Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
ALL OVER THE STATE.

c. W. Ring of Minneapolis has taken
charge of the Hotel Maine in Stanley,
whose name has been changed to Hotel
| West.
The fourth annual encampment, depart
mcnt of Wisconsin, Grand Army of the
Republic, will begin June 10 next, at Eau
Claire.
The plant of the Fox River Valley
| Knitting Company at Menasha was de-
stroyed by fire, entailing loss of about
$4,000.
| Louis Blanback, farmer living in the
town of Eigel, was badly injured while
blasting rock in a well he was digging
On his farm.
Robert w. KletcHaAr of Chicago. who
recently engaged IL business in La Crosse,
Is under arrest Oh charge of wife desertion
at Chicago. He asserts his innocence.
| In looking into the barrel after clean
ing gun Albert Benware, 10 years old,
was accidentally shot in the face and in
stantly killed at MS home in the town of
| Sigel.
Students at the University of Wiscon-
sin interested in the sale of freshman class
caps were exonerated from charges of
graft which had been brought against
| them.
William Burkhardt milkman, living
outside the Manitowoc city limits, acct
dentally fed his left hand into a feed
cutter. losing the arm nearly to the ell
bow.
Mayor w. S. Henry of Jefferson, his
wife and two daughters, were taken ill
with an attack of ptomaine poisoning
cansed by eating canned food. All have
recovered.
| Forty thousand dollars is demanded of
| the La Crosse Gas and Electric Com pany
| BY Henry Marquardt for injuries alleged
| to have been sustained at the gas works
on May 20, 1906.
y difference of $4,000 between the
price demanded for Racine stone quarry
and the price offered by Charles Kletz
| of Chicago was settled by throwing dice
| The owner won and received the price
asked.
Fred Otto Mas, the 4-year-old son of
| Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Mas of Clarno town
ship. died from the effects of drinking
|
vas Kept in the house for cleaning pur-
poses.
| Borrowed in small sums of from So to
| SO. nearly $500 is said to have been Sc
| cured from residents of Cleveland and vi
| cinity by a stranger who recently came
there and declared his intention of engag-
ing in business
| LII, r. IL i. 6
| francis Gillingham of Neenah anu James
Dillingham; of Oshkosh was observed in
Ncenah. For over fifty years both have
been prominent in the commercial life of
,he Fox river valley.
James Clancy, said to have been the old
est Civil War veteran. died Mt the Mil
waukee National Soldiers Home, aged
| 100 years. Mr.. Clancy was born in Ire
land. He enlisted with the Fourth Mic,li-
gan Guards in 1862.
William Langley, a former resident of
Monroe county, is under arrest in La
| Cross on a charge of bigamy. 1t is all
legged thlt he left his wife at Kendalls,
and coming to La Crosse, was married to
Anna Johnson on Aug. %.
The general store of p. Augers & Son
| burned in Saxon The origin of the fire
is unknown. The building and stock was
totally destroyed, the loss being in the
ncighborhood of $4,000 Light insur-
ance was carried by the firm.
Burglars entered the residence of Ho-
mer Geddes. superintendent of the RAJ
cine Malleabe and Wrought Iron Com
| pany. and stole silver jewelry and a
watch. all valued at $500. Some of the
stolen articles were heirlooms.
Two men running restaurant on the
| grounds of THE residence of John Till, the
| plaster doctor, near Almena, broke out
with smallpox while at work. They have
returned to their home at Turtle Lake,
where they are under quarantine.
Charles Waterman, son of Frank Wat
erman of Chilli. was dangerously wounded
| by the accidental discharge of shotgun.
| His small brother discharged the gun and
| the contents struck Charles in the back,
some of the shot passing through the body.
In Superior William Holman. the negro
| charged with assault with intent TO kill,
was found guilty and sentenced to a term
of three years in State prison at Waupun.
Holman was charged with having hit Emil
Peterson over the head with an iron
spike.
w. !. Stalz. one of the four alleged
| IIolcombe bank robbers, was released, the
State having failed to secure any evil
dence against him. He claimed that he
became casually acquainted with the other
prisoners in Minneapolis and was visiting
| them when arrested
As the climax of romance begun at
| Waukesha Beach last summer John Earl
| Baker. n graduate of Wisconsin univer-
sity, now statistcan for the Interstate
Commerce Commission at Washington.
will marry Miss Willie Smith on Dec. 80
At Thomasville. Ga.
The Wisconsin grain and warehouse
commission has made its first payment
to the State treasurer. As the result of
the good business in the weighing depart
mcnt the commission was enabled to pay
al its Indebtedness and turn over a check
Cor $4,000 TO the State.
The Thomas H. English market one
/ OF the oldest in KenoSha. has been closed
and the property turned over to Sehwarz.
| Schild & Sulzberger of Chicago. creditor
TO the extent of SLIGO. Other creditors
from Chicago. Milwaukee and Kenosha
came TO Kenosha. but no steps have been
taken in bankruptcy proceedings.
Al a meeting of the Dunn County Med
| ical Society, Dr. A. f. Heising of Me
nomonie was elected president; DIR. J. ].
Morgan. Durand. secretary: DIR. A. Egg
dahl secretary.
Iuella Tyam. a l2-year-old girl. has
confessed numerous shoplifting episodes
at Sturgeon Bay. Nineteen pieces of
drawn work which she had sold at ridicu-
| lousy low prices have been recovered.
Fred Heinzen of Chill was seriously in
| jured by a broken saw. while operating
wood saving machine. His left arm
vas broken and badly cut, while two fin
gers of the right hand were almost sew