Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-08-26

suicide is unknown.
Robbers entered the residence of a.
Schallenberg at Keon's Corner. They
secured S125 from a cash box in the
house.
The strike of the two hundred bAndlers
in the employ of the Knickerbotker and
jefferson Ice Company at Twin Lakes
is ended.
Col w H. Angel. a wealthy pioneer
resident of Sun Prairie, has donated EiBe
acres of land TO be fitted up and used for
a public park.
The La Crosse. Common Council has
passed law making it a crime to ex-
pectorate on the sidewalk, in street cars
or in any public place.
Arthur Pugh. employed by the Racine
Malleahle and Wrought Iron Company
at Lakeside, was badly scalded on his
head. neck and back by molten tin.
William Smith. aged 62. an employe of
the Sprague Brick and Tile Company of
Elkhorn, had both hands crushed in the
rollers Of tile machine. Anputation
was necessary.
While being worked on the GAINESVILLE
race track a valuable thoroughbred horse
struck a soft spot in the course and broke
both ankles. The bones protruded through
the flesh. The rider, George Casey, was
uDhurt
Laurin Cleland. aged IT years. whose
home is at Whitewater, while visiting bis
uncle, William Cleland of the town of
York, fell from a load of hay on to a
~, 60 ~ l.
abdomen.
John Schock. aged 80 years, of Mena-
sha, was leading his COW to pasture when
a street car frightened the COW. The
animal jumped and pulled him under a
wagon. He got up and walked mile to
pasture the cow, but he was fatally in
jured and died.
John B. Gallup, a carpenter at Milton,
has taken out an injunction before
court commissioner forbidding Thomas
Beckel having anything to do with the
compliments wife. This is said to be the
second case of the kind in the history of
the legal profession.
Between $4,000 and 10000 tons of cab
bages viii be harvested in Outagamie
County by the last of this month. The
crop : larger than that in any county
in the State except Racine. Premature
harvesting and a large supply viii about
split last years prices.
Otto Stroebe captured a two-headed
garter snake in the Mud creek marsh
near Appleton. The reptile is less than
veloped and are equal in length from the
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there is thick knot in the flesh.
The 11-year-old daughter of Thomas
Vavra was pounded into insensibility by
a boy companion while coming home from
the bluffs east of Prairie du Chen, where
they had gone to pick nuts. The boy
badly bruised the girls body with Lis
fists and feet and she is in a serious con-
dtion.
Nels Bergman, a farmer living on a
homestead south of Rhinelander, has
large block of iron ore which he states
was taken from section of his land
which was made up of the substance
Considerable excitement was caused by
the find and miners have left for the land
to make estimates.
Edward Collins, supposed to be too i'll to
leave his bed at St. Francis Hospital,
West Superior. where he has been kept
awaiting his hearing On the charge of
highway robbery, brske away and is now
at large with deputy sheriffs trying to
catch him. He made his escape early the
other morning taking his special guard
by surprise and running out of the hos
pital before anyone else could get hands
on him.
The depot at Hogan. on the Burlington
Railroad, was struck by lightning and to-
tally destroyed. Fifty pounds of Jyna-
mite stored in the building for blasting
purposes exploded at the same time with
a report that was heard for ten miles
around. The limited train, south-bound,
rushed into the station just at he time
of the explosion, but the engineer, realiz-
ing the danger, put on the emergency
brake and kept the train at a distance
from the fire.
Ralph Barlow, 81 years old, is thought
to have been brownies in Lake Winnie
bago near Stockbridge. The young man
went wisl a party of fishermen to raise
nets which were set illegally, the work
being done at night TO escape detection
by game wardens. The fishermen left
Barlow on shore. When they returned
Barlow's coat was found together with
an overturned skiff. 1t is believed Bar
low attempted to row out to the nets af-
ter the fishermen left him and was upset
and drowned.
Almost dead from hunger and with its
face and~body covered with blood from
myriads of mosquito bites. the 3-year-old
child of August Moldenhauer, who resides
on a farm nearly mile from Jefferson.
was found lying by the roadside three
miles from home. The child wandered
away from home. The family became
alarmed when the child could not be
found and the neighbors, boys and men,
were asked to join in the search. The
quest was continued night and day. A
brother and sister of the lost child finally
discovered the object of the search.
Sheriff Scion arrested Albert Ullman,
the father of Ida Ullman. who was shot
from ambush on Aug. 3 near Neosho.
He at once confessed that the shooting
was done by him. On the Saturday be-
fore the shooting Ullman drove TO Ocon-
omowoc, pretending to leave his team
there and take the train to Milwaukee,
Instead he walked back to the place
where his daughter would have to pass
on her way home Sunday. He fred the
shot, returned to Oconomowoc. and drove
home with his team Ullman was seen
by neighbors ON his way to Oconomowoc
after the shooting. This coupled with
utterances made by him. led to his arrest.
No reason for the act can be learned
Joseph Gilman, % years old. of Wau-
nakee. tried to commit suicide on St.
Paul and Milwaukee train. He swallow
ed nearly an ounce OF chloroform. but
physicians saved his life. He was exam
ined as to his sanity and committed TO
the hospital for the insane at Mendoza.
or the 1853. 100 farms in Wisconsin.
r46. 100. or 500 per cent, are operated by
their owners. 1929. or per cent. by
tenants who pay rent in cash. and 12.747,
or 7.5 per cent. by tenants who work on
shares The increase in the number OF
farms in the decade frem 1890 to 1860
was rs per cent.