Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-04-25
STATE NEWS

aot appear at present as if an agree
ment would be reached Immediately.
! The strike of the carpenters has been
| on nearly month and has held up
practically all building work here, two
planning mills have shut down, and
proposed building work may be put off
indefinitely.
| Beloit-Dr John E. Wells of
Hiram college, Ohio, will take the
chair of English literature in Beloit
college next year. filing the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Prof
Frank H. Chase. Prof. Arthur Craver
of the rhetoric department, who will
leave Beloit for Miami college, Ohio
next year, will be succeeded by Dr.
John Clarc57, now at Harvard Dana
Evans, athletic director, will act as
baseball coach in place of Carl Lien,
who has resigned to go in business
Green Bay.-Two more bodies
of the crew of the schooner OF.
tawa, which was wrecked at Clay
bank. were recovered Three bodies,
one of them that of Claus Weborg,
were recovered yesterday and one
! more is believed to have been aboard
the schooner.
Kenosha.-After a search of nearly
year, extending all over con-
tinental Europe, julius Shelanek
and Anna Machaclow, wanted here on
charge of numbering John Borkow,
have been located at ST. Petersburg,
Russia They are being watched by
the officials of that city and will be
turned over as soon as the officers
here make demand for them.
The body of Borkow, wrapped in
blankets containing quicklime, was
found buried in cellar under house
formerly occupied by Shelanek and
| the woman, in this city The body
was found on May of last year. and
the search for the couple has been
pursued since that time. The officials
here will take immediate steps TO
bring them back for trial.
Oconto.-The city council has
adopted an ordinance imposing a
tax of Sc upon all unmarried male
residents between the ages of 81 and
so years, the money so raised to be
used for the support of orphans and
other needy children. The adoption
of the ordinance was received with
practically unanimous acclaim by the
women, but the bachelors are vigor-
ously opposing its enforcement.
Racine.-Ernest Plache, nineteen,
the lone boy bandit, who has ter
rorized saloon keepers the past month,
pleaded guilty to highway robbery in
municipal court and was sentenced to
eight years servitude in the reforma-
tory at Green Bay. He halls from Mil
waukee
Racine.-During an electric storm
which swept the western part OF
Racine county, a barn of William
Bird, near Union Grove, was struck
by lightning The structure was con-
sumed and four valuable cows we're
roasted to death Twenty farmers
formed a pail and water brigade and
saved other buildings on the farm.
Chippewa Falls-Triplets have
been born to Mr.. and Mrs w. L.
Chown They look exactly alike, the
girls weighing four and one-half and
FIVE and one-half pounds each and the
boy five and one-half pounds. The
father is machinist at the 500 line
repair shop here at the Irvine yards
The mother is a twin herself
Chippewa Falls.-J. j. Hogan
of this city has purchased a
herd of Swartzenburg mich goats
from the agricultural school Of the
university at Madison. The goats will
be placed in Irvine park. Hogan has
authorized the park board to have the
milk from the goats retailed in the
city.
Marshfield.-A dozen English pleas
ants are about to be liberated
in Wood county by Marshfeld
sportsmen with the idea of testing
their ability to survive when thrown
upon their own resources. Farmers
are interested and will cooperate to
protect the birds.
Kenosha-The contractors have
completed the work of estimating
| the damage done by the recent powder
explosion at the plant of the E. l
| DUPONT company, and it will exceed
half a million dollars The final esti-
mate on tie loss to the company
places it close to $250,000 and the loss
to farmers in the town of Pleasant
Prairie is placed at $4,000
La Crosse.-The will of James Vim.
cent, pioneer lumberman, was filed
here disposing of property in the
neighborhood of a million Principal
legatees are the widow and two daugh.
! tiers, Mrs. Frank Seymour OF Green
Bay and Miss Agnes Vincent of La
| Crosse. The widow receives $4,000
and the homestead and each of the
daughters gets $4,000. The residue
is then to be divided on a basis of
$4,000 to the widow and $4,000 to
each of the daughters.
Milwaukee.-All union stone cut,
/ ters in the city, numbering about sew
| enty men, went on strike. 1t was said
that the employees posted notices in
\ all shops to the effect that unless
the employees Joined the National
| Society of Stone Cutters, they would
lose their Jobs in favor of members
of that society. The members of the
| Journeymen Association Of Stone Cut
! tiers OF North America refused and
| left their work. 1t is said by mem
bers of the union that the master
stone cutters have imported stone
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members of the society.
Hudson.-County Clerk II. S. offer
dahl issued a marriage license to
Louis B. Littlefield of Sacramento.
Cal, and Eva s. Childs ot st. Paul.
who married each other forty years
ago. Later they secuted divorce
and each married ag2in. Mr. Little
g dc