Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-13
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A stock fair will he held the last Eaes.
day Of each vmonth st kenosha.
Edward McMullen, Of Randolph was.
nearly asphyxiated, at GAINESVILLE.
i Oscar Angel of Wrightstown was pick
ed up in Appleton nearly frozen to deaths
1t is expected that the Hotel Hutchin-
son of Weyauwega. will be opened to the.
| public Feb. %.
James McQuade. son,of John McQuade
of GAINESVILLE, was struck by train and
probably fatally injured:
A number of Eau Claire attorneys,
sympathizcrs with the Beers. are arrang
ing pro-Boer celebration.
| At Spooner Ike Shaford's clothing store.
was burned out and the stock was a total
loss. 1t was insured for $4,000.
John III. Wharton. president Of the
Commercial Bank and treasurer of Fox
/ River Paper Company, died au Appleton,
after an illness of few weeks aged rs
| years.
The next convention OF the EpwOrth
| League of the Appleton district will be
held in Marinette. The dates have not
been fixed, but ii will be held some time
| in June.
| The brewery of Quade 4 Schoenick
burned at Weyarwega The loss is about
$4,000, with $4,000 insurance. OF which
| $4,000 is on the building and the rest on
the contents.
Ralph Bennett junior in Garrett
Biblical Institute died at the Evanston,
| H.. hospital of a complication of pneu-
| monia and typhoid fever. MIR. Bennett
| was = years of age and lived at Omro.
William Barthoomew's farm house,
! two miles east of Verona, burned TO the
ground The entire contents were de
stroyed. The loss was $4,000. no insur-
ance.
The -four and planning mills of Albert
Iick & Son burned at Denzer. The loss
is $4,000. No insurance. The fire is sup
posed to have been the work Of incen-
| diaries.
1 1t is understood that one Of The first
1 steps to be taken by the Griggs-Cooper
company of st. Paul in fighting the salt
trust win be to erect a plant in West
/ Superior for salt packing.
Amos S. Stiles, the well-known and
wealthy lumberman who had his skull
fractured by falling down an outside
stairway at Chippewa Falls, died three
hours after the accident.
James Daugherty, an elderly Oshkosh
man, who tried to commit suicide a few
days ago by cutting his throat with
pocket knife, died from the effect of the
wound and general debility.
John Becker of Winona. Minn has
opened dolonite quarry at Trempealeau,
where this freestone is found in more per
feet form, capable of being cut in larger
blocks than at any place around there.
Earl Hanson was Killed in the woods
near Spooner by log rolling over him
while in the act OF loading He was
bright young man and a school teacher.
1 lie was working in the woods during his
vacation of school.
The Heinz company, which erected
pickle factory in Sparta last summer,
agree to take the product of double the
acreage of last year of cucumbers Six
hundred acres is the amount wanted.
Already that amount has been pledged
( Extensive arrangements are under way
at Racine for the entertainment of the
hundreds Of school teachers who viii as
semble in that city April ca to attend
the tenth annual meeting Of the South
crn Wisconsin Teachers Association. An
interesting program is being prepared.
Jacob Seifert, well-known resident
of Kenosha, was seriously injured in
runaway accident. Seifert had been driy
ing team which ran away. He was
thrown 10 the ground, his head striking
ON the brick pavement One of his eyes
was thrown out of the socket and several
bones were broken.
Maj Campbell. in charge OF the La
point Indian agency, announces that over
| 100000 feet of logs will be banked on
the Bad River, Red Cliff and Lac du
/ Flambeau reservations this winter. This
means sum of about 100000 for the
! tribes occupying these respective reserva-
! tions, besides what will lie earned by
other employment.
The Wisconsin Central limited passen
ger train No. 8, from Chicago TO the Twin
Cities, was wrecked near Wheeler. The
train was running at moderate speed
| when one of the drive wheels on the en-
CINE broke, and the locomotive jumped the
! track. The tender crashed into il and
both were completely demolished. Pas
sengers were thrown out of their seats,
| but none seriously injured. The track
was torn up for several yards aud traffic
/ delayed in consequence.
! AT Oshkosh three factory superintend
/ ents were arrested and fined for vioat
/ ing the State child labor law. They
| were G. Lindeman of the Schmit Broth
/ ers' Trunk Company, William Mcdonald
OF the Morgan Lumber Company and
| William Currie Of the Oshkosh Furniture
Company. They each pleaded guilty 10
employing children under age without
proper certificate Of parent and were
fined SO and costs. This is the begin
ming of a systematic attempt to weed out
child labor in Oshk9sls factories.
Frank Schinnick, aged Il, came near
meeting his death by drowning at kau-
| kauna Young ScIiinnick was carrying
dinner to his brother at one Of the mills
on the Meade & Edwards water power.
He was heavily bundled with winter
clothing and while attempting TO cross
the Chicago and Northwestern railway
bridge over the Lindauer tail race slip
ped and fell a distance of ten feet from
the bridge into the raging torrent below.
He was instantly swept by the rushing
waters into more shallow place about
ten rods below, where he reganed his
footing and scrambled ont alone. But
for the fact that his clothes did not in
stantly soak through he would have
drowned where he fell. but they Helped
to float him.
The keystone Lumber Company's Office
at Ashland was broken into aud the safe
was blown open. The burglars got only
$50 from the cash drawer. Several hun
dred dollars in envelopes was overlooked
by the safe breakers.
Passenger trains Nos. > and on the
Wisconsin Central had head-ead col
lision at the Fond du Lac passenger sta
ton. Both engines were badly wrecked.
Engineer William Oates and Fireman
NJ. J.. Dawson were injured by jumping
from their engine. Several passengers
were injured. none seriously. Mistake in
orders was the cause OF the collision.
William Laferty was instantly killed at
one OF the Ross Lumber Company camps