Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-01-01


intending to sever the artery. She will
recover.
Frank l.. Williams, aged 43 years, shot
and killed himself in Milwaukee He was
the general agent of the Streeter Bottle
and Glass Company.
The plant of the Palmyra acetylene
Gas Company was totally destroyed by
fire. The loss is estimated at about 3d..
600, with no insurance.
Adam Tuchscherer, a dry goods dealer
of Menasha, has filed voluntary petit
tion in bankruptcy Liabilities $24.
015.52, assets Sd. 419.25.
r. T. Robinson, secretary Of the j. l.
Case Thrashing Machine Company of
Racine, denies the report that the COM
pany contemplates moving from Racine
and locating near Milwaukee.
A little 3-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Ward was terribly burned
in Kenosha by the overturning Of a
coffee pot. The child was scalded about
she cannot recover.
The City Council of Kenosha has re-
fused TO grant a franchise TO the Mil
waukee Electric Railway and Light
Company to build a line through that
city. This blocks the completion of the
eompanys projected Inc between Mil
waukee and Chicago.
John Steiner. farmer, found a large
package of letters in a hole near the
Milwaukee road tracks, aSMile west Of
Western Union Junction. TheY We're stol-
en- from the postoffice at the Grove which
had been burglarized last Aagus&
Frank White. one of the two men be-
ing held on the charge of highway rob
berry at Cadott short time ago, pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to two years in
the State prison. Henry Westenhoben,
charged with completely in the affair, is
under u years of age.
The yellow River Lumber Company's
sawmill on the Little Jump, fourteen
miles from Chippewa Falls. was destroy
ed by fire, entailing a loss of $4,000,
without a cents Insurance. The struc-
ture was old and the machinery had Just
been put in operation for the season.
The last Of the oxen of the Knapp
Stout Company We're shipped from Chip
pewa Falls to Chicago market for beef.
The shipment consisted Of 2G0 head. The
company discarded the. services Of oxen
III the woods last winter and adopted the
horse, the latter proving more satisfac-
tory.
The affairs Of Moore & Kelley, former
proprietors Of the Modern steam laundry
in La Crosse, will be wound up by a
receiver. Gid Lang was appointed by
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some time ago to Albert Jarvis and a
dispute has arisen Us to the rights of the
partners.
Mrs. Agnes Adams a resident of RAJ
cine, who is in poor circumstances and
who has been confined at st. Luke's hos
pital by spinal disease, has received a
dispatch from Templeton < Weaver of
Detroit, stating that she is heiress to the
estate of her deceased brother, estimated
at 100000.
George H. Rondeau tried to commit
suicide in the rear Of the Palace Mu-
seum in Third street, Milwaukee, be-
cause he lost considerable sum of money
on the Gans-McGovern fight in Chicago
Rondeau fired two shots. The first miss
ed its mark, while the second time the
cartridge failed to explode.
Levi Hale, Supervisor Of the town of
Criyitz, while out hunting with two 9TH
er men, managed to bag four bears. They
felled an old tree and three cubs and the
mother emerged. One cub was killed by
a blow from an ak. The other two were
captured and the old bear was killed af-
ter four shots had been fired into her.
She made straight for the men and they
had lively time before killing her.
News from the logging camps ny ths
north state that the hitherto unfrozen
swamps that have hampered the loggers
are now being covered with ice and other
drawbacks incident to warm winter are
disappearing. When the first snow fell
some time ago the loggers were greatly
encouraged but the subsequent warm
spell sent the .lumberjacks to colder
chimes for work. Now that the cold spell
promises activity men are rather hard to
find. In some of the camps there is still
no snow.
William Voight. who resides thr,e
miles south of Amherst. became violently
insane and attempted to kill his three
children. ali boys, ranging from s to IA
years of age. He took an iron poker, it
is alleged, and went TO their bed about
10 o'clock at night and commenced TO
beat them over the head The oldest was
severely injured before the man was over-
powered. He viii be taken to the North
ern hospital for the insane. He is a farm
err in comfortable circumstances aud has
a wife and three boys.
H Greeley Sloan, son Of the late Judge
l. G. Sloan, and Philip Koch. a we'll
known travelling salesman, both Of James
VILE engaged in a conflict oyer a game
of tenpns Koch and Sloan got into
an alteration after they had left the
bowling alley; Sloan was stabbed three
times only one cut being serious. Sloan
swore out a warrant for Koch'S arrest on
the charge Of assault with intent to do
great bodily harm, but Koch had left the
city for Milwaukee. Sloan will recover.
A stranger entered the -Four Mile"
tavern. north Of Racine. and demanded
that Fred lWeinburg hand over what
money he had Mr. Weinburg refused
and chased the fellow from the place.
He threatened to come back at night and
rob the place and kill the occupants. A
deputy sheriff went out and succeeded in
arreSting the man. He fought desperate
IL all the way in and broke windows in
the electric car. aud before be could be
landed in Jail had to be knocked insensi-
bic by the officer. He refused to give his
name or place of residence.
John McKie. conductor on the Wiscon-
sin Central Railway between Abbotsford
and Ashland. has received word from
West Point that his som. a cadet. was
very fll and had been operated on for
appendicitis. The boy is said TO be very
low.
4 strange find was made in the cellar
Of the kenosha paStofiice when one Of the
clerks, while rummaging among a lot OF
waste paper and rubbish. found FIVE Unit
ed States mail bags. which had reached
the kenoSha Office on Dec. Il. 1899. Two
of the bags had been partly emptied,
Nvhsf.s rho ofhpr fhraf. were still locked