Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-09-11
Brief state happen,nga.

w. III. Mccormick has been appointed
postmaster at -Four Mile, vice Joseph
Besnah, resigned.
John Wrzesinski, the 16-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Walenti Wr2esinski, was
drowned in Menasha near the railroad
bridge of the Wisconsin Central Rail-
road.
year ago George Stadke obtained a
judgment for $1,000 against the Mari
nette Lumber Company for the loss of a
leg in the mill The Supreme Court has
reversed the verdict on the ground that
the plaintiff assumed the risk when he
took the employment.
While a shingling bee was in progress
at West Bloomfield a staging gave
way and four men We're severely in
jured. Charles Wilke struck on his head
and will die; Herman Cope had both
arms broken; Henry Wahlward and Gus
tav Tayes were severely bruised.
gang of eight bridge carpenters EN-
ploye3 by the Chicago, Milwaukee and
ST. Paul Railway Company, receiving 81
per day, struck at Browntown for 81 20
per day. Another gang of men took their
place at once.
TIL. officials Of the Chicago and North
western Railway have been in Grand
Rapids to make arrangements for the
building of a new depot and the purchase
of grounds. They decided to build de-
pot on the east side of the river, pro-
vided they were given the right of way
ana grounds.
Foreman Erskine Bailey at the United
States government dry dock basin, which
is being excavated at Kaukauna, un-
earthed more Indian skeletons and relics.
Among them was one of the largest skel-
etons Mr. Bailey has ever found, also
several copper arrow tips and a small
copper plate.
Arnold Mass, an employe of the Mari
nette paper mills, had a narrow escape
from death. He was repairing belt
when il became caught in revolving
shaft. He was carried around several
times and fell to the floor. His collar
bone and several ribs were fractured and
he sustained other injuries.
John Meisner of the town of Raymond,
while engaged in placing eavesboards on
a house. was struck by bolt of lightning
his arm. side and leg, tearing his cloth
ing TO shreds and the boot off his foot.
He was rendered unconscious and re-
NAMED in that condition for over an
hour, but has entirely recovered.
Twenty-Five young men of Sheboygan
were each fined 500 and costs for steal
ing 100 watermelons from freight car.
Charles Mantle, husband of the wom-
an in the Rev. DIR. John V. Van Vlasse
laer affair at Sheboygan, is looking for
his two children, who have disappeared.
He has not seen his wife since the day
Rev. Mr.. Van ylasslaer left town.
Dan Mckenzie died under peculiar cir
cumstaneas at Sturgeon Bey. he went
in swimming and while in the water was
taken with paralysis Of the heart and
expired. sinking to the bottom. He was
about 80 years old and unmarried.
William Borchmann of Stoddard drop
ped dead in his field. The cause OF his
sudden death was heart disease, FASTENED
BY the hot weather He was an aged
man.
Johr Doll. laborer AT the Rib Lake
Lumber Company's mill, two miles south
of Three Lakes, was run over and in
stantly killed by passenger train. He
fell asleep on the railway track on his
way home.
Hans Olson. for years one Of the fore
men of the Sawyer & Austin mill at La
Crosse. who moved to Bonner, Mont. 10
work for Marcus DAILY. was killed there
hy the cars. He leaves wife and son.
Tie was a prominent Odd Fellow.
Mrs. Augusta Pahlow of New London,
charged with poisoning her husband. was
bound over to the Circuit Court. her
bond being fixed at $500, which was fur
niShed.
The Kewaunee County Agricultural So
ciety will hold its twenty-seventh annual
fair in Eewaunee on Thursday, FRIDAY
aud Saturday. Sept. %. IS and 20. This
viii be the first fair in two years
George MuTloy, captured al Pepir and
brought back TO La Crosse with Frank
McClusky for hurglarizing Reik's grocery
stsre, pleaded guilty and was given one
year in States prison. Meelusky says
that be had nothing to do with the case
and VIII stand trial.