Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-04
STATE NEWS
IN BRIEF

ing of the Milwaukee presbytery
in this city. Rev. Louis Benes,
Alto. was chosen moderator; Dr. j.
w. Roth, Cedar Grove, vice-modera-
tor, and Revs. William NJ. Clark and
William A. Cutler, Milwaukee, clerks.
The opening sermon was preached by
Rev. w. B. Mcneil, Horizon. Others
who gave addresses are President Car.
rier of Carroll college, Waukesha, and
DR.. Paul B. Jenkins, Milwaukee.
Stoughton.-This city will have
three new ministers in a week.
The Baptist church has extended a
call to Rev. John Heritage, Anamosa!
Ia. to succeed Rev. T. B. Hughes,
who left in July for Long Branch, n
]. The Norwegian-Danish Methodist
Episcopal church and the English
Methodist Episcopal church will both
have new ministers. Rev F. c. Lud4
wig of Rhinelander will arrive on Sat-
urday to fill the latter pulpit.
Ashland. " Smeaton of Marsh.
field, Oregon, and Con w. Lloyd
of Ashland were arrested on complaint
Of Assistant Fire Marshal Florin,
charged with conspiring to defraud
fire insurance companies. Their bonds
were fixed at $4,000 each Lloyd is an
insurance agent and Smeaton was
manager of the Lake Superior Lum,
Der & Fox company, which burned a
year ago.
Communicable meeting of the
thirty-eighth district organization
of the l. o. o. F., Waterfowl,
Pewaukee, Waukesha and Hartland.
will be held in Oconomowoc. A num-
Der of the grand officers of the order
will be present, among them Grand
Master L. E. Colvin, Marshfeld; Grand
Secretary Richard Hoe, Milwaukee.
and Grand Chaplain Trimm, Portage.
La Crosse.-That the project OF
building railroad from Reads
town to Viroqua, which is being pro-
moted by La Crosse capitalists, will
be successfully launched, is the an
nouncement made as a result of the
reports received from the various To-
Icalities affected by the enterprise.
The bonding proposition has been car
ried in every community involved.
Madison. = Frederic K. Conover
reporter of the Wisconsin SUI
Ipreme court, filed a report with the
board of trustees of the supreme court
library showing that for the first time
lin the history of the supreme court
all decided cases to date have been
reported and published, or duly pre-
pared for publication and in final
type.
Reloit-Burglars entered the high
school and public library build
ing. pried open the desks of Prin-
cipal j. G. Pierson in the former place
and of the librarian in the latter and
secured about thirty dollars in cash.
They also entered the home of H. e.
Becker and took a gold watch valued
at $50.
Evansville.-The two-year-old daugh-
ter of Fred Woodstock, a farmer
living in the town of Magnolia,
south of here, drowned in a water
tank. The child had been absent from
the house nearly an hour and the body
was found by her little sister.
Black River Falls-William Bel
lew, an Indian boy sixteen years
old, who had run away from the Indian
school in Tomah was killed by a
train on the Omaha road near Mills
ton.
Appleton.-A son of Henry Bell
was found on the river bank in an
almost unconscious condition He was
cold and his heart had almost ceased
beating. Physicians were not certain
las to how the boy was afflicted.
Appleton.-Night Waterman Den
mis- Carroll was severely beat
en- while attempting to arrest two men
lit is said that third man gave assist
ance to the two whom Carroll was try
ing to take to the jail.
Fond du Lac.-Michael Hoyke
and IRISH Kulibert, Lake Winnie
bago fishermen, were arrested by Dep.
uty Game Warden C. M. Follett on a
charge of using black bass as bait on
set lines.
Glenwood. The town of Glen
wood voted against raising the
| liquor license fee to $500, leaving the
| fee at the minimum of 5000. The vii
! lage of Downing voted in favor of a
b500 fee.
Appleton.-The entries for the
| Fox River, fair, which opened, far
exceeds those of previous years in the
line of poultry and cattle. New build
ings were erected this year, but tents
had to be brought into use to accom-
modate the overflow stock.
Sheboygan.-German day, October
6, will be celebrated in Sheboygan.
The officers of the local German so
cieties have a program nearly pre-
Jared.
Kenosha. - The Mungen livery
stable was damaged to the ex!
tent of $4,000 by fire. Two horses,
valued at $500 we're so badly burned
that it was necessary to kill them.
Madison.-William George Bruce,
secretary Of the Milwaukee Merchants
and Manufacturers association, will
be the principal speaker at the dinner
Of the Commercial club here.
Pewaukee. - Nicholas Schaeffer,
owner of a truck farm, was killed
by a train as he crossed the
.ailway tracks here. Although warned
~ the train whistle and boy who
shouted Train is coming" Schaeffef
lid not heed and drove squarely IL
ront of the train The victim was SIX
y years old. f.
Manitowoc-Irwin Stadler. 10
cal young man, was arrested, sus
oected OF burglary. The Uek Hide
,ompany's establishment was robbed
If two valuable hides, which were
,ound near where StadIer was arrest
ID
Appleton-The mammoth cheese
| TO be on exhibition at the ma
| tional dairy show in Chicago has been
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