Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-06

Work on the new gas plant at Stevens
Point has been begun II will be COM
pleted in six weeks.
Lesser Brothers, shoe dealers of Bara-
boo, have been adjudged bankrupt, with
$4,000 liabilities and no assets.
A barn belonging. to Phil Dougherty OF
Cascade was burned with contents of nay
and grain. The loss was about 5000, no
insurance.
Tac La Crosse Common Council ord:r-
ed forty blocks of brick paving to be laid
this Coming season. The work means an
expenditure of not less than $100,000
The 12-year-old son Of John Grass, in
the town of Waumandee, in sliding down
from a hay NOV, was impaled on a brok-
en- fork handle He died four days after
the accident.
At River Fails the Prairie Mill eleya.
ter containing about 10000 bushels Of
grain, was destroyed by FIRE The loss
ON building and contents is about $4,000
partially insured.
Kate Brinkman of Racine has begun
action against the Milwaukee Electric
Railway and Light Company for $1,000
uduidSeS loI ttiiSStd W hANN DSSAi
sustained in collision Dec. 16 last.
Fred Wadell, a clam digger ut Lynx
vile, exhibits the finest pearl yet found
in the river. 1t weighs twenty-five
grains 1t is red and remarkably bril-
liant. Its estimated worth is $1,000.
Traffic was tied up for a few hours on
the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy by
wreck at Ferryyille. An engine struck
4 large boulder, which rolled down from
the bluff. Sixteen freight cars were piled
up.
At the Superior mine, just west Of
Hurley, the timber gave way on the
eighth level and killed Fred Lind, Victor
Frederickson and Walter Grazesky
Charles Nitlerbad and Joseph Enamo
were injured.
w. A. Meyers, accused of deserving his
wife and three small children at Stevens
Point last November, was found III Chi
cage. The fugitive was placed on q train
in charge Of an officer and taken hack to
his home.
An interesting malpractice case in
which a Mrs. Peterson was plaintiff and
DIR. j. J.. Callahan the defendant, has
tiff sued 10 recover $1,000 damages, and
was awarded verdict for $3.50. Notice
Of appeal was taken. but through the in
tervention of the defendants wife the
Judgment has been settled.
At Sparta FIRE broke oat III Foote's
bakery from the furnace. destroying il
and Richardson Bros photograph gal
lery. Ii also badly damaged 0lin's large
brick block The prompt and efficient
service Of the fire department saved the
whols. block from going. The loss Is s.
900
After five days trial III the Circait
Court one Of the hardest fought legal
battles ever waged in La Crosse County
Gas concluded John Freisinath saed Or.
Friend G. Suffer, a member Of the State
Board Of Health for 5000 damages for
alleged malpractice The jury was out
less than three hours ana brought in a
verdict for the defendant
Frank Conway. foreman in ono of
the camps Of Yawkey Lumber Company,
near Hazelhurst. vas brought 10 the
Rhinclander hospital with a fractured
skull. the result of being strEck on The
head By falling tree. The injury is
fatal
Miss Edith s. Utter. known profession
ally as Edith Lemonte. and for years con-
sidered the most beautiful woman Wis
conssa ever produced, died OF paralysis
at hers home in TrcmpeaIeau. where she
was born thirty-two years ago. She ios
scssed fine soprano voice and Travelled
in this country and Europe III hurleslue
and light oF,tsra until two years age when
stricken with paralysis.