Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-20
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The sawmill owned by Andrew Lund
at Clam Fails burned. There was no in
surance. Tie mill viii be rebuilt imme-
diately
Mrs. +. b. Warren, aged Il years, was
found drowned in csten back Of her
home in Beaver Dam. She fell in while
lifting off the cover
At Mineral Point Jacob Dresser COM
mttcd suicide by cutting his throat with
a razor. A sudden attack of insanity IS
the supposed cause of the act. He leaves
a wife and three children.
At Appleton Robert Loessel, William
Schumacher and Louis Klein, part of a
gang of boys that was rounded up with
a quantity of copper in their possession.
were sentenced to the Industrial school at
Waukesha.
The Oshkosh health commissioner has
placed ban upon milk tickets and milk
dealers will have to use a on-distribut-
ing ticket. in which amounts purchased
can be punched. 1t is claimed that the
usual ticket transmits disease germs.
A number of the farmers living in the
western part of Kenosha County have
formed a company and in the early spring
they will build a telephone line connect
ing all the outlying villages in the county.
1t will also be connected with the lines
of the Wisconsin company.
Joseph Ehrhold of Wauwatosa, a snf-
ferer from asthma, adopted cure that
he had read of in some magazine This
was TO cut an artery in the wrist and let
the asthma bleed away. When the doctor
came Ehrhold had nearly bled to death,
but he says that the asthma does not
trouble him any more.
The case of Arthur Kohlhurst Of Mil
waukee, charged with stealing dry goods
from his employer at Racine. was dis
missed. The young man stated that he
intended to do no wrong. He took, in
tending to settle for them, about $40
worth of goods. He paid for everything
he took and the charge was dismissed.
A loss of over $4,000 was caused by
fire in the Truax block. in tho business
center of Superior The fire broke out
in the portion occupied by the Broadway
laundry and that firm is the heaviest los
er. 1t IS estimated that its loss is $15,-
600
G. W. Thurman, pearl buyer of Al
bany, has purchased from Fred Wad-
dell the largest pearl ever found in tho
State 1t was taken from the river al
Lynxyillc. 1t measures fve-eighths Of
an inch in diameter. three-cighths in
thickness and weighs ninety three grains.
The purchase price was $1,000.
There is strong movement on foot
among Oshkosh merchants to close all
stores on Sunday and all weekday even.
ings except Monday and Saturday.
Fire was discovered in The large ware
house Of the Diamond Match Company
at Oshkosh. 400 cases " matches and a
large quantity OF wrapping paper being
destroyed. The loss viii reach about
S1.J00. fully covered BY Insurance
The Wisconsin Central Railway Com
oany viii spend, during the coming spring
and summer. over S2.000000 In cutting
down grades between Byron and Schleis-
ingyille. and WaukeSha and Rockfller.
Ill. This viii reduce the running cx-
penses OF the road.
While making coupling in the Wan
saukee yards Of the Milwaukee road.
John RawIey Of Green Bay. brakeman.
had his right arm badly crushed.
The Racine Pearl Button Company :
factory was partly destroyed by fire. The
stock was damaged 5000. while SGDO
damage was done TO the building. The
loss was covered By insurance. The
cause OF the tire Is unknown.
4 state Of affairs. most horrible in Is
details. exists on farm near la Crosse.
4 herd n hogs has been discovered which
fed entirely ngs the earcasses Of horses
brought frofE the city. The hogs are in
feefed with the disease OF the dead
horscs.