Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-04-17

trying to get Il franchise at Omro.
Rye which was sown in Marinette
County last fan has wintered very poorly.
The G. A. r. men of Denver are erect
ing 5000 monument to Myron w. Reed,
formerly of Wisconsin
Louis Kruger of Reedsvillc has decfd-
ed TO erect a large creamery at Cole
man. The work has commenced
Appleton paper manufacturers have
been notified that they are to be allowed
TO draw the full flow of first waters.
The work on the north side docks at
Racine will be delayed three or four
weeks, as the building material has not
been received.
A. Z. Peck, G. A. Il. man, over -
years of age, residing at Mazomanie, was
adjudged insane and taken to Dane Coun-
" insane hospital
A new Inc of railroad viii be built for
the John Arpin Lumber Company, ex-
tending fifty miles from Bruce, through
a thickly wooded country.
In the high school oratorical contest be-
tween Shawano and CiintoINille the for
mer took first and second places in both
oratorical and declarations.
Matt Adams, the wealthy Stevens
Pointer who was sent to the asylum at
Oshkosh recently, died at that institu-
ton. He leaves a wife and family.
A committee of the City Council of
Racine has decided to bring suit against
the Milwaukee road for $500 taxes on
property the company claims exempt.
The Northwestern Railway has made
a settlement with Miss Mamie Craney of
the town of Paris 1t is understood that
the company gave cash sum of $SOO.
Gilmore f. Peake. Beloit's story writer,
will publish a novel under the title The
Darlingtons." McClure's Publishing
Company, New York. will issue the work.
Waldo Hair was found dead in one of
at Ashland. He had blown out tie gas
when retiring and was asphyxiated. Hair
was lumberman from Drummond.
The first rural free delivery establish
ed in Sank County is on Sank Prairie,
circuit of about twenty-seyen miles. The
carrier appointed is U. Meyer. The post
office at Kings Corners will be discon-
tinued.
A telegram was received in Kenosha
announcing the death of Capt. John Te-
tard, which occurred at Crested Butte,
Colo The deceased was one of The best
known of the carly settlers Of southern
Wisconsin.
la Crosse has settled with the heirs of
the late Daniel Cameron on a basis of
$4,000, the relatives to give the city a
quit-claim deed to the park in question,
and thus put an end to alkpossibe fur
Their litigation.
Charles Pasquali Viii. the self-con-
fessed slayer of Tony Bruno, formerly
king of the Kenosha colony of Italians,
walked out of the Circuit Court room
the other night free man. The jury.
after eight hours deliberation, found that
VIII had been forced to kill Bruno in self
defense.
The b. Wild factory of the American
Biscuit Company, located in Fond du
Lac, will be closed down after May l.
This was decided upon at a meeting in
Milwaukee, at which the local concern
was represented by B. Wild, Jr. The
Wild factory is one of the largest candy
and cracker manufacturing plants in the
Northwest and has been in operation
since 1868
Through the efforts of number of cit
liens of Chippewa Falls and after a thor
ough investigation of the crowded con-
dition of the home for the feeble minded,
Gov. Sco6eld has approved the erection
of two more buildings in addition to an
administration building for which $780,
900 was appropriated by the last Legis-
lature. The board of control will soon
decide upon a location for the proposed
buildings.
Anton Jensen and Anton Swanson, who
stripped the window sash from an unoc-
cupied building on the water power at
Appleton for use in q new house tney
were building, and were caught in the
act, pleaded guilty before the Circuit
judge and paid fines of $50 and $50 re-
spectively. Jensen was a fireman in a
papermill and at his house were found
hundreds of pounds of brass castings he
had stolen from the mill.
Eighteen horses belonging to the South
Side Lumber Company were cremated at
Butternut. The horses, which were fine,
large animals, averaging 1900 each, had
Just been brought in from the camps, and
were to be employed in the mill yard this
summer. The cause of the fire is I'M
known. Two or three of the animals es-
capped from the burning structure, but
they were so badly burned that they had
to be shot There was no insurance on
the horses and the loss on them is about
$4,000
Charles Wetzel of Baraboo has gone
into bankruptcy He was making his
home with Mrs. J j Riley and while
there, it is alleged, he borrowed 500
from her which she claims has not been
returned Besides this she claims he
owed her about as much more for board
and room rent. W. b. Struthers has
also gone into bankruptcy. His liabili-
ties amount to about $1,000 and the
claims are held by wholesale fruit mer-
chants of Milwaukee and Chicago and
by local merchants. There are no assets.
Schmidt Brothers of West Superior
have taken three contracts for improve
ments to be made in that city at once.
The Broadway Laundry Company. which
was burned out recently, will erect 2
$4,000 laundry building; Joseph Herb,
Il uTuGElSts WIZ put UP a fANsSH~ Dt~~NA
on Tower avenue, and the Pennsylvania
and Reading Coal Company has given
the firm large contract for putting up
three unloading towers on that portion
of its dock which has heretofore been I'M
used. The price Of the last contract is
$4,000.
AT Glidden Ole Harbor's 3-year-old
adopted son fell into a tub Of boiling
water which was placed on the floor by
his mother. The child is severely scaid'
ed around the body. The skin peeled off
with his clothes.
The Morgan farm on the lake shore. a
few miles from Oshkosh, has been sold
to Z. C. Fahrney of Chicago. The farm
contains $50 acres and was sold for $lO,-
$50. Mr.. Fahrney also bought the Ran
DAN farm of thirty-one acres. also on the
shore of Lake Winnebago, paying 50,
600 for the property. The faszas will be
used for summer places.
Members of the Riverviev Golf Club
Of Appleton are considering the feasibil-