Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-08-13

sisted of flats and Charles Rouse had a
saloon and billiard hall on the ground
! floor.
Negotiations have just ended for the
! purchase of the entire capital stock Of
! the Chicago brass works of Kenosha by
the American Brass Company. The Ke-
nOsha plant will be enlarged.
Lightning wrecked two barns owned
| by Anton La Plante near Ladysmith.
| The buildings and their contents. includ-
! ing twenty-eight tons of hay, wagons,
machinery, etc, were. destroyed.
Emma L. Mantell, alias Emma Ora
ham, Il domestic at the Lakeside Hotel,
Delavan Lake, was found dead, The
woman was from Chicago. \ coroner's
! jury found she died from natural causes.
While Main street at Rice Lake was
thronged with pedestrians, H. A. Sapp
shot and mortally wounded w. IL. Coffin.
| There had been feud between the two
men, both of whom are prominent citi-
zens.
Mrs. Armon ArmOnson and her Grip
pied son, years old, persisted in a fire
which con-sQmel their home near New
Glards Other members of the family
and some visitors escaped with slight in
juries.
/ Joseph Hummer, an employe of the
| Wisconsin River paper mill below Ste
vens Point, was almost instantly killed
! by getting caught in the rolls. His head
| was smashed. He was about II years
| of age.
N1a aaFsr nf
! Frank Whitrock. an extensive melon
! farmer, near Grand Rapids, was struck
! by lightning and the contents, including
horses and cattle, were completely de-
| ssrOyed.
At GlenwOod Ray Fleming, aged s, ac-
cidentally shot his sister, who is three
| years his junior. The bullet went
| through one of her hands, penetrated her
cheek and lodged in her neck. The missile
! has been extracted.
Harry Hendricks, William Clark and
! James Longton, held for Il burglary at
! Thore, escaped from the county jail at
/ Neillsville by cutting the paddock to a
! steel cage with hack saw and prying
| the window bars open.
The postoffice at Sofa was robbed by
three men. They obtained scarcely any
| thing for their trouble. The robbers
! stole horses and two of the men have
| been seen west of there. The third one
rode toward Scandinavia.
| Testimony given at the coroner's in
! quest on the death of Charles Edward
Penick, the banker of Charlton, Iowa.
| which was held at Racine, showed that
! the drowning was accidental and not Il
| case of suicide, as was believed by many.
When the Burlington passenger train
left the La Crosse depot the other morn
| ing the engineer was Mortified t. see
what appeared to be the BODY Of a small
| child ON the track. The train went over
| it, and dispatch was sent in from the
next station. Doctors rushed to the
scene, only to find the mangled remains
! Of large wax doll. It had been drop
| ped there by girl on an evening train.
August Brauer, housemover of RAJ
| cine, has the distinction of having been
struck by two passenger trains running
! at 4 high rate of speed, being thrown 4
long distance and coming out alive. The
first time was six weeks ago and he did
not receive a scratch. The second eXpe-
| rience was more recent. He was picked
up for dead, but in q moment opened his
| eyes ami smiled His left leg was brOk-
en-, ankle sprained and he is cut and in
| iured internally, but will live.
| 1t is now definitely decided that the
double tracking of the Northwestern sys-
! TEN from Fond du Lac to Appleton juno
| ton will not be completed this summer.
| So much other work has been found nee
essary in connection with the new yards
and other improvements, the change Of
grade and rebalasting of track in the vi
| cinity, that it has been decided that the
double track will be extended this year
only from Fond du Lac to the cutoff
near Oshkosh. The work will be resum-
ed next season, however.
The entire plant of the Winnebago
! Traction Company. including the Oshkosh
! Electric Street Railway system of sew
| enteen miles, the Interurban line of thir-
! teen miles, connecting the Oshkosh and
! Neenah Electric park, and Park line Of
four miles and other property, is virtu-
/ ally sold to the Milwaukee Electric Rail
I way and Light Company. The sale Of
! the system is important in that it con-
| stitutes an important link in the prOpos-
/ ed electric railway system from Chicago
! to Green Bay, a distance Of 1913 miles,
| of which lines aggregating LOG miles are
now in operation.
Thomas Whelan, who owns an eighty
! acre farm on the south side OF Holy Hill,
! Washington County, reports that while
repairing the interior Of his lime kiln
he noticed gold in some stones that We're
! loose on the floor. Whelan, who is an
! old forty-niner and knows gold when he
sees it, at once began to investigate its
/ source On examining closer into the
| composition of the rock he discovered
! further trace and later sent few sam
! pies to Milwaukee. The sample when
! assayed proved to be unusually rich and
/ It was estimated would run from $1,000
! 10 $1,000 a ton.
Outagamies output Of cheese this sea-
son will be the biggest in the history Of
/ the county. Nearly eighty factories arc
being operated Al full capacity.
George II. Yenowine. one Of the we'll
known newspaper men in the West. died
| in Milwaukee Of cirrhosis Of the liver. He
! was A years 6f age. For a number Of
years he was the publisher Of Yenowine's
! News in Milwaukee, and later was the
| editor Of the EentIckian at Louisville.
Fire which started 1t l O'Clock the
! other morning in Fish Brothers wagon
| factory at Racine. one of the largest
plants of its kind in The country. spread
! rapidly and the whole plant was prac-
/ tically destroyed. The flames spread TO
/ the large lumber yards adjament. The
1 loss is from 5000 0G to 81 100000.
The two highwaymcn, Ryan and Mo-
/ ran. who are alleged 10 have robbed
/ Charles Barrett in broad daylight close
/ 10 a crowded street in La Crosse. We're
bound over to Circui, Court by County
Judge Brindlpy under $1,000 bail. They
will plead guilty. Barrett, Il St Paul
/ Railway fireman. had $50 in his pockets,
/ but the robbers secured only S42. Bar
! rett was badly cut about the face.
The appointments Of the two deputy
/ oil inspectors for Fond du Lac County
have been made by Gov. la Toilette. For