Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-10-30


Racine will establish school for deaf
mutes and Miss Kathryn Heating of Mil
waukee will have charge. The lady has
now six scholars.
Frank Wood of Chicago. who was riv-
citing on the roof of the Great Northern's
new steel elevator at West Superior, fell
lao feet and was instantly killed.
Burglars cut out a panel in back
door of the G. O. ID. store at Stevens
Point. They crawled through the open
ing and stole goods to the value Of SIS.
Fred Johnson, who pleaded guilty at
Beloit to grand larceny and was sent to
prison for year, is a kleptomaniac. He
told the judge he could not resist taking
things.
Oscar Black fell between a moving
train and the depot platform at Baraboo
and had a narrow escape from death
One leg was cut off and he was otherwise
injured.
Frank Felix, young man about "A
years old, employed as brakeman on the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway, was
crushed % death at Oostburg while coup
ling cars.
The Butternut lake summer resort, CON
Quoted the last two years by S. j. Reign
OF Milwaukee, has been leased for the
coming year by Messrs. Yankee and
Shienebeck
Carver Johnston. aged years. son of
II. NJ. Johnston, Glenwood's most promi-
nent merchant, is dead as the result of
taking few swallows from a bottle Of
earache medicine
woman bandit has appeared in South
Milwaukee. She held up and robbed an
other woman in her own home and hen
escaped. The assailant was a woman
about 10 years old.
1t is reported that the Ann Arbor road
has purchased the Wisconsin and Michi-
gan road from the creditors and will use
1t as connection with the 500" 10 give
1t a direct interchangeable.
Edward Brunn, painter residing at
Wells. made desperate attempt to end
his life by hanging, but was cut down
before life was extinct. He will be tried
for attempting to commit suicide.
The large stock barn on the farm Of
John Holmes, west of Kenosha, was
burned. The loss will amount to over
$1,000, with no insurance. 1t is reported
that the fire was of incendiary origin.
Julius Klatt, Pewaukee farmer, was
found dead in his field, shot through the
abdomen by a shotgun which was found
supposed that the gun was accidentally
discharged.
A large proportion of the corn and po-
tato crops of Outagamie County have
been ruined by the rains. Corn is in
many localities spronting in the shock,
and undug potatoes rotted in the ground
throughout all the lowlands.
With no idea of where he has been, Gus
Schilling, who mysteriously disappeared
several days ago, returned to his home
in Kenosha minus his money. 1t is
thought Schilling was drugged and taken
from the city. His mind is a perfect
blank
A telegram was received Mt Menasha
announcing the death by accident Of
Richard Irlling, a former Menasha boy,
and which occurred near Butte, Mont.
Trilling and other young men were
camping and he was accidentally shot
dead by one of his companions. He was
% years old.
That the fire which visited Kellners-
vile did not wipe out the whole village
was due entirely to heroic work done by
the villagers. The fire started in the barn
of Frank Vanish and although nearly
every house in the village was scorched,
the combined efforts of four threshing
machine crews and citizens saved them.
Al n
f. NJ. Leon, a clothing salesman, was
found unconscious in room at the Plan
knton House, Milwaukee. 1t was found
that he had taken poison with suicidal in
tent He was taken to the emergency
hospital, where he died. Leon was 80
years old He left letters which said
that business reverses led him to take
his own life. Mrs. Leon said that they
were happy and that she had no idea that
her husband was Respondent, but that he
had lost fortune of 100000 left him
Columbus, Ohio.
George Murray, a 16-year-old boy en-
ployed at the Chippewa copper mice
West Superior, is under arrest, charged
with shooting Arthur Thomas, superin-
tendent of the mine. He confesses that
he probably fred the bullet which killed
Mr.. Thomas. The small 25-2O ealiber
bullet found in the body identified the
gun used by Murray. He was hunting
at the same time and says that he shot
at what he supposed was deer and near
the spot where the body was found. He
saw something the color OF a deer, a
= Nv II TTbaVaac nd
fired twice. He looked around to find a
deer, but concluded he had missed his
aim.
-Four young boys narrowly escaped
drowning at Grand Rapids. They were
the sons of DR.. Booman. Il. E. Kellner,
r. Palmatier of Grand Rapids and Eu-
gene Taylor of Spring Greek. They We're
padding across the river, but the current
was too strong for them and carried them
down stream. The BOAT stuck on a rock
at the head Of the dam. Two ropes were
thrown to them and fastened to the boat
but the parties on shore pulled in oppe-
site directions an5 the current eapsized
the boat. throwing me occupants into the
water. where they struggled desperately
against the current Taylor was unable
to swim and was Just going over a 12-foot
fall wen Henry Ebert an ernploye Of
the Twin City Electric Company reach
ed out rom projecting point ana grab
bed me lad The others were rescued.
Farmers in the town of La Fayette
found Mary Young. an escaped inmate Of
the Winnebago asylum. She was sitting
in the woods fatigued and nearly famish-
ed. with nothing on except night dress
She says she walked the entire distance
from Oshkosh.
Lightning struck the residence Of Geo.
Clumb In Marinette. Mrs. Clumb was
knocked senseiess and pieces Of flesh
were torn from her shoulder and calf Of
one leg She was badly burned. but viii
recover. Two children We're also sligssly
injured and the interior Of the house
wrecked.
a wreck occurred on the WauSaHkee
and Western branch Of the Chicago. Mil
waukee and st. Paul Railway. Five
49,, Eoadaa with humber were dprailpd