Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-08-09


nine has beeT the Kind.
La Crosse. EXCITEMENT fem Vas an
clam fishing craze which has bee
on here during the present low stage
of water In the Mississippi. came to
climax when Jack Leonard, a day la
borer, took a button pearl of beauti-
full luster and lavender color from
clam, and the gem is valued at
$4,000 Leonard turned down the Of
fer of clam buyer for $1,000 cash. A
large number of pearls worth from
$50 to $500 each have been found
within the past few days and hun
dreds are wading in the river.
Madison. - A search is being
made for Miss Amelia Johnson. aged
nineteen, who went to Chicago about
year and a half ago, and for a few
months wrote regularly to her mother.
Then the letters ceased For a year
she has not been heard from She is
the daughter of Mrs. Peter Johnson,
who has appealed to the Chicago POI
lice.
Manitowoc-Stru by lightning.
her clothing set on fire and
picked up as dead, Martha Flentje, a
Mishicott girl, lives to tell the tale.
Miss Flentje was rendered uncon-
scious by a bolt of lightning during
severe storm. Physicians wonder that
the girl was not killed outright. She
is recovering and aside from partial
paralysis of the left side suffers no
Ill effects from her experience.
Appleton.-At session of the
Wisconsin Retail Liquor Dealers
Protective association convention
about 200 delegates were present. NJ
II. Deacon, Kaukauna, has announced
his candidacy for reelection as state
secretary. President John A. I.angan.
Kenosha, will not again accept the
presidency. Milwaukee, Wausau. Osh.
kosh and Ashland are in the field for
the 1911 convention.
Waupun.-Thomas Floyd Melon
aid died at his home, Main and
WATERFOWL streets, of diabetes, after
an illness of seven years duration.
He was born In Mount Vernon. o.,
August /, 1914, and came to Wiscon-
sin In 1857. settling on Mackford
Prairie He served In the army du-
ring the Civil war, after which he
came to Waupun.
Fond du Lac.-The dealers OF
the village have signed an agree
ment by which the price of milk will
be six cents quart instead of FIVE
cents a quart as heretofore. The rise
in price during midsummer is unusual,
but the dealers contend that the poor
pasturage and scarcity of feed has
made 1t necessary to ask a higher
price.
Madison. - Senator La Toilette,
who was to open his speaking
campaign at the PlattewiIle chautauqua
has cancelled the engagement, 1t was
announced. Senator Moses Clapp OF
Minnesota will speak in his place.
Fond du Lac.-According to
list compiled by Superintendent or
Schools Ruby M. Acker. 221 students
graduated from rural schools in Fond
du Lac county during the last year
Beloit.-Miss Olive Shippey OF
Chicago found a black pearl In
a clam shell in Rock river. This Is
said to be the only one ever found i'm
this vicinity and is very valuable.
Depere.-Nine head of cattle were
killed during an electrical storm on
the farm of Humphrey Brennan In the
town of Glenmore.
Evansville.-Byron Campbell Of this
city has just received an octopus, re-
Gently captured in the Pacific ocean.
Madison A. Bredin, for
nine years an instructor In the
university school of music and an or
ganist and chorus director OF note, has
resigned his position to become organ
ist and choir director In st. Luke's
skurch at Evansville.
Beloit.-Saul Haas, Racine. has
brought suit against the town OF
Turtle for damages in the sum OF
"a 900 for injuries Mr.. and Mrs. Hass
are alleged to have sustained In an
automobile accident on July 3, said
to have been due to defective road
bed.
Sparta.-The first battalion OF
the Twenty-eighth United States
infantry, ESQ men, with wagons, has
arrived. These companies marched
from Fort Smelling, MINI. July IL
the remaining eight companies Of the
regiment left Fort Smelling and are
expected here soon.
Fort Atkinson.-While Fritz AL
treuter was operating a grain har-
vester out In the field his two-year-
old baby girl got into the grain. Al
treuter's first knowledge that the child
was near was when she screamed as
the knives OF the harvester cut her
down. Before the machine was stopped
and the little body extricated the
chiId's left arm had been cut of and
she had lost 50 much blood that her
death resulted shortly after being
taken 10 a hospital
Neenah.-Mrs. Louisa Krull, reputed
to have lived here longer than any
other person, died Of heart failure.
ward.-Seyen-year-old Alma Nc
Graw, while playing on a raft in
Lake park. fell into ten feet of wa
ter Ernest Rohloff. assistant cashier
OF the First National bank, heard her
scream and plunged into the water.
pulling the girl out as she was sink
| ing
Plainfeld During a thunderstorm
the 500 passenger and freight depot
was struck by lightning and destroyed
with all the freight
Racine.-Haro May, aged eleven.
while in bathing at the public bathing
beach here. was caught by an under
.ow and drowned