Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-19

! i1sldtit4s N4itSu III sNlJEtl5Ieiu crossing by
en- east-bound freight He was unmar-
ried and lived with his mother one mile
west of Elkhorn
/ BY collision between two freight
| trains on the Northwestern road in West
Bend two engines were nearly demolish-
! ed and the loss to the company is esti-
/ mated at $4,000
The Cheeseman Formerly the Holmes
& Smith sawmill ii Wittenberg was de-
/ stroyed by fire. The lumber yard was
saved. The loss is estimated at $4,000,
with an Insurance of $500.
j. w Close, farmer living near Chip
pewa Falls. fell from a building dis
| lance of thirty feet, striking the ground
on his back. He sustained internal in
juries which may prove fatal.
Two prisoners, William Pickett and
! Edward Payson, broke Jail at Neillsyille
| by saving oft one OF the bars with back
! saw. Pickett was awaiting trial on
charge of burglary and Payson on a
/ charge Of forgery.
A. 2. Dutton, one of the pioneers of
| southern Wisconsin. died in Racine. Mr..
/ Dutton built the first piers aud elevators
in Racine and in early years was promi-
nently identified with the grain handling
and shipping interests.
Two masked men entered the home of
! P. ]. Gilmore, an aged farmer residing
four miles from Appleton. about 6 o'clock
in the evening, pounded him into insensi
bility and securing bank certificate of
500 and $50 in currency.
! Miss Maud McLind, well-known so
| prano soloist, now singing in ST. Mary's
| Catholic CLurch in Chicago, surprised
! her La Crosse relatives and friends by
wiring that she married DIR. Charles
/ Wells of Des Moines. Iowa.
At party given by the Misses Loretta
| and Ellie Cummins at La Crosse, Alice
| Cummings dress sleeve caught fire from
| pumpkin JACKIE -lantern, and the flames
! quickly enveloped her whole dress. w.
! Henschel and other gentlemen there
| finally put out the fire after she, was bad
| ~ burned. The young gentlemen who
| rescued her from an awful death were
burned about the hands.
Jesse Gray, well-known engineer,
and Walter Heck, son of a fisherman,
hung for several hours to the upturned
| off Marinette, in momentary expectation
Of drowning. They had been duck hunt
| ing and the boat was capsized and they
/ We're thrown into the water several miles
from shore Henry Roe, a fisherman,
finally heard their cries for help and res
! cued them.
| The will of Delephine Francois, the
| Montrose man who committed suicide,
was filed in the Probate Court at Madi-
son. 1t is an unusual instrument, mas
much as it was drawn Sept. 4, the day
after his wife had applied for a divorce,
| and leaves the homestead, 100 acres, to
| the woman. The whole estate is valued
at $4,000, $4,000 of which was in
money. The money he left to be divided
| among his seven nephews.
| John ]. Dapper, a member of Mayor
| Roses party at Shawano, is missing, and
| it is feared that he has persisted. Dap
| per, who has been connected with the
| Milwaukee water department for ff-
| teen years, went out in duck boat af-
| ter ducks and shortly after heavy
| storm swept over the lake. Two other
men who went out at the same time man
| aged to get back to camp, but nothing
| has been seen of Dapper. In lhe morn
ing his skif and cartridge bags We're
| found.
Riding on a bicycle with a dead man
| on his back was the narrowing expert
ence of E. S. Wilson, a New London
man. Wilson is book agent, and while
en- his way to Hortonvile to canvass, one
mile out of the town, he met man
] al +E, 10
| told him he was sick and Wilson invited
him to get on the wheel Then he hur-
riedly sped to town for medical assist
ance. The sick man occupied the seat,
feet hanging free, with arms around Will
sons neck. The latter allowed his weight
| to rest on the crossbar while peda4ing.
Receiving no responsive action to his
| command to dismount and failing to ex-
| tricate himself from the mans grip when
| town was reached, Wilson got off and
discovered to his horror MAT the man
was dead. A coroner's jury found death
was due to heart disease.
! Daniel S. Holcomb, who mysteriously
disappeared from his home in Baraboo
nearly year ago, has been found. He is
now with his daughter, Mrs. L. Pease,
| in Chicago. On Nov. II last year Mr..
| Holcomb went to Mr. Kerfoot's summer
home in Dellon to meet man from
! whom he expected to purchase some cat
| tie. While waiting for his man he went
| to the Wisconsin river, a few rods dis
| tant, to fish. As he failed to return after
several hours. search was made and from
! indica tons along the river bank it was
! supposed he fell into the river and
! drowned. Later it was learned that he
| crossed the river and boarded a train
on the Milwaukee and ST. Paul road but
! from there all trace Of him was lost. Mr..
| Holcomb has roamed about the country
| for nearly year and can give no account
| of himself from the time he left the Ker-
foot farm until he arrived in Chicago.
Carl Schwartz. the abductor of Emma
! Becker, had hearing before a justice
| of the peace in Kenosha. and was bound
over to the Circuit Court in bonds Of
| $1,000 Being unable to furnish bail,
he was remanded to the county jail.
| Arthur Brewer, a Prairie du Chen
/ druggist, while out for a spin on his BIZ
| cycle was thrown violently against a
| post. His teeth were broken in and his
face bruised. The handlebars came loose
and the wheel become unmanageable
Lew w Welch. one Of the best-known
| telegraphers in the West, died suddenly
In Milwaukee. of heart trouble. aged 80
years. Mr.. WEIGH was connected with
! the Associated Press for several years,
and was also well known in railway
and commercial telegraph circles.
Lewis Peterson. a farmer who resides
east of Osceola Few miles. claims that
tw men drove into his yard and against
| his orotestations sold him lightning rod
for his barn, making him sign his name
| to an order. Mr.. Peterson is of the be-
lief that they had him hybnotized or in
| some trance.
A disastrous fire occurred in the town
of Pleasant Pairie. which resulted in the
| farm residence of John Pagan being com
pletely destroyed, together with its CON
| tents, involving a loss Of $4,000. The
FIRE is supposed to have originated from
| n defective fue The family narrowly