Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-10
MINOR STATE ITEMS.

crease of 1882 over the preceding
year.
The Friedens congregation at SEQ
held has extended call to Rev. H.
zeh of the town OF Rhine, to succeed
Rev. Mr.. Kuhn, resigned.
Jack and Michael Rice, Chicago
Italians, were sent to the State prison
from GAINESVILLE for theft for terms of
nine and seven months.
Because it does business almost ex-
clusively in Minnesota, the La Crosse
Grain Company will remove its head
quarters to Spring Valley, MINI.
Grasshoppers are threatening great
damage to crops in the town of De-
pere. The recent drouth brought the
insects to the fields in great numbers.
Frank E. Brown, of Ashland. was
sentenced TO twenty months in the
Green Bay reformatory for assaulting
his grandfather, farmer, with a
knife
As result of an operation perform.
ed at Rochester, Mimi, Mrs. Hixon,
wife of F. p Hixon, La Crosse mil
lionaire, is dead at the age of 40. Her
husband and several children survive.
Mrs. Emily Derwig, an aged Neenah
woman, was severely bitten by dog
and is confined to her bed. The dog
tore his victims neck open and missed
the jugular vein by slight margin.
Miss Narmi O'Brien stepped back
ward into the Menasha locks. and fell
into thirty feet of water and would
have drowned but for the quick action
of Lock Tender Allison, who rescued
her.
While boarding the steamer Leander
Choate to attend an excursion Adolph
Krause and his son. II years old, fell
into the river at the Main street dock,
in Oshkosh. They were rescued with
out any difficulty.
l.. H. Boleng, for several years past
a member of the faculty of the west
side high school in Manitowoc, has
sailed from Oakland CAL, on a tour
around the world and will be gone
three or four years.
The western part of Calumet Coun-
ty is infested with a small sized
plague in the shape of grasshoppers.
They cover a strip about two miles
wide and four or five miles long and
are doing considerable damage.
The city of Menasha entertains some
1,200 people Wednesday, all employees
of the 500 line and their families. A
big program has been arranged. All
the employees of this division get spe-
cial trains to and from their homes.
Edward Foster, the 5-year-old son OF
George e. Foster, of Mellen, was killed
by being struck by street car. He
was visiting his grandfather, T. A.
Lockhart, in Oshkosh. The father of
the boy is wealthy lumberman, a
member of the Foster Lumber Com
pany of Mellen.
The 1909 Blue book has made its
appearance at the State capitol 1t is
smaller volume than the one issued
two years ago, containing 1,199 pages
as against 1922 in the 1907 volume.
Many of the old maps and some of
the statistics published in previous
volumes have been omitted.
Because Mrs. Emil Linzweller, of
Neenah, wore her haid in a psyche
knot she was saved from death when
she fell out of a cherry tree and her
head struck a large boulder. The
thick knot of hair on her head pre-
vented a fractured skull, although she
was rendered unconscious.
John Horwart, Hungarian, who is
accused of fatally stabbing James Sui
livan, a farmland, at Lakeside, made
his escape from Racine 1t is said
that Horwart remained until informed
that Sullivan was dead and then walk
ed to an interurban line and, board
ing a car, made his escape.
Action against the GAINESVILLE street
railway company to revoke its license,
has been laid over two weeks. but it
is probable that suit will be begun
before the State Railway Commission.
The road has been run for several
years at loss. At present there is a
case before the railway commission
relative to its failure to run one of
the branch lines and decision is ex-
pected at any time.
No more fishing will be permitted
by outside sportsmen on the Menom-
inee Indian reservation, where signs
have been erected giving the notice.
The Wolf River, the south branch of
the Oconto and their tributaries are
all famous fishing streams and here
tofore there never has been any OBJ
lection to outsiders fishing in these
streams on the reservation.
Massaging and pinching the heart
of Gustave Kimberly, son of prom
inent business man of Neenah, was
all that prevented him from dying in
an accident in his mill at Cedars, Miss.
Mr.. Kimberly was placing belt on
a pulley when a stick slipped from
his hand and entered his chest. The
flesh was torn away and the heart was
exposed to view Kimberly was hur-
ried on a special train to vicksburg.
and his heart was kept beating by
constant EassagiTg anu severe pinch
ing. the surgeon eeing able to reach
in through the wound. He is now re
covering. Mr.. Kimberly is million
aire paper maker.
Rev. A H. Zechiel, who has gained
considerable prominence in his anti
liquor crusade. has caused the arrest
of two Appleton dealers on charges OF
selling cigarette papers
Fishermen returning from Brule
brought the first definite news from
the Pierce estate The buildings on
Cedar Island are safe. but the private
fish hatcheries and ponds with thous-
ands of fine trout we're washed into
the Brule River This, it is expected,
will result in improving fishing in