Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14


Baltzer, justice of the peace. accident
ally hit him with charge of rabbit
shot while hunting ten miles from this
town. A few shot were removed, but
about 100 remain in the leg.
Eau Claire.-While repairing
water wheel operated by power
from the Dells dam at the plant of the
Dells Paper and Pulp company, John
Torseth and ". H. McSwain had mir
aculous escapes from death by drown
ing when the boat they were in over
turned. Torseth was able to swim.
McSwain, unable to swim, managed to
keep from sinking, but was carried
| through the sluice gates out into the
Chippewa river
Madison.-"The work which has
been done in Wisconsin during the
last year by the state and local anti
tuberculosis associations, by the anti
fly campaign, by the organizations for
the prevention of infantile mortality
and more particularly by the newspa-
| pers, is assisting materially in the con-
servation of the lives of the people of
this state" says the state board Of
health in its quarterly bulletin on NOR
| talty.
Madison.-The annual joint de-
bate at Wisconsin, to be held this
| year between Athenae and Hesperia
| literary societies will take place De-
cember Is. The question is: Re
! solved, that it would be advisable for
! the state Of Wisconsin to own and OPP
crate gas, water and electric utilities,
under the supervision of the railroad
| commission"
Janesyille.-Fire was discovered
| in the basement of the Jeffer-
son school. The 400 pupils were
marched out without any disorder in
one minute. Within one and a half
minutes the fire was under control.
This is considered good work, as the
new department had to make q run of
| IS blocks.
Kenosha-Lulu Smith, aged six
teen years, and Ruth Beef, aged
| fourteen years, who disappeared from
| Kenosha, were found at Highland
Park The police are now trying to
| locate a man and woman with whom
the girls are alleged to have left Ke-
| nosha.
Trempealeau.-An unidentified man
was found cut in two on the
! Burlington tracks two miles east of
| here From pass book found with
! the body it is believed his name is
Hamfeld and that he has relatives in
| Illinois.
Beloit-G. S. Rants, who is SEIZED
uled to wheel companion from
! Beloit to Chicago in a wheelbarrow, as
result of a wager on the worlds
| baseball series, was taken into court
charged with wife abandonment.
La Crosse.-Edward Miller, I'M
der arrest in this city on charge
| of burglary, has been identified as Ed
mond Duchesneau, who escaped from
| the state penitentiary at Walla WaIla.
| Wash, on September 6, 1909
Clinton.-Joseph Silvaderra recent
| ly caught carp nearly four
feet long, weighing 2S1a pounds. 1t
was captured with an ordinary hook
and line, but gave Silvaderra a tussle
before landing.
Wausau. - Fred p. Downing of
| Madison, chief state inspector OF
weights and measures, made an in
spection Of local conditions in Wau-
sau. While in the city Mr. Downing
made several purchases of local mer-
chants and in each instance was
| given short measure.
! Rhinelander. - An attempt to
wreck the No. 8 passenger train on
| the 500 line near Weyerhauser was
! frustrated by the passage OF a heavy
| freight train previous to the coming
of the passenger. The freight was
/
ties fastened to the track by wires
Green Bay.-Mrs. William Mar
! shall, a west side milfiner, was
nearly asphyxiated by coal gas at her
residence. The gas escaped from a
coal stove and the woman was found
| in stupor, by her sister Efforts OF
| physicians called we're successful in
reviving the woman.
Antigo.-The three-year-old son OF
| Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Thorn is
dead at his home in the town of Pear
! son. from injuries received from boil
| ing water The infant fell over the
side of washtub and died before help
| could reach him.
Madison.--Work will be started
on the new $4,000 dormitory
for women at the University of Wis
consin within few weeks. The build
ing will accommodate $50 girls.
Superior.-Two bounties, one for
a wolf pelt and the other for a
for wolf pelt and the other for a
wild cat, were paid by the county
clerk. John Trudo of Bennett received
the wolf bounty of SO and D. H. Sam
pie of Brule the cat bounty of SO.
Wonewoc.-Walter Snyder. while
out hunting, mounted stump
and dropped his gun. which discharged
as it struck the ground. The shot
tore his right arm to shreds, making it
necessary that it be amputated above
! the elbow.
Madigon.-The bureau Of civic
and social center development of
the University OF Wisconsin is now
! trying to fill sixteen positions calling