Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-06-09
State Notes In Brief


Waukesha.-Fred w. Slawson, ca
register of deeds of Waukesha county,
died from injuries received when run
down by motorcycle driven by Chas.
Stubs, 81, town of Pewaukee Mr..
Slawson received two fractures of the
leg, one Of the arm and fracture of
the skull. Stubs was arraigned to.
night charged with assault regardless
of human life, and released under
$4,000 bonds.
I. Beloit.-The city of Beloit, by new
contract with the water, gas and cleo.
trio light company, gets reduction in
the price of street lights. All night
lamps will cost $50 year, instead OF
$50 as in the past, and l o'clock lights
will be $50, instead of $50 year. The
saving to city will be $4,000 year.
Madison.-Gov McGovern and Pres.
ilient Van Hise were the principal
speakers at an all-university outdoor
convocation here as part OF the cam.
paign waged against campus cutting
by students Both will talk on Beau.
tifying the Campus"
Superior-Hans Silver, Haw-
thorne farmer, was run down and al.
most instantly killed by an Omaha
train while walking the track home
from Southrange in the early morning
hours.
Racine-The body of man still
unidentified was found in the river this
afternoon There is a belief that he
met with foul play as the skull was
fractured and there is a deep cut on
the left temple.
Sheboygan-Jo Stockdyk, who OPP
crates a local fishing tug, caught a
sixty-eight pound sturgeon in one of
his nets off Amsterdam, south of here
and sold 1t for $50, nearly SO cents per
pound.
Oshkosh.-Henriette Heckner, a
woman who gives her home as Me-
nasha, has filed a claim for 500 with
the council of Oshkosh, alleging that
she fell over q defective railing on the
Sixth street bridge into the water and
was severely bruised.
Eau Claire.-C. A. Stanley and Guy
Allen, solicitors, were arrested on for
gerry charges made by Thomas Lucas
of Durand. A check, alleged to have
been forged by Stanley on A. G.
Isaacs, was cashed by Lucas.
Jefferson.--At the spring meeting OF
the Jefferson county board Of SUPER
visors, j. F. Prentiss, a republican of
WATERFOWL, was elected chairman to
succeed Alexander Buchanan of Lake
Mills.
Ashland.-The body of Frank Marx,
who was drowned last October, has
Just been recovered. The body of Da-
vid Doherty, who was drowned with
Marx has been recovered.
Sparta.-John Lawrence is dead at
his home at Ontario, aged 1e4. Law
renee and FIVE sons served through
the civil We. The youngest is still liv-
ing and is GO years old.
Superior Silver, well known
Hawthorne resident, met death under
the wheels of an Omaha freight train
while walking from the nearby town.
Manitowoc-The marriage of Miss
Martha Rahr and Walter Spindler, a
society event, was solemnized at the
st. James Episcopal church here.
has determined to erect d new build9
ing. The present structure Is to ba
converted into a guild hall.
Madison w. Jones, Madisons
gave the principal address at the sixd
tieth annual banquet of the Hesperiap
Debating society. Michael B. OlbTcM
and Alfred Fl. Bushnell, both of Mad8
son, gave the principal addresses
the sixty-second annual banquet of tho
Atbenaean society.
Madison Holding that his particle
patton In a boxing match at the Min
waukee Athletic club was chiefly fei
sponsibla for the permanent disability
of his RICH hand, the industrial COM
mission denied compensation to Ed
ward A. Kin, a well known boxer in
Milwaukee.
Racine-Just a few minutes before
he was to have marched In the Memo
rial day parade, DR.. Samuel G. Smith,
aged rs years, veterinary surgeon and
a veteran of the civil war, died sud-
denly. Heart disease was the cause.
Jefferson Mr. and Mrs. Martin Wa.
laski of this city have celebrated the
fftieth anniversary of their wedding.
Mr. Walaski is 81 and his wife is SO
years old. They have eight children,
all living in this city.
Green Bay-Charles Bl,stcher made
an unsuccessful attempt to commit sui
eide in the police station here when
he gashed both wrists witt a penknife.