Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
Fire at chetek caused a less Of $50,

in Gordon Lake. four miles north Of Gid
den.
Street railway employees at Sheboygs-
struck for higher wages and all lines
tied up.
TiItas Tayett of Pennington was kick
ea by a broncho at Saltwater and died
of his injueries.
At Rolling Prairie William Straus;
shot his wife three times and killed him
self with the same revolver.
Frank Sexton of the Beloit postoffice
one of the oldest men in the employ .!
the Office, connitted suicide by shooting
himself.
buildings of the Kenosha Country Club
were struck by lightning and the tool
house Of the club was badly damaged.
Mrs. c.. Sorensen and her daughter
were badly burned on their hands in RIA
cine while they were fighting fire which
had been caused by the explosion of a
lamp.
After a quarrel with a friend George
e. Alvord took poison at his home in APP
fects of the dose his life is no longer en-
dangered
George Link, aged about 40 years, who
had been employed by the Arpin HARD
Wood Lumber Company of Appolionia,
as chain carrier for surveyors, was
struck by lightning and killed.
Kenosha is threatened with an cpl
demic of scarlet fever, and so many new
cases have been reported to the health
department that the most rigid quaran-
tine measures are being taken.
Charles Lynch. supposed to be Mil
waukee lad, was killed by a Northwest
ern freight train two miles from Mequon.
He was trying to steal a ride and fell I'M
der the wheels. The boy was 16 years
old
Reginald McCusker, star half-back on
he championship football team which
represented the Oshkosh high school in
1899, died at St. Mary's Hospital there,
where he was recently operated upon for
appendicitis.
Miss Amanda Hurd, the well-known
artist, died at Baraboo from heart fail
ure. She came from a family Of noted
persons and had given her life tn the
brush and easel.
The county board of supervisors has
accepted the new court house just COM
pleted for Gates County, at Ladysmith.
and a committee of the board has been
appointed to arrange for a grand open
ing ball to be given June IS.
The 15-year-old son of Peter Peterson,
residing three miles southwest of Dun
barton. accidentally shot himself with a
22-caliber rifle. The bullet entered his
leg below the knee and passing down,
lodged in the bottom of his foot.
Rose Welack of Dousman was killed
by a train. She was fishing with her
9-year-old brother from the railroad
bridge and did not see or hear the train
until it was too late. Her brother, how
ever, saw it just in time to save himself.
Frank Baer, employed as foreman of
the press room of the Courier Printing
Company of Fond du Lac, attempted sui
eide by taking poison. He wrote a let
ter before he took the poison, in which he
babe goodby to his fellow workmen No
motive for the deed can be learned
ne nSlTS OIL Tue Ldte 1eOpOiU Mann OIL
Two Rivers have presented the city with
a fountain to be placed in front of the
Joseph Mann library as a memorial Of
the deceased. The conditions imposed by
the donors are that the location shall be
permanent and that the city shall supply
the water and light and keep it in re-
pair.
For the first time in forty-seven years,
Attorney James Freeman, who is among
the Oldest members of the Winnebago
County bar, and his brother, George d.
Freeman, California mine owner, met
in Oshkosh on a recent afternoon. The
last time they saw each other was when
both were young. and each had an event
full life before him.
The fight for the possession of Chester
Hazel Petersen, the 7-year-old son of
Myrtle Petersen, deceased. which has
occupied the attention of the Circuit and
Supreme Courts of Wisconsin for several
has been settled The relatives
recently met in Kenosha and decided
that the child should spend a portion of
the time with the grandmother, Mrs. L.
Andrews of that city, and the remainder
with the father, Charles Petersen of RAJ
cine.
d. f. Daley, of Marinette, who has re-
turned from the Sturgeon River drive,
tells of a narrow escape of an Indian,
who was caught in a big jam and swept
down the river The indian, known as
Doc" was at the top of the jam. Sud
denly the logs started to move. The
crew escaped for the shore, but Doc"
was carried down the river with the
twisting and whirling pines He managed
to remain on top. He finally succeeded in
and making the shore.
When the heavily loaded passenger
packet Dubuque of the Diamond 10 line
pulled away from the leyee in La Crosse
she was caught in the swift current, and
before her powerful engines could be put
in operation crashed against the iron
wedge-shaped protection of the bridge
pier. Her side was badly damaged. I'm
mediately after the accident a woman on
the boat became panic striekeG, and it
took the combined efforts of the officers
and crew to prevent serious trouble.
w. B. Babcock of Oshkosh, music
dealer and Grand Army man, will be APP
pointed assistant superintendent of the
State reformatory at Green Bay to sue
ceed w. II. Thomas, resigned. Former
Deputy Warden NJ. Harvey, at present
of Chief so, will succeed Captain ]. III.
Flaherty. the Salvation Army man. as
deputy warden at the State penitentiary
at Waupun. The prison is It present
being managed by A. G. Nelson of the
State board of control Mr.. McClaughry
will leave Waupun for the East. where
it IS understood he has an appointment
coming.
w. H. McNelty of Ladysmith has just
returned from Hawkins. where some gold
were made recently. He pros
pected on his own land and found the
yellow metal in seemingly paying quanti-
ties near where Walsh and Higgins just
made their discovery.
Capt. S. A. Day of the steamer Chaun-
cey Lamb has been made the defendant
in a damage suit which has been insti-
tuted by John Melvin, a ri>erman, who
claims that Capt. Day committed an as
sault upon him. as a result of which he
is now confined in the St Francis Hos
initial at a CroSSp