Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-05-09
STATE NEWS

line brakeman, employed by the road
ten years, while goods valued at s700
were found at the home of Joe Weber,
farmer of Friendship. The remain
der was found at the home of a CON
ductor believed to be innocent.
Ripon.-Frederick Hunter, the negro
murderer who escaped from the North.
ern hospital for the insane at Oshkosh
was captured here He was hiding
at the water tank of the Northwest
ern railroad and was discovered by a
brakeman. After a chase of several
blocks he was captured by Chief OF
Police Charles Allen of Ripon. This
is his fourth escape from the hospital
Hunter was taken to Fond du Lac
There was $50 reward for his re
capture.
Raeine.-Fifty swarthy, dark visaged
gypsy men, self-appointed detectives,
are securing Racine city and county
in an effort to run to earth the mem
bers Of their tribe that "swindled'
their chieftain, George Tenny, out of
$1,000 in gold coins of all nations.
The sheriff and police are afraid that
violence will result if any of the fugi-
tives are caught The band claims
taat three of their number worked
the substitution game with a satchel,
identical in size and shape with that
in which Tenny carried his hoard.
They then absconded At Corliss, a
village six miles west of here. on the
main line of the st. Paul road. the
nomads are jumping on and off trains,
endeavoring to obtain a glimpse of
the robbers, and are arousing the
anger of the trainmen. On horses they
have ridden all over the county.
Onalaska.-Three hundred acres of
land is on fire near here and from
present indications promises to burn
for weeks. The tract now Burning is
made land, composed of sawdust,
edgings and slabs from the sawmills.
The blaze was started from a marsh
fire and for time threatened the
town. Damage amounting to several
hundreds of dollars has already been
done. At times, when the smoke from
the burning earth" is blown over
the town, it is almost impossible to re.
main on the streets.
MISUNDERSTANDING to jump
upon a disk harrow driven by a hired
man, the eight-year-old son of Ed
ward Keegan of the town of Union,
fell In front of the machine and mar
rowly escaped decapitation. His left
leg was broken in two places, and the
disk cut him severely about the body.
Sparta.-Three prominent La Crosse
men-A. A. Morse, DR.. C. D. Main
and Mr.. Gleason-narrowly escaped
serious injury in an auto accident on
the Cataract ridge north of Sparta.
They turned out of the way of team
and went too close to the edge of a
hill which. giving away toppled the
machine down steep embankment.
Beyond few bruises the men es-
capped injury. The machine turned
over three times, landing about sixty
feet from the road, the engine still
running.
Marshfield-W the clevis on
his pillow broke, Christian Bartelmess
of the town of Cameron, was drawn
forward by the horses over the double
edged coulter, the upper portion of
which cut three of his ribs and ex-
posed his right lung. Bartelmess then
walked an eighth of a mile to his
home. He will recover.
Madison.-The trial In the case of
E. B. GOWN, as administrator of the
estate of Emil Van Trott, deceased,
against the La Crosse Dredging com
pany. was begun in the circuit court.
Van Trott was a university student,
who, on July 8, 1909, was drowned in
AXE Mendoza, off Tenney park, by
the capsizing Of a canoe which col
lided with the guide ropes attached to
the dredge of the defendant company.
GOWN, in behalf Of the parents seeks
to recover $4,000 damages.
Monroe.-The armory of Company
II, First regiment, was damaged Sc
verely by fire. The blaze started in a
rear furnace room, and burning a hole
in the dance hall floor as big as an
automobile. The building cost $751;
600, and the loss Ia estimated at
$4,000. The building was decorated
with bunting for Knights of Column
bus meeting. Several firemen were
overcome by smoke during the blaze
bUt all soon recovered.
Fond du Lac.-The Grocers' asso-
citation, acting for grocers and meat
dealers in this city, has called a meet
ing for May to launch a movemen
for the improvement of sanitary con-
ditions in retail stores in Fond du
Lac. City officials have been invited
to attend TO hear an address to be
given by e. L. Ederhold, assistant
dairy and food inspector.
Hudson.-Harry Smith, the bandit
who broke jail and later was captured
at Deer Park, was sentenced to nine
years and eleven months at Waupun
by the judge.
Fond du Zachary Phillips Of
Grand Rapids has been living in q
tent near Lakeside park since last
October in an effort to cure himself
of tuberculosis and has not only i'm
proved his health, but has made
enough by trapping to support himself
and his young son Carl, gho has been
living with h.-n During the winter
Phillips caught Ais muslrats, IS weas-
les. nine minks and several skunks
Chippewa Falls.-Alphonse Price,
convicted of setting Ere to John No
lan's house on March 10. has been
sentenced to ten years in state prison
by Judge Wlckham.
Oshkosh.-Fred Hunter, the insane
negro, a patient who escaped from the
Northern Hospital for the Insane. 10
believed TO be the mEn who robbed a
house at Clemansyille. People in this
vicinity are terror stricken and have
adopted the greatest precautions TO
guard children since the escape OF the
negro.
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