Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-10-23
Rrief state Happen1nrs.

In Beloit Abraham Privat. a lawyer of
Chicago, was united in marriage to Miss
Etta Sargent
Peter Reidel, farmer in the town Of
Tilden, was thrown from his wagon in a
runaway and instantly killed
Peter Popliski a young man living in
the town of Pulaski, accidentally shot
himself while hunting ducks, and died
a few hours later from the effects of the
wound
John Strauss fell through the elevator
shaft. a distance of forty feet, at the
Union Bag and Paper Company's mill
at Kaukauna and broke his right arm in
three places.
Frank Wood, a riveter, whose home
is in Chicago. was killed at West Supe-
rior by falling 140 feet from the top of
the Great Northern's new steel elevator,
upon which he was working.
John Magnusen of Sturgeon Bay. sup
posed to have been lost in the recent
storm, returned home, having been
stormbound in a cave off Fish creek for
seven days For three days he had moth
ing to eat except the fish he caught
Agents are to be sent by the Home
stead Land Company of Appleton to
Lourenzo Marquee. South Africa, to or
ganize colonies of Boer refugees and
bring them to Wisconsin for settlement
on lands of the company in Wood and
Clark counties
Within the present month the Diamond
Match Company, whose plant in Oshkosh
is the largest of the kind in the world,
will inaugurate the plan of serving d hot
MONDAY meal to its employees. Soup and
coffee will be the principal articles on
the bill. Dining rooms will be fitted up,
one for the girls and one for the men, and
a uniformed chef will be in attendance.
Kenosha police have been asked to To-
cate Gus Schmelling, a workman en-
ployed in the Allen tannery, who disap-
peared from there recently. No trace
of the man can be found, and his friends
and relatives have concluded that he has
either met with foul play or committed
suicide. Since his disappearance it has
been learned that Schmelling drew a
large sum of money from the bank.
Frank Schneider, a cheesemaker Of the
town of Greenville, found in his yard
package of nearly two pounds of blast
ing powder done up in two thicknesses of
brown paper Between the inner and
outer wrappings of paper were a number
of parlor matches, and Mr.. Schneider
believes the contrivance was intended as
home made Internal machine, arranged
to explode when opened or carelessly
handled
One of the oldest pair of twins in the
hrnt-ar ha ofh do
by the death of Mrs W. f. Dale of Osh-
koSh. The other twin is Mrs. $. NJ.
kaufman of Auburn. y. Y They were
born in Warwick, \. Y, May H. 1916.
In La Crosse workmen removing an
approach to driveway leading to the
court house made mysterious find in the
shape OF a fourpound bomb. with the
fuse burned only about an inch from the
powder. No one seems 10 be able to ex-
plain why il was placed there, as il has
the appearance of being several years
old
Irwin. the a-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Weber Of Manitowoe. came
near losing his life While rumnlaging
around the boy found bottle and
drank a portion OF the contents The
nQtlie EUub2lueu tAENo4ac aCiU- AaLnouEl
the mouth and eyes Of the child are bad
" burned. it IS thought be viii recover.
In West Superior James Kernan was
the victim of a freak of a bolt of light
ming The bolt tore of the roof Of his
house and descended 10 the room where
Herman was sleeping. 1t knocked one
foot from his cot. rolled him up in the
clothes and threw him into the middle Of
the door stunned. His wife and child in
the next room were uniniured
An effort viii be made at the coming
session Of the Legislature to nave the &c
cleSiaStieal laws of the Methodist
Church recognized TO such sn extent as
TO enable young men on probation for
the ministry 70 perform the marriage
ceremony
George Bodie. an empioyc il the Kim
ber!ey CLARK paper mill at Niagara, while 7
attempting TO sprinkle roil OF paper,
slipped and fell into the winder His
left arm was caught between an iron
roller aud roll Of paper weighing 400
pounds He succeeded. however. in
throwing OF the belt and so prevented his
arm from being torn from its socket.
His arm was badly smashed.