Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-02
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WITHIN OUR BORDERS.

result OF injuries in a runaway acct
dent in Oshkosh.
The first American Society of Equity
farmers elevator in Polk County will
be built at Dwight, on the 500 line,
ten miles east of Osceola-
On account of diphtheria the Wash
burn public schools have been closed.
There have been three deaths and a
hall dozen or more cases are reported.
The fourth national dairy show was
opened in Milwaukee President Taft,
from the Grand Canyon, pressed the
button which gave the signal to start
the machinery.
Emil Loef1er, aged 81, was killed by
falling from scaffold of the Curtis
Yale factory, in Wausau, forty-fiye feet
upon pile of rocks. He died few
minutes later.
The new city directory gives Mari
nette population of 1920 and Me-
nominee $4,000, making total of 3d.
600 people at the mouth of the Me-
nominee River.
In spite of the cold weather. be-
tween 300 and 400 students of Beloit
College had picnic at the Big hill
on Friday. There was a barbecue din
ner and athletic sports
After bidding a young woman good
bye on the train, Robert Smith, of Gil
lett, attempted to alight from the train
and fell. One ear was ground off by
the cinders on which he fell.
Eugene Palmer, carpenter employ
ed by the Milwaukee road, residing at
Belmont, was killed by freight train
about mile west of Darlington, when
the engine struck his handear
Mother Emily. superior of the Sis
tiers OF st. Dominic, died at Sinisawa,
aged 60 years. She directed fifty mis-
sion houses and more than a thou
sand sisters in the United States.
A serious siege of diphtheria has
struck Neenah. Not only young per-
sons are afflicted, but adults in large
numbers are developing critical cases.
Many homes are under quarantine.
Thieves broke into the P. Hcpenadel
factory in GAINESVILLE, and destroyed
$1,000 worth of property, including
typewriters. They broke the safe with
sledges, and books and contracts were
torn into bits.
The naval reserve in Ashland has
received two racing boats from the
navy yards at Philadelphia. The re-
serve was notified That steam cut
ter would be shipped in ten days and
also a rapid-fring cannon.
Under ruling received from the
census bureau the citizenship of
Syrians all over the Northwest will be
affected. The ruling in effect is that
Syrians, being of ASiatic origin, are
not white persons" within the mean
ing Of the law.
A dog we'll soaked with turpentine
by painter from Oconto caused much
alarm in Gillett The animal was sup
posed to be suffering from hydropho-
bia and much indignation was mani
fest when the real cause of its strange
antics was disclosed.
Sam Bogart, employed in the Steph-
enson National Bank, was accidental
ly shot near Marinette, while duck
hunting. The gun slipped from his
hand, struck log and was discharg
ed, the charge carrying away part of
the shoulder. He will recover.
Norman Cornell, aged IL, was in
stantly killed while hunting ducks
near Durand Cornell was standing
on a fallen tree, when his gun slipped
out of his hands and was discharged.
The charge entered his neck and also
tore away portion of his throat.
The body of Bernhard Trogsdorf of
Trogsdorf, Zimmerman & Co., depart
ment store, was found at the side of
the Omaha track at the Neillsyille de-
pot. The head had been cut off by a
passing train and lay between the rails
some fifty feet away. He had laid or
fallen across the track The coroner is
investigating.
Steve Loserski, a Polish farmer,
near Marquette, was shot and may die
as the result of a quarrel over line
fence with Joe Szienik. who resides
near the farm of the injured man.
Szienik shot Loserski in the hip with
a load of fine shot, inflicting wound
that necessitated amputation. Szienik
is under arrest.
At the reorganization of the board
of regents of the Northwestern Univer-
sity of WATERFOWL. whose membership
has been increased to eighteen, Rev.
Carl Gausewitz, of the Grace Lutheran
Church, Milwaukee, was elected chair
man. Ernest Dornfield vice president;
j. Makmueller of Manitowoc. secre-
tary; Fred Gamm, Waterfowl, treas
urer.
A large bear came to the farm of Al
bert Wiedenheaft, near Merrill, and
carried a 125-pound pig from the pen
into the woods, where it was found,
the bear having eaten about one-half
of it. On the next night the bear
crawled through window in the
sheep barn and took large sheep. 1t
carried it of and ate it. Mr.. Wieden-
heaft saw the bear at a distance. but
was unable to get shot at it.
Norbert Sero, assistant Indian farm
er at Odanah, has been dismissed by
the Indian department at Washington
and is succeeded by William McRae.
Sero was convicted OF statutory Of
Tense some time ago McRae having
served as Indian policeman at Odanah.
Attorncg General F. l. Gilbert has
ruled that the section of the new fish
and game law providing that one-third
Of the penalty collected from violators
OF the law shall be paid TO the person
furnishing information leading To
such convictions is unconstitutional so