Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-10-23


plant in West Superior.
Steve Kronosky Of the town of Siegel
was struck by lightning and killed while
at work on his granary.
William Densmit of Ashland was ap-
pointed teacher at the Normantown,
Mimi, Indian school at $50 a month.
Crazed by grief for her late husband
and child, Mary Strandburg drowned her
self IN Newton creek in West Superior.
George A. Brewster. chief clerk at the
Milwaukee tfepot at La Crosse. has been
appointed agent Tor the company at Still
water
Michael Dugan. a single man "a years
OF aee. who came to West Superior from
Toronto. was run over in the Northern
Pacific yards and died as the result.
Jacob Mueller was buried alive by the
banks of a ditch. fourteen feet deep, cav
ing in upon him, near Merrimac. When
the dirt was cleared away Mueller was
dead
A pitchfork was accidentally thrust
into one of Carl Wrinkles eyes while
threshing at Howard. The fork pene-
trated the brain and it is thought the
young man viii lose the sight of the eye.
The old La Crosse vinegar factory has
been leased for button factory, and at
last the long talk has come to a head.
Henry Hallauer, who has just returned
from Europe, will own the bulk of the
stock.
The contract of building the stone
bridge at Combined Locks was let to
John Wendt for 81, 546. The bridge win
be IN one single arch with span of 80
feet. The structure will be completed by,
Oct. 10
The Rev. r. L. Roberts, who resigned
as pastor of the Welsh Presbyterian
Church of Racine, and who was request
ed by the congregation to reconsider his
action and remain in Racine, has refused
the request.
Six cattle out of herd of twenty
seVea belonging TO Charles Schultz of the
town of Greenville, were poisoned by
Shrinking Paris green with salt at their
drinking pool. The poisoning is suppos-
ed to be the work of an enemy.
Claire Drake a 7-year-old boy, While
playing near an old well at Cumberland,
fell to the bottom, distance of seventy
five feet, but escaped with slight bruises
Willis Drake slid down the pipe in time
TO rescue the boy from drowning
DIR. Robert A. Kits of Racine. who
was injured on a street car about a year
ago and had an eye torn from the socket
made settlement with an insurance com
pany for $1,000 Altogether he has re-
ceiyed $4,000 for the loss of the eye.
A rope was found in a cell at the Osh-
kosh police station, which was occupied
by prisoner being taken from Ashland
to Waupun prison. The rope was made
out of pieces of blanket The police
think that the man intended to commit
suicide.
Deputy Game Warden Zinn confscat-
ed several boxes of venison in Milwaukee
Which were on the way to Chicago. The
game wardens are now on the track of
the Chicago sportsmen who killed these
deer out of season, and if they are caught
heavy fines will be imposed on them.
Game wardens arrested Mic Storm and
Mic Drcxler, charged with shooting ducks
before sunrise on Little Lake Buttes des
Morris. After securing the prisoners, the
warden stopped at a fishing resort, and
while there their guns, with those of the
prisoners, were stolen. No clue to the
thieves can be found.
Daniel McKinnon, the 17-year-old son
of well-known lumber scaler of Ash
land, was killed in the Wisconsin Central
railroad yards. Young McKinnon was
by the company. AS he was
passing through the yards on his bicycle
he fell in front of switch engine and
box car that were moving very rapidly,
and had his skull crushed and his legs
and arms cut off.
Herman Uldricks, a resident of Ash
land, was found in his bedroom with
bullet hole through his head. A revolver
lying near by explained the mystery. III
bricks was employed on the Reiss coal
docks. The cause of his taking his own
life is said by his wife to be the out
come of a quarrel he had with a neigh
Dor concerning the ownership of some
chickens.
A bad wreck occurred at Neenah when
the Wisconsin Central north-bound pas
senger train No. had tail-end coils
ion with special freight train. The pas
senger engine buried itself to the pilot
house in the caboose of the special. A
fiat car ahead of the cabooSe was broken
in two and mounting a preceding one,
passed underneath two box cars ahead,
leaving a mass of six pairs of trucks all
in heap beneath the fifth car.
A. p Deer, an aeronaut of Chicago,
fell to bis death at Gays Mills from a
balloon which had assembled to a height
of 200 feet. The ascension was made at
a fair and was witnessed by 5000 per-
sons. The balloon exploded and feh 100
feet before the parachute opened and the
sudden jerk caused Deer to lose his hold.
His body fell, turning in the air, and he
struck the ground on his head and shout
ders. His jaw, nose and one arm were
crushed and he died in less than two min
utes.
A woman giving the name of May Ber-
yn Weinberg of Chicago came TO Racine
and tried to take possession Of the Bos-
ION dental parlors. She said she was the
wife of Nathan Weinberg and had
light to the place, which is now being |
conducted by his widow The Chicago |
woman is niece OF Gen Wesley Mer- |
lit and it seems that Miss Berlyn aud |
Weinberg became much attached while i
attending the Chicago Dental College. !
After their graduation they conducted 9 /
lental parlor in Chicago and coiiti acted |
common-law marriage. Weinberg I'M |
iuced the woman to sue for divorce |
md then be married By Jewish rabbi. |
When a divorce was granted Weinberg |
'efiSed to remarry the woman and came |
o Racine, where he was married, Three |
months ago DR.. Weinberg died suddenly. |
Iron River has been visited by burg
ars lately, and several attempts have /
'eea made to go through residences and
hotels.
Rev. c. A. Freeman. pastor of the
Memorial Baptist Church of Whitewater,
las resigned his pastovate and will de-
-ote his entire time to the practice Of
Medicine
The coal sheds of the Sheboygan Coal
Company were destroyed by fire. The
ire spread to the wood piles. The dam
tge is about $1,000. The FIRE was start
d by spontaneous combustion in the coal