Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-09-03
AL Over the State.

Lightning struck Edward McIntee's
general store at Bancroft and the Wis
consin Central depot at Hancock. Both
were burned.
The family of ]. B. Verney, with the
exception of one girl, living at Sheboy-
gan, was poisoned by eating roast beef
All are recovering.
John Posack, IS years old, fell down
stairs at the Marinette pOorhouse anu
fra Itured the base of his skull. He died
few hours afterward.
The Chicago and Green Bay passenger
train on the Northwestern Railroad col
lided with Il special freight train half a
mile south of Fond du Lac. -Four people
were injured.
\ man named Toddish, aged II, was
killed in Burns & Hicks mill at Me
nominee \ large silver, hurled from an
edger, struck him in the mouth and
pierced his neck.
E. C. Berneth, who disappeared from
La Crosse, writes that he is in Daven-
port, Iowa. He says his mind is blank
from the time he left his home and he
does not know how he got there.
Fire thought to have been of incen-
diary origin destroyed the summer re-
sort hotel at Powers Lake, with the bill
lard halls and bowling alleys. The loss
is estimated at $4,000, with $4,000 in
surance
Three worthless checks have been pass
ed by forgers in West Superior. They
are each for $50 or thereabouts and are
purported to be drawn by the John Redy
Company of Ashland. They are issued
upon the Northern National Bank of Ash
land.
Norman Babcock, a 16-year-Old Maus-
ton boy, was arrested charged with steai-
ing a sum of money from Eugene Neve.
He was sentenced to term in the coun-
ty jail, which so angered his mother, who
was present at the trial, that she pulled
revolver from her pocket and attempted
to shoot Justice Hanson and Prosecuting
Attorney H. W. Barney. The woman
was aijudged insane and taken to the
Mendoza asylum.
Joseph Cox, a Menasha fireman. met
with severe accident at fire He
broke a pane of glass with his fist to pass
the nozzle of the hose through and in so
doing severed the cords and arteries in
his wrist The doctors state that he vii!
be crippled for life.
The yacht Ingerson, with a large pleas
ure party of Marinette people, had u mar
row escape from going down in a terrific
storm on Green Bay. The boat was toss
cd around for eight hours in the storm
and went on Il reef II was kept ahoat
with great difficulty and the women in
the party spent the time in praying.
Mayor Ed McFetridge of BarabOo ap-
piled TO Judge Siebecker in the Circuit
Court at Madison for an injunction
against the city OF which he Is mayor 70
restrain it from repairing a bridge near
the mill owned by the McFetridge
Brothers on the ground that the repairs
will injure the water power Of the mill
Raft owners on the river report that
log pirates are again al work. On a re-
cent night a launch and two men took
large portion Of a raft above La Crosse.
and the next night thieves held up j
Waterman at the point OF rife. several
miles from any town, and after securing
valuable logs made of with them without
\eing identified.
While riding a bicycle on the waIzway
OF the Chicago and Northwestern Rail
ways ore docks al Ashland. Arend job
son. a 19-year-old boy, ran of the Wa
and fell a distance OF thirty feet. break
ing his hip and receiving internal injuries
which may result in cath
Peter Hauser. an empIoye Of the Sim
mons factory, in Kenosha. had miracu-
lous escape from death. While adjust
Ing q belt his clotls.le was caught on the
shaft and before the machin could De
stopped the man was carried imes
around the shaft. His clothes were
stripped from the body and he was final
II hurled through the air and dashed up
sS1insr the side Of the building.