Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-10-09
Low license carried at Pewaukee By

ue1GhdnuiSe dealers, burned OUT.
At special election at Washburn high
license carried by a majority Of 121.
The new plant OF the Galesville Mill
ing Company has commenced operations.
The plant cost SAC. 1000.
The new factory Of the Wisconsin
wheel works at Racine is completed and
will resume work at once.
q. A. Smith, an employee in the Spider
Lake Lumber Company's mill. fell on a
moving circular saw and was nearly kill
ed.
AT special election at Mineral Point
to determine the rate of license to be paid
by saloonkeepers, 5000 license was car
ried.
In the case of John D. Harff. SO years
of age, who fell on a sidewalk at Ke-
nosha and broke his hip. jury awarded
him $500 damages.
Carl Miller, aged years, while playing
hide and go seek, jumped into the cistern
in his fathers yard in Kenosha. His
body was recovered.
Mrs. L. Dewyer of Chicago went to
Racine after her 16-year-old daughter.
who left Chicago two months ago. The
girl refused TO return.
The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Oil
yer Nelson of Eau Claire, aged 2 and 8
years respectively, ate rough on rats.
Prompt medical aid saved their lives.
The rumor to the effect that the Chi
cage, Burlington and Quincy shops at
La Crosse are to be moved to Savanna
is denied by the officials of the division.
Thomas Williams farm house south
west of Racine burned, with most of the
contents. The family barely escaped and
Mrs. Williams was quite seriously burn
ed
DR. Fred pfunder, a veterinary sur
geon residing in the town of Two Greeks,
had several ribs broken and was other
wise severely injured by an Infatuated
bull.
BY an accident a team of horses be-
longing to the Simmons Manufacturing
Company was thrown into Kenosba har-
Dor, but was rescued by the life-saving
crew.
Burglars entered the house of Peter
Schug in Appleton and secured $18,
which which they took from under Mr..
Schug's pillow without disturbing him or
his wife.
Henry F'ier, farmer, drove over
6O-foot embankment at the east end Of
Eighth street, Racine. The buggy was
badly wrecked, but man and horse were
only slightly injured
james Mulleneau. farmer 60 years
of age died at the livery stable Of Chas
Bassinger at Racine. He came from
Sylyania with load of hay. Heart clot
is attributed as the cause.
The Racine Basket Company plant,
one of the largest of its kind in the State,
which has been closed on account of
financial troubles, was sold ut public auc-
ton to III. E. Shielding for $4,000.
The Oshkosh Water Company formally
refused to accept the proposition made by
the city to settle the lawsuits now pend,
ing. The company will push its $780,
ooO damage suit against the city.
John L. Scheiling, Racine merchant
began suit against the city for $1,000
damages, on account of the death of his
S-year-old son Emil The boy fell from
a sidewalk and was so badly injured that
he died.
William Sweeney, woodsman who has
been employed in a logging camp near
Ashland, was found on the streets suffer
ing from smallpox. Sweeney said that
the disease was common in nearly all the
logging camps
Frederick Mockler bears the distinction
of being the oldest bridegroom in Sank
County. He is over 81 years old and was
married recently to Mrs. Anna NJ Del
court. The bride is over 40, and they
viii reside at Denzer
Lizzie Bart, young squaw, has gone
insane in the Marinette Jail. She attempt
ed to commit suicide by blowing out the
gas in her cell. She is IL years old and
is supposed to have gone insane through
excessive use of whisky.
Hugh Pritchard, a 12-year-old son Of
John Pritchard, a farmer living near Be
lott, was found dead in pasture. His
neck was broken He was last seen rid
ing horseback in the field and it is sup
posed he was thrown and killed.
Rudolph Weinert was held up and rob-
bed on Forest avenue bridge, Fond du
Lac, by two men. He made some resist
ance and one of the men stabbed him in
the face with a knife, inf1icting an ugly
wound in the cheek, and the other hit
him over the head, knocking him uncon-
scicus. they only secured 50 in change.
Mrs Mary La Maux and two children
of Ottawa, Can. are at the home for the
friendless at Sheboygan. Their home at
Ottawa was burned and they came to
Sheboygan expecting to find her son, Jo-
seph, who was working in one of the
chair factories, and who had sent her
money to come with. On arriving here
she nor the police could find the son.
In Ashland Albert Nuremberg, an en-
ploye of r. T. Spencer, is under arrest
on the charge of stealing goods from the
store. When the officers searched the
house, here is what they found: Thirty
two horse collars, satchels, trunks, base
ball goods, football parapherEalia, sad
dies, lap robes, whips, blankets, harness,
etc. making one of the best assortments
of harness wares in the city and valued
at $500.
Attorney d. C. Lloyd of Kenosha
brought rare happiness into the home of
Mrs. Ellen McDermotte, n poor woman,
when he announced to her that she was
one of the heirs of the estate of Mary E.
Rogers, who recently died in an insane
hospital in Chicago. Mrs. Rogers left
no children and fortune of over $780,
600 will he divided among collateral heirs
of the deceased. The Kenosha woman.
as a niece of Mrs. Rogers, is one of the
ten heirs thus far discovered.
George Shermer, who resides in the
town Of Germantown, was accidentally
killed while out hunting A she'll missed
fire aad while he and brother were at
tempting to extricate 1t from the gun the
weapon was discharged, the contents
striking him. sos
W. j. Hay, a director in the First
National Bank of Oshkosh, and a son OF
S. NJ. Hay, president OF that Institution,
was fined 81 and costs. amounting to
S3255, for assauIs and battery by Judge
Goss in the municipal court. The com
plainant was Parlan SempIe, retired
lumberman and miner
Mann Brothers of Milwaukee and Two
Rivers sustained big loss in the recent