Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-01-23
STATE NEWS

towoc branch passenger train on !
the 500 line narrowly escaped being |
wrecked by broken rail here through |
the quick action of John MestphaIl, a |
track walker. Seeing the fractured I
cteel, he ran to nearby house and /
telcphoned to Sherwood, where the |
operator informed the conductor just |
as the train was pulling out toward |
the dangerous spot.
New Richmond The Chicago, |
ST. Paul. Minneapolis & Omaha |
railroad is rushing to Lake Superior |
points, mostly to Superior and Duluth, |
1000 empty cars to haul coal with q |
view to heading off II possible |
threatened coal famine In ST Paul, |
Minneapolis and southern Minnesota |
Iowa and Nebraska points. Three OF
the company's largest locomotives |
went north light and returned with
| long trains of coal. The company is
refusing to haul anything but cattle !
and perishable freight Sidetracks
along this northern division are filled |
with strings OF cars. but the company |
refuses to touch them.
Kenosha.-Invitation were issued
for the dedication of the new
home for disabled sisters, community
| of ST. Mary, in the Kemper Hall !
| grounds here, to take place on Janu-
airy g. Bishop w w. Webb of Mil
waukee will be in charge, assisted by
I1I n C,,F
fragan Bishop William F. Toll OF Chi
I cago. 1t is expected there will be
| clergymen from all parts of the state
and more than 200 of associate sisters
of the community. The new building
cost $4,000, the money being provid
| ed by associate members of the COM
munity.
Racine - Investigation is being
made as to the cause of the
death of a four-year-old child of Po-
hceman John Hanson The child
scratched its face with a Christmas
toy and it died on December 81. The
cause was assigned to blood poison
ing. The whole family has since been
i'll and the little baby has the same
symptoms as the child that died
There are indications of arsenic poi
son and 1t is believed that the poison
came from paper ON the walls OF the
home.
Beloit-Glenn Stockman, stepson
of Scion R. Raves, who shot and
killed himself, is much perplexed
| over a dream he had. He was living
in Rockford, H., but dreamed his STEP
| father had fatally shot himself. The
| following morning he received a tele-
phone message telling him that his
| dream was the truth. He is unable to
account for the phenomenon.
| Madison-Red-ink posters read
ing, Gracious, Mabel Get a Pet
ticoat Sphinx" naileG up at various
| points on the campus, came under
the ban of Mrs Lois X. Mathews, new
dean of women, when the bi-monthly
humorous publication was edited by
the goods. The offendings signs were
taken down. The dean called the adj
vertisements undignified.
sion issued a ruling regarding
chapter ATT Of the laws of 1911, re-
lating to the salaries of town, village
| and city treasurers. The commission
holds that the law does not affect sal
! aries for this year The salaries were
fixed on June go, 1911, before the law
became effective.
Madison-The Methodist Episco-
PAL church Holding company,
which intends to build chapel for
university students, filed articles of in
corporation with the secretary OF
state 1t is capitalized at $4,000 and
the incorporators are j. N. Boyd,
banker; F. W. Hall, attorney, ano
Robert l. ingraham
Colfax-The Colfax telephone ex-
change and contents were de-
stroyed by fire. Adjoining buildings
were threatened for some time and on
account of 30 below zero weather the
! firemen had difficulty in getting the
water started. This will cut off all
communication from surrounding
towns until temporary quarters can
be secured. The total loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Kenosha-Harry F. Bell had no
difficulty in establishing absolutely
his innocence of the charge of
burglary, under which he was arrest
ed following a little boys declaration
that he saw the man in the act OF
theft. Mr.. Bell, a Chicago salesman, |
was released after the police had be-
come convinced of his alibi, which |
would have made it impossible for |
him to have been in Kenosha at the |
time of the attempted burglary. Mr.
| Bell had from the first asserted his in |
nocenee, and he seemed to regard the \
action of the police in the nature OF a |
joke, with himself bearing the hard /
end of it.
Black River Falls.-John Twocrow.
a Winnebago Indian, aged fifty, was
frozen to death just outside the city /
limits while returning to his camp.
Brookfield-Fire which destroy |
ed at the Eichlaedt hotel caused /
los of $4,000 to the hotel. Five |
guests at the hotel and the five mem |
bers of the family were forced to leave
the burning building scantily clad /
The fire originated in an cverheated I
boiler in the hotel basement The I
Milwaukee road depot caught fire but I
was saved by the local department.
Racine-Member of the Holy j