Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-11-20
Game waFdeus seized 5000 feet Of hsa.


off the train and fell under the wheels.
Mrs Thomas Mckenzie died at Hur-
ley from the effects Of Surgical opera
zion made Z !. Milwaukee hospital six
weeks ago.
Williar1 Kreier. who Was injured in a
drunken row in a saloon II North Leeds.
died. kreier was hit on. the head with
. euspidor.
Fred Oxholm. while enga ged in repair
iag leak in a gas main at Stevens
Point, was asphyxiated. aud was found
dead in the trench.
Herman Kruger Of AIariaette, an em-
ploye OF the Kimberiey-C Clark Company
at Niagara. had his right leg fractured
! By jumping from swing
Robert Paul. 10 years oIa~ of the town
e2 Trenton. was shot in the left side
while climbing into a wagon after a
day shooting. He viii probably die.
Mike DAILY, young man from North
Ia Crosse, was sentenced Co two years in
the penitentiary for the theft of 81 80
from the person of a saw min employe.
Pred Durnford of Rockhridge was ac-
cidentally shot while hunting. The en-
tire charge entered his. side and he lived
Only few hours. He was Is years old.
8Tyron Baker and Louis Larson of We
yauwega went duck, hunting. Searching
Darties have found Their boat capsized
in Partridge lake. 1t is believed the
naen were drowned.
In trying to fix an. electric light in
| front of his home in Milwaukee, George
}. Pinter was Instantly killed. He low
cred the lamp and oek hold of live
wire. he was II Years OF age.
o. A. Gatwinkle had narrow escape.
/ from death while hunting deer on the.
bluffs south of Baraboo. He wore a
brown coat and another hunter shot at
him as he caught glimpse of the gar
meut through the timber The ball pass
ed through his coat and made a slight
flesh wound near his heart.
A west-bound freight on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul road ran into
an open SWITCH in the Jaresville yards,
striking a passenger engine standing ON
the cinder pit and driving it $50 feet,
pushing it through two sides of the
roundhouse. Both engines were wrecked
and the west end OF the roundhouse was
demolished.
j. A. HalSerson.. superintendent OFF the
Sunshine Orphans Industrial Home near
Marshheld.. was struck by Wisconsin
| Central passenger train and so injured
he died shortly after being removed to
the hospital. He was driving across che
track when struck. One of the hoGses
was killed and the wagon smashed to
pieces.
Wallace West and his son, Nelson
West, were arrested on a charge of pass
ing counterfeit money. They lave ten
miles from Neillsyille, and recently pur-
chased a cow from farmer in the town
of Fremont, in that county. paying for
her in silver dollars and hale dollars.
| The. farmer went to town to, pay up a
store bill and learned that every piece,
thifty-one in number was counterfeit.
Alfred Eugene Rosengka Of Chicago, a
| cadet at st. Johns military Academy,
| Delatleld, accidentally shot and killed
| himself The charge of shot from a sim
| gle barrel Winchester rife entered his
| heart, killing him instantly. Rosengka
was returning from days hunting with
| ]. j. Pitcher, a student from Motns
! Pleasant, Iowa, when the accident occur.
red. The boys were on the bridge CT the
/ Waukesha road just outside the village
and a short distance from the academy.
In some manner the gun slipped from
/ Rosengka's hand and the hammer struck
| the edge Of the bridge and the rifle Was
discharged.
A woman giving the napea &c Mrs. Me-
| Queen, claiming to be widow ts0m Wi
mona, and her son. aged IA, were found
on the bank of the Chippewa ciyer at
Eau Claire and said they had been boat
riding with a man they did not know.
! They said the man had fallen out of the
/ boat and drowned. The woman said she
came there looking for relatives. In The
| boat the sheriff found a letter addressed
to Mr.. ana Mrs. Charles Schmidt, 404
| Bartlett street, Milwaukee, and signed
| Fred Schmidt, in which the writer said
| life was hell on account of sickness, but
| be hoped to find relief at the Eau Claire
hospital, and had been thinking of going
boat riding for his health. A mans hat
was found in the river. The whole affair
is mysterious. The woman is about 80
years Old good looking and well edu.
Gated,
While engaged in cutting down maple
| tree which grew in his pasture near
| Lynn, Andrew Olesen discovered a cav
ity near it's base. and on investigation
found a wooden box about two feet
square filed with plumber. The box had
been buried so long that the wood was
/ thoroughly decayed. Among its contents
We're 100 silver dollars of both American
and Mexican mintage. The dates were
from 1916 to 1859 About 5000 in gold
| coin, consisting of eagles and double
eagles; several pounds of old gold and
| silver watch cases; candlesticks and a
large quantity of solid silver knives
| forks and spoons This discovery recalls
! the fact that sCale twenty years ago a
| weli-to-do farme4' living between Lynn
| and Romadka. was supposed to have
| been murdered and his home robbed and
| then burned. Last year a skeleton of a
| human being was discovered buried by
the roadside, near by whore Olesen found
the buried property A neighbor of the
missing farmer was suspected of the muir
der and robbery. but sufficient evidence
| could not be obtained to warrant his ar
| rest Later on the suspect was caught
while burglarizing a store at Pittsville,
| Wis. aud is now serving a 20-year SEN
tence in Waupun penitentiary for the
crime.
Henry Tiedman Of Steinthal, while out
hunting with q friend. was shot in his
right arm and chest. They were in oppo-
| site directions. when they both saw a
rabbit aud fred at the same time, Tiede-
/ man receiving the charge.
In trying to save the life of his pet
dog Herman Benin of Milwaukee was
| crushed under the wheels of St Paul
passenger train and so badly mangled
that at the Emergency hospital it was
| said he had but a small chance of recoy-
/ ery. The dog was killed. 1t was a
mongrel. but Benin. who is 80 years old.
thought a great deal Of it.
Rural free delivery service win be es-
tablished at Juneau. Wis, with one car
rier. r. X Acker, who IS to cover an