Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-26
The Union Church of Berlin ceIebrat.

ed at Kaukauna.
Joe Clarity of Chicago. while trying to
board a freight train at Darien, fell be-
tween the cars and was cut in two.
1t is predicted that che dairy interests
in Sheboygan County will be greatly in
jured by the present long spell of dry
weather.
Joseph Fox, near Forestville, while
coupling cars accidentally caught his
hand between the bumpers, crushing it in
a horrible manner.
The strawberry crop around Baraboo,
of which there was large acreage, is a
total failure, and the drouth is now eff
fecting the apple crop
A farmer. Louis Anderson, on the Om-
70 road about seven miles southwest of
Oshkosh. is quarantined on the suspicion
that he is i'll with smallpox.
Chief of Police Pierce of Manitowoc
wanted at Green Bay on the charge of
stealing team of horses from a livery
man.
At Manitowoc a movement has been
started for the absolute prohibition of
Sunday baseball games. A number of
the local ministers are back of the move
ment.
The annual reunion of the Danish So
cieties of southern Wisconsin and north
ern Illinois was held at Lincoln Park in
Racine. Several thousand Danish-Amer-
leans were present.
Annie Henriette Selke, the 14-year-old
daughter Of Herman Selke of La Crosse,
was smothered by some peculiar growth
in her throat that, without warning,
closed the windpipe.
The store at Two Greeks belonging to
the Phster estate of Milwaukee was en-
tered by burglars. They blew open the
safe and stole 5000. The store is con-
Quoted by Otto Bush.
Belle Boyd, the famous spy of Confed-
crate fame. died suddenly of heart dis
ease at Kilbourne, where she was lectur-
ing. She was 81 years of age and known
all over the country.
Secretary o. S. Sisson has issued the
call for the annual reunion Of the Second
Wisconsin volunteer cavalry, which will
be held during the national encampment
of the G. A. r. in Chicago.
L. e, Goodwin of Lost Lake had an ex-
animation on the charge of attempting
to murder his wife by throwing her into
an old well. He was held in $4,000 bail
to appear in Circuit Court.
NJ. H. Ballou and l. Elmer Smith have
bought the Menasha paper mill of the S.
a. Cooke Manufacturing Company. The
new company will hereafter be known as
the Menasha Paper Company.
At Athens Joseph Boehm narrowly es-
capped serious injuries, his team running
away for three blocks, when it turned a
sharp corner and threw him to the ground
and part of the wagon passed over him.
Mrs. Sarah Rumsey has commenced
suit against the village of Omro for ST.
600 damages. The complaint alleges
that the village is trying to confscate
some of her property and convert it into
a street.
Fire destroyed about 10000 feet of
choice lumber owned by Rittenhouse &
Embree of Chicago, which was piled in
Thompson's yard at Washburn. The es-
timated loss is $4,000, covered by insur-
ance. The fire caught from a spark in
the millyard.
The Algona Pea Packing Company has
commenced its season of pea canning
from its first crop of peas. Eighteen hum
dred acres of land has been sowed to
peas. Last year the output of the factory
was 100000 cans. This year the bust
ness will be doubled.
An attempt was made to wreck the
Northwestern passenger train near Ke-
nosha by placing large number of loose
ties upon the track CHARLES Halves,
farmers son, said he saw shree men
pile the ties, but was unable to get close
enough to identify them.
In Baraboo a peculiar accident hap
pened at Arthur Morey's brickyard On
account of the recent rains the earth be-
came very soft and caused twenty racks
to fall over The bricks had not been
burned and are almost a total loss. The
racks contained 10000 bricks, valued at
$1,000.
Fayette Shaw & Co.'S tannery at Mel
len burned the other night. The origin
of the fire is unknown. Everything is
an entire loss. The amount of the loss
is estimated at 100000. At one time it
was thought it would be impossible to
save the Foster Lumber Company's mills
and yards. Nine hundred men were
thrown out of employment
Charles Dabbs, the only son of Will
liam Dabbs, a well-known farmer living
near Kenosha, was fatally injured by be-
ing kicked in the head by a vicious
horse He had taken the horse TO pas
ture when the animal turned and kicked
him, the hoof striking him in the fore
head and fracturing the skull.
On the Madison division of the Chicago
and Northwestern Railway seventy-nine
fremen were discharged Saturday and
twenty-five engineers lost their positions
and are now iremen. The force of brake
men and conductors was also reduced
A decrease in the volume of freight and
a desire to use the earnings on some of
the extensions in Iowa and Minnesota
is said to be the cause of the discharge
of the men.
John Spacek, a well-known farmer re-
siding in the town of Maple Grove, was
excavating in his cellar, when rather un-
expectedly his shovel struck against
hard, metallic substance, and on inyesti-
CATION found to his surprise that it was
81 800 in gold and silver coin. The money
was piled in a heap and was found at
depth. Mr.. Spacek says he
cannot understand when or how the
money got there.
According to message received at
Baraboo Alden Blen was fatally injured
by falling from wagon at his home near
Henry, S. u. Mr. Blen resided at Bara-
boo many years and was an old settler,
to South Dakota a short time
since.
Two Mormon elders from Utah have
been seeking converts at Evansville and
other towns in that section. They do not
hold open meetings, but make a house-to-
house canvass in the interest Of their
cause. From reliable sources it is learn
ed that they are meeting with very cool
receptions wherever they go.
Edwin, aged ., son Of James Johnson,
a farmer residing a few miles out from
La Crosse, in the Mormon CoOlie. had a