Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-12
MINOR STATE ITEMS.

church was dedicated with services con-
Quoted by out-of-town pastors.
Henry Cox of the town of Fulton has
received consignment of go Angora
goats. which he will fatten on his farm.
Thousands of pounds of suckers are be-
ing caught in the river at Marinette and
sold to the larger city trade as white
fish.
Henry Ziemers. aged 70. and Andrew
keTkhof. aged -, pioneers and WELL
known residents of Wrightstown, are
dead
Mrs. Bull has started a mushroom farm
in Menomonie. 1t is a novelty there and
no little interest has been created in the
project
Clark Craudaii, 81 years of age. and
one of the pioneers of AIilton Junction,
was asphyxiated by escaping gas from
his coal stove.
Hugh Bahlert has started excavation
for a new hotel. 54x36 feet in dimension
and two stories high, in Pound. 1t will
be modern throughout
For the loss of hand in one of the
machines at the plant of the La Crosse
Rubber Mills Company, Simon Sundehn
is asking $4,000 damages.
Walter Goetsch. convicted of robbing
the Valid Manufacturing Company of She
| boygan of its tools. was given a two
years sentence in the penitentiary.
Louis Elfnger drove horse and wagon
over a sixty-foot embankment at the end
of Tenth street Racine and came out
alive. Elfnger took the wrong road.
Jere Toomey, a pioneer drayman of
Manitowoc, is dead, aged II, failing to
survive a stroke of paralysis suffered sew
eral weeks ago. A family survives.
Barns and machinery to the value of
$1,000 were destroyed by fire. starting
| from sparks from threshing engine on
the farm of Adolph Peleshek, town of
| Denmark.
An unusual catch was made when
George Town, while fishing in Fowler
lake. landed pickerel weighing twenty
two and half pounds, and measuring
forty-seven inches in length.
An order for a rehearing in the case
of the decision of the Manitowoc Gas
| light Company increasing its rates. has
been issued by the State railroad COM
mission in favor of the city.
Thomas B. Jeffrey sent to the pension
fund of the Kenosha fire department
gift of $500 as a recognition of the work
done by the fremen at the recent fire at
the Jeffrey home. His loss was $1,000.
James Shumway, postmaster at Bris-
tol for more than eighteen years, died
at the age of 10 years. He had lived at
Bristol sixty-two years and was one of
the first members of the Republican party.
Peter Saintgerman, a Chippewa county
| pioneer, was killed in the woods near
| Fifield. He was engaged in saving down
trees when a limb fell and struck him
on the head. breaking his neck. liz was
- years old
Following the announcement of the res
| i.nation of President Berlin Hall of the
ManitOwoc police and fire commission
comes the report of the retirement of
Herman Schuette. the oldest member of
the commission.
After having been believed dead for
about six months. Patrick O'Rourke, for
merlS roadmaster for the Wisconsin Cen
trail, appeared in Chippewa Fails and
showered Christmas greetings and presents
upon his friends and relatives.
Irwin NJ Chapel, who has been connect
ed with the register of deeds office of the
county at Green Lake since January,
| 1891, and who has been register in pro-
| bate and deputy clerk of Circuit Court
since March, 1904. has resigned.
The plant of the Fox River Valley
Knitting Company was completely de-
Stroyed by fire at Menasha. The fire
started in the boiler room. The loss is
variously estimated at from $4,000 to
$4,000. partly covered by insurance
/ Breaking into a trunk owned by Miss
Anna Scanlon. servant in the Hotel
! Bronson in la Crosse, some one stole 81
in silver. leaving $40 untouched Accord
! ing to the story of the girl she had TWEEN
ty-three silver dollars in the trunk The
peculiar part of the affair is that the
thief did not take the balance of the
money and did not touch other articles of
value that were also exposed.
Capt Columbus Caldwell of Waupaca.
first superintendent of the Wisconsin Vet
Grams Home is dead of paralysis. aged
| IS years. Capt. Caldwell was born Sept
-. 1880. and during the war he was cap
tain of Company NJ. First Wisconsin
| Volunteer infantry. Later he was regis
ter of deeds and member of the Legisla-
ture from Waupaca county lie leaves
a wife. two sons and two daughters.
After securing bigger jag" than he
could comfortably carry. Frank Gorehels
attempted 10 hang himself in the Osh-
kosh city Jail. The attempt was almost
| successful He cut a handkerchief into
strips and made rope of it and tied it
to the bars at the top of his cell ald then
suspended himself from the otter end.
Another prisoner nearby raped on the
iron bars and attracted the attention of
the police and GorchelS was cut down
but not too soon. \ physician was sum
moued and the man came out all right.
Two months ago Mrs. Mary Lloyd of
Stevens Point, who last September was
taken to the Outagamie county insane
asylum at Appleton. declared she would
never eat another morsel. and she kept
her word. her prolonged fast causing her
demise. The house physician sustained
life in his patient for eight weeks by the
artificial administration of food. but the
woman wasted away. 1t is believed she
suffered with cancer of the stomach and
stopped eating because of the added dis
trcss every time food was placed on her
| stomach.
The picture representing the past, pres
ent and future of Wisconsin. which was
painted by Edward Blashfeld. artist, of
New York. has been received and placed
in position on the wall above the Speak
er's desk in the new Assembly room in
Madison The picture cost The State 3d.
600.
President Rosholt of the Fan Claire
Commercial Association will appoint a
committee OF two. who with two residents
of Chippewa Falls aud two from Lady
smith. will call upon President Clark of
tho Omaha road 10 urge the building of