Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-02

struck by 4 nOrth-bOund passenger train
ON Il railway crossing at Appleton and re-
ceived fatal injuries. He had been to
early mass and was on his way home in
binding sleet storm with his collar turn
ed up, which prevented him from hearing
the whistle.
Miss Emma Jens, employed in Apple
ton, was taken i'll in that city, but be-
fore her sickness had been diagnosed as
smallpox she made her escape and Went
to her home in Wrightstown, distance
of eighteen miles. Miss Jens travelled
by train and exposed many people to the
dread disease.
William Johnson, a workman in the
Barron Stave and Heading MILL was dan
gerously if not fatally injured while OPP
Grating a cutoff saw. He slipped and
his head struck a rapidly running belt
which threw him violently to the floor
His arm was twice broken and blood
flowed freely from his mouth and ears.
w. w. Gillespie, a student at the Mil
waukee Medical College, will be distig-
ured for life as the result of hazirg by
fellow students. A lighted cigar was
thrown in his face. He resented it with
blow, and was attacked from behind
and knocked down. He thinks he knows
his assailants and will take steps to have
them punished.
The suits aggregating $4,000, which
were recently brought against the North
western Railway Company by Joseph
Hill and son, were settled out of court at
Kenosha. The railway company paid
the plaintiffs in the action $1,000. The
elder Hill had formerly received a SINH
lar amount from the company in settle
ment of the same case +
James Nevin, superintendent of the
State fish hatchery, will at ONCE COM
mence the erection of temporary build
ings at Minocqua for taking bass pike
and muskellunge spawn this spring. AS
soon as they are through with this years
spawn, work will be commenced on a
large building and fish ponds to cost be-
tween $4,000 and $1,000.
After shooting himself in the leg with
a 32-caliber revolver, Konrad Halzer at
tempted to walk to his home, a distance
of over a mile, without assistance, and
was picked up by the Appleton police
in a critical condition rendered by pain
and the loss of blood. Halzer is Il baker
and while handling a revolver in his over
coat pocket the weapon was accidentally
discharged.
Florian Monka, aged 80 years, and JO-
seph Shecranek, II years old, were
drowned off Sheboygan. Both were fish
ermen and resided at Two Rivers. The
men started out to set their nets, but
before they were enabled to return were
struck by a stiff northeasterly gale and
carried up the lake. They were carried
on to the reef just north of the break
water when their boat was seen to cap
size and boat and men soon disappear
ed in the breakers.
The Menominee stage was entirely de-
stroyed by fire while bound to Sturgeon
Bay. Six passengers narrowly escaped
with their lives. When about ten miles
out from Menominee the stage dropped
into a rut in the track and capsiZed. The
stove was disconnected and burning Goals
scattered among the passengers, who lost
no time il scrambling out. Several Of
them had their clothes burned the light
canvas bursting into a flame which was
famed by q furious wind.
The Lawrence University Athletic AS
ISOLATION decided definitely to proceed
with the plans for field and track meet
of the high schools of the Fox river val
lev district, under the college association
management, and invitations are to be
sent out at once to the schools of Mari
nette, Green Bay, Depere, Appleton Nee
nah, Menasha, Oshkosh. Fond du Lac,
Manitowoc, Sheboygan and others. En-
tries of more than 100 athletes are assur-
ed. The meet will be held in Appleton
about May 10.
The Rev. Edward II. Smith, pastor of
the First Congregational Church of Osh-
| kosh, who as chaplain of the Second Wis
| consin regiment declared for the army
canteen, startled the Oshkosh Ministerial
! Association by declaring 'There is no
! devil" Like all other conceptions of
the public mind, that of the devil has
been an evolution he went on. Then
he maintained that the popular cOncep-
ton that the devil is drawn from the
Bible was a mistake; il was Milton's
| devil. that of Paradise Lost"
Fire destroyed the large store of Noel-
mer & Voelmer, two realty company Off
ces. and 4 saloon at Park Falls. The
loss is $1,000.
Three freight cars loaded with mer-
chandise were wrecked on the Chicago
and Northwestern Railway just north of
| the Racine station. The damage amounts
| to several hundred dollars.
Miss Lura Ross, youngest daughter Of
Judge A. Ross, died at Hudson. She
| graduated from the State University with
high honors last June. but never felt
strong after coming home. Her mother
died about two months ago.
Henry Hemingway of Marinette is still
the lawfully welded husband of Arabelle
| Hemingway. His action for divorce has
been dismissed because he was unable to
| secure a suitable bond to indemnify the
payment of the alimony fixed by the
court.
An echo of the Anton o. Back embez-
element at Holmen was heard at La
| Crosse before Court Commissioner AL
fred Harrison, when preliminary exam
nation was held in the case Of the town
Of Holland, Of which Black was treas
urer. VS.. the bondsmen OF Black, to re-
cover a shortage OF 81 200, alleged TO
have been caused by Blacks crooked
ness.
Judging from the preparations which
are being made, the State meeting Of the
| Wisconsin division OF the National As
ISOLATION Of Letter Carriers, which is to
be held in La Crosse on June 1, will be
a big event
A terrible explosion occurred IN the
] forging shop Of the Merrill iron works.
| Two men, f. w. Anderson and Albert
Kertz. were .eriousIy injured. A cylin-
der head was being heated in a forge in
/ order that a-pin might be removed from
the same. The head was supposed 20
have been cast solid, but it contained an
alright CHAMBER in which air was con-
fined. The heat OF the forge generated
gas and the explosion resulted.