Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-17
BRIEF STATE HAPpEN1Nes.


The Milwaukee Social Democratic
party has filed statement showing
it spent $3.50 in the municipal cleo
| ton.
| Charles Dibble of Packwaukee was
found dead. An inquest was held and
the jury rendered verdict that death
was due to alcoholic poisoning.
Ed Sires pleaded guilty to having set
! fire to barn of Anton Orostrowki in
| the town of Harrison, and he was SEN
| fenced to two years in State prison.
The Giant Marble Company of Mil
waukee, which has the marble contract
| on the south wing of the new capitol,
has increased it's capital stock from
S150,000 to $350.000
The annual convention of the State
rural letter carriers will be held in
| Baraboo May 80 and 81 About 200
delegates are expected. The president
is R. NJ, Kerney, Milwaukee
The Linderman Box and Veneer
Company's factory was destroyed by
| fire in Eau Claire. The origin of the
fire is unknown. The company's other
buildings and lumber yard were saved.
The damage amounts to $4,000, most
| ly covered by insurance.
One hundred and twenty-eight build
ing carpenters went out on a strike in
Racine They were receiving As cents
an hour for eight hours work and de-
manded so cents an hour. The bosses
offered to pay Az cents as a compro-
mise, but this was not accepted.
While few new cases of scarlet fever
| appear now in Wausar, the virulence
| of the disease is still shown in occa-
| sional cases and in the death of g.
year-old Neil Alexander. Mayor La
| monts home is still Quarantined, the
third case there having appeared.
Ross Green committed suicide in
| Weyauwega by shooting He had been
discharged from the Northern State
hospital this spring, where he had been
| for treatment for mental trouble
caused from drink A widow and
three children survive. He had con-
Quoted barbershop in Weyauwega a
number of years.
James Matthews, of Marion, owns a
| hen that he is ready to enter into a
| contest against that of Clate connor,
of Superior. His hen one day laid an
egg weighing Is ounces and measur-
ing 8 and 67s inches, respectively, in
| circumference. The hen is only year
old and so far has laid sixty-one eggs.
| Mr.. Connor's hens best achievement is
an egg weighing 4 ounces and measur-
ing rs and 61s inches, respectively, in
| circumference.
| Henry Sprink, of Menominee, was al
most instantly killed by the overturn-
ing of his automobile. With his wife,
| daughter and son-in-law, Mr. Sprink
was driving the car down a hill at
high speed when the sand at the foot
| of the hill turned the wheels. throwing
| the occupants out Mrs Sprink had an
arm broken, while Mr.. Sprink was
caught by the steering wheel across
| the stomach and pinned under the car.
| He died fifteen minutes later
Charles Brown, a harnessmaker, out
on strike, pleaded not guilty to the
charge of burning the dwelling occu-
| pied by him in South Madison on
| Ap;f1 IS. On that day his supposed
heroic rescue of his sick wife from
the burning building was widely her
aided Burrows was held in $4,000
bonds and the trial set for May 5.
The officers had discovered that con-
siderable property had been removed
before the fire and subsequently listed
along with claim for $1,000 personal
property insurance.
Assistant United States Engineer
L. NJ. Mann has sent out notice to
the waterpower users advising them
that they may avail themselves of the
full flow of water for the time being
This applies to the paper mill owners
on the Fox River below Menasha and
they will be allowed to use 100 per
cent of the power Several weeks ago
the government found il necessary to
cuTtail the supply because of the low
waters in the uprivers, but the heavy
rains and the blizzard have added
great deal Of water.
While the women of the German
Methodist church, in Appleton. OF
which he was a member. were holding
an apron sale in his vacant store
building. F. B. Volgt, for 80 years
shoe merchant and dealer in hides.
hanged kimsef in the loft of his barn
al the rear of the building On April
Is, Mr.. volgt sola his stock OF shoes
and since then has been trying to dis
pose of his store building and home,
presumably to move to Sheboygan,
where he has a brother in the tanHery
business. Dependency is believed 10
have been the cause.
All but one plumbing firm in James
vile are handicapped owing to a strike
of the journeymen plumbers. They de
manded an eight-hour day and 81 per
day. and the master plumbers offer a
nine-hour day al 1915. The fight
promises 10 be a long drawn out az
fair Masons seeking an eight-hour
day are still on strike, and Contractors
ere laying foundations themselves. aid
ed b. boy helpers.
The barn. granary and hog barn on
the Henry Kranz farm near Lima we're
destroyed By a mysterious fire. The
loss IS s2.50o, O0vezed by insurance.