Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-01-22

/ The Douglas County Board has been
| restrained from authorizing the payment
of livery bills foF the county physician
The plant Of the Mineral Point Zine
/ Company is SHUT down on account Of
both blocks Of furnaces being eaved in.
AT Dunkirk Michael Erickson. single
man about 10 years of age, committed
suicide by hanging, While temporarily
insane.
II IS positively announced by officials
of the Wisconsin, Michigan and Northern
road that line will be built to Norway
this year.
Charles Baker, a prominent farmer of
Melrose, was thrown from his wagon,
breaking his leg aud otherwise receiving
serious injuries.
Eau Claire County business men have
selected committees to work for the build
ing of railroad from Eau Claire to the
Mississippi river.
Mrs. Rebecea Smith. who was horribly
burned while making IRE in her cook
stove at La Crosse, died in terrible ag-
ony. She was so yeirs of age.
A lighted match, accidentally brought
in contact with a jug of alcohol in an
! Eau Claire saloon, caused an explosion,
much excitement and about $500 damage.
The Sank County Board unanimously
voted resolution to petition the State
! Legislature to protect deer in Sank
County for five years, and also TO extend
the law on quail for FIVE years more.
A 5-year-old Phallas colt of Charles
Bayerman Of Racine was poisoned in a
peculiar manner Rough on rats was
I placed on the stable floor to kill rodents
and in some manner the horse ate it.
DIR. d. X. Pearsons of Chicago has do
mated 100000 to Beloit College. The
condition of the gift is that $150,000 be
secured in addition. Friends of the col
lege believe this amount can be raised,
Walter Brown. author of '.Mytaline"
and other books, died suddenly at the
West Salem sanitarium. where he had
been for over year. He was 20 years
of age and settled in La Crosse about
1856
President James Smith of the Enter
! prise Laundry Company was fatally
j burned in West Superior. He was in bed
! at his residence when the house took fire.
/ He was badly burned before rescued by
1 the firemen.
Burr Trumbull's team. drawing a wag-
on in which several school children were
! riding, ran away at La Vale The chill
dren We're thrown out and one Of them,
George Golden, aged s, died from the
| injuries received
The report from Appleton that tie
Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company had
practically concluded the purchase of the
sulphite mill of the Kaukauna Fiber
Company is declared by Mr.. Thilmany
to have no foundation.
Dependency over alleged neglect by
| his family is said to have impelled III.
Nicoaisen, New Denmark farmer, aged
go years, to take the paris green route to
death. He lived alone and was found
sick in bed by relative the day after
swallowing the fatal dose.
G. Fl. Delavan was held for trial in
! the municipal court at GAINESVILLE. In de-
] fault of $1,000 bail Delavan was re-
manded to Jail. Delavan is charged with
representing himself as a physician and
! drugging Il. NJ Smith of Owatonna,
| Mimi, in a room at the Grand Hotel,
and then robbing him of his watch and
money.
Paper mill projects representing an in
vestment of 100000 in the Fox river
valley have been decided upon. These
include $4,000 tissue mill at Brokaw.
for the Wausau Paper Company; the
sale of the Kdukauna Fiber Company S
sulphite mill at Kaukauna to the Thil-
many Company for 100000, and a new
! thirty-ton sulphite mill at Menominee,
Mich, for the Marionette and Menomi-
nee Paper Company. to cost $4,000.
Joseph Koperstein. who resides near
Baraboo, was fatally injured by being
thrown from his wagon. 1t is said that
Koperstein was racing with some farm
ers on their way to town. While he was
! going down a hill at high rate of speed
| Koperstein's wagon lurchcd and he was
| thrown out. The reins became wrapped
around the mans neck and he was drag
ged several rods. His skull was injured
and one of his arms was broken.
Some amusement has been afforded by
| the discovery of a sealed package on an
island in the Mississippi river, near La
Crosse, which, when opened, was found
to contain a manuscript entitled Bible
| Passages Explained" The writer de-
| clares that the Hebrew scriptures have
/ been enormously translated; that there
were no miracles ever performed except
/ a few by Christ himself, and that lie
will soon return to earth to reign 1909
years.
A stabbing affray that came very near
| proving fatal to one of the parties oc-
CURED on North Eighth street. Manito-
woe. Fred earns of that city and X. H.
! Butterfeld of yalders, while engaged in
a conversation, got into an alteration
| about something when, it is alleged, But
| terrified pulled out Knife and quite Sc
| riousIy wounded Carus by stabbing him
in the neck and face The police was
at once summoned and Butterheld was
lodged in Jail.
! Mrs. Fannie g. Davis well-known
young widow of Kenosha. was the hero
| inc of an exciting fight with a burglar.
Mrs Davis lives alone at small store
| on Wisconsin street, and as she was
| closing up she heard one of the windows
rafting. She went to the window and
| found that a man was attempting TO
break into the house The woman raised
the window and caught the fellow by the
hair. The man started to run and Mrs.
Davis grabbed pistol which was near
by, and fired two shots at him. The fell
| low fell to the ground, out managed to
escape. 1t is thought that he was wound
ed.
The new Racine city directory for 1900
and 1901 has just been issued. 1t con-
tains 1920 names, which, multiplied by
PIP. gives the city a population Of 3d.
075, end the publinsher believes that is
nearer correct that the figures given BIZ
the census bureau.
The bridge contractors for the North
western road have commenced TO sound
the Wisconsin river u Grand Rapids,
preparatory to building q railway bridge
At special meeting Of the Council a
franchise was granted for crossing all
streets necessary in the construction Of
the railroad into the city.