Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-14

| "A. u. OuTIlS. 4 I0fluSE 2AdIluSlle luIn-
herman, is reported to have made several
hundred thousand dollars in Texas oil
| lands.
| Twenty-three head Of stock in the town
| Of Spring Brook were killed by order of
the State veterinarian on account of tu-
berculosis.
! La Crosse will be represented in the
school system of the Philippine Islands
by Miss Winnifred Mitchell, who has
been notified of her appointment as
school, teacher in the islands.
The Wisconsin Central Railway Com
pany has crew of men repairing the
levee on the Chippewa river in Chippewa
Falls. 1t is estimated that 10000 square
feet of rock viii be used in the work.
y 100000 incorporated company, COM
posed of we8l-knowR Chicago capitalists.
has Professionally leased the Gottfredsen
brewery in keRosha for the manufacture
of electric dynamos Of all descriptions.
The first free rural mail delivery route
for Kewaunee County will be inaugural
ed in a short time The route will be
about twenty-five miles long and will en-
brace a territory containing about 200
people.
The body of Louis Knutesan, who was
drowned while repairing the dam of the
Grand Rapids Paper Company at Biron
last October, was found by John Steib
about two miles above the Grand Rapids
west side water works
About 1900 acres of land have been
sowed with peas by the W.. Seyl Canning
Company and n. f, Wanninger; proprie-
tors of the two canneries in kewaunee.
This VIII be the first season, OF the Seyk
cannery, which has a capacity of about
100000 cans.
To save her father from. being injured
BY his son, who was brutality assaulting
the old man, young woman living near
Hayward shot her brother through the
hip. Eugene Buell. was arrested and
lodged in Jail, charged with committing
q vicious assault.
The colony of French people who left
Rudolph last month for Alberta, Canada.
have been heard from at Wetaskiwin,
Alberta, and it is a sorry story they tell
of the climate they found. The promises
made by the Canadian government agent
in regard to. land, accommodations; ETC.,
are said to. be unfulflled, and few of the
party are comfortably housed.
The board of appraisers, who have been
in session valuing the Appleton water
works plant, with a view to its purchase
by the city, have repor ted, fixing the fig
ure at $330,000. The price is generally
considered too high and the probabilities
are that when the question is submitted
at the special election the people will vote
for the city to build it's own plant
Jay Conley, a Chicago peddler, met
with terrible death under the wheels
of a sOuth-bound passenger train in. Ke-
nOsha. Conley had been walking along
the track and. in order to avoid a north
bound freight train, he stepped over to
the track and was crushed by the passen-
ger train. His body was thrown forty
feet in the air and every bone broken.
The body of Jacob Biederman, who,
because of disappointment in love, drown
ed himself on the night of April q, was
recovered at Oshkosh. 1t was seen float
ing in the river between the Wisconsin
avenue and the Wisconsin Central Rail-
way bridge, and Robert Sawall and w.
b. Potter took a small boat and secured
the remains. A physician examined the
body and stated that there was no evil
dence of foul play.
The circumstances attending the death
of Mrs J. Il. Totman, formerly of La
Crosse, who was fatally poisoned by eat
ing soup q few weeks ago, are being in
vestigated at StissouIa, Mont, where her
husband now lives. The servant girl who
prepared the soup has been acting very
strangely since the occurrence and re-
c,,.,, +,Il- 20 r,fN A,.ts
from there. For the past couple of weeks
she had been melancholy, and morose,
and her sanity is now questioned
John Berg, the 23-year-old son Of ex-
Postmaster Adolph Berg of Kenosha,
was arrested in Racine on the charge of
burglary. He admits that with three
others he entered the stores of Henry
Deberge and Henry Anderson and took
$500 worth of dry goods and hardware.
Officer Frank Lane surprised the burg
lars and fired a shot at one of them, but
all four escaped, taking an electric car
at the northern limits of the city. Young
Berg refuses to tell the names of his
companions. He says he was intoXi-
Gated at the time he entered the store.
He intimates that he will impiicate sew
eral prominent young men with him.
Daniel Phillips, an old war veteran, is
on his way to the national home at Mil
waukee, reconciled to the hopelessness OF
ever seeing his wife again, from whom
he has been separated nineteen years.
Philips is 20 years old and in the early
days resided near Winona. He staked
out claim in the Western gold region
and wrote to his wife to join him. Phil
ipps never received any reply aud he set
tied down on his claim, concluding that
his wife would come when she got ready.
Philips longing for his wife grew and
short time ago he started out in search
of her He followed up other rumors,
but despite his persistent efforts to find
her he has failed.
William A. Benorde Of Milwaukee, an
elderly timer succeeded in his third at
tempt at suicide, to which he was driven
by the spirits, according to his own story.
First he gashed his hand with a knife,
telling his daughter the spirits told him
to draw blood. The next day he preach
ed a sermon from his porch warning the
neighDors to prepare for death. On the
third day he smashed a kerosene lamp
over his head. setting fire to himself and
the house. Finally he consulted his me-
dunn again and came home to go into
four days trance. The family sent
doctor to see him. He saw the medical
man coming and drank two bottles Of car
boIic acid and was dead when the ply
stefan got into the house.
Henry Gund has donated to the La
Crosse Lutheran Hospital Association
piece Of land in the rear Of the space on
which the hospital is being built, and
which was necessary for the association
TO own.
The Haugen-Schmitz election contest at
Manitowoc for the district attorneys Of
fee has been settled and the case will be
dismissed without cost to either Of the
contestants. 1t has been arranged that
Mr.. Schmitz will resign and Gov. La
Toilette will appoint Mr.. Haugen to the
Office. Mr. Schmitz is TO receive the sal
airy Of the Office up TO May !.