Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-07-09

Maple Grove had the back of its head
blown off by the accidental discharge of
a gun his father was attempting to hang
on the wall of his house.
Mary Landermasen. aged % years de-
| liberately walked into the lake at Lake
! Mills and was drowned. She was dis
charged from the Northern Insane Asy-
lum few days before as cured.
Miss Jessie Jones, a school teacher Of
the town of Beloit, surprised her friends
by announcing her marriage last August
to Eben Cass Of Manchester township.
The marriage was kept a secret because
Of the brides school engagements.
Sidney Larson, Clarence Renee and Ar
| thur Palm of Port Edwards were drown
| ed in the mill race at that point They
were all under II years % age and had
! gone swimming without the knowledge of
their parents. The current was too strong
and they were swept into deep water.
Arthur G. Tillon of the Standard Oil
| Company at Green Bay was married to
Miss Garcia Whitman of Appleton. Not
desiring to run the gauntlet of rice, the
bride, after the ceremony, left the house
alone while the bridegroom climbed down
T a rope from the third-story window in
the rear of the house. Both met again
at Appleton Junction.
The oil boom seems to be extending it
self in all directions. A gusher has been
found at Baldwin. There is we'll of
clear water in the street in front of W.
Q. Borchsenius' house, only nine to ten
feet deep, that does not exactly spout
oil, but you have only to leave a pail
standing a short time before the surface
of the water in it is coated with oil.
DR.. Cartmill was held up at Ashland
by highwayman at the point of re-
volver. When the footpad was search
ing his pockets for money the latter
clinched with the fellow and lively tus-
sic ensued during which the revolver
which the man was holding in his hand
went off, shooting Dr. Cartmill in the
right hand and wrist The footpad es-
capped.
Frank Korherr a tinsmith, attempted
to commit suicide at the Wisconsin
House in Chiffon. He ignited two sticks
of dynamite and the explosion which re-
suited wrecked a portion of the building
but he escaped Uninjured. Two and one
half additional pounds of dynamite,
which did not explode, and seven or eight
dynamite caps were also found in his
room.
At Manitowoc the jury in the case of
Peter Myszewski against the Flint and
Pere Marquette Railroad Company, in
which Myszewski sued for $4,000 dam
ages, brought in a verdict awarding the
plaintiff $4,000. Myszewski was perma-
nently injured about a year ago by fall
ing through an open hatchway on the
f. u Z. NJ. steamer No. D, while she was
in port loading grain.
There are likely to be many compiled
lions in the Neenah school board over
recent Supreme Court decision which is
supposed to invalidate every act OF the
board in which Wesley Mott, commission
err from the Third Ward. voted Mr..
Mott has resigned from the board, pro-
viding that the impeachment proceedings
against him and Supt. w. H. Healy he
discontinued. The city attorney will stop
the proceedings.
The contract for the construction of the
new power house to be erected by the
Fox River Electric Railway Company in
Appleton, was awarded to O'keefe 81
| Orbison. The new plant is to operate the
Fox River Electric Railroad between
Neenah and Kaukauna and furnish pow
er for the Appleton electric light system.
1t will have $500 horsepower water
power and will also be equipped with
duplicate steam power.
Lcander Germain. Il farmer boy in the
fown of Somerset, had miraculous es-
| cape from death. While out in the pas
ture driving up the cows, he was attack
ed by a bull knocked down, stamped on
and rolled and dragged along on the
ground for nearly fifteen rods, and the
! life had about been crushed out of him
when an older brother came to the res
| cue with pitchfOrk, which he promptly
| plunged through the animals nose. hold
! ing him at bay until both were on the
other side OF the fence. The younger boy
! had no bones broken, but he was terri
| bly, bruised
| T. d. Simpson. travelling salesman for
A. NJ. Slater & Brothers, dry goods. Chi
| cag0. was drowned in two feet of water
in Chequamegan Bay, AZ Ashland.
Frank Fang, who resigned as agent OF
the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
| at New London, has been succeeded by
George Husting of Port Washington.
! Frank J. Tack was sentenced at Nil
| waukee to four years in the State prison
! for embezzlement of $1,000 OF the funds
| of the National Express Company. Tack s
! mother. sister and wife were present and
| in tears when the sentence Of the court
was pronounced.
While examining a 32-caliber revolver
/ in the presence of several playmates at
the store of William Groth an Appleton
| gunsmith. Karl Bite. accidentally dis
charged the weapon. The bullet lodged
| in the nsek Of Harry Humphrey. the 10
year-old son Of Joseph Humphrey. The
| boy is expected to recover.
Patrick Gary, a welI-known farmer Of
/ the town of Lebanon, was killed while
| sinking a large rock in a field on his
/ farm. He had made an excavation in
/ which to sink the stone, when the bank
gave way and allowed the boulder to fall
/ upon him
Burglars succeeded in getting into four
/ houses at Little Chute. securing Il small
| amount of money and some jewelry in
/ two places. The third was the home Of
a young couple who were evidently dis
/ playing their silverware wedding gifts
| the nights before, and the thieves hav-
! Ing easy access TO them took all the sill
/ verware in the house. The burglars left
no clue
| H W. Sundler, a prominent settler OF
/ Wood Lake, was found dead with q bull
/ let through the heart His wife says he
/ committed suicide, but her story Is doubt
ed and a coroner's Jury is Investigating
A few years ago a bulldght took place
| in Mexico. the tOTeador being mounted
/ on a bicycle. The rider. Manuel Gar
4 cia By name was so badly Injured