Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-22

are. TREAT senior sycamore, .. w.
Burdick of La Crosse; great junior
sycamore, A. d. BURNETT of Gales
Vile; great prophet, Philip Smith of
Milwaukee; great chief Of records,
John Meili of Cochrane; great keeper
Of wampum, j. e. Langdon of La
Crosse. The 1912 meeting of the or
gsnization will be held at Arcadia.
Fond du Lac.-"My opinion is
chat when a marriage of baptized
persons has been performed 1t is, be-
fore God, indissoluble," said Bishop
Charles c. Grafton of the Fond du
Lac Episcopal diocese, in discussing
the approaching marriage of Miss
Madeline Force and Col John Jacob
Astor. Bishop Grafton Is recognized
as one of the highest churchmen in
the country
Grand Rapids.-Kenneth Hill,
nine-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George M. Hill, drowned in the Wis
consin river while bathing with his
| brother Leslie and other boys. Ken
meth walked out on an iron pipe into
the river, lost his balance and was
swept beyond help before his compar
ions realized his danger.
Tomahawk.-A glass famine is
the result OF the havoc wrought
by a hailstorm which chose the
Hatchet city as its target, and which
caused about $4,000 damage to win.
dows and roofs.
Madison.--So great has been
the demaud for expert instruc-
ton in dairying at the college of ag
rfculture that the dairy building has
been overcrowded and an addition has
been built.
Shehoygan.-Just six weeks ago
John L. Sexton, aged eighty
seven, the Hermit of Elkhart Lake
was murdered in his log cabin. AL
though there is a state reward OF
$500 and a county reward for his cap
ture the murderer is still at large. A
suspect was traced to Chicago, where
two certificates of deposit taken from
the hermit's home were cashed, but
no arrest was made.
Algoma.-William Pagel and Paul
Palzlaff, each about nineteen
drowned. They were returning from
an evenings outing up the river and
both were standing up. The boat,
which was of steel, rocked and filled
with water, sinking under them. Meth
er could swim. Henry Aegerter, third
occupant, being able to swim, escaped.
Wausau-Henry Berkholder and
Edward Seymoure passed the
greater part of the night In tree
because an angry bull did not like the
color of a red tin bucket they were
carrying. The men went into the
woods to pick hazel nuts. While sit
ting under a tree a ball grazing near
by saw the little red pail and charged
them. The men climbed the tree
and remained there until the bull de.
parted,
Appleton.--A statement shows
that the county insane asylum
stands at the head of the state insti.
tutions, as the farm of 437 acres has
in the past 81 years paid running ex.
penses and cost of construction, be.
sides making s20.473 for the taxpay
ers.
Northumberland A. Rogers
has been appointed postmaster at
Nashville, Forest county, vice W. H
Rogers, deceased; Frank H. Colborn
has also been appointed postmaster at
Shiocton, vice j. c. Barnes, resigned
Janesville-~The sixteenth annual
soldiers and sailors reunion Of
Rock county was held here. Off
GERS elected were: H. A Babcock, Ev-
ansville, president, IL. s. Mosely, Be
Lett, president; Rev. w F. Brown,
Beloit, chaplain ]. L. Bear, James
vile, treasurer; L. NJ. Nelson, James.
vile, secretary.
Ashland.-Dr. C. A. Harper OF
the state board of health arrived
to make an inspection on behalf of
the RAILROAD commission OF the condi.
ton of Ashland's water supply.
Marinette. = Cows eating chickens
while affected with rabies, is
new things in this locality where
there have been many cases of hydro
phobia in the last several years. A
Norway, Mich, farmer in describing
the actions of one of his COWS says
that "she tore around awfully; ate up
his chickens and everything else in
sight"
Ashland.-P NJ Bradley was
given a sentence or two years at
Waupun by Judge ParTish. He we
accused CT forging severei ebecks