Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-02-19

Mrs. Croft of Granville had her right
foot cut off while trying to cross the st.
Paul tracks in front of a freight train.
Olaf Johnson, aged 30. UNMARRIED. eem
mitted suicide in a Chippewa Falls ,sa7
loon by taking carbolic acid. He was. a
farmer in the town of Lafayettes
Hiram Fisher, aged G6, died of injuries
he received at the Wisconsin hoop fac
tory in Marshfeld. Interment win be
at Noblesyille, Ind, his former home.
Rev. E. j. Evans, who recently resign
ed the pastorate of the Episcopal Church
at Chippewa Falls, has accepted a call to
Trinity Episcopal Church, Davenport,
Iowa.
Rev. Martin 0. Hanson was taken in
to the Circuit Court at La Crosse and
sentenced to serve three months in the
county Jail for deserving his wife and
family.
More mining excitement was created
ut West Superior by the bringing in of
rock from the Chippewa mine that ac-
tually had gold, easily visible to the
naked eye.
Charles Felting who resides near Chip
pewa Falls, while chopping a saw out of
log, struck his son, William Felting,
on the chin with an AK. Tx face is .hor-
ribly disfgured
Wilfred j. Venue of Fond du Lac has
begun suit against the Northwestern road
for $4,000 damages. He alleges that he
was badly injured in the wreck at De-
pere last summer.
The inquest held at Racine in the case
of Francis L. Rawson, the musician
found dead on the street, showed that
death was the result of apOpleXy or blood
clot on the brain.
James Hollo was terribly and probably
fatally injured at Dunbar. a log fell
from a load, striking him on the legs
breaking both of them, crushing his hips
and inficting other injuries.
Robert d. Jenne of Berlin attempted
suicide in the Franklin branch of the
Chicago Telephone Company. The young
man has been suffering with nervous
prostration brought on by overwork.
Mrs. John Helmer. a Marinctte wom-
an, distinguished herself by stopping a
runaway horse. and although dragged
some distance she brought it to a stand
still There was a small boy in the We
hicle.
At the annual meeting of the st. Croix
and Pierce County Oratorical Associa-
ton, it was voted to hold the next high
school contest in Hudson the last week
in April. Baldwin was admitted to the
league.
Representative Dahle has introduced a
bill in the House of Representatives re-
moving the charge of descrtion from the
record of Thomas Kelly, late a private in
Company d, Thirty-seventh Wisconsin
infantry.
The Kenosha City Council has ordered
quo warranto proceedings against the
Wisconsin Telephone Company to test
the validity of franchise which was
granted, not by the Council, but by the
board of audit.
The Roberts Creamery Company of
Roberts has sold its entire line of cream
| cries. except the home plant. to Mower
& Rush of Mcmillan, who will take pos
session at once and continue operation
of the system.
II Atlo OtCIl utSCON CICtl tlldI lllt idtItll
building at the Chippewa Falls Home for
the Feeble Minded is not on the State
ground, but on part of the farm of
John McKinnon. who offers to sell the
land to the State for $1,000.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
fast mail jumped the track at Western
Union Junction. The engine, two mail
cars, baggage car and seven coaches, in
| Guiding two sleepers, were dcrailcd while
the train was running a mile a minute.
No one was hurt. ..
While working on a landing in a lum-
Der camp at Thorp, John Pappenica was
crushed beneath log which fell from a
| load. He is badly hurt. John Malinow-
ski was kicked in the face by a horse
| and will lose the sight of one eye. His
nose is broken and the face terribly dis,
| figured,
The William Kmbail public school
was totally destroyed by fire at West
| Superior. There were nine women teach
| ers and $50 children. most of them
| young. in the building at the time of the
| fire. The smoke was first discovered up
| stairs and the signal was given by the
ringing of the gong. Every child in the
building got out in an orderly manner,
the larger ones helping to carry out the
| kindergarten children.
At West Superior the body of John
! Mueller was cXhumcd and 4 Photograph
taken of it. The elimination was made
upon the order of Judge Ninje of the
Circuit Court, who did so upon petition
of two Australians who allegc they are
/ relatives Of the dead man. The prin-
] cipal claimant in the fight. however is
katherine Mueller of Detroit, Mich. who
! alleges that she is Mupler's wife. There
are two other women who claim to be
widows. The property left by the man
is said to be worth about $2J0,000 and
consists of valuable iron land.
L. A. Collins of West Superior is in
! Jail charged with bigamy. The charge
! is preferred by his alleged second wife, to
whom he was married. it is claimed, on
Jan II. Collins came from Ironwood,
! Mich, Il short time ago, and, according
to the story OF Miss MaUdc Mckay, rep
| resented himself as an unmarried man.
| Maude became CnamOrPd of Collins and
accepted his proposal and was married to
| him by Rev. o. y. Luce, is the allegation
/ in the complaint Now another woman
comes from Ironwood, accompanied by
a little child, and says that she is the
original Mrs. Collins, wife of the man
| in Jail.
Lester Traversy Of Marnettc is driv-
| ing Il deer hirched to Il sleigh. The ami
NAL is docile and well broken. and is be-
ing used just like a horse.
| Frank L. Anderson, a wcll-known con
| tractor of KcnoSha. was found lying in
an unconscious condition on the floor in
Il room of his house lie had been over
! come by Illuminating gas.
| The body Of a wcll-dreSscd man was
| found in the woods near the Pabst farm
in the town Of Wauwatosa. He had evil
| IDENTIFY committed suicide. From papers
found on him it appears that he was a
! travelling salesman u3mcd Dammon.
\ New York company has secured a
\ right of way from Green Bay TO Mani
| tOwoc. a distance of thirty-cight miles,
! for an electric railway. IL also MS an
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