Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-07-30

1 Inc OSnhoSn school census SHOWS q
| falling off of $40.
The body of an unidentified man was
found in the Tomahawk river.
Fire at Salter's mill, Colby, destroyed
the single mill and few logs.
La Crosse has 10,064 school children. a
| gain of thirty-three over last year.
Gibson's creamery near Beloit, was
destroyed by fire. The loss is $4,000.
The Gates County board has voted to
bond the county for $4,000 for county
| buildings.
/ The 10-months-old daughter of Mrs.
Martin Tierney of Westport drowned il
a pail of water.
A movement is on foot to establish a
brewery at juneau. The promoters are
John Becker and ex-Sherif Lehner
Thieves broke into the store at Little
| Prairie, which is owned by Joe Crawley,
and secured booty to the estimated
amount of $3.50.
William Bishop, aged %. brakeman on
the Omaha road, was drowned at Shell
/ lake while in swimming Bishops home
was Calumet, Mich.
Alfred Lamb, a small boy of West
/ Salem, was drowned in the Vernon val
ley mill race. He waded out and got be-
! yOnd his depth. He could not swim.
Donald A. Cameron, prominent citi-
zen of Eau Claire, was found dead in a
hotel at Sioux City. Iowa. 1t is believ-
/ ed death resulted from the intense heat.
Edward Kannenberg, an engineer at
/ Ives station, was boiled by hot water and
steam which. was turned into a boiler he
was cleaning. He is alive, but fright
/ fully injured.
| Developments in regard to the dscov-
| cry of natural gas at Marinette have
been promising, and company is to be
| formed to make a thorough investigation.
A number of wells will be sunk
| Ole Newhousey an old employee of the
| Omaha Railroad Company at Millston,
was struck by the fast mail, while sitting
on the platform. He was instantly killed.
his head being severed from his body.
As a result of habeas corpus proceed
ings Youman Mehls of Chippewa Falls
has surrendered his 6-year-old son Viii
liam to the Eau Claire attorney for the
boys mother, Mrs. Springer of st. Paul.
H. G. Hackney, president of the Wal
worth County Telephone Company, has
succeeded in securing over 100 subscrib-
ers for a farmers township telephone sys-
tenn for the town and village of East
Troy.
While Fred Welsh, a farmer residing
q mile from Altoona, was hitching up a
team of horses they became unmanage
able. He tried to stop them from run
ming away and they trampled him to
death.
While Luther JOrgensen. aged Il years,
was stealing an eaglet from its nest on
a marsh near Horizon, he was attacked
by the mother eagle and was frightfully
beaten and clawed by the enraged par
ent bird.
Herman Burdt, late of the Third in
fantry, who lost an arm in the Philip
pine war, was to have been married to
Miss Schultz of Eau Claire, but has dis
appeared. He recently received $1OS
pension money.
The village of Veefkind narrowly es-
capped total destruction by fire. FLAMES
started in the yard of the Veefkind Man
ufacturing Company, destroying over S.
600 worth of finished stock and scoyrh-
ing the mill badly
The Big Lake Lumber Company's saw
mill, located two and half miles south
of Three Lakes, was burned to the
ground. The loss is about $4,000, with |
insurance for about one-6fth of the value: |
The company will rebuild.
Frek lack. switchman in the Osh-
kosh yards of the Northwestern Railway
received injuries, from. which he died |
few hours later: The cars ran over both |
Legs and he did not long, survive the am
putatiOn which the doctors, considered |
necessary.
Michael, the 1G-year-old son OF Matthias
Steinmetz of the town. of Polk, was,
drowned in Little Cedar lake while in
bathing. The family had gone to Fed
cries summer resort to spend the day, |
and the father, mother and sister watch
ed him battle.
The dead body of Frank Selner, a
homesteader, residing near Rhiuelander,,
was discovered by a farmer lying near
the Northwestern tracks. The mans \
neck was broken and he had evidently /
been thrown forty feet after being struck, |
by the Ashland limited.
John Finn, an employee of the Wiscon- /
sin and Michigan Railway car shoI' was
fatally injured at Marinette. He was
holding a chisel when the head of a |
sledge hammer slipped off the handle and
struck him in the head, fracturing his
skull.
Capt. Thompson, in charge of the La.
Crosse harbOr improvements, says the |
ST 900 which was appropriated for the
La Crosse harbor will be more than
enough to complete the job. 1t is, expect
ed that the harbor will have been COM
pieted within two months.
Frank Byrne, foreman of the construc-l
ton crew of the Milwaukee road, while |
working near Lake City, accidentally |
took a plunge from high bluff down
sixty feet, but will recover. He was
standing on ledge when a blast of pow
der went off behind him, hurting a huge
rock in his direction. 1t struck him in
the shoulder, pushing him off down the
abyss.
Victor Maloney, aged 10 years, fell into
the Eau Pleine river at KenOsha and |
would have drowned but for the presence |
Of mind of a young friend. The boys were
fishing when Maloney fell into the water.
Harold Cone, aged 10, thrust his fishing |
pole out 10 the sinking boy, by whom it
was grasped, thus keeping him above the |
water. The first pole breaking, the lit
tie fellow took that of a third companion |
and leaning far out over the bridge rail- |
ing, managed again to get it within reach |
of the drowning lad. In the meantime !
the third boy ran and summoned help |
ana MalOney was saved.
August Kluender. aged 1G, an employee |
of the Carter novelty works in Kenosha. |
had one arm completely severed from his |
body. and his body was all but cut in two |
by j circular saw which he was operat- |
ing. The accident was caused by tie |
breaking Of a rope which controlled the |
saw.
Roy Mccoy, an employee Of the Barker |
& Stewart Lumber Company, was drown |
ell at Ashland. He was ged in roll |
;.,,- low, from, do- oar and oTla of them |