Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.


While working around a corn shred
der at Randolph, Win Allen, Jr., got
his right hand caught in the machin
cry and lost all the fingers.
James Pomeroy, aged 20 years, the
last surviving member of one of the
old pioneer families of Kenosha Coun-
ty, died at Dixon, H., Sunday.
After lengthy illness, James H.
Halstead Of Sturgeon Bay died of can
Ger. For eleven years he was county
clerk. He was SO years old and leaves
a large family.
Hundreds of tons of cabbages are be-
ing stolen from the Racine storage
houses. IN one instance ten tons were
carried away on a boat, the cabbage
being piled on the river front.
F. R. Snider has resigned his posi-
ton as chief of the Kilbourn fire de-
partment which he has held for the
last eighteen years. Mr.. Snider was
the organizer of the company
Michael Wellner, a Franklin farmer,
lost his barns and granary with con-
tents in fire, the origin of which has
not been explained. The loss is $4,000,
and sshere was little insurance.
Appleton is to have a municipal ice
rink in the new Jones Park in the big
ravine in the heart of the business dis
trict. 1t will cover about ten acres of
ground and at no point will the water
be over two feet deep.
Washburn is again threatened with
an outbreak of diphtheria, four new
cases having developed in the past
twenty-four hours. Among the fam
word, district attorney of Bayfield,
County.
P. H. ,Meighan of Beloit has been
sentenced to one year at Waupun for
wife beating. This was Meighan's sec
ond offense. He was warned by Judge
C. d. Rosa the first time that a second
conviction would mean penitentiary
sentence.
James Monahan, aged so years, was
caught in a piece of shafting in the
pattern room of the Fairbanks-Morse
plant in Beloit and whirled about sew
eral times He had three ribs, col
lar bone and his left arm broken and
he may have sustained serious internal
injuries. He was unconscious several
hours.
Thomas Burns, Corliss constable,
was held for trial on charge of lar
ceny of 1896 from Paul Adamsky of
Two Rivers Adamsky leaped from a
railway train and ran across the
county, throwing away a wad of money
in his fight He was turned over to
Burns He said there was only 5000
and gave it to the sheriff. Relatives
claim there was $685..
To disprove the statement that
turkeys are to be scarce, the fact is
made known that turkeys are being
purchased in this State by the ton
Farmers have made contracts to sell
many OF the birds, one case among
many being in the purchase by a
Neenah butcher of three tons of tur-
key. The price will not be abnormal
ly high as was predicted.
Prof. James A. Blaisdell of Beloit
College has received a formal call from
Pomona College, Claremont, Cal, to
become its president Prof Blaisden
viii accept and he will begin his duties
the first of next semester.
Louis Echrich, Menasha business
man, is missing and search is being
made for him by the police. He left
Tuesday with a large sum of money,
ostensibly for Green Bay. He has not
returned nor has he been heard Of
since.
While assisting in the erection OF
a large barn on the old Fred OFT farm
in the town OF Clarno, John Morse
was struck by a large beam across the
small OF the back. knocking him iat
and unconscious. The lower limbs
we're temporarily paralyzed.
Racine physicians viii refuse 10 sub
init bids to the county board for serT-
ices Is county physician because, they
say. the system OF receiving bids is
not for the best interests Of the coun-
II or dependent persons, as il degrades
the profession Of medicine into mere
eomEercialism.
In the burning Of q house on the
farm Of Louis Puebner near Water
town, the lives OF several people we're
endangered. Two children we're got
ten out of the house in their night
clothes. The hired man jumped from
a second story window
j. G. Stewart, farmer living near
Brooklyn. came near being asphyxl-
ated in a Madison hotel the Other
night He was too short 10 blow out
the gas so he famed it out Late IL
the night one OF the clerks smelied
the odor OF gas and dragged Stewart
out in tine 10 save his life.