Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-19
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/ Mrs. Anna Ladd, Menasha. was shot
through the thigh. A revolver was in a
trunk which she was packing and in some
manner was discharged.
Hiram Rous, an employee in the Aysi1
Lumber Company's sawmill at Grand
Rapids, accidentally had the middle I'm
ger on his left hand sawed Of
Michael Mulquin died at GAINESVILLE,
the result of small scratch on his An
ger, which terminated in lockjaw He
leaves a wife and six children.
Thos. H. Dickson of Chippewa Coan-
/ ty has been granted divorce. He came
from England four years ago. but his
wife refused TO come to America to join
| him
| Filberto RicchiO was arrested in Ke-
nosha, charged with being fugitive from
justice, He was indicted by the last
Chicago grand jury and bail fixed at
/ $4,000
/ James Wilson, workman on the Great
| Northern's new steel elevator at West
Superior, fell sixty feet from the side Of
that structure and died from the effects
| of the injuries received.
/ a hc ASiudllS ul NudflPS JOnuSOn Cduc
| TO the surface of the Wisconsin river
few miles from Baraboo. The body was
found along the shore, having drifted
from kilbourn, where he was drowned.
/ Reports come from various sections of
| the northern farming country that the
| crops are being destroyed by the contin-
ued dry weather. 1t is claimed by those
experienced that the hay crop win be
worth scarcely anything if rain should
now fall
George Sanquist, member Of the crew
at the Lehigh Coal and Coke Company's
dock at West Superior, was instantly
killed and another of the crew was seri-
ously injured. A broken cable allowed
coal bucket to drop in the midst of the
worlmen.
Thomas Kelly, well-known logger
of Chippewa Falls, received word that
his logging camps on the west fork of
the Chippewa river had been destroyed
by fire. The loss will be in the Ieghbor-
hood Of $1,000. Forest fires are raging
in the woods north of the fork.
Harry Balloon, who has been so fire.
quently mentioned in connection with the
attempt to exterminate the Wise family
at Anosla, Mimi, has proven to Detective
Thomas Murphy of Grantsburg that he
was not within seventy miles of the
scene OF the crime ut the time it was
committed.
Plans for new high bridge to con-
meet southwestern Wisconsin with north
eastern Iowa have been approved by the
Government engineers and the construc-
| ton of the bridge will be commenced
shortly. Bills authorizing the construc-
ton of the bridge were passed by both
houses of Congress some time since.
Albert Platz, Jr., of La Crosse, for
merly of Racine, has gone to Idaho,
where he takes personal charge of the
property of the idaho Gold Coin Mining
and Milling Company Of La Crosse, in
the Seven Devils mining district. The
company is just putting in cyanide
! plant of n capacity of seventy-fve tons
| per day.
! Articles OF incorporation have been fill
! ed by the Racine Ere Engine and Mo
tor Company, with capital stock of
| $4,000 j. J. Wright and Il. III. Ian
| yon OF Chicago were elected vice-presi-
| dent and secretary and treasurer, respec-
| lively. The new company viii manufac-
turc fire engines and motor or horseless
| fire apparatus.
Barnard Sanders met with a peculiar
accident while hunting Mt Lavalle. There
| was some game in a tree that he desired
| and after cooking his revolver he com
menccd to Climb upward. After getting
considerable distance mp, the revolver
was discharged by rubbing against
| limb. The ball tore downward through
the flesh of the leg, creating very seri-
| Gus wound.
Emanuel Lewis of HemlOck is the first
man in the State who conceived the idea
of propagating the gensing root from
| commercial standpoint Living in ter
ritoFy indigenous to the growth of the
root, he went into the business. He has
now growing on his small farm over &c.
| 600 healthy plants and expects to con-
tinue increasing his acreage until he has
the bcst-payinG farm in Clark County.
which, judging from the marked demand
for the root, will not be long.
Mrs. J. J. Bartlett, wife of the keeper
Of Evergreen Park, south of Racine,
pluckily brought a tramp to time at the
muzzle of a rifle. The woman had occa-
sion to enter n large hall in connection
with the park. A tramp came along and
stole the keys from the door Mrs. Bart
lett went ont by another door and re-
quested the tramp 20 return the keys. He
denied having stolen them. She then
ran into the house. got a rifle, hurried ar
ter the tramp and at the muzzle of the
gun walked him back to the hall and
compelled him to place the keys in the
n hs.I, he. tSr.l~ -
was then allowed TO depart.
A decision in favor of the defense has
been given by Judge Bum in the Federal
court at Madison, in the case Of the Gov
eminent against James Stinson of Chica-
go, involving the title TO 200 acres OF
land lying within the city limits of SUI
perior and worth at the lowest estimate
S2jO,0O0. The Government claimed that
Stinson. who was part owner OF the town
site. hired number Of Swedes ostensi-
bly, to work on the streets at $50 per
month. but whose real duty was to pre-
empt the land in controversy title to
which they transferred TO him. Judge
Bum decided that there was no fraud
and that Stinson's title Is valid All the
lands are now under rrceiyership, Mi
chaei S. Bright Of Superior being re-
ceiycr
Ex-ATayor A. w Pettibonc has pur-
chased Barron's Island. something over
a mile long and nearly half mile wide,
in the center of the channel Of the Mis-
sissippi river, opposite Ia Crosse. He
win improve the same and present Il as
a park, free Of al cost to the city.
Two street ears loaded with people col
lided in Fond du Lac Tac most seri
cssly injured was Gustav A. Kruger Of
Sheboygan. who was hurled through a
window. The cars were running in the
same direction aud were only few feet
apart Suddenly the first car stopped
and the second car crashed into IT,
Rev. J. r. Scheyer, pastor Of the Cath
Ollie Church at Stiles, and in charge OF
missions at Oconto Falls and Gillette,
announces that in two weeks be with
draws from public life to enter the Ca
puchin monastery.
What appeared to the officials OK the
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