Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-07
STATE
HAPPENINGS

Milwaukee.-A dozen women who
served at the Taft banquet in
the Auditorium and collected what
they claimed was SIS in tips, com.
planned to the police of being robbed
OF the money. Some waiter came to
them. they say, and demanded that
they give him the tips, so that he
might divide the cash among all the
women pro rata. Instead, they claim,
he disappeared
Observation-Disclosures clothing and
equipment, stolen from the mem
bers of the Race for a Wild
ow" company, which played here, was
found by members of Sheriff Elmer
Dents force in box cars On the North
western road tracks west of the city.
Most of the plumber was carried away
and the find was not OF great value
Marshdeld.-The local high school
football team has disbanded owing
to the series of accidents which
have laid out one after another of the
stars on the team and this makes the
third important city in the state to
abandon football this year. Wausau
and Neenah gave up football by or
ders of the city council.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Hess, a seven
year-old boy Of Cavour, was
burned to death in fire which de-
stroyed the hotel and saloon building
of Frank Hess. A woodsman is miss
ing and is thought to have persisted
in the fire.
Platteville.-Joseph James, a miner
at Roosevelt mine, was dashed to
death by falling down an S0-foot shaft.
pastor of the st. Stephens Epis-
copal church of this city, has accept
ed call to Kohaia, Hawaii, offered
him by the bishop of Honolulu, and
will leave to assume charge of St Au-
gustine's church at that place early in
November.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS has placed a
prohibition on book agents. The
police have been ordered to take
into custody every transient agent
working in the city regardless of the
article he offers for sale.
Grand Rapids.--Elmer Peterson
fifteen years old and living four
miles west of tl@s city, had a
hard battle with large eagle and was
saved from serious injury only by the
timely arrival of a brother.
Mauston.-Mr. and Mrs. T. ]. Brown
celebrated their fiftieth wedding ami
versary. They have resided in Juneau
county ever since their marriage.
Madison.-The basement of the First
Congregational church was entered
and $16.45 taken from the offices OF
the Wisconsin Congregational associa
ton.
Superior-Coming in contact witt
! ar electric feed wire carrying
| $4,000 volts, Herbert Ward of Sp
perior, while working on a power in
| stallation In Duluth on Wednesday
! lived long enough to ask fellow
workman, What hit me?" Ward was
working near the power wire in g
| STOPPING position. When he straight
| ened up his shoulder came In contact
with it, The electricity passed through
several thicknesses of clothing. thus
breaking its force to some extent. His
body was not burnt.
| Oshkosh. - Officers were elected
| at the closing session of the four
| teenth annual meeting of the Fo1
| River Valley Library association, heIc
here. The officers are as follows:
President, Mrs. Charles S. Morris
| Berlin: vice-president, Miss Ada Nc
| Carthy, Marinette; secretary, Miss
Margaret Biggert. Berlin; treasurer
| Miss Katherine Bunker, Waupun. The
! city of Berlin was chosen as the next
! pleton having withdrawn from the
field.
Ashland w. G. French, vito
shot at James Duket, a newspa
per man. on Main street, waived ex
animation and was bound over to cir
cult court in default of bonds. He was
taken to jail.
Racine.-The Winslow school,
right in the heart of the city
was closed by order OF the board Of
health and its 700 pupils sent homo
because two cases of diphtheria had
! developed in the district last week
| School off Gals are incensed at the
order, claiming there is no cause fol
| alarm.
Pound.-Clarence Graitz and Gle
mems Reder, while out hunting
rabbits the other cay, discovered q
skunk, which was quickly killed. Then
| another-and another-and before
the slaughter was finished eight OF
| them had been killed.
Kenosha.-Anna Salenske, six
year-old girl, met instant death
| in Somers, north of Kenosha, when
she fell from a sugar beet wagon, he1
head being crushed beneath one Of
! the wheels and the skull fractured
! John Moran was the driver OF the
| wagon.
Racine.-Four cases Of diphtheria
developed on the North side, and
the board of health is consider
ing the ACCESSIBILITY of closing the
| lanes school the same as the Wins