Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-09-18

refer danger meat market at hee0S-
burg burned. The loss on stock and
building is 81, 800.
The annual reunion of Companies
and /, Twenty second Wisconsin yoiuR
teer infantry, was held in Beloit
Mrs. c. l. Hiscox of La Crosse killed
water moccasin in her back yard. 1t
was a large snake and was killed with an
ak.
After repeated adjournments, the cor
oner's jury decided that Adam Rote, who
was found dead in the Baraboo river,
came to his death BY some unknown
hand
A squat capsized a sailboat being sail
ed by Andrew Olson and companion
ON Superior bay. Olson was drowned
before help could reach him. but the 9th
er man was saved.
Edward Blabon. secretary and treas
urer of the GAINESVILLE Electric Railway
Company, has sent word from Philadel-
phia that the proposed GAINESVILLE, Beloit
and Rockford electric line will not be
built
Four young people of West Superior.
two men and two girls, were taken in by
the police because the men were wearing
the petticeats and the girls the trousers.
1t cost each of the quartet 50 TO get
released.
A heavy cloudburst visited Campbells-
port, accompanied by lightning and very
high winds. The storm did considerable
damage. James Floods new potato
warehouse, nearing completion. was
blown down.
Melvin Howard, the negro who, it is
alleged, shot and wounded Sheriff War
ner at Plover, while the latter was at
tempting to arrest him for highway rob-
berry, was bound over to the Circuit
Court under $1,000 bonds.
Thorwald Hansen, captain of the
schooner ]. V. Jones of Kenosha and one
of the best known among sailing men on
Lake Michigan, was drowned at Sutton's
Bay, Mich. The captain was struck by
a boom and knocked overheard.
Max Brugger. 20 years of age, was
struck and fatally injured by street
car at the Lake Shore. drive crossing in
North Fond du Lac and died at st. Ag-
mes hospital. His skull was fractured
and he did not gain consciousness after
the accident.
The will of the late John Pritzlaff,
which was filed for probate in AIilwau-
kee, leaves his property to his son and
daughters and their heirs. Requests to
charitable institutions and the evangeli-
cal Lutheran church are made to the
amount of $10S00.
Track laying on the r. L. D. & NJ.
Railway has been completed to Ridge
land, the present terminus of the extern
sion of the line. Trains will be run from
Rice Lake to Ridgeland beginning at
once. using the 500 track from Barron
to Cameron Junction.
During a severe electrical storm the
house of George Heisner farmer living
north of Chippewa Falls, was struck by
lightning three times in succession. His
wife was instantly killed, but baby she
held in her arms was uninjured. The
house is a total wreck.
The annual session of the German Bap-
fist conference of the States of Wisc0n-
sin, Iowa, Minnesota and the two Da
kotas convened at North Freedom.
About 100 delegates We're in attendance.
The conference was opened with SER
mon by Rev. Mr. Kose.
A stone that fell from one of the pass
ing freight trains on the Northwestern
tracks came near wrecking a south-bound
passenger train at Racine. A brakeman
on north-bound train had gotten off to
investigate and ran ahead to flag the APP
preaching passenger train.
A freight train on the Chicago ard
Northwestern Railway, consisting of six
teen cars, was aeFaied one mile north
of Oshkosh. The cars were all empty,
except two, which were loaded with coal.
The accident was due to an airbrake
hose bursting No one was hurt.
Fire caught in vacant saloon building
in Ashland and the structure was de-
stroyed The next morning it was dis
covered that man had been cremated
in the burning structure. He had goue
there when drunk and had evidently beer
the cause of the fire starting. 1t is pre-
sumed that the flames started from
cigar and that the man was burned
while in a drunken stupor.
William Cairnes,, one of the oldest and
best-known millwrights on the Wiscon-
sin river, met with fatal acciden in the
mill of the .. X. Jefferis Lumber Com
pany at Jefferis. Cairnes was engaged in
releasing a board from one of the saws
on the edger when the accident occurred
A saw was accidentally tripped, and his
right arm came in contact with same
and was severed Il two places.
New Glarus was the center Of attFac-
tion recently for several thousand people,
the occasion being the laying of the cor
ner stone of the new Swiss Reformed
Church. Pastor Roth was assisted in
the services by number Of clergymen
of the county including Rev. J. i. Ell
ter of Monroe. who held the pastorate
of the New Glarus church for thirty
years. but resigned two years ago An
elaborate pIsgram was carried out. The
new structure is being erected at a cost
of about $4,000, aside from the fur
nishings of its interior.
Fire broke out at Abbotsford in one
Of the barber shops caused from the
tipping over of burning gasoline lamp,
and destroyed a block On one of the
business streets. The blaze started in A.
Dowden's barber shop and spread to j..
S. Reynolds drug store, both buildings
owned by o. III. Blanchard, and contain
ing the dwelling rooms e. j. II. Penney
and the restaurant of Mrs. +. Kinney.
The flames spread to the buildings owned
by ] Margraf and containing n saloon
and dwelling run by J. G. Daniels. The
Hotel Tenant, of which X. 9. Tenant
is the proprietor, was also burned The
losses aggregate $ll,0 600
Jacob Gross. treasurer of the Gross
Brothers Soap Company of Milwaukee,
BILLED himself by shooting because of
business troubles.
J. C. Payne, the noted breeder of fine
sheep near Prairie du Sac, lost eighteen
of the best sheep of his flock by lightning
striking the tree under which they had
gathered
Charles Robinson. the T-year-oId son Of
Jason Robinson, was fishing in the dam
at GAINESVILLE. His hat blew off and in
chasing IL he fell into deep water and
was drowned before aid could be given