Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26


err of Hamlin Garland. the author. mar
ried Mary f. Bolles. aged 60, at La
Crosse.
While Mr.. and Mrs. John Kohl of
Rubicon were gone to a neighboring town,
thieves entered the house and stole 81
200 in cash.
Carl Swartz, who abducted Emma
Becker and took her to Oshkosh, where
he was arrested, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to prison for four years.
Fire destroyed the residence of John r.
Cole at Downing. The loss is about ST.
zoo. 1t was only by hard work that the
entire village was saved from destruction.
Arthur Voyer, who lives at Junction
City, was accidentally shot by compan-
ion, Mr.. Anderson OF Waukesha. while
hunting partridges. The wound will not
prove fatal.
Adam Pleats, IL years old, whose faith
er lives near Junction City was shot by
a farmer who was pvacticing in prepare
ton for the deer hunting season. The
boy will not die.
Fred Revorce, young grocery clerk
in Racine, received word from White
water that his aunt, Miss Carrie Thayer,
had died, leaving him and another
nephew her entire estate, valued at $4o,-
600.
Henry j. Miller, one of the oldest and
most prominent residents of Racine, was
found dead in bed. He had been in usual
health, and heart failure is supposed to
have been the cause Of his sudden de-
mise.
Hollendale Hotel, a summer resort ON
the north shore of Delavan Lake, owned
by George Holland, burned. The fire
was caused by the explosion Of a kero-
sene lamp. The building was insured for
So, 500.
Miss Clara Raddatz, the Oshkosh
young girl who disappeared and was
thought to have drowned herself on ac-
count of the fact that she had repeatedly
threatened to do so, has been found. The
police returned her to her home.
Miss Addie Freibarger of New London
through mistake, thinking she was us
ing some face wash preparation, washed
her face with carbolic acid. The flesh
of both face and hands is badly eaten and
fears are entertained that she will be
disfgured for life.
Fred Kohlmeyer, aged 20 years, was
seriously injured at Manitowoc by falling
into bin Of Elevator B of the Northern
Grain Company, distance of seventy
feet. He was employed as carpenter
on the elevator and stepped on loose
board, which gave way.
The $1acine police are looking for a
burglar who entered a south side resi-
dence and, finding no one but 13-year-
old girl at home, locked her in closet
and ransacked the house, but secured
nothing. The girl managed to break the
lock just as her mother was entering the
house.
The will of Frederick S. Newell was
filed for probate in the County Court in
Kenosha. 1t bequeaths everything to his
widow, Mrs Frances Newell, and, with
the wealth left her from the Balm estate
at the death of her father, Edward Balm.
will make her one of the richest women
in the State.
An epidemic of smallpox has broken
out in the Indian settlement ten miles
from Spooner. Nine Indians quarantined
in one house broke away from the guards.
DR.. j. 2. Cox, the health officer, headed
posse of armed men and they surround
ed the Indian village and drove the In
dams back through the swamps into the
quarantined district.
Joseph and James Noiseu, uncles Of
Thomas lie Claire, who was burned to
death in the recent theater fire at Hur-
ley, have just returned from that place,
and assert their nephew was murdered
and the building fired to conceal the
crime. They claim they discovered that
on the evening of the fire Thomas lie
Claire had fight over a variety actress,
to whom he had been paying attention.
lie Claire, they say. was on the same
floor as those who were saved, but no
one was found who had seen him during
the fire. The story viii be investigated.
The Park Hotel was destroyed by fire
at Lake Mills. The guests and employees
barely escaped with their lives. Every
thing was lost, the occupants not even
having time to dress, the flames spread
so rapidly. Many had to be taken out
of the windows. e. w. Davis, proprietor
of the hotel, estimates the loss at SlO,-
600.
Mrs. Ernest Meyer was taken to st.
Mary's hospital, Oshkosh, dying from
burns which rendered her unrecogniZable
and her husband is in the lookup. He
was rescued by the fire department FROM
angry neighbors, who were talking of
lynching hiI.. The woman's clothing was
set on fire in some manner not yet ex-
planned and she was burned in a fright
full manner. Her breast was charred
to the bone and her cheeks and forehead
hung in layers, obscuring her sight effec-
tually. One report is that the woman
was attempting to drive out reaches with
fire and ignited her clothing.
Conductor Henry Stark Of the Apple
- and Neenah interurban line saved
s6mly from being burned to death while
on his run the other night While pass
ing through Menasha, Stark saw flames
bursting from a small frame house. Stop
ping the car, he rushed to the place and
tried to awaken the inmates by pounding
on the door. This proving of nc avail, he
threw several stones through the win
dows, which aroused the sleepers, who
were partially overcome by the smoke.
A boy first staggered to the door, and
with his assistance Stark succeeded in
saving the parents and sister of the boy,
who, but for his prompt action, would
have died in the burning building.
Two men, forty deer and twelve head
of cattle killed is the result of the open
ing day of the deer hunting season. The
report concerning the killing of the two
men comes from Rayfeld and Douglas
counties. One hunter was killed near
Mason and one near Superior Junction.
Schwante's murder case came to a close
at Manchester. The jury was out all
night, and brought in a verdict Of guilty
in the first degree. The convicted man
is a young farmer living near Spencer,
and was charged with burning the home
of an aged couple named Klokow last
November while they were asleep.