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

The Postofice Department has ordered
the establishment of rural free delivery
at La Crosse.
H. H. Van yranken of the Central
Park Church of Chicago has accepted a
call TO the First Presbyterian Church of
Baraboo.
Harry Danner. an Omaha railway
brakeman, had both legs cut off at Hay
ward He leaves a wife, his home being
at Eau Claire.
p. Malone of Wrightstown lost his new
barn by fire. together with all his ma
chinery and crop of grain, just harvested.
The loss is $4,000. no insurance
A small farm house and two barns near
Appleton were destroyed by fire, with
loss of $500. covered by insurance. There
is strong evidence of incendiarism.
Fire at Appleton did $4,000 damage to
the paint shop, warehouse and manufac-
tured stockof the Appleton Toy and Fur
niture Company The plant was insured
for $1,000.
Joseph Luka Of Menasha, aged years,
found a railroad torpedo. He took it isto
freight shed and exploded it with a
stone. He lost an eye and one hand is
terribly mangled
Fred Trafford, workman at the Dowd
machine works in Beloit, had close call
from being killed by the bursting of an
emery wheel. He was badly cut on the
face by piece of the stone.
A man giving the name A. L. Johnson,
who has been working for Beloit con-
tractor, succeeded in cashing half a doz-
en- forged checks at saloons, and then
left, presumably for Chicago.
The body of an unknown man was
found in the Wisconsin river, three miles
from Kilbourn. The body was nude and
bore no marks of violence. 1t is believed
the man was drowned while bathing.
Frank Burnley, employed upon the
drive for the John r. Davis Lumber
Company, was drowned while y'orking
upon the logs in the river at Phillips.
He was seized with fit and fell in.
Parnell Devine, Beloit boy, has enlist
ed in the United States navy and been as
signed to the receiving ship Vermont,
now at Brooklyn. Devine got his taste
| for military life in the National Guard.
Emer Finstadk of West Superior fell
$50 feet from the side of the Great
Northern steel elevator aud three hours
later died from the result of the in
| juries. He was being let down the side
of the elevator when the rope broke.
The detectives of the Milwaukee road
are determined to put stop to the IA
yorite method of cheating in vogue be-
tween towns near La Crosse stealing
rides on the blind baggage Several
such passengers have been caught and
forced to pay fare.
| At Rome burglars have been operating
with more or less success, having entered
the home of Charles Hinile, securing
| $50 and also about SO of James Lewis
| proprietor of the Rome Hotel. They also
| visited the homes Of Andrew Block, Jake
| Friedel and Aaron Mcfarland without
results, being frightened away in each in
! stance.
John F. L. Brown, the oldest resident
of Kenosha County and the last suryiy.
/ ing member Of the family of Gen. j. 2
| T.. Brown, famous fighter in the Ameri'
| can Revolution and the war of 1872
| died at his home in Kenosha, at the age
Of nearly 100 years. The deceased had
an eventfu career. He was born on an
| ocean liner plying between France and
| America on Sept. 20, 1900.
The Bank of New Glarus was entered
| by burglars. The vault door was pried
! open and an attempt made to open the
| safe door, but they were unsuccessful
and the combination was tempered with
in such a manner that the bank officials
| cannot open the safe at all. The would
| be robbers made their escape by taking
| DR.. Burners team of that place. but
after going a certain distance they met
| with a runaway, smashing the buggy to
! splinters.
The storm which reached Milwaukee
on a recent afternocn did not appeSr to
be exceptionally violent, and yet within
| a twinkling a bolt of lightning Esd
wrought sad desoIation in the family Ct
Herman Bunker. living ON the county
| road, an extension of Nineteenth street
in the town of Milwaukee. His two
young daughters, Freda, eyed 8 years
| and Adelia, aged 8 years, were instantly
| killed by the lightning, which struck the
| barn, in which they were at play.
Barney Harvey of La Crosse has just
! passed through a novel, but not pleas
ant sensation, of almost starving to death
! for a year. During that period he has
| been treated by Escanaba, Mich. physi-
| clans for various diseases and had come
! to La Crosse to bid his friends farewell
preparatory to returning home to die. He
was examined by a local physician, who
| found that the outlet to the stomach
was stopped up by huge growth on the
pyloric sphincter. He had worn down
nearly to the bone from lack of food. he
has been operated upon successfully at
one of the hospitals and now eats like
a horse and is rapidly gaining flesh.
A serious stabbing ARRAY occurred at
Racine and as a result William Jensen,
| is years old, is thought to be at the point
Of death at St Mary's hospital, and six
other lads, were more or less badly
wounded Jensen and nine companions
were sitting on the street about mile
and a half from town near the car barns
when two young men, accompanied by
two girls, walked along past them. The
boys began to chaff the couples and an
alteration ensued. ending in the crowd
OF IaOS IOliOWlls tuSu uAoh5 ny Ao"N'
A few minutes later the young men whip
ped out pocket knives and jumped in
among the boys, slashing them right and
left with their weapons. Jensen fell and
was picked up some time later by the po-
lice The two couples and their other
victims all disappeared. Jensen was
stabbed three times in the back and twice
in the abdomen, one of the gashes per
forating his intestines.
An old resident of Colby was arrested
on charge of breaking into and robbing
houses near Depere. When he saw the
officers coming he started for the woods.
The officers fred. taking off two of the
fugitive's tingers. This brought the man
to a stop and he was arrested.
Racine police are looking for man
who registered at Hotel Racine as W. l..
Becker. He worked forged check on
DR.. Marshall, the proprietor, for $500.
The police chased the swindler to the
Chicago and Northwestern depot but he
escaped. Later it was aseertained that
he went to Milwaukee on an electric car.
William Schuernke, a section man, was