Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-10-20
BADGER NEWS NOTES


Superior.-.Chinese buried in Twin
Ports cemeteries are to find rest
ing place in burying grounds of the
land of their nativity. Hun Toy,
agent of the Chinese Combined Bene-
mt society, is arranging for the es-
humation of bodies, which are to be
sent to San Francisco and held there
until the number gathered from vari-
Gus parts of the United States totals
enough to warrant chartering a boat
to carry them to Hongkong.
Madison.-The Wisconsin railway
commission dismissed q petition by
the highway commission of Wood
county for an order requiring the
Wisconsin Telephone company and
the Lindsey Farmers Telephone
company to conduct their lines for
the benefit of road building crews.
Port Washington George, the
son of Frank Welsch, was drowned
in the Wisconsin Chair companys
reservoir because his little compan-
ions, fearing they would be punished
for crawling through the fence and
feeding the fish, failed to call for
help.
Sheboygan.--Capt e. A. Hickey OF
Co. c, Second regiment, made two re-
markable scores on the range here at
rapid fire. He led his company with
81 out of a possible 100 with the pis-
tol at Is, rs and so yards, and then
scored SO out of a possible 100 with
the rife, rapid fire, at 800 and 500
| yards.
Sheboygan.-The local life saving
/ crew made run to Seven Mile
Creek north of here, and rescued a
| gasoline cruiser owned by Theodore
McCauley of New York, which was
headed for Chicago The crankshaft
OF the engine was broken and the
cruiser had been drifting all day.
Baldwin.--The fire department
here has quit in a body because the
village council voted against paying
members their annual salary Of SIS.
Instead the council wanted to pay the
fire fighters SO cents for a practice
| meeting TWICE a month.
Kenosha. - Considerable excite
ment was caused in Kenosha by the
announcement that the French gov
eminent had placed an order with
the Thomas p. Jeffery company here
for $50 artillery wagons, motor
driven, to be used on The battlefelds
of Europe.
Observation-Disclosures are In cir
! culation asking the Wisconsin worlds
fair commissioners to send the She
boygan Concert band to the San
Francisco exposition In 1915. The
petitions will be circulated over the
state, and it is proposed to secure
$4,000 signatures.
Appleton.-The body OF John Noes
of this city was found washed up on
the shore Of an island In the Pacific.
He was a passenger on the Inflated
Francis H. Leggett, which went down
Sept. IS.
Hudson. Mrs. Elizabeth Graves
Jefferson. widow of Amos f. Jefer-
son. one of the founders OF the First
National bank of Hudson, died al her
home in this city after long illness.
She had been a resident of St. Croix
county almost sixty years.
Neenah.--This city's Industrial
school opened with the largest en-
roIlment since this method was insti-
tuted here Plans are for organ zing
an English class for foreigners.
Madison.-Charged with an at
tempt to assault two university stu
dents, Leonard Miller and Richard
Boyle were sentenced by Judge Cas-
son to fifteen days in Jail
Plymouth.-Thi- city is not fatis-
fed with the reapportionmeo OF
taxes in sheboygan county recaas'y
ordered by the state tax commission
and is preparing to take the matter
into court.
Superlor.-Struck on the head by
lump OF coal falling from rising
coal clamshell, Edward Murysse, an
employe Of the Northwestern Fuel
company, was almost instantly
killed.
Beloit.--John McGayock OF Nc
Gayock Bros, a family connected
with the large business interests OF
the city, is dead. He was an alder
man for many years and a member
Of the bosri of public works.
La Crosse-An epidemic OF diph-
liberia has caused the school board
to close the Cashton schools. A num-
Der of children are seriously i'll