Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-03
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disease.
Brakeman Richard Boone. whose home
is in Altoona, was instantly killed at
Marshfield
4. o. Black, postmaster. merchant and
town treasurer Of Holmen. has made an
assignment.
-Four men we're caught in the act of
robbihg w. III. Lomke's dry goods store
at Washburn.
Reilly Bros barn in the town Of Brad
ford was burned with fifty tons Of baied
hay. The barn was worth $1,000
TIE residence Of NJ. r.. O'Brien at
| New Richmond was DESTROYED By lire.
Loss $4,000, covered by insurance.
Prof. A Il. Wiley, musical director,
eontemplates establishing a school of mu-
sic and dramatic art in Marinetre.
Eight printers employed by the G. L..
Medicine Company Of Racine struck for
higher wages. Their demand was re-
fused.
The Eau Claire Pulp and Paper Com
pany's new mills on the Chippewa river
above the DeIl's dam have begun opera
| tons.
The new addition to the Riverside III
Der Company's mill at Appleton, which
nearly doubles the capacity of the plant
for bleaching pulp, has been completed.
| Harry Edwards of Ashland won the
first prize over eight competitors in the
| University Of Minnesota at Minneapolis.
The subject was the Philippine question.
At the funeral of George Smith, said
to be a relative of Potter Palmer of Chi
| cago, in Beloit, while the relatives We're
taking last look at the remains at the
! grave, one of the cross-sticks supporting
the casket broke letting it plunge for
ward, breaking the coffin and exposing
the remains.
/ During the oratorieal contest at the
Kenosha high school building a lamp
was overturned and the boards of the
stage caught fire. There was panic in
the audience until Louis Ferry, one of
the high school pupils, crawled under the
stage and extinguished the flames at a
risk of his life.
| Nellie Mccarthy of Milwaukee is ask
! ing a divorce from her husband, Michael
| Mccarthy, whom she married for fun"
| April 4, 1898, and with whom she has
never lived. Her bill says that she was
carried away by spirit OF recklessness
| and Indifference during an occasion OF
sociability and entertainment"
The worshipers at the ST Thomas
Catholic Church in Beloit were greeted
with a strange scene the other day when
they entered the edifice for the morning
mass. Alarge number of the pews at the
rear of the church were nailed up, long
rough timbers being securely fastened
across them, preventing their use. To
] the regular attendants of the church this
was not a surprise, for Father NJ. j.
| Ward had threatened that unless the
/ seats were all rented by certain date
| they would be closed altogether.
| About three weeks ago James Wood,
a well-to-do farmer of the town of Green
| vile, discovered broken rail on the Ash
| land division of the Northwestern Rail-
way, near GreeIville station, and report
| cd the same in time to warn fast ex-
press, probably ayerting a serious acci-
dent The other day Superintendent
Hartley Of the Ashland division forward
ed Mr.. Brown from Kaukauna a hand
some watch with solid gold cases, on
which are engraved an express train and
\ an inscription commemorative his
thoughtful act.
AT their home, four miles north of st.
! Nazians, Frank Schad and his wife were
| found dead Officers think that Schad
! killed his wife and then himself. The
couple had frequent disagreements over
religion, and recently agreed to separate.
! Early the other morning a 12-year-old
! son of Mrs. Schad came downstairs and
| discovered his stepfather dead in bed.
He notified his grandparents, who lived
close by, and they found Mrs. Schad ia
! the barn. Her throat had been cut, as
had also that of Schad. The officers
think the couple quarreled after the
agreement to separate Schad was 70
years old and his wife %.
At Kenosha, on the recommendation of
Mayor German. the following board of
! directors was appointed to have full man
agement of the Simmons public Library
after it is turned over to the city on June
! j: r. G.. Simmons, George Yule. Il. l..
/ Grant. w. W. Strong. l.. c. Theirs, John
! O'Donnell. Charles G. Brown Joseph
! Bendt and James Cavanagh. The Coun-
/ ell also provided that the principal of the
] city schools should be an cx-ofticio mem
/ Der of the board. An ordinance was pass
! ed granting to the Council the power to
levy an annual tax for the support of the
! library This tax is not to be less than
1 ! mill and the Council is not limited in
the amount Fifty thousand volumes
| viii be bought mt the present time.
Ira c. Holt, who has been one Of the
most respected young men in Spring Val
| ley, member Of the Congregational
Church, head officer in four or five lodges,
confidential bookkeeper in the North Wis
consin Land Companys office, was the
! other right caught in the act Of rG5blng
the safe of Tauberg Brothers, grain and
! lumber dealers. He formerly worked for
| Tauberg Brothers and at that time made
a key, and, knowing the combination, it
is charged, has once or twice week for
the past year robbed them of small sums,
the total being about $1,000. In default
of bonds he is in jail at Ellsworth. lie is
not yet u, and has spent nearly all the
money, though as he does not drink,
smoke, gamble or 20 IN fast company it is
a mystery where it went.
Henry +. Corbett of Milwaukee. who
| was acquitted OF the charge OF attempt
ing murder, is still at st. Luke's hospital
ii Racine. He Is very weak and it is
doubtful if he viii ever recover his for
MGR health.
The Central House, large brick hotel
al the south side in Stevens Point, was
damaged about 30 per cent by fire. Matt
Adams. owner of the building, carried
81 500 Insurance and his loss win be
about $1,000. James III. Delaney, the
landlord, had insurance Of $500 on furni-
! ture; the loss was $500. The fire was
caused by a defective aue.
Brakeman Richard Boone Of the oma-
ma road was run over and killed az
Iarshfeld while walking in the yards
/ with Agent r. A. Wciser. lie was 81
years Of age lie leaves a vide and one
child. who live IN Altoona. The body
was taken 10 NeiIlsville. where his moth
err resides.
Tie proposition Of +. IL Sprague TO
1 build theater aud public library build
| ing IN Elkhorn was accepted by the City