Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-08-20


Oshkosh.
Ivan Hemblin. aged 6. fell thirty feet
at La Crosse from an outside stairway
to the ground below and was practically
upinjured.
Incorporation papers have been. filed al
Madison for an electric railway from She
boygan to Waldo and Elkhart Lake. The
capital stock is 100000.
George Balthazar. 17-year-old son of
c. Balthazar of Maple Greek, disappear
ed from home. 4 severe reprimand is
assigned as the cause for his leaving.
Two of the prosperous farmers in the
town of Sigel have commenced the cree
tion Of creamery in that town in order
to accommodate the farmers in that vi
cinity.
Fred Wilson, a fireman on the west
bound 800" line train No. 50, had his
leg cut off at Strickland He went out
on the pilot to drive some cattle away
and fell under the engine.
At La Crosse Miss Kittie Downey was
badly burned by a gasoline stove eXplo-
sion, which also set fire to the house.
The flames were put out before much
damage was done to the building.
Walton Pyre, who has been instructor
in elocution in the State University for
two years, has resigned and will join
Otis SINNERS company. which opens in
Chicago Aug. 20 in FRANCESCA da Ri
MIMI
John Kroner, prominent La Crosse
business man, member of the Kroner
In rtNN 70 (fNr,ananv l. ut Of tbn hos
pitfalls in a serious condition. the result
of a runaway. His leg is fractured and
internal injuries are feared.
The cancelling of an accident policy,
three or four days before the death of
Fred II. Werner of Oshkosh, represents
a loss of $500 to the heirs. Mr.. Wer-
ner died from injuries received in a col
lisiOn with a buggy while he was riding
his bicycle.
The Fleming water power site at APP
pleton, recently sold to William l.. Da-
Wis of Neenah, has been again transfer
red to the Patten Paper Company, lin
tied The sale includes all water power
and other riparian rights, the considera-
ton being $4,000
Alfred Benson, a farmer living just
north of Kenosha, was made temporarily
insane by the use of cocaine, and while
under the influence of the drug attempted
to strange his infant daughter. Benson
had an aching tooth and dentist injected
cocaine into his gum to prevent pain.
An unknown man and woman had
terrible struggle on the Fourth street
bridge at Racine. the man being deter
win 70 = D INT, h., Y,iv-
and drown himself 4 number of men
started for the struggling couple, when
the man broke away and ran, the woman
following. ..s..
Lyle Wilkinson, son of the most prOmi-
nent contractor logger in northern Wis
consin, was arraigned in municipal court
at Ashland, charged with stealing a team
of horses from the sale stables of j. I.
Hanley. Hyphen CURE, an accomplish,
was also arraigned on the same charge.
Wilkinson, on hearing the charge, plead
ed guilty and was remanded to the coun-
ty JAIL where he will stay until the Cir
cult Court convenes next fall, at which
time he will be sentenced. CURE pleaded
not guilty and was bound over for trial
The tongue of a horse which was haul
ing peas from the packing c0mpany's
fields at Appleton was pulled out, it is
alleged, by a teamster. The ground be-
ing soft and the load heavy, the horse
became ballly and refused to pull. The
Infatuated teamster who is accused of APP
plying barbaric ingenuity then tied Il
strap around the tongue of the animal in
an effort to compel the horse to pull.
The animal suddenly reared and about
four inches of the tongue was literally
torn off.
\ little yellow dog came near being the
cause of the death of George Arnold,
general manager of the 4. II. Worcester
Company in Marinette, and his brother
Joseph. Both men were on a gasoline
velocipede, and coming down. the Wiscon-
sin and Michigan Railway, Wien the d.
minutive canine jumped on to the track
and cOllided with the mechine. Machine,
men and dog went about thirty feet into
the air, Mr, Arnold had his scalp bad
ly cut and Joseph Arnold was 50 badly
shaken up that it will be seferal weeks
before he is able to be out.
NIoritz Fisher, while alone, wandering
on the skrmish range near where the ar
tillery target was built at Camp Douglas,
picked up a percussion shell, supposed to
have been fired by battery \ last year,
from the artillery range about mile west
of the camp. The shell, not following its
aim, imbedded itself in the soft earth
without exploding. Fisher picked it up
and threw it against stone, when it dis
charged and blew off both hands below
the wrists and the left leg below the knee.
1t also tore away part of his face, frac-
tured the remaining leg above the knee
and made a large hole in his side. His
injuries caused his death.
August jackson, fagman at the
Greenfield avenue crossing Of the NOr.h-
western Railroad in Milwaukee, met a
tragic death and Joseph Warczschick will
be charged with his murder. The latter
tried to board the Chicago train at the
Greenfield crossing, where it does not
stop. Johnson prevented him. The men
came to blows and. Johnson had to strug-
gle fiercely to resist the attack upon him.
The men wrestled desperately, but the
Pole was younger and stronger. He
pushed Johnson back and then flung him
in front of passing switch engine. The
engine wheels passed over him and crush
ed him so that he died half an hour af-
terward.
Elmer the 7-year-oli son of Louis Go
key, fell from a dredge at York's landing
and was drowned. He had been playing
on the dredge and accidentally fell over
board in sight of both father and moth
er, who were unable TO help him.
Fifty-fve years Of continuous business
life of Knapp. Stout s: Co Of Chippewa
will come to an end within a few days,
when the last stick Of its timber will
have been sawed at its mills. The COM
pany VIII then dissolve, and the opera
tions in this State Of one Of the largest
numbering corporations in the world viii
be ended.
At La Crosse a Chicago syndicate pur-
chased the Edison Light and Power Com
pany. the La Crosse Gas Light Company.
La Crosse Brush Light and Power Com
pany and the La Crosse Electric and Hot