Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-01-08

Miss Elva Jessie Bending was married
recently TO Prof Harry P Bayea of ID.
Funiak Springs. Fla. The bride is the
youngest daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. E. ].
Bending Of Delavan. and the wedding
was at the family home. Rev. J. z. Nc
Cullough Of the Episcopal Church off,
ciating.
Peter Plant. an employe Of the Mari
nette Lumber Company, was terribly in
jured il peculiar manner A fellow
workman was chopping near him when
the AK Aew on the handle. the blade
striking Isiant in the face, fairly cutting
it in two across the nose. 1t took many
stitches to sew up the wound.
George p Zimmerman Of Monroe, ad-
ministrator of the estates of Amelia
Klass and David klass, who abseonded,
taking with him all the money belonging
to the estates. has been arrested and is
in jail at Huntington, ". Va. f. H.
( Fyree. chief of police. made the arrest
| and will doubtless receive the ST 900 re-
ward that was offered for Zimmerman's
capture.
Peter Johnson, mechanic % years
old, was brought in from Western Union
Junction in a dying condition and taken
10 a Racine hospital. He went into a
saloon at Western Union Junction with
some companions, ordered drinks, rcfuS-
ed to pay for them and was assaulted
by one of the inmates of the place. The
assailant hit johnson on the head with
club, crushing his skull.
Unusual excitement prevails in the
aristocratic section of Racine on account
of half dozen blooded dogs having been
poisoned. Arthur Guilbert lost a Scotch
collie that came from the Pierpont Nor
gan kennel of New York and was worth
$1,000. Edward Baker lost blooded
Scotch terrier from a leading Eastern
kennel, worth $500: Frank X Bull had
setter. worth 5000, poisoned, and there
| are at least ten others.
After a search of more than six years
John Lane, well-to-do citizen of Phil
lips. w. Va, discovered his long-lost
daughter in Kenosha Several years ago
Edna Lane, the only daughter of the FAM
| lily, eloped with one Fischer, to whom
her parents objected. The couple went
TO Chicago There Fischer died. The
wife, leaving her child in a charitable
home, came to Kenosha and sought en-
ployment as a domestic. Father and
daughter returned home.
Mrs Josephine CheIney Of Kewaunee
has been pardoned by Gov. Scoheld. She
was sent to the State prison in 1892 on
an 1S-year sentence for poisoning her
husband, John Cheney, who occupied a
| small farm in the town of West kewau-
nee. She confessed at the trial, which
came off year after the murder, that
she had mixed rat poison with pie, beer
and coffee for the husband. He had been
drunkard and was noted for his cruelty
to his wife and children.
The steam barge George Dunbar of
Michigan City, laden with 275000 feet
of hemlock lumber, bound from Empire,
Mica, to Chicago, went on Racine reef
during a snowstorm. The crew worked
all night throwing the deck load over, and
10000 feet of lumber was jettisoned. At
| daylight the boat was seen from Racine
and Capt Breckenfeld organized vol
unteer life-saving crew, and with the fish
ing tug Emma Bloecher went to the res
cue. The boat was released and steam
ed into port. She is leaking somewhat,
but otherwise uninjured.
In the Circuit Court in Oshkosh, 49,
year-old Clara Gregg was granted di-
/ vorce from Oscar Gregg, her soldier hus-
band, whom she married Feb. Is, 1899,
| while he was home ON a furlough. Mrs.
| Gregg testified that her husband left
| home about a month after the wedding
and rejoined his regiment at Fort Smell
| ing, MINI. From that time to the pres
/ ent, she said, she has received but SO
/ from him. While she has not heard from
him directly, she understands that he is
now in service in the Philippines.
/ The names given by the four men cap
ftured at Ridgeway after an attempt to
| rob the bank of p. Il. Stevens at Mont
| fort, are Harry Deyett, ]. B. Montague,
| ]. r. Berry and James Hopkins II is
] said the men are notorious criminals. Ike
| leader is Devett. He is "a years Of age.
1 us oyereoat has the stamp of a St.
Louis clothing house. Montague is a
! veritable giant being feet l inch tall
and broad-shouldcred. He has tattoo
marks on his arms, wrists and hands.
Berry is 30 years old and near-sighted.
| He wears glasses. Hopkins is "a years
old, with gray hair and mustaehe
By the prompt action Of a tramp two
! Jefferson people were saved from drown
ing in Rock river Frank Williamson
and his little daughter were crossing the
river, when the ice suddenly gave way
and they sank into the river. A tramp
who was walking on the railroad track a
few hundred feet from where the acci-
dent occurred, pulled off his coat and hat,
jumped into the river and succeeded in
reaching the struggling pair. The tramp
was clad in oyerals and thin shirt when
he made the daring attempt. He sue
/ ceeded in holding the man and girl above
the water until boats were brought to the
i aid of the victims After hard work all
were saved 4 subscription was taken
up for the tramp and complete outfit
Of clothes was purchased for him.
Sheriff King. after an exceedingly
hard struggle, succeeded in arresting
/ Charles Thorn at Schlesingerville. Thorn
was surrounded by a number of friends,
/ who helped him to resist, and the sheriff
had to shoot a number of times before he
was able to make prisoner of Thorn.
The charge against Thorn is assault and
battery upon Lawrence Alderman of
Lannon. The crime was committed last
September, but no trace of Thorn could
be found until few days ago, when his
whereabouts were discovered. Sheriff
King with all possible haste made his ar
/ rest. The defendant appeared before
| the municipal court in Waukesha. His
bail was fixed at $500. which was not
| furnished The defendant who is a
mere boy, was committed to the county
JAIL
Miss Aura Lumsden sustained serious
injuries at her home in Sheboygan falls.
| She caught the heel of her slipper on a
/ tack at the head Of the stairs and fell
] hondl,.,c- To the hnttnIn She rnmainnd