Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-13
SHORT STATE ITEMS.

a Manltowoc jury returned a YER
dlct giving Greilling Bros of Green
BAY $1,000 against the Central Coal
and Dock Company of Superior.
James w. Priest, aged So, for eight
years State carpenter in the capitol,
died suddenly while sitting in a chair
on the lawn at his home in Madison.
The sheriff of Muskegon County,
michigan, came to Madison to take
back with him Mike Thompson, want
ed there on a charge of embezzlement.
John Carney, aged 25 years, a resi-
dent o. the town of Winfield, was run
over by Chicago and Northwestern
train. His head was severed from the
body.
The Dairymen's National Bank of
Sheboygan Falls will not open for
business again this year, according to
National Bank Examiner George E.
Luther.
The number of saloons in Madi-
son is decreasing. The common coun-
ell has just granted licenses to seventy
six saloons, half a dozen less than in
previous years.
The regents of the University of
Wisconsin have decided to reorganize
the school OF music by putting it on
the same basis as the other schools
OF the institution.
William L. Barker, former super
visor from Black Earth, died from a
complication of liver and kidney all
nents. He was a pioneer of Dane
County, 70 years of age.
The Northwestern Lumber Company,
after having been closed down for
eight months, during which time its
Stanley plant has been practically re-
built, has resumed operations.
Arnold Metke, son of Fred Metke, a
farmer living four miles northwest of
Mayville, drowned in Rock River
while watching companions swimming
from bridge off which he fell.
The ladies of the Grand Rapids
Women's Federated Clubs have rented
the Ideal theater for one week to raise
funds for work proposed by the fed
Grafton during the coming season.
John Frost, a Bohemian laborer,
aged "a years, employed in the Nekoo-
sd paper mill, accidentally shot himself
while loading his revolver. The bull
let passed through his right hand.
Word has been received by Sheriff
Henry of Sparta that James McCarry,
said to be the fourth member of the
quartette who robbed the Warrens
bank, has been captured at Wausau-
kee
Leonard Haufer, aged Is years, was
drowned at Caroline while swimming.
He was seized with cramps and two
other boys went to his assistance, but
they had hard time saving them
selves.
Members of the Racine County bar
herd memorial services in honor of the
late Samuel Richie, who was one of
the oldest attorneys of Racine and
who was the father of the Racine city
charter
Fast train No. on the Milwaukee
road struck the rig belonging to AL
fred Meyer of Dutch Creek, at the
brewery crossing at Bangor, serious
ly inJuring Meyer and killing the two
horses.
After having been settled once and
then repudiated by the men, the street
railway strike in La Crosse was finally
settled The men gain all points, ex-
cept that the company is to operate an
open shop.
Fire in the cupola of the Centralia
Pulp and Paper Company's plant
threatened to be disastrous, but the
quick action of the Grand Rapids fire
department saved the mill from seri-
Gus damage.
Despite the objections of counsel for
the city the hearing of the case of the
city of Beloit against the Beloit Water,
Gas and Electric Company has been
postponed by the State commission I'M
til September.
While driving a team at the saw
mill of the Hatton Lumber Company,
IN New London, Clarence Butler fell
from a loaded wagon and sustained
such severe injuries that he died with
in a few hours.
The body of Richard Bierlich, cut in
two just above the hips, was found on
the 500 line about two miles east of
Ladysmith. He was killed within half
a mile Of his home. Bierlich leaves a
wife and seven children.
Erastus Hall, a member of the T. 4.
Plummer Dry Goods Company of Osh-
kosh. was run over and killed by an
automobile at Berlin. He was about
80 years old and is survived by a wild
ow and grown up family.
]. H. Fitzpatrick secured verdics
of $4,000 against the Northwestern
Fuel Company in his $4,000 damage
suit following the accidental killing
of his son at the company's docks in
Superior, while employed as a switch
man.
Edward Behnke, clerk of Stephen
son. and DR.. Dohearty of Pound drove
out to High Falls and examined
crew of ATS men for smallpox and
found six mild cases. They took them
to a pesthouse which they built mile
from High Falls.
William Bartelz, farmer living
three and half miles north of Kewas-
KUN, was killed and his son, Adm
Bartelz. was seriously and perhaps IA
tally injured by being struck on a
crossing by a Northwestern passenger
train.
Papers have been served upon OH
GERS of the Kneipp Malt Food Company
of Manitowoc and New YORK, in test
action by the government on the pure
food laws, it being alleged that the
company's use of the word cofaa on
its cartons and advertising ms 'tlr : a
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