Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-21

home, leading brood of eight-day-old
! shed, where she had stolen a nest.
The chicks are thriving.
La Crosse - Thirty-three stitches
were required to close bayonet
wound which Private Frank Sikorski
of Fountain City received while fight
| ing the Germans on the western front
| shortly before hOstilities ceased, ac-
cording to word received from the
wounded boy. He will recover.
| Superior - Asserting claims based
on squatters' rights, descendants of
Frank Lemieux, an early Indian resi-
| dent on the site of Superior, have
started suit against the United Sta es
Steel corporation, contesting its title
TO land and dock frontage worth sew
| eral hundred thousand dollars.
Marinette-A local Russian received
letter from home folks in which it
was related that the czar and mem
| bers of his family were made captives
| in a small town where they were put
in jail Sentinels prodded them with
| bayonets all through the night and in
the morning they were shot to death
Madison-Wm. Purdy, composer of
con Wisconsin" is dying of tubercu-
| losis. Madison is raising Bill
| Purdy fund.-" that will be for the ben
eft of the sick writer and his wife
and baby. Dean S. H. Goodnight of
the University of Wisconsin is receiv-
ing contributions.
Superior-If Commercial club plans
| carry, a dynamite plant to manufac-
ture explosives and supply them to
settlers at low price to aid in de-
velopment of land will be located near
! Superior
Fo. Atkinson-Harry Bickle, one of
the four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Orvin
Bickle of this city who are in service,
writes his mother he is back from
four or five days Imprisonment by the
Germans.
Antigo-More than three times as
many foxes were killed in Langlade
county in 1917 than in 1918. Bounties
were paid on thirty-two as compared
| with 1O2 in the previous year. There
were nineteen bounties paid on wolves.
Kenosha - Alexander Fletcher, the
! oldest resident of Kenosha and one of
the few centenarians of Wisconsin,
died at his home here at the age of
103 years.
La Crosse-James w. Young, a vet
eran of the civil war and resident of
La Crosse for fifty years, died at the
age of 10, after a short illness.
Green Bay-With the close of the
convention of the Master Builders as
ISOLATION of Wisconsin here announce
ment was made that Racine had been
selected as the 1920 convention city.
All officers of the association were re
elected. w D. Williams of Milwau-
kee was elected TO trusteeship. re-
placing H c. Keller of the same city.
Wausau - August A. Baumann, rs
years old, is dead OF pneumonia He
settled in the town of Berlin, Mara
thon county, when the locality was
wilderness.
La Crosse-While funeral services
were being conducted at the Rockiand
farm home for Mrs. Delbert Wilson
and her 19-year-old son. Hugh, vic
time of influenza. Mary. the 16-year
old daughter. suecumbed to the dis
ease.
La Crosse-Patrons of the Gas COM
pany here received word that q re-
hearing has been ordered of decision
by the state railroad commission in
creasing the local rates. The decision
was given by Judge Stevens in Dane
county circuit court.
Ashland-The Ashland county board
has voted $4,000 for tri-county tn
berculosis -sanatorium on the shores
of CheQuamegon Bay. Bayfield, and
Iron counties have made appTopria-
lions making the total fund now $780,
900. The site has been purchased.