Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-07-01
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

For your flags and bunting for the
Fourth OF July go to the Wausau
Tent Il Awning Co. shop, 16 Wash
lngton street. i23-2w-adyt.
Miss Belle Hudson while getting off
the street car Wednesday noon. was
run into by a bicycle. She received a
scalp wound and was quite badly
shaken up but not seriously injured.
The Sunday evening passenger train
on the st. Paul was several hours
late on account of the breaking down
OF the engine at CaSsion. Another
engine had to be sent up from Toma-
hawk. 'The fish train had to be
held at Minocqua until the regular
passenger had again started on its
way
VIM. Kuehl was arrested Wednes-
day, charged with DESTROYING some of
the windows in the grand stand of
the baseball park last month. He
plead guilty and was assessed $500
and costs. Not having the necessary
wherewith to pay his fine, he was es-
corted to the county jail on a six
days sentence.
The late rains have put growing
crops in this section in good condi-
dition. The pea and hay crops have
| done fine and the farmers are harvest
ing the former and are preparing for
hay making and all appear jubilant
| over the prospect of abundant gener-
al crop yields. However, farm labor
ers are scarce, in fact, all laborers are
scarce in this locality.
Walter Voigt of Tisch Mills, a stu
dent at the Stevens Point normal
school and Rose Kruger, drowned in
| the Wisconsin river in that CITY
| Wednesday afternoon. Both bodies
were recovered soon after. They
were in boat and when attempting
| to change positions, the craft over
turned. Neither could swim. The
| girl was a clerk in local store.
w. H. Fleith and son, of Cornucopia,
were in the city yesterday on their
way home from Wausau. Mr. Fleith
went down to Wausau last week and
| took in the bankers association excur-
sion on the new steamer North Amer
lea up into the Georgian Bay country
and arrived here Wednesday evening.
He had left his automobile here and
| made the trip from here to Cornu-
copia yesterday with his Wash
burn Itemizer.
Helen WEIGH, the 8-year-old daugh-
| ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank WEIGH Of
| MarShfield, was run down at a street
crossing, in the above named city,
just before dark on Tuesday by
a rig containing three men and
her skull was fractured by the horses
hoofs. Both of the horses were young
and unused to town and became I'M
| manageable at the crossing. The
child died eighteen hours later in
the hospital.
DR.. Jacob Kolter has purchased four
lots in Maple Hill addition of the
| Crocker-Thayer Land Co., the past
week. This property joins the Forest
para addition on the south. A beau
tiful view can be had from this prop
| erty of the city and the river and is
lands at the north. In very short
time this will be the handsomest
residence part of WauSau, with the
beautiful river front, it's four parks
and handsome forests.
Simon Schamburger and family of
Brokaw, autoed to this city Friday
morning. In returning home in the
afternoon and to avoid running
down citizen who was crossing
Scott street at the time, his ma
chine rammed south bound street
car, sprung an axle, wrecked a lamp
on his car and shook up the occupants
quite lively. Only the vest side of
the street car steps were somewhat
damaged. Mr.. Schamberger blames
no one but himself.
Rasmus Larsen and Edward Eten
were arrested Wednesday evening on
the charge of being too light fingered
around the premises of the Wiscon-
sin hotel. They were brought be-
fore Justic Larner's court. After a
short examination i'm which they
denied all recollection of the charge,
they were bound over in the sum of
$500 each for their appearance at the
next term of circuit court. Not be-
ing able to put up or secure bonds
they were escorted to the county
jail.
VIM. Neuling was in Chicago dur
ing the past week on mercantile bus
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