Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-21
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ing control of Gale college.
The annual reunion and picnic of the
Old Settlers Society of Racine County
will be held in Racine on June y.
The F. r. Carter Brick Company OF
Chiffon has decided not to operate Its
plant during the ensuing summer.
The 2-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
David Harud of Jefferson drank some
gasoline and died in terrible agony.
All the courses in the Racine high
school have been placed upon the ac-
credited list of Wisconsin university.
At AIillston Albert Yeslzi, aged II, was
arrested charged with shooting Frank
Dittman, aged 10. The boys quarreleu
while hunting.
The La Crosse Packers Packing Com
pany has been absorbed by the trust re-
Gently organized and known as the Amer
lean Can Company.
Richard Bro6erick, aged Is years, was
accidentally shot and dangerously inJur-
ed in Kenosha by companion, julius
Eve, aged y years.
Trial of j. Bascom Robins. of Chicago
accused of killing w. NJ. Fenelon at
Rhinelander, will be postponed owing to
illness of defendant.
At Coloma while unloading lumber Har-
ley Collins fell out of a car, striking on
his head and shoulders, breaking his col
larbone on the left side.
William Schenck, aged 20 years, a SOB
of one of the most prominent residents
of Racine, committed suicide. Schenck
left a letter, but his relatives refuse to
publish its contents.
The BURBERRY acreage will be mate
rally reduced in Jackson County this
season. as forest fires have done immense
damage. 1t is estimated that 5000 acres
have been burned over.
Because he drank from spring on his
land, Ernest Nagle attacked Z. j. ia
cobson of La Crosse with stone and
beat him severely. Nagle was arrested
and fined $10 and costs.
Voice Sowa, who was convicted Of
murder in the second degree for killing
Marshal Moore of Stanley, was sentenc-
ed by Judge O'Neill at Neillsville to four
teen years in State prison.
Congressman John ]. Esch has secured
for the high schools at La Crosse, Black
River Falls and Eau Claire sets of plas-
ter casts of prehistoric weapons, from
the Smithsonian institute at Washington.
Anton Kocher of Brothertown, who re-
Gently endowed Chiffon with soldiers
memorial monument has placed an order
with the same firm for a $1,000 monu-
ment to mark his own resting place when
he dies.
The sensational case at Babcock, the
alleged attempt to poison aged Attorney
Remington, has been dropped. Mrs.
Remington has gone to Minnesota to
make her future home with her son, Hen
ry Remington.
Lightning struck a barn at Darien,
killing a horse belonging to the Darien
Creamery Company. Roy Weaver was
knocked down and Mrs. Arthur Weaver,
who was in a shed feeding chickens, was
also struck. Her clothing was torn off
her and she was badly injured.
Six firms in Milwaukee that are doing
a general commission and brokerage bust
ness, dealing in grains and stocks, out
side of the Chamber of Commerce, have
paid the special internal revenue tax
levied against bucketshop keepers to Col
lector Fink. The tax has been paid in
each instance under protest.
William Dangers, who about two
months ago, together with Ruth Wilson,
was charged with robbing Richard Pearl
of 5000 in a Glidden resort and confined
in the county Jail since, awaiting trial
in Circuit Court, was acquitted. Ruth
Wilson pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to Imprisonment in the State penlten-
tiary for one year.
Owing to the continued dry weather
forest fires have been raging throughout
Richland County. Hundreds of dollars
worth of fences and cordwood have been
destroyed. The sawmill of Stowe Il
Barclay, one of the largest mills in the
| county, was burned to the ground, to-
gether with about 1000 feet of lumber.
The mill will be rebuilt.
The dread of the pea louise, whose raw
ages last year caused the loss of thou
sands of dollars to Two Rivers farmers
as we'll as the canning institutions, has
caused the farmers to decrease the pea
acreage ald in consequence the crop of
peas, for which the section is noted, will
be decreased by thousands of bushels.
The raising of hay will supplant the pea
crop in most instances.
John B. Simmons, special assistant
United States District Attorney, receiv-
ed instructions from the Attorney Gen
eral to appeal the decision of Judge
Bum in the case against James Stin-
son to the United States Court of APP
peals. Stinson was formerly of Supe-
rior, but now resides in Chicago. The
case involves the title of fourteen quar-
ter sections of land located in the city
of Superior which is worth SI50.000. In
1854 under the presumption law, several
Swedes secured title to this land. AS
soon as they made entries they convey
ed the property to Stinson. In 1889 the
government began action to vacate the IL
ties, holding that the property had been
secured through fraud. as the Swedes
had been hired TO make the presumption.
The government holds that the Swedes
never occupied nor improved the land.
Judge Bum handed down a decision
three years ago against the government.
John d. Rockefeller has given $1,000
to Wayland Academy of Beaver Dam,
providing an additional $4,000 is raised
by July /. Rev. Catchpole, the financial
secretary. says $1,000 has already been
raised and the remainder will be secured.
A new hall will be built
d. J. Cameron of La Crosse, one of the
most prominent horsemen in the State,
has sold his trotting stallion Oh So. with
a record of 2:25, 10 Charles Chapman Of
Chicago, the consideration being 1000
Oh So is the sire of So So. who held the
worlds record for and 8 year olds at
2:16
A quarrel over a garnishee suit at
Mountain will probably result in murder.
John Champaign. who works for the
Holt Lumber Company, was garnisheed
by J. r. Buckly. a saloonkeeper Of Moun-
tain. The came 10 words about it. and
it is alleged, Buckly shot twice at Cham
paign Both shots took effect.
Mrs Catherine Brumton, aged 40
years, was burned to death while in bed
at her home in Racine. 1t is thought that
she was smoking and set the bedding on