Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-04-06
SHORT STATE ITEMS.


Thieves entered tannery east OF Nee
nah, stealing $500 worth of hides. they
carried the hides away in a rig.
Mix in ever dry" Dublin is becoming
almost as scarce as beer. Most of the
milk produced near there is shipped 10
outside creameries.
Ferdinand Antetme of Paris. a student
in the Middle Temple Law school. Lon
don. who is touring the United States, is
visiting in Madison.
Adam Ehrgott. Jr,, made Sensat ional
escape from the county workhouse IN
Neenah. lie scaled the high board fence
and cleared for tho woods
Rev II. D. Rohrabaugh. pastor OF
Westminster Presbyterian Church in La
Crosse, has accepted cali to the Pres
byterian Church at Talida, Ohio.
Edward Davidson. a Racine brewery
agent. pleaded guilty to permitting boy
under If years of age to work in his bot
Ting factory, and was fined SO and
| costs.
| The fight going on in Yorkyille Town
| ship for more thar two years, with ref
erenee to the establishment of free
township high school, is to be settled at
the April election. If those IN favor car
ny a modern structure TO cost $4,000
viii be built.
Walking out on the honeycombed ice Of
the Miss ssippi. John Leonard of La
Cross was preciptated into the water
| Bonnie Bott, aged II, saw him come tc
the surface twice and then disappear I'M
der the ice down the stream. Leonard
was u years old.
Charlie, the 5-year-old child of Mrs
Wenze Supple of the town Of West Ke-
waune, was accidentally shot in the left
foot while at play. \ hunter had drop
ped in on the family and left his gun
standing against the wall. The child ac-
cidentally discharged the weapon
The Beloit college students have taken
up the matter of paying for the bilboards
and walks destroyed in the bonfire ceIe-
bration after the victory in the State ora
torical contest and will settle for all dam
age to private property. The classes
voted to divide the expense and keep the
matter out of court.
Mat Polk Hungarian jumped from
Wisconsin Central passenger tram two
miles south of Schlesingerville. Polk
fell under the train. and was almost cut
in two He died before the train reached
Waukesha A ticket from Seattle e
New York. and transportation to Hun
gary was found in his pockets.
On his way home from St Francis
hospital in La Crosse. where he had been
called to see his sick wife, who had
been confined in that institution for some
time, w. X. Renken. route agent OF
the Adams Express Company, dropped
dead upon the street Death is attrlb-
uted to an attack of heart failure.
A petition is being signed by many bust
ness men and citizens of Sturgeon Bay
asking that a law be enacted allowing
the taking of pickerel from this bay with
nets during December. January and Feb
ruary. This will catch Oft the larger
pckerel which. it is claimed are destroy
ing the perch and bass in the bay.
Kenosha is to have a new manufactur-
ing plant as a deal has been closed for
the transfer of the old Visible Typewriter
Company plant to the Racine Refrigera-
pany. which has been in business in Ra-
cine for more than twenty years. recent
~ had its plant destroyed by fire.
In a race with the stork. Mr.. and MIS-
horde Egstad were oyertaken in the "a
Crosse t,caot Of the Burlington jus, after
alighting TO transfer to another road on
their way from South Dakota 10 West
by. Mother and baby were taken in an
ambulance to the Lutheran Hospital and
viii resume their journey in few days.
A contract has been let by the Park
and Pleasure Drive Association of Mad-
son for many thousand trees and shrubs
TO be set out in Teuney Park and Brit
tingham Park. In the former 10000 viii
be planted and in Brittinghsm PARK y.
coo. The contract price is Sl309. Many
additional improvements are contem
plated.
Chief Of Police Wauds and Officer re-
pa of Chippewa Falls went to the
Omaha gravel pit and rounded up bunch
IF eight hoboeS. who were using the
boarding cars Of the Omaha line as win
ter quarters The officers found a thrifty
bunch of ..wcaries They bad a stock
Of provisions on hand including fifteen
pounds Of fresh meat.
Mrs. T.. $. Palmer Of the town Of
Greenville j. one Of the few surviving
daughters Of a Revolutionary soldier in
Wisconsin Mrs. Palmer S now IS years
os age.
The Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran
Church viii convert lis present churCa
building in Grand Rapids into a school
and erect a new house Of worship. ar a
cost Of $1,000
Escaping from the county insane asy-
lum IN Manitowoc while being held for
examination .Iack-the-H ugeer was recap
tured Sunday at Cleveland at the home
Of his Uncle. where he had applied for
shelter.
ReeeBfly @. y. schultz merchant Of
Colby received q letter from DorchcsfeT
signed +. L.. demanding that he enclose
So in bills or currency and send il sol
Il. L.. Dorchester. Wis. threatening 10
burn his building II this request was not
complied with within a certain lsiae
Bertha Habeek = years old. daughter %
a respected farmer. has been placed under
arrest. Detectives have been employed
bur Is the girl refuses 70 talk il has thus
far almost remained a mystery
Officers OF the town Of Mount Pleasant
declared war on automobile testers WhoI
they claim are making life u1iserable. b.
cause Of the terrific sI,eed machines asl