Jacob Kurz, of Madi-
son, fell into cistern and was
drowned in five feet of water.
John Smute, a Waterman for the
Sawyer-Goodman company, fell into
the river and was drowned at Mari
nette He is widower and is sur
vived by two children.
John A. ellis, Racine farm hand,
who on Saturday passed two checks to
which he had forged the name of w.
R. Taylor, his employer, has been SEN
fenced to eighteen months in the State
prison at Waupun.
Attorney Matthew S. Dudgeon, lee
turer on political science at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. was elected sec
rotary of the Wisconsin free library
commission, to succeed Henry E. Leg
Ter, Chicago's new librarian.
In the orchard owned by Louis Her
ziger, Jr., of Neenah, on the island, a
branch was picked from a tree loaded
with Northern Spy apples. On the
branch, which was Is inches long, had
grown 81 large, luscious apples.
Mrs. Adeline Hanrath, wife of a
wealthy farmer has started suit for
divorce on the grounds that she was
forced to split the family supply of
fire wood, while her husband, an able
bodied man, lay around the house.
Charged with having secured a
check for 5000 and 100 pounds of
honey at West Junction, Ia, under
false pretenses, Mrs. Ida Moore of the
town of Roscoe, has been arrested by
Sheriff R. E. Clarke of the Iowa city.
He was taking her to Iowa when she
became Ill or feigned illness at Free
port and was taken to hospital Ros-
coe people have been suspicious of
Mrs. Moore for some time, as she
would leave home three or four days
at times and then return with mys-
terious bundles. 1t is said she repre-
sented herself as an agent of some
charitable society and solicited contri-
buttons in that way.
Mrs Dorothy Schmitt, a resident of
Menasha for so years and well known
throughout Winnebago county, is dead,
aged so years. She was the third
white woman to settle in Menasha.
The upper bridge between Marinette
and Menominee went down while a
heavily-laden team from a paper mill
was crossing it. The driver, Alderman
McLain of Marinette. escaped with
slight injuries. The bridge was con-
demned some time ago but was not
closed.
One Of the biggest blasts ever fired
in that section of the State was fired
at the quarries of the Union Lime
Company at Marblehead. Eleven holes
70 feet deep we're blasted with four
tons of dynamite discharged by bat
terry.
At Bear Greek, Edward ". Sinclair.
principal Of schools. stopped momen-
tarily in front Of the Blic6 hardware
store. and as he pssred through the
window a repeater shotgun accidental
Il exploded. putting out his eyes. Sin
clair. it is said. IS a distant relative of
Upton Sinclair. author.
Ground has been broken in Racine
for a 100000 factory building. TO be
erected by the Belle City Manufactur-
ing Company. to be of brick and steel
construction and modern in every WAY.
and TO include a power plant with q
500 horse power engine
George Besaw. while passing through
the North Division school grounds in
New London was knocked down and
robbed Of SIT. The next morning.
when he recovered consciousness. he
found himself about 10 or u miles
north Of the city He was slightly
bruised