Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-27


Bartholomew Poplinski. resident Of
Stevens Point, was Knocked down while
on his way home by a lone highwayman
and robbed of his pocketbook containing
about $500 in bills and notes.
James Roche, charged with stealing
500 from the cash register of restau-
rant in Racine Oct, -. pleaded guilty
in the municipal court and was sent to
Waupun for term Of eight months.
Former Coy. George W. Peek will edit
the comic supplement- of the New York
World for the coming year. Gov Peek
viii not move from Milwaukee, but will
send his copy" to the office from there,
Joseph Frantl, a saloonkeeper at $50
Winnebago street, Milwaukee, commit
ted suicide by throwing himself under
the wheels of a Northwestern passenger
train, which ground him to iieces He
was married aud prospectus.
One of the finest specimens of gray
wolf was killed at the Sturgeon Bay
canal BY Charles Wondrosek, engineer Of
the government tug Energy The brute
tipped the scales at 1T6 pounds, and is
the first seen there for many, many
years.
A 4year-od daughter of b. G. Palmer,
farmer residing near Boydtown, was
fatally burned. A tent in ~hich his chill
dren were camping caught fire, the blaze
setting fire TO the little girls clothing, in
ficting injuries that proved fatal almost
Immediately.
Robert j. Grace, captain of the normal
school football team. and son Of Harry
II. Grace, a prominent West Superior
attorney, made a sensation by leaving
school with the statement that he had
married Lillian Buchanan. an operator
in the local telephone exchange. The
marriage took place in Duluth. They
leave at once for Everett Wash, TO live.
Grace is 20 years old.
Old Matthias Brick, who died suddenly
in Kenosha, was buried by charity in the
city cemetery. He was a wealthy man
and his heirs will receive large amount
of money as a result of his death. After
the old man was dead some of the friends
made an examination of a large bunch of
papers left by him and it was discovered
that the German government holds in
trust a large sum of money left TO him
by his father and other relatives. Brick
fled from Germany to avoid military
duty and during his absence his relatives
died, leaving their estates to him.
Through his attorney Henry Il. Cor
bett has filed an affidavit of prejudice
against the Circyit Court in Racine Coun-
ty, over which Judge Fish presides, and
the case against Rev. David 3. Cheney
and wife GAd Chief of Police Edward
,xcD ~, in,
Milwaukee court about the first week in
December This action, a damage suit
against Corbett's accusers, recalls the
famous Corbett-Cheney case, in which
Henry f. Corbett an Englishman, was
accused Of attempting to murder the min
lister and his wife in their own home in
that city. After sensational trial he
succeeded in establishing an pnassailable
alibi and was acquitted Of the charge.
The Fox River Valley Telephone Com
pany has been organized in Appleton and
Incorporated with a capital stock OF 3d.,
600 The iucorpOrators are John $. Van
Nortwick and John McNaught0n, mill
ionaire paper manufacturers with inter-
ests all through The Fox River valley;
Captain John NJ. Baer. general manager
Of the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal
Company, all Of Appleton, and w. l..
Hutchins OF the Wolf River Telephone
Company. The company will establish
exchanges at appleton, Kaukauna, Nee
nah, Menasha. Kimberly, Combined
Locks, and their toll lines will connect
with those of the Wolf River company,
already established throughout the Wis
consin River valley.
The Homestead Land Company Of APP
pletoli has been incorporated with cap
ital foek OF $1,000. George Sherman,
d. VI. Hyde aud Judge Moeskes are the
incorporation Mr. Sherman will go to
Norway and sweden this winter and re-
turn with large number Of settlers.
While Mrs. }. G. Quinnel Of Friend
ship was untying COW. the animal threw
Up its head and caught its horn in Mrs
Ouinnens mouth. tearing her face in a
terrible manner, the horn decorating one
side Of her face and piercing clear
through the outside OF her cheek. She
viii recover.
Burglars made an attempt to break
open tlla large safe % the Kenosha Lum-
Der Company at Kenosha. They forced
their way into the Office Of the company
and attacked the safe with an Ak. The
door was battered down, but before the
inner door had been broken the burglars
we're frightened away by the Waterman.
Deer are a drug on the market at But
tarnut and do not bring cents a pound.
meat markets do not want them AZ any
price. as shipping Is prohibited By law.
Deputy Game Warden Kleinsteber con
sscated three heavy bucks which were
brought in By one Young man named
Meyers. he having no tags on any u
them. He redeemed them for So.
Mrs. Mary Riley. an old woman living
near the Milwaukee roads track in Be
lott. was killed by the ears while gath
erine coal on the tracks. She was fright
fuuy mangled and died soon after at
the hospital
Frank King Of Nekimi secured di-
yorce from Eva Kiug at Oshkosh. They
were married IL March. 1899. and 10 tire
same month he went with his wife %
visit her parents to Indiana. It was 10
have been a temporary visit. but his wife
refused 10 return 10 this State With him.
He went again in April. but be could
not induce her to come. 50 he asked Tor
i divorce They were only is when mar
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