Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-07-18

Both officers were seriously wounded.
Radcliffe will probably die. Imperis
and Roberts escaped to the woods. A
score Of men armed with rifles are
securing the woods for them.
Madison.-Milwauke will be select
ed as the meeting place for the 1912
convention of Wisconsin Watkins
statesmen, according to President Alex
ander McEathron of Depere From
200 to 300 delegates will attend.
Reedsburg death, one serious
injury and several fires are reported to
have been caused by the storm which
swept over Sank county. William
Simpson, aged seventeen, of Dallona,
after being stunned by lightning,
sought refuge in his fathers barn and
was killed when the structure was
blown down by the wind. Mrs. George
Behn was injured when a telephone
pole fell on the buggy in which she
was riding. st. Johns church was
damaged by fire caused by bolt of
lightning. Several houses were struck,
telephone and telegraph service dis
turbed, and crops damaged.
Green Bay.-At the closing sessions
of the third annual convention of the
Wisconsin Association of Postcf1ce
Clerks and the Wisconsin Association
of Letter Carriers, at which IT'S dele
gates from score of the largest cities
in the state were present the follow
ing were elected officers by the car
riers' organization: President, William
Schissler, ShebOygan; vice-president,
w. H. Huffman, Madison; secretary,
George H. Erickson, Marinette; treas
urer, Edward H. Johnston, Green Bay;
delegate at large to attend the ma
tional association convention in ROch.
ester, n. Y, C. NJ. Hansen, Beloit.
Northumberland to the conven-
ton of American Instructors of the
Deaf, which opened its nineteenth SEES
sion here, are arriving by hundreds. In
the absence of superintendent e. w.
Walker, on account of illness, Super
tntendent J. R. DObyns of the Missis-
sippi school will have general charge
Of the meetings. The delegates were
welcomed by Duncan MCGregOr, pri-
vate secretary to Governor McGovern.
C. p Cary, state superintendent Of
public instruction, spoke in behalf of
education in Wisconsin,
Appleton.-N Simon of this city
has been awarded a contract by the
National Dairy Show association to
make a cheese to weigh 10000 pounds,
three times the size of the largest
cheese ever made in the world, which
was the one made last year for the
association by Mr.. Simon. 1t will re-
quire the milk from $500 COWS for
one day and will take 100000 pounds
Of milk The work will be done by
IS expert cheesemakers and rs help
ers. 1t will be necessary to make the
cheese on a special fiat car and build
a refrigerator about it in order to
keep it until the exposition, which
will be held in October.
Milwaukee Three men were
shot and are now under physi-
clans care, and three others are IN
der arrest, as the result of an at
tack on a South Milwaukee policeman
when ne tried to make an arrest in
the saloon of Peter Skorbel, South
Milwaukee. The shooting was done
by PatrOlman Stephen Antisbel, who
declares that he acted in self-defense.
The three wounded men are with
friends in South Milwaukee under po-
lice surveillance, their condition not
permitting their removal TO jail.
They are held on a charge of inter
fering with an officer.
Hurley.-By a terrific windstOrm
Two box cars of dynamite stand
ing on a sidetrack at Gile were
started down the track and sent upon
the main line just as the passenger
train, bound for Mellen, approached.
The train collided with and damaged
the rear car, but the dynamite failed
to explode.
Eau Claire.-Jolted from a heaV.
lily loaded milk wagon, OTval
Johnson, aged fifteen, fell under the
wheels and sustained injuries that
caused his death.
Neenah-After hcing locked in a
refrigerator car for five days,
man claiming to be John Williams of
Ely, Mimi, was released by brake
man, who heard him pounding. The
man said he was on his way home from
the west. He kept alive by eating or
anges, which were part of the freight.
Madison.-An epidemic of infan-
tile paralysis is now raging at
Greenwood, Clark county. according to
a notice received by DR.. G.. A. Harper,
secretary of the state board Of health
There are Is cases.
La Crosse.-Inspired by the
presence of his fiancee and his little
daughter Mildred, Ferdinand Krause,
aged thirty, a widower of Winona,
Mimi, broke his neck in attempting to
show the party how to make dive
from a height of six feet into two feet
OF water in the La Crosse river here.
Marinette.-The stains on the
clothing of Charles Raue, charged
with the murder Of Mrs. Anna Mar
.ow, are said to be human blood by
Ors. Heckteon and Haynes, expert
snalyists of Chicago