Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-16
Fred Usadel. aged 33. committed sui
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off While chopping cordwood at Maple
Grove
Work on the Wisconsin Central shops
in Fond du Lac has been stopped until
spring.
Thilipe Smith. young man Of Graf
ton, accidentally fell from a load Of hay,
breaking both. of his arms.
Father Condor, of WATERFOWL. has
left for a, three-months stay in New Or
leans FOR the benefit of his health.
Eau Claire people have raised $3.50 fos
relief of fshernlens families suffering
by reason of storms on the coast of Nor
way.
a. J. Duncan. Indian inspector, is max
ing thorough inspection of the schools
and other institutions at the Oneida res
ervation.
The Stolz Manufacturing Company. Of
Manitowoc has an order from Denmark
for large number of its newly patented
candle holders.
4. w. Wilson, agent for the Chicago.
Milwaukee ard st. Paul Railroad Com
pany In Sparta for over twenty-five
years, died of cancer of the liver.
Rev. r. H. Colby of Waupaca has re-
| ceived a call to the Baptist Church at
| Sardinia, n. Y. He expects to decline
/ this call and devote himself TO sclen-
| ti,ic research.
/ A message from Congressman Cooper
announces that Capt. Charles Frantz has
been nominated to be postmaster of he
nosha. This is the end of a keen strug-
! gle for the Office.
Dr. S. S. Bowers, formerly Mayor OF
Fond du Lac, died as the result of par
| alysis. He had been a practicing physl-
clan in that city for thirty-four years.
] lie was 63 years of age.
Nelson Stokes of Eau Claire hung his
lantern on peg in the barn while feed
/ ing the horses The lantern fell down
and set fire to the barn, which was burn
ed. The horses were burned to death.
The boiler shop of Lawrence Hunt at
/ Marinette was burned. The loss is about
| 81 800 The thermometer was 10 below
zero and the fremen suffered consider
ably, number of them freezing fingers
and toes.
Zenos Maxim, formerly of Milwaukee,
now connected with the Golden Fate
mine at Rouse, who is prospecting for
copper, has struck gold-carrying rock at
81 ton, with native silver and quite
noticeable traces OK copper.
/ Herman Fitzlaff and wife and five chill
4 dren were made critically i'll at Mil
waulee by eating bologna sausage, sup
/ posed to have been affected with trichl-
nae poisoning The children range IN
| ages from 10 TO is years.
! G. b. Tiff, the largest hardware firm
| in Algoma, burned to the ground. The
loss is estimated at $4,000 on the stock
and building. The insurance is S3,oo0
on building and $1,000 on stock and tlx-
lures. 1t is not likely he will rebuild.
! The barn Of Joseph Schiesel, with its
contents, containing some farm machin-
| cry, was totally destroyed by lire at
1 Manitowoc Rapids. Mr.. Schiesel was
/ away from home and he arrived just in
| time to save his homestead from destruc-
| ton. The cause of the fire is unknown.
| The loss amounts TO about $500.
! An explosion of 4 Kerosene stove in the
art studio of Miss Hattie Balm at ke-
nosha caused a serious confagration. All
! the furnishings in the room were burn
/ ed and many of the pictures were dam
| aged beyond restoration. Miss Balm had
/ just returned from three years study
| in Paris and her collection of pictures
! included several masterpieces.
! In defiance of two iniunctions, with
! doors locked and guarded by policemen,
! the twenty-five Milwaukee aldermen who
have favored the street railway company
passed the ordinance providing for ex-
tending the franchises of the company,
/ against which the people and press of
1 the city have fought for two months.
When it was done Mayor Rose signed
the measure
! During the engagement of Hogan $
| Alley company at the Crescent Opera
/ House in Fond du Lac the building
! caught fire and for Il time there was a
/ lively time. The cry of fire came Just
! at the close of the second act and the
| female members of the company were
! busy packing away their wardrobes. The
/ fire was extinguished with only small
! loss to the management. The audience
| then returned to the hall and the play
| continued The fire caught from light
ed cigar which had fallen through the
sidewalk.
John r. Davis Of Neenah will UNI
/ doubtedly be one of the heaviest loggers
/ in Wisconsin this winter. Mr.. Davis
purchased several thousand acres of tim
Der land last year in the vicinity of
/ Phillips and will make all haste to get
| the timber off the stump. The extent
| of his possessions can be guessed when
/ it is known that it will take twelve years
/ to clear up the logging. Agents for AIR.
| Davis have been engaged for some time
/ in the country for miles around, buying
up heavy teams to be used for logging
and several carloads have already been
shipped for Phillips, which is the base
of operations.
Twenty girls, employed by the Isabel
Manufacturing Company OF GAINESVILLE,
have received notice Of discharge be-
| cause they talked too much. The girls
are indignant and say that the manage
ment never notified them that they were
not allowed TO talk during business hours.
/ The manager who ordered the discharge
said: THE average GAINESVILLE girl talks
/ too much for her own good. The girls
that | refer to are the, working class.
/ The girls that ] was obliged to discharge
would talk nothing but gossip from the
i time they entered the factory till it was
time to leave for home. They just raked
everybody over the Goals. Such gossip
not only hurts our business, but in just
such way many bad story starts that
/ in time ruins some innocent person. i
think that every manager should dis
| pense with the services Of just this class
of women
Roy z. Beach Of Neenah, who recent
/ ly passed a bogus check for SO at Kau-
kauna, pleaded guilty and was sentenc,
ed to an indeterminate term Of not less
/ than one year or more than two years
/ in the State reformatory at Green Bay.
Albert Pennings. an employe Of the
/ Hackworthy Construction Company, en-
/ gagged in building the new addition TO
4 the Union Bag and Paper Company ;
mill at Kaukauna. WAS seriously injured
by falling from the staging, distance
of eighteen feet. to the roof below. His
shoulder was broken and one hip disle-
Gated
The Arcade mills. 200 barrels capacity,