Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-01-31
STATE NEWS

SOOu results Is eNiuenl from some OF
the investments which have recently
been made. The most recent invest.
ment was in $500 6 per cent. bond of
the Interstate Light and Power COM
pany of Galena, III. The committee
in charge of investment of funds con-
sists of C. o. Bickelhaupt, Aberdeen,
n. D.; A H. Ochsner, Chicago. and L.
E. Voyer, Junction City Walter
Buchen, Theresa, is president of the
union board, and Voyer is treasurer.
Sheboygan-The Sheboygan Ath-
letic association was given a new
lease on life at the annual meet
ing. new board OF directors was
chosen to succeed that which resigned
and Instructed to make efforts to Sc
cure admission to the Wisconsin
State league. The new directors are
w. A. Pfster, president of the Bust
ness Mems association; julius Kroos,
president of the bank of Sheboygan
William j. Nuss of the Panther Lum-
Der company; J, G. Froidel, G. A.
Flipse, William Hermann and Will
liam Lebl
Fond du Lac.-Mrs. F. Blair
was seriously wounded by a bullet
which pierced the edge of her heart.
She was changing the cover on her
dresser and the fringe caught a re-
volver lying there, dragging it to the
floor, when it exploded. Her husband
found her on the floor when he re-
turned from work an hour later.
Baraboo.-Some unknown person
knocked on the door of Mrs.
Thomas Degan's residence and left
basket containing baby girl, note
saying: Born. January Z. Have it
christened in Catholic church, and
take good care of it."
Sheboygan.-A plan is on foot
to lay out fine public drive
along the lake shore by opening a dis
used street and grading with the
earth from a hill that is being cut
down to admit the passage of the new
intercepting sewer.
Portage-The state meeting of the
church board federation, which has
been in session at the First Metho-
dist church here, closed. Rev E. c.
Dixon, district superintendent of the
Madison district of the Methodist
church, presided.
Kenosha.-Col Webster Porter
Moore, sevelty-four years of age,
one of Wisconsin's most distin-
guished soldiers in the war of the re-
bellion, and formerly assistant super
intendent of the Santa Fe Railway
company, was married here to Mrs.
Elizabeth O'Neil Calkins, the widow
of the late Orla M. Calkins, formerly
widely known as business man and
philanthropist Forty representa-
tives of the old society of Kenosha
attended the quiet little marriage and
, were present at the wedding feast
which followed The bride, who is
nearly seventy-five years of age, took
entire charge of the arrangements for
the wedding.
Marinette-An autopsy performed
on the body of Mrs. r. A.
Grabowski of Florence at the request
of the family shows she came to her
death from ptomaine poisoning caused
| by eating pigs feet sent to her as a
/ treat by friends in Milwaukee. Mrs.
/ Grabowski's death occurred at Es-
canada, Mich. Both her husband and
herself partook Of the pigs feet and
both were taken violently ILL., Mrs.
] Lob
sters to the pigs feet, however Her
| husband did not eat any of the lob
ster and he recovered.
Kenosha.-Dr J. B. Spaulding.
health commissioner here, with
/ Mrs. ]. S. Starr, Chicago, arrested on
an abduction charge, were found not
! guilty in a Chicago court. The COM
plainant was Miss Emily E. Humph-
rey, Chicago, who, it is said, is the
/ mother of child which was found
on an orphan asylum stairs and who
! later asked the doctor to have it
adopted, which he did Miss Humph.
rey then obtained a warrant charging
kidnapping.
Neenah.-But for the assistance
/ of comrades who formed liv-
/ ing chain over thin Ice, William
Wege might have been drowned. He
| had broken through the ice in the
/ lower lake while fishing and was fast
becoming exhausted and frozen when
| his feeble cries were heard and
three young pien rescued him.
La Crosse.-Mrs. William Bellsbach
known as Hazel Winters, until recent
/ ly keeper Of a resort, was fatally stab
| bed by man who entered her home
while she was alone and demanded
money. When she told him she had
only one dollar, he pulled out a knife
and slashed her in shocking manner
She was taken in an ambulance to st
/ Francis hospital Tile police have been
unable to get a de icription Of the as.
| sailant. who was seen running from
the house just before the police ar
rived
Madison.-Governor McGovern re.
/ ceived a letter from Gov. A. F
4 Carroll of Iowa. in which the latter
/ inquired concerning the working OF
1 the Wisconsin fire marshal's depart
ment. The Iowa executive wished to
/ know how the department worked out
in Wisconsin, as it is proposed to es
| tablish a similar department in Iowa
Wausau.-Owing to III health
! Rev. C. A. Bretscher, pastor OF
Zion Lutheran church. has re
signed. Rev. G. G. Crippen. pastor Of
the Baptist church three years. has
also resigned to take a postgraduate
/ course at the University Of Chicago
Prairie du Chien.-Charles Nickel.
a trapper of this city, was sur
I prised a few days ago, when he
examined one Of his traps on the
Linder farm, a few miles east Of the
city, and found therein a very active
ratfles,,ake measuring four feet and