Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-10


Ringing Bros car shops burned a
BarahSo. The contents were all reIloy
ed and the loss will be about $500
John Hunzicker, who lives in the town
of Shields, was killed at fleetwood by q
freight train on the Milwaukee road.
The Little Wolf River Telephone Com
pany is now connected with Oshkosh. a
toll station has been established in thai
city.
The rural free delivery Of mail at Au
gusta viii be put in operation on April ,
John Victory has been appointed mai
carrier.
A young son Of Charles Hass, farmer
living east of Fox Lake, was killed in Q
runaway accident by being thrown out OF
a wagon.
At the high school defamation contest
at Marinette The Misses Helen Feeney
Alice Seymour and Helen Hamilton VOL
the honors.
The dry goods store of Bort. Bailey &
Co. at BeIoit was entered by robbers
Silk dress goods to the value Of $500
were taken.
Clapp Miner one of the oldest and
weaIthiest men in Kenosha County, was
found dead in bed at his home in the
town Of Salem. The deceased was 81
years Of age.
Secretary of State w II. Froelich has
returned from Washington, where he has
been pushing the bill to recompense Wis
cousin for the 100000 acres of swamp
lands still due her under the old grant
to the State, the value of which is est
mated at about 81, 100000.
A bold robbery was committed al
Janesyille. Fletcher Bros grocery was
entered aud $3.50 was taken from the safe
and the cash register The grocery
stores close at G:30, and when the clerk
came back after supper to lock the safe
he found the robbery bad taken place.
The Rio State Bank was organized
with a capital stock of $4,000 William
Moore, an extensive farmer Of the town
Of 0tsego, was elected president; IL. A.
Hanson, yice-presidenti Andrew Amund-
son. cashier, and Charles Caldwell. as
sistant cashier. The bank will open for
business as soon as building can be
erected.
The business portion of the village OF
Kingston was almost wiped out by fire
The fire started in Joslin's fnrniture
store Nine stores and dwellings were
burned The following are the losers:
Dave Kceler. four buildings; William
Lueptow, Gustayc Marquardt. Edward
VIM, L. $. Williams and George Viii
liams. The loss is about $4,000.
Three persons escaped from the Mari
uette County Jail They were Charles
Reifscharger and Joe Martin, under sen
.tence for larceny, and John Carrigan,
4 short-term man A key was earelessly
left in the door leading into the office
from their cells. This they managed to
turn and made their escape through the
basement. Three other persons confined
IN the same quarters refused to leave
with the escaping men.
The sale of the stock OF the Wafer
Yeast Company of Fond du Lac was eff
fected when the entire property was
transferred to a board of directors COM
posed of William McDermott, T.. j.
Wolf, Jay +. McDermott, q. A. Dobyns
and George l. McDermott 1t is the UNI
Outstanding that this board will sell the
entire belongings Of the Wafec Yeast
Company to the Northwestern Yeast
Company of Chicago.
The sale of the properties of the Citi-
zens' Traction Company at Oshkosh,
winch has been pending for some time,
was formally made in New York. Elmer
son McMillen & Co are the purchasers.
The sale includes the electric car line
and the interurban line between Oshkosh
and Neenah, thirty miles in all, and q
park south Of the city. The company
was capitalized at $4,000 The-pur-
chase price is not made public,
There was an unusual criminal case in
the county court before Judge Brindley
at La Crosse. Robert Gollinick, farm
er residing in the Mormon Coolie, per-
sistently laughed at the wife of Carl
Wolf. a neighbor, every time he saw her.
Wolf was ordered by his wife to thrash
Gollinick and he did so, incidentally
breaking Gollinick's nose. Wolg was fined
$40 and costs. and now he is to be sued
in civil action brought by Golliniek for
personal injuries.
The future disposition Of the Charles
II Sieg Manufacturing Company plant
at Kenosha was solved when deed was
filed transferring all the property of the
i'm that city TO A. II. MeiSelback,
the Milwaukee bicycle manufactures. The
price paid was $4,000 cash. The deed
is signed by Fred w Morgan of Chicago,
to whom the plant was recently assigned
to satisfy mortgage Of S40,0T092. II is
reported that the plant viii be opened
within a month as rival TO the trust.
The Heinz Pickle Company of Pitts
burg announces that the much-talked-of
finishing plant viii not be located in La
Crosse this year. The failure of the pro
ject to 80 through hinges ON the fact that
the company has not yet located the two
sailing stations ut Aryadia, Wis, and
Winona, Mimi, rs contemplated. and
without those two sailing stations in OPP
GRAFTON there would not be sufficient ma
terial for a finishing plant La Crosse
offered liberal bonus for the location
OF the plant.
Anton Noyak, his father and another
man were arrested at Racine on charge
of stealing pearl buttons from the Racine
pearl button factory. The men confessed
TO having taken $500 worth.
A new ordinance which Is to pc pub
lished at Appleton in few days imposes
strict measures upon junk dealers besides
requiring them 10 pay an annual license
OF So for carrying on their traffic.
John and Joseph ChaSmor, brothers.
were struck by train on the Wisconsin
Central while crossing the track in q
buggy near Cajott. Both were instantly
killed. They were residents Of Cadott.
AZ West Superior John Curran. who
was shot in the leg a few months ago by
the special watchman in the employ OF
the Omaha Railway, has sued the com
many for 5000 damages sustained on
that account Curran nearly died from
the effects Of the wound, blood poisoning
setting IN
AT a meeting of the trustees of the She
boygan Y. NJ. {. A. it was decided TO
close the Y. NJ. c. 4. building. This
action was taken as the association Is
not receiving support, The directors state