Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-01
BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS.
Solomon Blandin, aged 66 years,
was found dead in his home at Silver

William Beverly Murphy, 81 years
old, one of the best known paper manu-
facturers in the middle west died id
Appleton from cancer of the stomach
after long illness.
Matthias Campbell, tramp, II years
old, died at ST. Nicholas Hospital in
Sheboygan, where he was under treat
ment for nine different diseases. He
was serving term ia the county Jail.
Petitions are being circulated in
Madison requesting that the question
of no license be submitted to the cleo
torate next spring. 1t VIII require 500
signers to compel the submission of the
question to the voters.
]. P Hvid, after being employed in
the Mitchell & Lewis wagon factory
in Racine for forty years. has received
check from the company for $3.50,
as an appreciation of the company's
officers for faithful service. NJ Hvid
| is 81 years of age.
| The police of Kenosha have been IN
able to find any solution to the mystery
of Thomas Nilsson or T. Olson, alleged
Kenoshan who committed suicide in a
hotel at Oshkosh. The man purchased
a ticket from Kenosha to Spalding,
Mich, the previous Saturday.
The big ship Lusitania, aboard which
was p L. Callahan of Neenah, a we'll
known sporting man and manager Of
Eddie McGoorty, the Oshkosh boxer,
narrowly escaped being struck by a
huge meteor recently. Callahan writes
that meteor as large as box car
fell within short distance of the
ship.
John Carroll, who was struck over
the head on one of the Goodrich steam
ers, has disappeared from the Sheboy-
gan hospital where he was confined
after sustaining a slight. conclusion of
the brain and several cuts about the
head. 1t is believed he has disap-
peared to escape the responsibility of
trial.
| Department Commander Grinnel of
the Wisconsin Grand Army of the Re
public, on his way to the Waupaca
Soldiers Home, said emphatically that
he himself, and he believed Wisconsin
Grand Army men generally, were
strongly opposed to having Robert E..
Lees statue placed in statuary hall
in the capitol at Washington.
| The Beloit Bankers and Merchants
Mutual Fire Insurance Company ut
their annual meeting elected officers
as follows: President, ]. NJ. Farms
worth; vice president, l.. w. Lyman !;
secretary, T. d. Corcoran; treasurer,
t. Gesley; general agent, e. D. Bull.
| lock- auditor, j. A. Janvrin; directors,
l.. w. Lyman, D. H. Pollock and j..
| A. Janvrin.
| Marie Heating has been named prin-
cipal of the new Columbus school in
Kenosha Miss Heating has been 4
! teacher in the city schools since her
graduation from the high school and
her election is regarded as a great vic
tory for the women teachers, this be-
ling the first time that woman has
been named as supervising principal
of a Kenosha school,
At the annual meeting of the Wal
worth County Agricultural Society A..
B. Hare of Delavan was elected presi-
dent, F. Davidson of Lake Geneva,
vice president; F. M. Power of Elk
horn. secretary; James E. Bratt OF
Springfield, treasurer; w. e. Magill of
Elkhorn, superintendent of privileges;
w H. Reynolds of Geneva, chief of po-
lice, and H. E. Wylie of Elkhorn, mar
shall.
In a wreck at Corliss fifteen passen-
gers narrowly escaped being killed.
i The milk train bound from Delavan to
Chicago on the Milwaukee road struck
broken rail at the end of the switch
yards, ran on the ties for about so
feet, turned and crashed into a box
car smashing the side of the coach
The passengers were thrown from
their seats to the floor and on top of
each other
Frank G. Logan has just given to
Beloit College the skull of sabreNtooth
tiger, an animal that formerly inhab-
tied Wisconsin, but has been extinct
about 10000 years. according to DR..
George L. Collie, dean of the college.
This skull was obtained from an as
phaltum spring near Los Angeles, Cal,
where several thousand pounds of
them were discovered by students of
the University of California.
Scrubwoman for sixteen years IN
some of the largest business places in
La Crosse, Mrs. Maggie Pawling is
dead, aged 6S years. She has an adopt
ed son, but she cut him off in her will
with the remark: He left the church
and married against my will" Her
property, valued at between $500 and
5000, was left to ST. Mary's Church,
st. AIMS and St Michael's orphan
asylums, and the House for the Friend
less.
/ NdTU T. T1cdS6I WAS lOuLu guilty.
in Milwaukee of the murder of his
wife, Louise, at their home on Sept
9Th A motion for a new trial was
made by Francis E. McGoyern. one Of
his attorneys, as soon as the verdict
was announced. If the motion is de-
MED an appeal will be taken to the
Supreme Court II that body also re-
fuses a new trial, Hedger will be SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment at Wat
pun.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
new state bank to be organized in
| Shawano elected directors as follows.
E. A Kruger, C. A Raisler, P j.
Winters, William RegEng, d. Gordon,
Joseph Bibelhausen, George Klebassa-
bel. August Beversdorf and Fred Kuhn
Jachim S. Madsen. the gentleman
tramp" was found dead in bed in u
1 -oo-,,ir1-y house in Madison frpu1 hca RI