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

| The Marinette city library and the
| block in which it is located were damaged
to the extent of about $1,000 by fire.
Eugene Badger, carder in the cotton
mills al GAINESVILLE, who mysteriously dis
appeared. was found drowned in the mill
race.
The people at the annual town meeting
voted to borrow enough money to carry
! on the ten schools in the town of Jacobs,
| closed on account of shortage of funds,
the rest of the year
All the necessary capital for the new
| State bank in Dale is subscribed, and
the bank will soon open in temporary
! quarters A handsome bank building
will be erected as soon as possible.
There was great demonstration at
Crivitz. The citizens burned the efigies
of Peter Graef, candidate for chairman,
and NJ. Wloch, candidate for clerk, who
were defeated at the town election.
A postoffice official has established a
rural free delivery route extending south
and east from NeilIsville through the ter
| ritory covered by the Day, Carlisle and
Shortville postoffices. Robert Eunson,
| contractor.
John Czech, a Bohemian, who works
for the Girard Lumber Company at Dun
bar, was killed ten miles west of Penn
bine. He went TO sleep on the railroad
track and was run over by a 500 pas
senger train.
l. Harry Kerr, a brakeman on Mil
waukee road freight train. was instantly
killed at TOmahawk by being caught be-
tween the bumpers of two fat cars. An
open switch derailed the two cars be-
tween which he was riding to uncOuple
them.
The bodies of Myron Baker and Louis
Larsen were found floating in Partridge
lake near Fremont. Baker and Larsen
went duck hunting last November and
were lost, nothing but their boat and de-
coys being found. Baker was promi-
nent young groceryTdn Of Weyauwega.
To check the epidemic of crime which
has been raging in Kenosha the Council
will introduce Il measure providing for a
complete police telephone service, and to
increase the force by the addition of a
night desk sergeant. II this does not
check the depredations the Council will
authorize the appointment of several spe-
cial policemen.
Mrs. J. c. Dufield came to Fond du
Lac from Pewaukec, where she resides,
to view the remains Of the man who
died at the county Jail from the excess
sive use of opium. She stated, upon see
ing the body, that there was a strong re-
semblance between her husband and the
dead man, but that was all. The iden-
! titY of the man is still Il mystery.
John Winterfield, the missing Monroe
County farmer, who left his home near
| Cataract some days ago, was found dead
in Chicago and his remains were sent
home for burial Nothing is known as
to how, or in what manner, he came to
his death; but the presumption is that he
committed suicide, as he had on different
occasions threatened to take his own life.
A narrow escape from fatality that
would have caused two deaths occurred
on Chequamegon bay near Ashland. A.
j. Lindsay and William George, two
Well-known citizens of Ashland, while
driving across Chequamegon bay from
! Washburn to Ashland drove into an air.
hole. The team of horses and the sleigh
were lost. The men were rescued by
the shore.
Seven business men of Racine have Of
fered $4,000 toward the erection of a
public library building under the follow
ing conditions: That the city permit the
building to be erected in West Park; that
the city levy an annual tax not less than
40 mills to sustain the library, and that
the citizens subscribe $4,000, including
the $4,000 already pledged. If the citi-
zcns can raise more money the gentlemen
agree to raise their offer in proportion.
A daring and almost successful attempt
at horse stealing was perpetrated at Sey-
mour by Frank Camden, who has been
apprehended by Sheriff Wurl and has
pleaded guilty to the charge. Camden
cut the tie strap of horse which was
hitched OH the main street of Seymour
and attempted to escape in daylight. The
horse became. frightened at the frantic
! efforts of the driver to increase the
speed, and shying to one side, tipped the
| buggy, and threw out the robber, injur-
ing him so that the officers had no diff
| Guilty in making the capture.
An attempt to break Jail was made at
| Richland Center by Joseph Jordan and
Floyd Perkins, who are held to answer
| to charge of riot, and Charles Culver,
awaiting trial for alleged burglary. They
had two pieces of lead pipe about six
feet long. which they used as battcring
rams. They had also unfastened some
| bolts, Of which they made chisels. Mrs.
| S. L. Ross, wife of the sheriff, heard the
| prisoners pounding on the wall and she
notified the under sheriff, who found that
about one foot of stone wall had been cut
away and with a little more work the
prisoners would have escaped.
An appeal to the United States SUI
| preme Court has been taken from the de-
| cision Of the Wisconsin State Supreme
| Court in the case of the Oshkosh Water
! Works Company against the city OF Osh-
kosh, involving the contract for hydrant
| rental between the city and the company.
1t was claimed that some amendments
made to the city charter impaired the
| contract, and the City Council refused
to pay hydrant rental amounting for one
quarter to $4.0SJ. The Circuit Court de-
cided the case in favor OF the city, and
the State Supreme Court affirmed the de-
cision FEB. % last. Justice Barleen dis
senting, Attorney Hooper for the water
works company has now taken an appeal
to the United States Supreme Court.
William Meyers, well-known saloon
keeper of Bangor, lost one of his arms
and came near losing his life as the re-
suit of hunting accident. He was car
rying his gun under his arm. The trig-
ger of the gun snapped aud a charge %
shot tore his arm almost to pieces.
William Chafcc OF Beaver Dam has
been adjudgcd insane. The cause WAS
the strike OF the maIleable iron works.
which lasted "a little over week Chat
fee has been taken to Oshkosh He IS
2S years old and leaves Il wife and two
children. The family moved last June
from Kingston.
DR.. II. L. Horton has purchased the
McCiiH water power on the Plover river
at Stevens Point and plans for improv-
ing the power will lie made in the near
future. Il is planned 10 erect a large
paper mill upon the site, TO employ 100