Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-25
SHORT STATE ITEMS.

fell dead from heart disease.
Emil Schultz of the town of Maine
vas fined SIS on a plea of guilty to
charge CT fishing with dip net.
: street car was held up by a.
masked robber at the entrance of
Washington Park, Milwaukee, and $50
taken.
The saloon license of Anton Kroupa
at Kilbourn has been revoked by the
city council. He was charged with
selling liquorNto minor.
Miss MART Holtan is dead at her
home in Stoughton at the age of 90
years She was undoubtedly the old
est spinster in Dane County.
Herman Somers, IS years old. drop
ped dead in Princeton while prepar-
ing to go out with crew to repair
some windmills. Heart failure is the
cause given for death.
Henry Huber of Baraboo, aged "a,
fell or threw himself from the top
window at the county infirmary 1T
Reedsburg and died soon after He
had been blind for some years.
While unloading timbers from
wagon in Grand Rapids, Herman Getz-
loft was struck by hesTy beam and
seriously injured His skull was crush
ed and it is not expected that he will
live.
T. B. Kilbourn of Angelo dropped
from chair in the Office of the Grand
Rapids Milling Company. He was
taken to the police station by officers
and died few minutes after arriving
there.
The plant of the Rehfuss Dye Works
in La Crosse was almost totally de-
stroyed by fire. Clyde Rehfuss, the
son of the proprietor, was so badly
burned that he was removed to hos
pital.
While Gollmar's circus was exhibit
ing in Baraboo, Miss Satterfield, eques-
trienne, was thrown from a horse and
dashed against the ring curb Her
nose was broken and her lower lip
was cut.
A panic was averted the other even
ing at the Ideal Theater in Grand
Rapids, when the floor settled about
three feet. There. were 200 people in
the building at the time. One prop
in the basement gave way and the floor
sank until it rested upon brick chin
ney.
The trustees of the State law Ii
brary elected Policeman J. B. Mccoy,
who has been on the capitol force for
number of years, as janitor of the
| Supreme Court chambers in Madison
in place of Thomas Coleman, whose
term expires on August 1. The salary
| is SIS a month.
Aid Cyrus S. Snyder, president of
the State Retail Liquor Dealers Asso-
citation, prominent business man and
| Democratic politician, died at the
| State Hospital for the Insane at Men
dota. He was so years old and be-
result of overwork.
| When the Racine police called to the
home of F. L. Perry on Park avenue
arrived there, the officers found Mr.
Perry sitting on a chair with a gas
| jet fully open and calmly awaiting
| asphyxiation He was taken to jail,
| but his wife refused to appear against
him and he was discharged.
A special meeting of the Manitowoc
city council will be held for the APP
pointment of a committee to carry pc
| titions signed by several thousand res
idents of that city, Two Rivers, VAL
ders, Collins and towns On the Neenah
branch of the 500, to officials of the
company asking restoration of the
train service recently changed.
After a day of John Doe" investiga-
lions in the Kenosha municipal court
two warrants for gambling were
sworn out by officials of the Kenosha
| Civic Federation for Jacob Giles and
Mike Neiderpin, and it is declared that
others will follow The Federation
| claims to have evidence against sew
eral places which have long had pro-
| lection.
Charles F. Dillett Of Shawano. I'M
successful candidate for Judge of the
Tenth Judicial Circuit. filed state
ment in the office of the Secretary of
State. declaring he spent $S23.69 for
campaign purposes. Col. L. ]. Rusk of
| Chippewa Falls. unsuccessful candi-
date for Judge in the new Nineteenth
circuit, spent s71S.S4 for campaign
purposes.
| F. Stanley Powles. Milwaukee, was
reelected president of the eastern dis
trict of the Christian Endeavor at the
fifteenth annual convention at Ocono-
mowoc. The other officers are: Presi-
dent. Owen L. Jones. Oconomowoc;
secretary. Lovina Vanderpool Muk-
wonago; treasurer, Reba Hardness.
Waukesha: mission superintendent,
Rev. T. Barker, Oconomowoc.
| William Tech. a west side young
man. was the victim of a stabbing
ARRAY in Manitowoc. as a result of
which William Hackley, an iron
molder of Harvey. Ill. will be arrest
! ed Hackley made : vicious assault
| upon Tech. who was stabbed just be-
low the heart and was seriously
i wounded The knife encountered a
rib. which is probably all that saved
| the life of the attacked man
On account of the prevailing high
| prices of living materials. the Hudson
/ city council has decided to raise the
/ wages of men working on the streets
from s175 TO 81 day. and a team
and man from 1926 to 81 per day.
ReedsvilIe adopted unique plan in
| employing a village marshal. awarding
| the Office on bids which the board linn
ited to 1919. Three bids we're filed
| and Fred Bahrs was awarded the
office for $500. though his bid was So
higher than cue fled by August Kan
ter. Bahrs has held the Office for sew
eral years
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