Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-09
SHORT STATE ITEMS.

John H. Pell, aged ~, one of the
first German settlers in Racine, is dead.
A. S. Porter, one of the Oldest resi-
dents If Palmyra, and veteran of the
late (" is dead, aged So years.
Wisconsin Humane Society will
4 Winnebago County Board for
J 1t $50 carry on humane work.
ss-ie am S. Joseph was probably ia
talf3& 5urned by falling into vat of
boiling water at the slaughter-house in
GAINESVILLE.
Despondent because of ill-health,
Hans Simonson, a Racine teamster,
committed suicide by hanging in the
parlor of his boarding house.
Mrs. Charles Arterian, of Milwaukee,
fell down twenty-seven steep stairs at
the Rosenthal house In Sheboygan,
where she was staying She suffered
cash in her forehead and severe
bruises.
A SNOWFALL bush in Louis Nelson's
garden in Neenah has blossomed three
times since last spring. 1t is now in
full bloom. In the garden of Robert
Yodell strawberries are growing their
third crop.
B. Merrill, a Neenah farmer, was
wounded in the thigh by pitchfork.
He fell with a load of hay. ]. j..
Christensen, an aged resident, frac-
tured both hips in falling off hay
stack He may die.
A four-passenger automobile was
destroyed by fire south of Jefferson
The machine was being driven by
William Francisco of the Fuller-Bell-
man Automobile Company of Water
town. when the machine caught fire
from a leak.
An effort to curtail the expenses of
the public schools of Stevens Point, by
refusing to add additional teachers to
the stats of the high school and other
departments. was abandoned by the
school board after considerable argu-
ment.
francesca Andreolia, an Italian who
died after an injury at the Simmons
plant in Kenosha. wanted $1,000 flu
neral and got it. The funeral was led
by band and every acquaintance rode
in the procession. Four carriages went
empty to the cemetery.
Mrs. Sue Allen, wife of Charles Ches-
ter Allen, of the Central Leather Com
pany. was caught in her automobile
with her little son, Charles Chester
Allen. on the tracks of the Northwest
ern Railway directly in front of pas
senger train in Kenosha. Leaping from
the machine she carried the boy to
safety. Then she threw up her arms
as a signal and the engineer brought
the train to a standstill with a jerk.
Mrs. Alien rode away as If nothing had
happened.
GAINESVILLE viii be the first Wiscon-
sin city to vote on the question of
adopting the commission government
system. This can be accomplished by
a call of $50 citizens.
Mrs. Mary Scott, an early settler in
eastern wisconsin. is dead at Dunbar.
Pa. where she was visiting Mrs. Scott
was nearly 100 years old. She was
called Mother Mary" by Indians.
Charles Conrady, years old. vas
caught under a moving freight car
while picking I'D wood in the North
western yards at Sheboygan. His left
arm was amputated at the shoulder.
Rev. G. W. Fogg. pastor Of the TabeF-
nacle Baptist Church in La Crosse. ere
ated sensation in his sermon Sunday
night By declaring that from his OBJ
seryations and from talks with travel
ing men, be was convinced that every
body in La Crosse had an affinity
Miss Florence Arpin. member Of the
wealthy family of that name in Grand
Rapids. was badly injured when
thrown from her riding horse Her
head and hack we're cut She was rid
ing with two girl companions when a
team OF horses came up from behind
and struck thr injured girls animal