Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-23
BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS.

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The general store of p L. Barnes at
North Freedom was destroyed by fire with
loss of $4,000, partly insured.
Peter ellis pleaded guilty to charge
of stealing timber in the town of Edison
and was sentenced to ninety days in the
county Jail.
| An attempt will be made by the New
London Business Mems Association to
raise funds to purchase the fair grounds
and race track.
Clinton Childs, former major in the
Thirteenth Infantry Volunteers, and
prominent GAINESVILLE business man. drop
red dead of heart disease
Mrs. Dan Kelly, so years of age, who
| lived alone in La Crosse. fell down a
| flight of stairs with a lighted lamp in
her hands and was burned to death.
Miss Florence Adams, 1910 of Muk-
wonago, and Monte A. Appel, 1910, of
Huron, s. D., tied for first place j. the
junior open-to-all oratorical coDest in
Madison.
Homer Waite. farmer living near
brooklyn, was struck by a freight train
on the Chicago and Northwestern road at
brooklyn and seriously injured He IVES
taken TO a hospital at Madison, but can
not live
| The mystery surrounding the series of
robberies committed in Fond du Lac last
month has been cleared up by con-
fession made to Police Chief Nolan and
Detective Stevenson by John Kronin at
Jefferson.
| Edward Harten, who nearly killed
Sheriff Ball at Monroe and escaped while
waiting trial on charge of attacking
and robbing George Davis of Brodhead
was captured in the railway yards al
Madison.
| Fire originating in the kitchen de-
stroyed the Commercial Hotel in Sparta
entailing loss of about $1,000. Three
hydrants in the vicinity were frozen and
the department was forced to let the fire
burn itself out.
Scion Darling killed himself at the
home of his daughter in the town al
Lynn. He came to that section of the
State nearly half = century ago, and was
one of the founders of what is now the
city of Spring Valley
| Chippewa Falls City Council passed a
resolution asking Chippewa County's rep.
resentatives in the Legislature TO use
their influence and vote against the pro-
posed dam across the Chippewa River at
Badger Mills, near here.
The Gold Medal Camp Furniture Com.
pany of Racine shipped to the Smithson-
ian institution of Washington, d. c., sew.
eral cots chairs and stools, to be taken
| By former President Roosevelt, on his
hunting trip in Africa.
The last chapter in the failure of the
| Visible Typewriter Company of kenosha
was written when local creditors received
dividends amounting to 21a per cent. This
is the first and final dividend to be paid
| by the referee in bankruptcy.
For the first time the city of Manito-
voc has forced fifteen out of town insur-
ance agents who carry risks here to pay
the per cent tax which the State law
gives the city annually and has received
over $500 from these agents.
Wireless signals were flashed by Prof
/ C. A. Culver from the Beloit College
campus to the receiving station in the
high school at Rockford. H., and were
plainly distinguished by Prof. Norris and
members of the physics class there.
Menasha farmers have been swindled
by a pair of strangers representing them
selves as government inspectors of stables.
Orc former paid them 800 which they
claimed was fine for maintaining an
unsanitary stable on his premises.
john Treloar's throat was cut so that
il required fourteen stitches to close the
wound in a fight at Linden. f. Fault
has been arrested charged with assault
with intent 10 kill The fight arose over
me dispute Of the payment of | cent.
Notice has been served by Waukesha
attorney on the officials of Oshkosh city
and county that on March 30 an appl-
cation will be made to the Governor for Z
pardon for Archie Mcmillan. who is serv-
inc a twelve-year sentence in Naupun.
The Pewaukee village board has grant
ed a franchise 10 the milwaukee, Light,
Heat and Traction Company to pass
through the village for its short line to
| Watertown. \ franchise has also been
granted to the Milwaukee Western Rail
way Company.
With the exception of a few small
| railroads. all the lines in the State have
paid their taxes and State Treasurer y.
IL. Dahl reports nearly all of the Sl.3OO.-
coo due from this source is now in. The
largest Zee came from the Northwestern.
S;;,43,T7TTI.S3.
Burying passenger locomotive and
scattering bricks in every direction. a por-
ton of the south side section of the Mil
Maukee road roundhouse in La Crosse
collapsed. Fortunately no workmen were
ncal and no one was injured The dam
az, was slight.
Dennis Boyce aged 9 years. was drawn
from the government canal at Menasha in
an unconscious condition but revived after
having bee, below the water for nearly
FIVE minutes.
y fourth church building is being erect
Ell in Cameron by l.atherans, the members
al ihe organization putting ia their spare
time in hauling material and doing con-
Struction work.
kilograms from Los Angeles. Cal, an
nounce the death Of Mrs. james Bird, -
years of age. one of the pioneers of Ra-
cine County. She had gone to thar State
for her health.
Alfred Ginder died as result OF
injuries received in a Chippewa Falls
nulp MILL Flying pieces OF q broken pull
i ley struck him in the side. forcing his
ribs into his lungs.
State Banking Commissioner Bergh is
saed n charter TO the First State Bank OF
CamabellSporf. which is a reorganization
OF the First National Bank of that place.
The new bank is capitalized at $4,000
The Antoine Sommer SAW mill at Dale
has been destroyed by FIRE. the loss being
practically complete This is the second
time within year the mill has been Wis
tied by FIRE. The mill viii be rebuilt at
once.
William Beikey. who killed George
Schultz as he was about 10 enter the Bel
KEY home in Gillette. was examined by
Justice Stuelke and District Attorney
y Chase. who after hearing the evidence ex-
!. | ,rs-afsd him finding that ne had acted