Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11
All Over the State.

AT Prairie du Chen the county clerk
has paid nearly $500 for rattlesnake
bounty, $50 reptiles having been cap
tured.
Fred Derricks, a pro- Ninent hotelkccp-
er, up to two weeks ago lyoprietor of the
Wagner House in Racine. committed
suicide by hanging himself in the hotel
cellar. Dependency caused by financial
reverses was the cause Off the act
In a runaway accident at La Crosse
three young women-Angelina Levi,
Mary Binkie and Anna Berlina-were Sc
riously injured.
Theodore Schumann of the Schumann
& Menges Brewing Company fell in his
room at Prairie du Chen, breaking a rib
on the left side. He was also internally
injured.
In the declamatory contest at Seymour
between the high schools of MarinetLe
and Seymour Marinette won on team
work and Miss Jessie Morse of Marinatte
secured first place.
l.. G.. Kendall of Barab0o is the first
man who was employed on the Madison
division Of the Northwestern road to be
placed on the retired list, and is receiv-
ing n pension of SIT per month. Mr..
Kendall has been with the Northwestern
company for thirty-four years.
Diphtheria seems to be getting foot
hold in some of the districts of La Crosse
County. IL one section over half a doz-
en- families have it and there have al
ready been three deaths with other pa
tients at deaths door. 1t is appearing
in a very malignant form and seems hard
to conquer. The people of some of the
settlements where the disease is raging
are much incensed because of some delay
in laying a quarantine. The charge is
made that there was not sufficient haste
made to stop the spread of the disease.
Mrs. Emile Gergel of Somers began
suit against the Milwaukee Railway for
$4,000 damages. Mrs. Gergel and her
husband, while en- route for home from
Kenosha on the night of Jan. last, with
a horse and buggy, were struck by fast
train. Mr.. Gergel was killed and Mrs.
Gergel was crippled for life
Jacob Sterner, about 81 years of age.
was drowned in the Mississippi near the
old Prairie du Chen draw bridge. He
had been fishing for CLANS and as he was
alone it is supposed he was tangled in
the rope and pulled overheard by the
heavy drag bars.
New Richmond's first monthly market
day and public auction sale was held re-
Gently under the auspices of the business
mems association, and was a great sue
cess It is estimated that over 5000
people We're in town and it was a great
success in its every feature
Figures obtained by General Immigra-
ton Agent Mae Rae show that since the
first Of the fiscal year the Chicago, St. /
Paul. Minneapolis and Omaha has sold
5000 acres Of northwestern Wisconsin
land 70 actual settlers. the majority being
men with enough money immediately TO
improve their farms and buy stock. Two !
years quiet work has added $500 new
farms along It's northern Wisconsin lines.
At about $50 o'clock on 4 recent even
ing street car loaded with eighteen pas
Sengers wss struck By a Chicago AMI !
Northwestern freight train on the Penn +
sylvania avenue crossing in Sheboygan. /
It was after hours for the gate tender. 4
and the motOrman was waiting for a
train TO pass 10 the n0rthward and did 4
not notice smother coming from the opDO-
site direction. The street car vas thrown 1
10 one side, of the rails, and its end +
Knocked IN, in two places. No one was 4
injured.
Edward Kester. a farmer residing az /
Rio Greek, was found shot dead in his
room II IS thought that he committed I
suicide.