Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-02-12

an electric shock received last fall.
Henry Austin, welI-known farmer
| living four miles west of Lima Center,
hanged himself in his tobacco shed.
A coal black team and a new canopy
top surrey valued at $500, belonging to
Abe Tubbs of Rome, was stolen from his
barn.
H. T. Allan of Chippewa Falls has
| been awarded the contract for building
the new Carnegie library building at
Cheyenne, Wyo
Rev. 0. NJ. Dybnik, pastor of the Be
thesda Evangelical Lutheran Church at
Racine, has rendered his resignation and
will go to Marinette.
The residence of Fred Ebeling of the
town Of Rhine burned, together with all
its contents. The family barely escaped
with their lives. The loss is $1,000
Clarence Van Rysen, the 4-year-old
son of John Van Rysen of Appleton, who
became totally blind as the result of a
severe attack of fever last fall, has re-
covered his sight.
Beaver Dam is to have a new MALE
! able steel range plant, the Dauntless
| from Omaha, Neb.. to Beaver Dam with
in the next few days.
Stephen Piquileck, lookout on the Ann
Arbor car ferry No 2, came to his death
by accidental drowning in the Chicago
| and Northwestern Railroads slip on the
lake front at Manitowoc
Charles Corell, 16 years old, was killed
in the town of Union by falling from a
sleigh load of wood, which tipped over.
He was found dead with some of the
wood lying upon his head.
Rev. Martin o. Hanson, formerly pas
tor Ola La Crosse Lutheran church, who
was on trial for deserving his wife and
family, was found guilty by the jury
after being out several hours.
John Walsh, William Taylor and Adj
am Shedor, inmates of the county Jail at
Rhinelander awaiting Circuit Court trial.
effected their escape by drilling through
the brick walls of the building.
A son of f. H. McNIurrough. aged 8
years, was killed at his home in Mineral
Point The child was playing about the
yard, when a wOodrack which was hang
ing on the fence, fell on his body, crush
ing out his life.
carload of animals arrived at Bara-
boo from Europe for Ringing Brothers
circus. The shipment included an ele-
plant, pair of zabras, two Bengal tig-
ers, two South American llamas, two
leopards and other specimens.
j. L. & NJ. +. Green opened up their
large brick warehouse in Janesville. On
account of the scarcity of help about the
city the greater part of the girls employ
ed by them were brought in from the
neighboring towns, the most of them
coming from Evansville, Brooklyn and
Oregon.
n. G. Ramstad returned to Eau Claire
from the Annapolis Naval Academy, hav-
ing resigned after five months, because
he does not want naval career He
will go to college instead. When asked
about hazing he said there was a good
deal at Annapolis, but not enough to do
any harm.
Chief of Police Byrne has recovered
$500 worth of silk which was stolen from
La Crosse merchants about Thanksgiv-
ing day by three professional shOplifters,
who were later arrested at st. Paul and
sent to the wOrkhOuse for three months
for stealing goods there. A large part
of the silk was recovered in Chicago,
while the rest was secured by the st.
Paul police.
The Minnesota State Board of Pardons
has committed the ten-ycar sentence of J.
III. Southal, formerly of Chippewa Falls,
to four years and two months. Southall
can now be pardoned Mt any time and it
is planned to pardon him at the next
meeting of the board. The condition of
the prisoners wife led the board to take
this action. She had become mentally
unbalanced.
August Solberg, G-year-old boy, ended
his life at the Chippewa Falls feeble
minded home. He was patient from
Ashland. During the absence for mo-
ment of the nurse he obtained a bottle of
carbolc acid and drank the contents.
When the nurse returned he was lying
on the floor suffering terrible agony, and
despite every effort to ward off death, he
died during the night.
G. a. Miller, manager of the steam
laundry at Stanley was shot and instant
ly killed by John Stewart, his father-in-
law, when he reached home for dinner
at noon the other day. The cause of the
tragedy was domestic troubles, the two
men being unable to get along. Stewart
who is 20 years old, lived with his daugh
ter and her husband, the man he killed
He was arrested and lodged in Jail.
At Ienosha Chris Jensen has instruct
ed his attorney to begin a breach of
promise suit against Miss Carrie Jacob
son and a claim for debt due against her
father The two parties to the suit are
we'll known and tha threatened proceed
ings have aroused considerable interest.
Jensen is also suing for restitution of
certain valuable pieces of real estate in
/, Dakota. which he asserts he decided to his
former betrothed.
The New Richmond Lumber Company,
formerly owned solely by John E. Glover
the millionaire umherman of New Rich
mond. has passed into other hands The
company was capitalized ut 100000 and
the inventory showed its assets to be
worth far in excess Of that amount Now
Mr. Glover has turned 1t over as a gift
to his four children, the two sons, Les
lie L. and George c.. each receiving a
third of the property, the remaining
third being divided equally between the
two daughters, Mrs L. y Baker and
Miss Florence Glover
1t was unanimously decided at q meet
ing of the Northern Wisconsin State
Fair Association in Chippewa Falls to
hold only three fair days this year in
stead of four as heretofore. The date
was set for Sept. Is, 10 and 20.
Three wagons loaded with ice and
brick, toget II with the horses and driv-
ers, broke through the ice and went into
the Wisconsin river at once near Merri-
mac. Charles Jones. julius Wolf and
the other driver received icy baths and
narrowly escaped drowning. Most Of the