Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-07
AMONG OUR NEIGHBoRs.

DR.. Theodore Koch, aged 81, a
pioneer Baraboo physician. died as a
result of fall.
A new county almshouse costing
$4,000 will be built by Eau Claire
county in the spring to replace the
one which has stood since the early
sos.
Verne Merrill. a member of the
Evansville high school football team,
died as a reynt of blood poisoning
following a scratch received in a
game.
Joseph Meloczynski, who was shot
in the leg by his son Frank during a
quarrel, died Monday His son is in
the Stevens Point jail, charged with
the murder
Mrs. Knute Johnson, aged 81 years,
died in Hudson as a result of an ex.
plosion caused by lighting a fire with
kerosene two weeks ago. She leaves
husband.
DR.. NJ. P. Ravenel, professor of bac-
teriology at the University of Wis
consin, has just been appointed off
cial rapporteur" to the international
American Congress at Buenos Ayres
next May where he will have charge
of that part of the program devoted
to tuberculosis.
Frank Groth, a Waterman in the
sash and door factory of the Gould
Manufacturing company, in Oshkosh,
failed to key" in his time over the
Western Union system, and search re-
suited in the finding of the man dead
as a result of heart trouble while
making the rounds of the factory.
A. E. Billings, supposed to be from
Chicago, a self-confessed fake subscrip-
ton agent, was arrested in Keno5ha
by Chief of Police Owen O'Hare, who
said that in the arrest of Billings the
police have taken man who has de-
frauded publishing companies in the
country out of hundreds of dollars.
D. H. Flett, an attorney, was elect
ed a trustee of the Racine County In
sane asylum to succeed Peter Nelson.
At meeting of the county board on
Thursday Peter Myers was elected
agent of the poor from the eastern dis
trict and purchasing agent; Charles
Thompson, agent of the middle district
and F. R. Reinhardy of the western
district James Hankonson was elect
ed keeper of the county house.
The fee system for county officers
of Eau Claire has been eliminated and
all are now placed on a salary basis.
Such action was taken at the present
session of the Eau Claire county board
of supervisors.
John Freimuth, aged 81 years, died
suddenly of heart failure while at
work in the plant of the Sheboygan
Chair Company. He was married
twice, and leaves his second wife and
several grown children. He was a
member of the first life-saving crew.
Frozen to death in Wyoming bliz-
zard was the death which befen Carl
Carlson, resident of Neenah, who
went west a few weeks ago. He was
working on a ranch and wandered
into a snowdrift when in the midst
of a blizzard. He died Of freezing
after having become exhausted He
had nearly reached the ranch house
when death overlook him
j. t. Buttman. conductor on the
Northwestern road. was instantly
killed by falling between the cars at
Belvidere. A wife and daughter re-
side in Baraboo
The badly decomposed body OF a
man was found in a cornfield one
mile south OF Beloit A revolver BY
the side of the body indicated sui
eide. Investigation showed the mans
name TO be Victor Bjork and that be
had $500 in a Rockford (Ilf) bank
He recently came from Denver and
was suffering from consumption 1t
IS thought he Became respondent over
Ill health.
CLAUS Lewiston, a drayman "a years
of age, ~as killed By freight train IN
Stougaton. His brother was killed
hy train q few years ago.