Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28

Mains cut over z0,UOU lOuS Vi DcStS.
The furniture store and stock of c.
Mss Co.. Milwaukee, was damaged
by fire to the extent of about 100000.
James Kennedy pleaded guilty to
blowing the Athens bank safe on Sept.
IL. He was sentenced to ten years at
Waupun by Judge Reid.
Miss Ella L. Esch, sister of Con-
gresham John j. Esch. was elected
superintendent of the Sparta public
schools to succeed Prof. l. B. Davies,
who rendered his resignation.
One of the most important real es-
tate transactions in years was nego-
tiated in Sheboygan when the block
owned by Jake Schlicht, was sold to
Otto Mueller. The amount involved
was $4,000.
Fred ]. KunZ, of Beloit, aged 80
years, a mail carrier for many years
and quartermaster of Company L.
Tenth Regiment, died on Monday at
Fillmore, H., while en- route. to the
souln LOT MS nealIn
At banquet of the La Crosse Board
of Trade announcement was made that
100000 has been subscribed for stock
in the new 100000 industrial Corpora
ton. The money thus secured will be
used in promoting new industries.
Jim Wilson, aged Y, once noted
circus horse trainer and trick rider,
had fallen in the snow in Racine from
weakness and cold and would have fro
zen to death had not a little Polish
girl found him and summoned aid.
William H. Trip, resident of Rock
County since 1S49, a member of the
first Republican Legislature of 1857,
and delegate to the Chicago convention
that nominated Lincoln, is dead at the
home of his daughter in Cooksville,
aged SO years.
Earl Smith, with two horses and
a wagon, fell off an embankment of
the Eau Claire river in an almost
perpendicular tumble of 80 feet, land
ing on some piling. Only slight inju-
ries were sustained by man and
horses Smith was still on the seat OF
the wagon when it struck.
Walter Green, one of the best known
business men of Manitowoc, is dead at
the age of SIS years His death result
ed from an illness of several months,
which followed almost Immediately his
retirement from business about year
ago, after forty years in the wall pa
per and decorating business.
In order to permit first hand study
of the crisis in England growing out
of the rejection of the budget by the
House of Lords, Prof. A. P. L. Dennis
of the history department of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin has been granted
leave of absence by the regents to go
to England at the beginning of the
Christmas recess.
Kenosha had a real military we'd
ding when Isaac Archer, first SER
geant in the United States army, and
stationed at Fort Sheridan, married
Miss Anna Madison, a daughter of
Charles Madison, at the home of the
bride. The attendants were all sol
diers, and they wore the full dress
military uniform.
Two new buildings, together larger
than those destroyed by the recent fire,
will be erected next spring by the Ra-
cine Manufacturing Company. Manu-
facturers and financial interests have
promised assistance as to quarters and
credit. About 10000 feet of floor
space is already available and machin-
cry has been ordered.
Henry Ellenbecker, a young farmer
of Greenville, was killed by train on
the Northwestern Road near Appleton.
According to the engineer, Ellenbecker
deliberately hurled himself on the
track, but persons who were near by
at the time of the accident say that
Ellenbecker was running down an in
cline to the railroad, evidently trying
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rived
Another appeal has been filed in the
case of Albert SINNERS, of Manito-
voc, against the Meeme Mutual In
surance Company, case which has
been pending for three years. The case
is unique because of a point in the
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cover. because he had failed to COM
ply with an old provision that a policy
holder of the company must have a
barrel of water within a certain dis
lance of his building.
G. H. Landgraf, of Marinette, presi-
dent of the Wisconsin Teachers Asso-
citation, returned from Des Moines,
Iowa. where he attended a meeting of
the presidents of the teachers asso-
Citations of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minneso-
ia, Kansas and Nebraska. Missouri
has signifed her intention to join the
other FIVE States. The purpose was to
secure the best talent possible for the
next meeting of the State Teachers
Association in the different States.
With this idea in view, Wisconsin,
Iowa and Minnesota viii hold their
conventions on Nov 3. and in 1910,
and the other three State associations
viii hold their conventions either the
last three days of the week previous
or the week later.
Fred Anderson, a restaurant keeper
at st. Croix Falls, who about two
months ago married Mrs. Lizzie Ford,
of that place, committed suicide by
shooting the top of his head OF vita
gun. 1t is reported that family diff
terences were the cause Of the act.
In Madison. Elmer E. Mills and Oh
well Brothers were convicted Of selling
cider containing benzoic acid or ben
zoate of soda without the presence and
proportionate amount Of the said
chemical being disclosed 10 the 3ur-
chaser. They were both fined s25 and