Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-28

tell.
Ben Wood, a young farmer of Baker
vile, was drowned in the Yellow river
while trying to rescue a boy from the
water.
The boys of the senior class of the
Madison high school decided to wear shirt
waists at the graduation exercises to be
held in June.
State Superintendent of Schools L. II.
Harvey will deliver the baccalaureate
address to the graduating class at the
Oshkosh normal school.
G. B. Goelcher of Cresco, Iowa. will
establish sheep ranch near Ladysmith,
and has shipped 700 head of sheep and
goats from his Western ranch.
The Eureka Canning Company has
been formed with $4,000 capital. III. L.
Sweet of Oshkosh and DIR. L. e. Locke
of Eureka are the incorporators.
Because he did not feel we'll John Men
gel, clerk for j. G.. Frank & Co., at
Jackson, hung himself. He was 80 years
old and a widower, but had no children.
James w Wilson, the only prisoner in
the Sank County Jail, escaped the other
night. The doors were locked and win
dows secured, making his escape a mys-
terry.
The Eastern Wisconsin Telephone
Company has recently taken charge of
the local line and installed a complete
new system in Chiffon. Over fifty phones
are in operation.
While driving out of his barnyard John
Minahan, residing some two miles north
west of Chiffon, was accidentally thSOwn
from the wagon, fracturing his skull and
killing him instantly.
Carl E. L. Lipman of Beloit, aged 16
has completed an automobile. The mo
tormobile," as he calls it, has been con-
structed by its young inventor since the
middle of January at odd times out OF
school.
A girl, aged 16 years. employed in the
family % w. G. Bartholt three miles
west of Burlington, shot and killed Il
mad dog, which was in the act of attack
ing the children which had been left in
her care.
An immense tobacco deal has been
closed at Madison, whereby a Philadel-
phia firm purchases 10000 cases of last
years crop of Wisconsin tobacco, paying
therefor S350,O00. The shipment will
amount to about 260 car loads.
E. J. Cassidy, a crockery salesman,
committed suicide by cutting his throat
in his room at the Hotel Julien in La
Crosse, and then tried to cremate his
body by setting fire to the bedclothes.
The smoke led to the discovery.
A man by the name of George Car
roll was found on the railroad track at
Phillips. He had his right arm run over,
and other injuries about the head. 1t is
thought that he was trying to steal a
ride on the passenger train and fell under
the car.
The Eastern Wisconsin Firemen's AS
ISOLATION, organized about six months ago
and comprising membership of volun-
teer companies from Sheboygan, Calu-
met, Washington and Ozaukee counties,
will hold its first annual tournament IN
Plymouth on July 20
The 6-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. August Brasah of Racine was ter
ribly scalded about the head and shout
ders by boiling coffee thrown on her by
her father. Brasah was placed under ar
rest. The father became angry with his
wife while at supper and began throw
ing dishes at her. Her brother, who was
at the table, interfered, and the wife
picked up her little daughter and started
to leave the house. There was a pot Of
boiling coffee on the stove and Brasah
picked it up and hurled it at the woman.
The contents of the pot went all over
the child's head and shoulders, burning
her in an awful manner.
At noon Wednesday the longest session
of the Legislature in Wisconsin history
1926 days-was closed. A dozen bills
are still left in Gov. La FOllette's hands,
among them the ice tax bill and the
measure creating the county of Gates
out of the northern part of Chippewa
County, on both of which several of the
members anticipate yetOes. -Four vetOes
marked the last day of the session, the
Governor returning without approval the
bill requiring compulsory vaccination,
that eXempting beet sugar factories from
taxation, the bill providing an additional
employee for the railroad commissioner
and the one extending the time for pay
ment of taxes in Milwaukee.
Arthur Barring Gould, a member of the
noted English family, recently passed
secretly through Chicago on his way to
Canada with his two sons, whom he took
by stealth from his divorced wife in Osh-
kosh. Detectives are now searching for
him, and if he is located in Canada eff
forts will be made to compel him to re-
turn the children to their mother. The
kidnapping took place at the home of the
,,.;,, ( pvld Tho hpVS
who are 10 and u years of age, were
induced by their father to enter a car
riage. Then they were driven quickly
to the railroad station and a train was
boarded for Chicago \ telegram was
sent to the mother stating that the faith
er had started on little trip" with Che
boys. The Englshman and his wife,
who was Wayne Bigger Of Oshkosh,
were divorced some years ago.
Nelson C. Dudley, who has been en-
ployed as engineer at the Rock River
Cotton Company's works in GAINESVILLE,
is missing, leaving a bride of few
weeks in GAINESVILLE. Several valuable
wedding presents disappeared with him.
At meet of the GIenwood Gun Club
Percy Jones. aged II, was shot in the
arm and shoulder by the accidental dis
chrage of a gun in the hands of Prof.
Thiel, assistant principal of the high
school No serious results are antici-
pated.
\ large barn on the farm Of Frank
Vosburg, in Vinland, which had been
raised up on jackscrews while a stone
foundation was being placed beneath it,
blew over while ten men. most of them
from Oshkosh, were working beneath it.
They escaped without a scratch.
The Northwestern Railway Company,
which has always maintained two separ-
ate freight as well as passenger offices
at Kaukauna, will consolidate the freight
departments, transferring all of the books
and papers Of the Wisconsin division Of
fees to the Ashland division, thus cutting
off the services Of one man.
The Oshkosh Malleable Iron Company,