Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-10
Brief State Happeninps.

Paul Drahem's arm was torn off at the
elbow in a corn shredder at Randolph.
Burglars attempted to blow open the
safe in Guernsey & Coles law Office at
Clintonville They failed to open the
safe, but did considerable damage to the
building.
The Ferdinand Grunert Cheese Com
pany. which recently failed Mt Monroe.
has been recognized, Chicago capital
lists having furnished 100000 capital.
Hunters brought to Ashland the body
of William Johnson, homesteader. John
son was out hunting and was found dead
in the woods, with a bullet hole in his
head. The coroner's jury found that his
death was caused by stray bullet.
The jury in the case against Mills and
Haley, charged with killing Thomas Da-
Wis last July, brought in a verdict at Ste
vens Point, finding the defendants guilty
of manslaughter in the third degree. The
penalty is two to four years in Waupun.
The work of filling the valley at Sparta.
which is spanned by one Of the largest
trestle works in the State, is completed.
The trestle belonging to the Chicago and
Northwestern road was 416 feet long and
a6out five feet high. 1t has always been
a dread to travellers as we'll as railroad
men.
Because, as the elimination of a fam
lily row, her husband emptied a swill bar
rel upon her. Mrs. Joseph Halek, resident
of La Crosse, solicited the aid Of the
police. Officers found her standing by
the piano in the paIlor, whittier she had
fed from her irate husband, picking POI
tato Feelings from the back of her neck.
William Hagendorf of Racine was
working with chisel, which he accident
ally dropped. The sharp edge went
through his boot and severed the great
toe.
The 5-year-oId child of w. l.. Waite, at
Grandon. died from the effects Of dose
Of carbolic ncid administered by mistake
for medicine. The child was sick with
scarlet fever.
Gale College. at Gainesville. was dcdi-
Gated in the presence Of a great crowd
of several hundred persons, including
many dignitaries of the Norwegian Lu-
theran synod.
Harry Moen. aged 2G, farmer living
at Cottage Grove, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head. He
had been married about year. No rea-
son was assigned for the deed.
August Haubrich, an employee Of the
A.len Sons tannery at kenosha, had re-
turned home from his days work feeling
well, and was talking to his wife and
children, when he dropped dead Of heart
disease
Herman Thurow, blind teacher in the
weaving department Of the Wisconsin
State school for the blind. and Mrs. Au-
gusta Metzke, an employee in the kitchen
of the institution. eloped and were mar
ried at Janesville.
The 14-year-old son Of John Converse.
FIVE miles east Of AbbOtsford. had his
hand badly shattered by the premature
discharge of a muzzle-loading shotgun
while hunting
4 freight train on the Burlington road
was partially wrecked between La Crosse
and Prairie du Chen through spreading
of rails. Five cars Of merchandise We're
ditched. No one vas injured.
After a hard-fouGht battle in which Co
celia Savage and Edward Holt of Brook
lyn. y. Y, legal heirs, contested the will
of the late Mary Ann Parker. a recluse
who lived the life Of A hermit in the
heart of La Crosse. Judge Brindley adj
mitted the viii to probate.