Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-07-20
AL ovER THE STATE.
Fire Chief Louis Shatzel was dis
missed from the Ashland department
bxy- a. u<xt<, ~ Q, ~, .

rlre pTdclicdliy destroyed the water
works building at Onalaska and dam.
aged the pumps so that they cannot be
| used.
At a celebration in the town of
Clyde, while the farmers were ENJOYING
themselves, Someone cut thirteen har-
nesseS-
W.. c. Norris;, Ashland hardware
man., received bullet through his
hand The bullet DETECTED from his
cuff button
! Willis Reese. of Racine, while filling
a toy balloon, was burned from both
knees down to his feet His sister was
also badly burned
Senator George B. Hudnall has ac-
cepted the appointment of member of
! the fish commissions offered him by
Gov. j. o. Davidson.
The first rural route viii be estab-
lished in Forest County Aug. out of
| Crandon. Length of route will be nine
teen and one-half miles
A tornado swept through the coun-
try southwest of AIgoma- No lives
were lost, but the damage to buildings
is thought to exceed $4,000.
George Bragg, 40 years old, laborer
in the gravel pit crew operating north
of Barton while asleep on the North
western track, was struck by a train
and instantly Killed.
According to the monthly report is
sued by Secretary j. NJ True, of the
State Board of Agriculture, the farm
crops i'm Wisconsin, are in an unusual
ly fiourishing condition
George Knerzer killed his wife by
crushing her skull with the butt end
of a shotgun at Lodi He then COM
united suicide by drowning in a pool
He was believed to be- insane
Fire, believed to- be of fncendiary or
igin, destroyed the residence of Mrs.
Eli Larson in Hudson. A kerosene can
in shavings was seen burning by dis
covers of the blaze. Mrs. Larson was
not at home.
Ten thousand visitors from Chicago,
Rockford, Beloit, Madison, Milwaukee
and the neighboring countryside at
tended Janesvilles big Fourth of July
celebration and home coming. No seri-
Gus accidents were reported.
William Krauser, living about three
miles northwest Of BestuPs mills, while
blasting stumps in the road, was killed
by premature explosion of dynamite
He was about 40 years of age and
leaves wife and seven children.
Roy RedIand,, a Neenah boy, had one
eye blown out by toy pistol, which
went off when the lad looked into the
barrel Harry Smitzer was trying to-
fix his revolver when the shell explod-
ed, the wad going through his hand.
Mrs. Albert H. Oakley, %, of Madi;
son, shot herself through the head with
a 32-caliIer revolver. She died instant
ly. Oakley told the police that he had
no quarrel with his wife and that he
could think of no reason why she, COM
mitted suicide.
In an effort TO make him admit the.
alleged theft of gold watch and $S5,
a stranger was stripped of his cl0ttiinG
hanged by the neck with a rope until
the river and ducked by mob of an
cry citizens of Cataract
At Larson Jacob Rusch had his nose
shot away when he attempted to re-
| rrhi oh had fai1o6 -. 0ye-
plode. John Rantz, FARMER, was
thrown out of his rig and sustained
broken ribs when his horse ran away.
1t was frightened by torpedoes.
The petition of Rev. A. H. Zechiel,
Superintendent of the Anti-SalOOn
League of the district TO have the town
marshal and justice of the peace in
Hilbert removed from Office on
charge of failure to perform their du-
ties, was refused by Gov. Davidson.
Joseph Rosenbloom, familiar char
acter in Merrill for over twenty years
and known throughout northern Wis
consin as Kentucky joe" died Sun
day, penniless. or many years he con-
Quoted a large wholesale and retail liq-
uor business and was worth at one
time over 100000.
Miss Carrie Smith of Neenah was
badly burned when her dress caught
fire from a lighted match thrown uD-
der her by young man as a prank on
carnival night. The lower part of the
body was badly blistered and her
clothes burned entirely from her be-
| fore bystanders came to her assistance.
A sixty-pound boulder that was
| dropped from q height of twelve feet
| upon a quantity of sulphur and chlor-
ate of potash in Appleton was hurled
back into the tree from which it was
| dropped and struck August Spielber
| in the abdomen, rupturing an fntes
| tine, from which injury the victim
died a few hours afterward. Spielber
prepared the explosive and planned the
Fourth of July prank to brighten a
friend who was at work near by.
The Bank of Baldwin, which placed
| its affairs in the hands of the commits
| sioner of banking some time ago. has
made arrangements to pay its deposit
ors in full at once and will go into
voluntary liquidation. The State
bank of Baldwin has purchased it's
building and will continue its business
in the future with the following OH
| GERS: F. H. Welcome. President: Ed
/ ward Stronks, Vice President; Henry
Anderson, Cashier; n L. Swanson, As
! sistant Cashier.
Junketing trips by subordinates of
the employees in the Office of the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
| at the expense of the State must cease
under the law passed by the last Legis-
lature. An opinion to that effect was
rendered by Attorney General Gilbert
Manitowoc County Historical Socie-
ty officers are completing plans for the
| z-5ioat icn 0f fho N monument which will