Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
Brief State Hanneninra

For the fourteenth time J. S. Worth
man has been elected city clerk of Bara-
boo.
Henry Warren. aged 20 years. a brake
man on the st. Paul Railroad, had a foot
taken off at Finley Junction.
H. G. Higgins. president of the Mari
nette Street Railway, was thrown from
his horse while riding and badly injured.
The Delavan Lake assembly will open
July "a and close Aug. 4.
Annie Miranda, 19-year-old girl from
Manitowoc, was asphyxiated at the Lew
is Hotel, Milwaukee. by a leaking gas
stove in her room.
The Chippewa Falls Canning Com
pany has leased 800 acres of land on
which to raise peas for the factory the
company summer
Charles Van Behrens of Troy was bad
ly hurt by runaway team that had been
frightened by. vicious dog. His leg,
arm and collar bone were badly broken.
The sawmlls OF Superior and the head
of the lakes are getting ready for the
seasons cut. All of the mills have had
logs shipped in by rail 50 that there will
be plenty to start on.
Burglars attempted to open a safe in
the saloon Of Fred Bauer, near the June
tion shops in Racine The safe contain
ed $1,000. Bauer was i'll in his room over
the saloon. He heard the men and he
started downstairs. The burglars left
their work and ran away
A deed was filed in the register Of
deeds office ut Oshkosh transferring the
plant of the Neenah and Menasha GAS
and Electric Company to the newly or
ganized Fox River Valley Electric Com
pany. The consideration named in the
deed is 81, but the revenue stamps at
tached indicate value of $4,000.
John Olson, committed to the indus
trial school ut Waukesha. skipped out
while working for the sheriff at the coun-
ty Jail at West Superior
A legal fight is on at Racine between
Mrs. John 5. Hart and five Of her step
children for the recovery OF $4,000
worth of property left by Mr.. Hart.
There was no will Mr.. Hart died in
California. The widow claims he was
resident Of that State. and wants to be
appointed Administrative. while the chill
dren claim he was a resident OF Wiscon-
sin, and two sons are anxious to BE- nam
ed as administrators.
The pupils of the La Crosse high school
have presented a petition to the school
board asking that after May l only one
session be held each day. from to 10 IN.
The body of Eugene Badger of James
vile was found in the mill race at Mon
terey. Badger was employed as caller
in the GAINESVILLE cotton mills at Monterey
He was so years old and unmarried.
Milwaukee IS TO have Il new English
morning paper, to be known as the Free
Press. The company which viii publish
the new paper was incorporated By III. z.
Myrick. late managing editor OF the Sen
tinel. Albert Huegin. late business man.
ager OF the same paper. and Cassius NJ.
Paine. q well-known business man.
The body OF ]. Brady. an old soldier
who lived near Cazenovia, was found in
- pond near the bridge at that place
He had been absent from home several
days and the suppositiOn is while he wa.
wandering away he fell into the na-d end
was drowned.
Great excitement prevailed in Kenosbs
the other night on account OF FIRE which
broke out near the big oil tanks NJ the
Standard oil Company. The fire was
started in the grass near the tanks and
had burned 10 within = short distance
Of the oil when It was discovered. 4
great number Of citizens turned out and
by hard labor managed TO cxiin-uish the
flames