Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20

lost his rlght arm in an accident recently
A heavy machine fell upon it.
The wells at the Marathon County poor
farm have run dry and the institution is
threatened with a water famine.
William Brandt. while cutting wood
about FIVE miles from Reedsyille, cut his
foot, nearly seyering the great toe.
Edward johnson, a Racine painter. A.
years of age, was killed by a Northwest
ern freight train. He was unmarried.
At Elkhorn the residence Of John IL.
Lauderdale was destroyed by FIRE. A part
of the furniture was saved. The loss is
$500.
Mrs. Myria Grinnell of Beloit, well
known in w. r. c., has started for New
York, where she will join party of tour
lists for trip to Egypt
The Man.owoc Picking Company has
been Incorporated with the following Off
| GERS: President, Dr. III. l.. Banzhaf; sec
rotary and treasurer, Oscar A. Alter.
Hog cholera is prevalent about Hope in
the town of Cottage Grove. Messrs. Rat
man and Bechtel report having lost thirty
| head, and new cases are reported every
| day.
William Myro, prominent farmer liv-
| ing at Cataract. was killed by the burst
ing of a flywheel on setting machine.
Fragments struck Myro, tearing off leg
and arm.
Arthur Young. who was badly burned
ut the Racine Malleable and Wrought
Iron Company factory over a year ago,
| has commenced suit for $1,000 damages
at Racine.
The will Of the late Rudolph Nune-
macher of Milwaukee was filed for pro-
bate. A valuable collection of curios,
valued at $4,000, is given TO the public
museum of that city.
A patent issued to Phelps Bishop of the
town of Paris and signed by President
Tyler, was filed with the register of deeds
at Kenosha. This patent was one of the
| first given to cover any land in kenosha
| County.
The Revere House, the oldest in Osh-
! kosh, three-story brick fifty-room struc-
| ture, was wrecked and Quilted by fire.
The loss on building is $4,000, with in
| surance of $4,000. Landlord l.. Thence
loses $1,000, with $4,000 insurance.
The general merchandise store of Chas.
Tice at Corrill was broken into and rob-
bed. The safe was blown open and the
contents taken. The thieves secured
about $500. The postoffice is in the build
| ing with the store and the thieves stole
several dollars worth of stamps. No
clue as to who did the work has been
secured
| X. L. Rogers, a veteran of the civil
| war and one of the Oldest and best-known
/ commercial travellers of La Crosse, was
drowned in the Mississippi opposite that
| city. just how it occurred no one knows,
| but it is supposed he was driving on the
| ice with a single horse and cutter, and
| it is thought that in driving up on to the
shore he mistook the road and drove off
into an open place. His cries for help
were heard and prompt response was
made. But he had already been drawn
under the ice when the people arrived
on the scene.
While Wisconsin Central freight train
was pulling into Abbotsford from the
south the yardmen sent it into the wrong
| track, ON which was a train and crew.
| The conductor and two brakemen were
asleep in the caboose when the engine
struck it, telescoping the caboose from
one end to the other. How the men es-
capped with their lives is almost miracu-
lous. The two brakemen are very badly
| burned and the conductor badly cut with
flying splinters. The engine, one of the
large ones, was derailed and ran through
a section of the platform into the ditch,
and is badly damaged, but the engineer
/ eli 4~i.a
| Alexander Wertenen. the Kenosha tan
merry employe who suddenly turned black,
is gradually regaining his natural color.
! DR.. Pugm, who was called tC attend him,
| thinks his change of color was due to
| chemical action Recently Wertenen was
| suffering with sprained wrists. A fomen-
tatiJa of lead lotion was prescribed,
which Wertenen used freely Then he
returned to his work in the tannery. In
the work in which he is employed a num-
Der of chemicals are used. 1t is likely
that some of the lead lotion was absorbed
| in it, and being expelled by perspiratien,
united with the other chemicals used IA
his work, forming the black pigment in
the pores of his skin.
| Monroe County is excited over what
| looks like a sensational murder. Late
! in October last James Lewellin, farmer
of Waterloo, went to Wilton to buy a
dairy farm. He had in his possession
several hundred dollars. He went to a
hotel, got into game of cards and either
/ lost the money or was swindled out of it.
/ Later he was found in his room with a
bullet hole through his head and heart
I no Cd 1iata IF chi.
eide, but the family was not satisfied with
the verdict. Detectives spent some weeks
looking into the case. and now charge
murder. The keeper of tie hotel is Dan
/ iel Trump. The detectives claim to be
able to name the murderer.
Judge Helms rendered a decision in the
Evans life insurance case at Chippewa
| Falls He decided in favor of Mrs. VIM
Evans, widow of William Evans. VIII
| liam Evans had a life policy in the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen amount'
/ ing to 81 500, made out in favor of his
mother He married Anna Bloomhart in
| 1896 and had the policy transferred and
made payable TO his wife. but the policy
was never signed by Evans. Evans died
! and his mother sued the brotherhood for
! the money on his life, and so did his VIE.
The brotherhood answered that the
money would be paid to the court and
held Until decision was rendered. The
mother announces that she win appeal
to the Circuit Court.
Herman Botenhagen of the town OF
North Cape, while searching around on
the bottom of Muskego lake, recently
drained by a cannl being dug, found a
| large bone and believes il is part of a
mastodon.
Fire was discovered in the new steel
bagroom of the Mineral Point Zine Com
pans The building was completely gut
/ ted and quite badly warped. A laborer
in the building at the time Of the fire es-
! capped by jumping from a second-story
! window. The loss is estimated at 5000,
| covered by insurance. The bagroom was
recently removed from WaUkegan.
David p. Amidon of Ono was killed by
a hog. He tried to drive the animal away
1 go, b;s hntySe whom II turned On him