Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-07-30
State Items of Interest.

w. A. Hoyt, his son Frank and team
were killed recently at Tangible by
lightning.
Bradford Kent, II years of age, has
mysteriously disappeared from Kenosha,
and all efforts of the police to, locate him
have been unavaihng.
Anton Sleicher, a farmer living about
four miles from Sun Prairie, was killed
by lightning while loading hay.
While fishing in Pewaukee Lake, Paul
Braun, of Milwaukee, was run down by
4 steamer and drowned. His two COM
panions were saved.
William Woods, of Muncie, Ind, drop
ped dead at the home of his brother
southeast of Cumberland. Deceased was
visiting in the vicinity and was the
fourth brother in the family to succumb
to heart disease.
Harry L. Wagner. self-confessed for
| ger, in the Barron County jail awaiting
trial, escaped under peculiar crcun,-
stances. 1t is believed by Sheriff John
son that an accomplice broke into, his pan
| try and stole the jail keys and opened
| the door to Wagner's cell. The keys
were then returned to the pantry in the
| sheriffs house. and the prisoner was not
| missed until the next morning. Wagner
| is regarded as one of the smoothest for
gers that ever worked in the Northwest.
He confesSes to having swindled several
merchants in West Superior, Duluth.
Drummond, Shell Lake. Clear Lake.
Hudson, Saltwater. MINI, and Pine City,
from which operations he claims to have
realized over $4,000.
The badly decomposed body Of 4 man
| was found in the woods at HouIt0n.
hanging from a tree. There are no
means of identifying the body. Papers
Of May s were found on body.
A new effort is being made to secure a
pardon for August Hilgendorf Of Ke-
nosha County. who is serving a life sen
tence in the State prison at Waupun. on
a charge Of numbering his wife. The
| crime of which Hlgendorf was charged
was the most brutal ever committed in
the county, On the Fourth of July in
| 1926 he was accused of having hacked
his wife 20 pieces with a corn knife.
Charles Lockwood. aged %. was in
! stantly killed at the Kjmberly-Clarz pa
| per mill n Niagara. He was drawn be-
tween two reels Of paper.
| Myrta French Of Eau Claire. an opera
singer, and Jean Paul Kuerst einer. OF
| Philadelphia. We're married in the form
city. They will i've in Englew0od, y. J.
Frederick Welsh. farmer. near Eau
Claire, asked his 9-year-old daughter 10
hold q team attached 10 a binder while
he moved some ties out OF the way The
horses plunged and the child was forced
to let go. She tried 10 warn her father
OF the danger. but the horses knocked
him down and dragged the binder over
Ann. He died in few minutes.
The home for dependent children n
Berlin. a branch OF the Chicago home
burned tonight The buildings. inclui.
s2g the home and barn. We're totally de-
Stroyed- There were nineteen children
At the home, but all escaped without IN.
jury. They viii be temporarily prov5d.
ed for by the citizens
Arthur W. Breitzmann. assistant cash.
Ter in the Fond du Lac National Bank,
was accidentally and probably fatally
shot while he was handling q revolver
i 81 the bank building about $50 0'clock
the other morning. The bullet entered
his abdomen and his condition was such
that the doctors did not dare 70 probe
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