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

Superior.-The Superior school
census is under investigation Sec
rotary L. A. Nichols of the board
of education has found such discrep-
ancies between the school census
which was taken this year and that
of last year that he will probably or
der the enumeratorS to do the work
over again. Last year the final report
showed that there were 1852 persons
of school age in Superior. The 1911
census accounts for only 9,04S per-
sons of school age. a decrease in thS
city of TIA,
Wausau-At the meeting of the
Wausau district of Lutherans, Mis-
souri, synod, DR.. Max Albrecht,
president of Concordia college, Mil
waukee, urged work to get young men
for the ministry. He said the synod
had 500 calls for ministers which
could not be filed, the total number
in the synod being 1900. Death. he
said, is the main cause of shortage
in ministers. Rev. n. Sleek. Merrill,
asked the conference to wipe out
debt of $4,000 in the church extern
sion fund.
ManitoWoc.-Wal Mosher, \
former Manitowoc man, sentenced
to Waupun for life in 1890, has
been paroled by the state board
of pardons. He was sentenced for the
Isl ne bic oh in
| glade county. Mosher's case attract
| ed widesread attention from the fact
! that Mosher was en- route to Waupun
| less than fifty hours after his alleged
crime. There is said always to have
! been some doubt that Mosher com
mitted the crime, despite his plea OF
guilty.
La Crosse.-T. II. Thomas of
Anaconda Mont, positively identi-
fed the skeleton found in the marsh
near here as that of his father,
Thomas Thomas, wealthy western
mine owner. A key ring was the
means of Identification. It is now be-
lieved that Thomas was murdered
and that robbery was the motive. A
gold watch and $3.50 were missing
from the remains.
Madison. - The Wisconsin indus
trial commission reappointed the
superintendent of the state free en-
ployment bureaus located at Milwau-
ee. Oshkosh, Superior and La Crosse
for a period of three months, when
they will have decided what to do with
the recommendations contained in
the report of William Leiserson, labor
expert, published recently. Factory
inspectors were reappointed for SIM
liar period. The commission decided
TO increase the scope of their work.
La Crosse.-After a futile search
of a week in the Root river bot
toms, the body of Halle Thompson
who was drowned in the flood that
swept Houston county recently, was
found by Joseph Mack, Caledonia, who
saw the body in a dream. The exact
spot was made clear through the work
ings of the subconscious mind, main
tains Mack, and the name Lynch creek,
the spot where the corpse was found
was called to him in the night.
Madison.-Gevernor McGovern APP
appointed Attorney M. T. PARKER
of Algoma as judge Of KeWaunee
county to succeed the late Judge Will
lam Rogers, and named former tax
commissioners w. T. Gibson of Fond
du Lac and George Curtis, Jr., of Mad
ison as delegates at the National Tax
Commissioners convention to be held
at Richmond, Va, September So. The
members of the present commission
were named some time ago.
Eau Claire.-F. f. Wilder who
stole a team of horses in Chippe-
wa county, pleaded guilty and was sen
fenced by Judge Wickham here to
ieght years Imprisonment Wilder
told the court his business was steal
ing horses; that he had been in it 26
years; that he had been sent up for
the offense before, and that when he
should have served his present sen
tence he would probably steal horses
again.
Green Bay.-Although he was
| blown 20 feet by charge of dyna-
mite and dropped to the ground prao-
! tically lifeless, a man known as Wolff
| is alive and will recover. He was dyna-
hitting stumps when one cap failed to
explode While leaning over 1t the ex-
plosion OF rurred One eye was blown
out of its 1cket, and the other will be
! u no value, as it was injured He re-
! ceived other injuries.
Green Bay.-Municipal Judge Mona
| han has taken up a temperance
campaign in connection with his
court work and in the future wife
! heaters or husbands who threaten to
! harm their mates will be obliged to
| sign the pledge to abstain from the
use of intoxicating liquors for year.
Chinese students from
| colleges and universities all over
| the United States will be guests
at a reception in their honor
! to be given by Governor McGovern at
| the executive mansion September 2.
The function will be part Of the
program of the Chinese students con-
ference at the university September
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