Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-09
All Over the State.

The wooden bridge spanning the Man
itoc river at GAINESVILLE was destroyed
by the food
The steamer E. Douglas. which has
been in winter quarters near West New
ton, sunk when the ice went out.
Miss Corish, residing at Charme, fell
from a Burlington passenger train near
that station. sustaining injuries to her
head and body.
Joseph Stalcr was drowned in the
Trempealeau river at Arcadia by the up
setting of boat. His son, who was with
him, was saved.
Sheriff Whicher of Kenosha announces
that he will form chain gang of all
tramps who come to that city and put
them to work cleaning the streets.
The forty cases of so-calIed smallpox
near Chiffon have been released from
quarantine. Twenty-eight,of the persons
affected We're vaccinated after the dis
ease had run its course.
Miss Louise Ncu of Hokah died of her
injury. She was in the hay loft feeding
the horses when sae slipped and fell to
the barn floor, running one of the prongs
of a pitchforll into her abdomen
Emil Johnson, a young Swcde employ
ed by the Union Bag and Paper Com
pany at Kaukauna, has received notice
from his relatives in Sweden that he is
the heir to quite a sum of money from an
uncle.
There are two new cases of smallpox
in Neenah. Jim and Mary Kelly, broth
er and sister, are i'll with the disease,
which they contracted from their brother,
William, who was i'll with the disease but
was not Quarantincd, no physician being
called to attend him.
There was u rcar-end collision on the
500 near Dunbar. One freight crashed
into the rear end of another standing on
the track near the station. The engineer
and fireman Of the collidiug train jump
cd aud were not injured. The locomotive
and FIVE cars were badly wrecked
The injuries suffered by Charles
Schultz, Il Waterman at the Winnebago
Furniture Manufacturing CompaIy's
plant in Fond du Lac. who was scalded
by steam from the boilers, followed by Il
stroke of apoplexy, proceed fatal, the in
iured man dying at his home.
A man supposed to be George Miller
of Baraboo. committed suicide in the
county jail at Phillips by diving headlonS
against the steel floor Of his cell. A let
ter found on his person was directed TO
Peter Miller, Baraboo. H.. whom he ad-
dressed as Dear Father" He was TO
have been examined as to his sanity.
John Yollmuth. an old resident Of
GAINESVILLE. was struck and killed 10y
Chicago. Milwaukee and St Paul train
He was recently married 10 a wealthy
widow.
James larson. a Whitehall miller, was
quite seriously injured by the premature
explosion OF a stick of dynamite, while
trying to save his mill dam from being
swept away by 81 ice Jam.
The Grand Rapids Milling Company
has been formed By ]. D. Witter. I. p.
witter and John Horton. who recently
purchased the Jackson Milling Company's
property. The paid-up stock is $4,000
and the company viii build brick mill
little south Of the present site.
The man whose body was found in the
river at Eau Claire. il IS now supposed.
was Peter y. Granum. land hunter.
whose home was AT BVistow, The core
ler's jury rendered 4 verdict simply thar
drowning was the cause Of death.
A Wisconsin Central short line passen-
ger train, returning from Eau Claire. ran
into wasaout one mile south OF Chippe-
wa Fails Two coaches, constituting the
train. weat down 12-foot embankn,ent.
John Seefeld. .wOodsman, was struck
by light engine and caboose on the Mil
waukee rosd IN a cut near Anberg. His
head was split and he received severe in
ternal Injuries. His recovery IS doubt
full