Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-11
BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS.

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The la Crosse County Agricultural
school will open in October The building
will be completed August /.
The dates for the New London fair
have been fixed at September IA to II
inclusive. This is day longer than last
year.
Birds taking matches to build nest
nearly destroyed the Lincoln School in
GAINESVILLE. the matches becoming ignited
in the nest
Mrs. j. Whitcomb, whose family was
one of the first to settle at Grimms, is
dead, aged 81. She had resided at Grimms
for sixty-one years.
Plans have been announced for the
new business block to be erected in Mani
towoc by NJ. II. Dempsey on the site Of
the block burned in February.
Mrs. L. ID. Bailey, wife of L. d. Bal
ley of the Richland Rustic, is dead at the
age of s3 years. A husband and a son,
Harry Bailey of the viroqua Republican,
survive
The Sparta council mas granted the use
of North Park for the Modern Woodmen
picnic on June 10. The speakers will be
Head Consul Talbot and Representative
j. ]. Esch
Mrs. Frank Jordan bought carbolic
acid at a Palmyra drug store. As the
clerk turned to wait on another customer
she drank enough of the poison to cause
her death in two hours.
While chatting with friend as she was
ironing in her home, Mrs. Harry French
of La Crosse, aged A, dropped dead.
Mr.. French is one of the best known con-
ductors on the Burlington
Following the verdict of the coroner's
jury holding him responsible for the
death of Joseph Griebicski, Harry S. Kou-
lepas of Racine was bound over under
$4,000 bonds ON a murder charge.
Edward t. Newell. the young Kenosha
multimillionaire, grandson of the late
Edward Balm, married at Jersey City
\. j., Miss Adra Marshall daughter
of Mrs. Thomas Marshall of that city.
On the suggestion of the rate commits
sion the Kenosha city council and the
officials of the gas company will seek to
arrange a mutually satisfactory schedule
of rates to be submitted to the commits
sion.
place in league declamatory contest.
Miss Barbara Bever won for Oshkosh.
Miss Beatrice Uhlmann of Appleton was
second, and Robert Monk of Fond du Lac
was third.
Walter G. Ross of Milwaukee will be
business manager of next years Badger
the annual junior class publication at
Wisconsin University, while Carroll Bick
elhaupt of Aberdeen, S. D., will be gen.
eral chairman.
Fearing that her husband, who she is
now suing for divorce, is planning to fee
with his money, Mrs. Minnie REIN of
Meme secured a writ in court to compel
him to furnish a bond of $4,000 to pro-
tect her interests.
Brooding over the fact that he shot and
killed George Alendorf on the streets of
La Crosse fifteen years ago, George
Stone, aged 80, has been declared insane.
Stone was acquitted at his trial on the
plea of self-defense.
The throwing of switch between the
trucks of the Madison train was respon-
SiOlc lOI Il W1tth On Tut 8liiWduht6 IOdu
at WATERFOWL Thomas Curry, a brake
man, was injured, but not seriously. Traf-
fic was delayed an hour.
While making repairs on an old mat
tress, Mrs. +. l.. Colburn of Endeavor
found SIS in paper money. The bills
were so brittle that they would scarcely
hold together, but she was informed that
Uncle Sam will redeem them.
Prof. j. F. Whitford of the Milton
high school has interested his boy stu
dents so much in wireless telegraphy that
they are getting financial aid from the
school board to install the largest sta
ton between Milwaukee, Chicago and
ST. Paul.
The plant of the Winnebago Furniture
Company in Fond du Lac was destroyed
following boiler explosion. The loss is
100000. As result of the explosion
every window in the courthouse was bro
ken. A part of the boiler was carried
two blocks and in its flight cut off an
electric light pole.
Charles O'Brien, who began work as
messenger boy in Madison in 1900 and
who has been taking press reports in
that city for several years. has been APP
pointed manager of the Postal Telegraph
Company there. The present manager, B.
f. Ramsdsll, will take the management
of the indianapolis Office.
There is a deplorable condition at the
Kilbourn power house. Trees in the
creek bottom were to have been cut be-
fore the water was raised by the DAM
in order TO allow the free passage of
boats. but the trees were left and now
the water is ten feet deep where they
stand. They will be permanent menace
and obstruction to boats as result.
With the idea Of improving conditions
under which the sale of meat is conduct
ed in that city the meat dealers of La
Crosse are planning to organize an ASSOC
citation similar TO the Retail Grocers' As
ISOLATION. An ordinance viii be intro
dueed in the common council to protect
the dealers b. issuing licenses and pro-
viding for the inspC elton of meat by the
city.
Rushing to the assistance of his wife
when he heard groan from her room.
Charles Monk of Manitowoc found the
woman uedu III ueF beu. RhFS- MoAhs a
native of Fond du Lac, was 30 years of
age and had not been i'll. y husband and
four children survive.
Division Engineer 4. Birdsell of the
Wisconsin Central road has been in SG-
perior 10 make arrangements for sending
out construction trains on the new line.
There is considerable grading and bal
lasting 70 be done before the line will be
in shape for fun passenger and freight
service.
Upon the recommendation of John Ne
len of Cambridge. Mass landscape artist
tive parks have been planned and adopted
by the La Crosse park commission. One
of the parks viii be along the Mississippi
and the other along the Black
Judge Chloupek has sustained the de-
murrer to complaint entered in the suit
for breach Of contract by the Souta Side
school board OF Manitowec against Miss