Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-03

DR.. Dwight W. Day dropped dead from
apoplexy while reading a paper before
medical society at Eau Claire.
The First National Bank of Montfort
was entered by Burglars the safe blown,
and $4,000 in currency and gold and $500
in silver was stolen.
Joseph Richardson. a farmer residing
in the town Of New Diggings, committed
suicide by hanging in his barn. No cause
is assigned for the act.
During the river season officially clos
ed Nov is, 1.02S boats passed the La
| Crosse Mississippi wagon bridge, slight
decrease from last season.
Frank Kenny, while trying to climb on
a heavy lumber Wagon driven by his faith
er at Chippewa Falls, feii under the
wheels He will not recover.
Mrs. c. X. Adams. wife of the former
president of the University of Wiscon-
sin, has given the Madison Art Assoeia-
ton her jewels. valued at $4,000.
James Revets of Iillsboro was drawn
into a corn shredder while working on
neighbours farm and his right arm was
torn off four inches below the elbow.
Mrs. William Schroeder and son were
instantly killed by thes south-bound linz
tied on a railroad crossing near Unity
while driving home from wedding.
John Howard of Neillsville was struck
by Northwestern gravel train and bad
~ injured Part of one ear was cut off.
He was bruised and cut up badly and
was injured internally.
Henry Comrade, aged GO years, we'll
to-do farmer of the town of Losel, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself His
wife found his body hanging TO a rafter
in the barn. cut it down and notified The
authorities. No reason Cor the suicide is
known.
AT Ashland the cas- tramway Of the
keystone Lumber Company caught fire
from burning tug Four million feet
of lumber burned The steel tug Key
stone, the, finest tug at the head of the
lakes, is destroyed. The total loss viii
probably amount to $4,000,
Wojech Szul, who came to Washbun
from the Pennsylvania coal mining dis
trict a month ago and has been working
in the lumber woods. was killed by fall
ing from a logging train on the Wash
burn and Northwestern Railroad. Tween
ty-seven cars passed over him.
w. X. Francis, alleged to have blown
the safe of the Blaire postoffice and es-
capped with S400, and who was arrested
at HiXton, was arraigned before United
States Court Commissioner A. Harrison
in La Crosse. He entered a plea of not
guilty and was placed under $1,000 bail.
+ra,;aaI ar,+t, 1o,.,r.ol a. A. bo,,o
of Olof Stermne in Moscow. There was
party at Mr.. Stermne's home, and one
of the guests, Mrs. John Hegelsen, a
widow, III descending the stairs, slipped
and fell from the second step to the bot
tom. She got up without aid. walked to
the parlor. sat down, when she showed
signs of pain and was assisted to the
sofa She tainted but was revived. She
suffered great agony for about twenty
minutes, then expired.
The village of Athens is stirred up over
the disappearance of young man named
Herman Buenges, who has been missing
since Nov. s. He was :, orlsiug at one of
the logging camps of the Upham Manu-
featuring Company near that village, and
on the evening of the day mentioned was
returning to camp with the rest of the
crew, when ne decided to take a short
cut through the woods Leaving his fell
low workmcn, who followed the road, he
started through the painless woods, and
that was the last that has been seen of
him. Searching parties have gone over
the surrounding country thoroughly since
then, but not trace OF him can be found.
On a recent morning the Menominee
River Lumber Company Mt Marinette
sawed its last log There was flying of
flags and the boom Of dynamite to mark
the close Of the lumber operations Of 4
concern that has sawed logs for nearly
fifty years on the Menomnee. At 10
o'clock there was only one log at the
bottom of the sluiceway The men stop
ped long enough to decorate it with flags
and Che log was hauled up into the mill
and given over to the saws, while dyna-
mite cartridges outside doomed the news.
A nil was located on the present site
in 1851 Jesse Spaldng was Interested
in the concern from its inception. The
mill has cut over billion feet of lum-
Der. valued at over $15,000,000, from
100000 acres of land.
Part of the warehouse erected this
summer by the GAINESVILLE Machinery
Company collapsed. No one was in the
building at the time. The building Is on
the west end of the plant and is about
50x75 feet, and three stories above the
basement. The rooms had just been com
pleted and were filed with machinery.
The third floor gave way, and with its
load crashed down through the second
to the basement all in a conglomerate
heap of building and machinery. Though
none of the walls caypd in, il is thought
the west and south walls will have to he
taken ont and rebuilt The warehouse IS
part of a $4,000 improvement to the
plant The fault is supposed tc have
been in brick supports in basement,
which are crushed. The loss is heavy.
Henning Beckus, son of Frank Beclus
of Beloit, was badly wounded by a re-
volver in the hands of his chum, Charles
Janberg. The shooting occurred at the
home of Mr.. Beckus. The boys We're play
ing with a 22-caliber revolver and were
struggling in q friendly way for posses
sion Of the pistol when it was discharg-
ed.
Miles Spufrier was shot by some un-
known person while hunting in the woods
about two miles from Fern 1t seems that
a party of four went ont together. Spur
rier had shot deer and stopped over il
when the fatal bullet entered his breast.
Physicians and surgeons were called
upon to use the X-ray 10 locate bullet
in the body of Arthur Shields, who shot
himself accidentally at the Eagle Hotel
in La Crosse 1t was found after much
trouble lodged firmly in nm indentation
made in one of the bones Of the hip.
The G-year-old daughter of John Nc
Cannon of Bruce had a close call to
death. She found live dynamite cart
ridge in the road and childlike, placed
it in her mouth \ passerby noticed it
and took It away from her. Inyestiga-
ton showed the marks Of her teeth in
the she'll
William Kampf, - years old, shot and
killed William Shaffer at Boyd, while