Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-18


-rT.,g, will be established by r. H. Cole.
~ ~. is to be built by a stock com
~ = cost of 100000.
o,.,due,.- Charles Rodd Of the Wis
aoosi,, C,sn+~s, Railway had foot near
!, 80 savers,i bx barrel of syrup falling
on il from a box Ga at Do!u'
Chris. Brack. an en- 9loye Of the West
ern Lime and Cement & 'hpany at HAM
ilton. died from injuries $500 - oe
ing crushed beneath the "nee'S u
freight car.
Philip Gardner. formerly of W. Hi,ecoh-
ne. has brought suit against the a ane
Lumber Company of Oshkosh for S10.> ~
damages resulting from the loss of n
right hand in the company's mill.
August Wehner said to have been
employed by the Universal Publishing
Company of Chicago. and an unknown
woman We're found dead from asphyxia-
ton in a rooming house at Milwaukee.
Elmer Winmore. A years old. farmer
in the Edison township. was killed in
runaway. He hsd sold his farm and
was TO have left with his family for his
former home in Germany. where he owns
another farm.
Charles Adams and his family had
close call nj Appleton from being suffo-
Gated by coal gas. There are six mem
bers in the household The trouble was
due to coal stove which had not been
properly closed.
William II. Watson. president of the
Pioneer Furniture Company at Eau
Claire. who died suddenly. left an estate
worth about $4,000, but no will and no
heirs. Diligent inquiry by wire fails to
reveal a single relative
Raimund Blaschke, who lives at Mosi.
nee. has asked the authorities TO help
him locate his wife. who disappeared
from home recently. His money was in
the bank in her name, and she has drawn
nearly the whole amount.
The last acre of good county land in
Chippewa County has been sold, a deal
| having been made whereby Richmond x
Richmond of Arcadia become owners OF
the last five ''forties" This makes a
total Of 10000 acres disposed Of
A mass meeting of the citizens Of Beav-
er Dam was held to take up the matter
of having beet sugar factory located in
or near the city. The experience Of rails
ing sugar bcets last season was so salts
factory that many persons believe that
the increased acreage the present season
win warrant the erection of sugar
plant.
A message from Congressman jenkins
confirms the report that John Il. Hegg of
Cumberland was murdered by Filipinos
on Bohol Island, Jan. u. The body
has not been found. Hegg was gradu-
ate of the Cumberland schools and the
| State University and was superintendent
of construction of government roads in
the Philippines.
| +. Lufsky has been arrested at Ocono-
mowoc. He was wanted in Kenosha on
charge of forging Rev. L. A. Nc
| Moody's name to check for $50 and
! passing it on the local secretary of the
| y. NJ. c. A. He left Kenosha without
paying a $50 board bill. At one time
| Lufsky was pastor of church at South
! dlcu Y. NJ G. A. people in many parts
of the State and in Michigan.
The engineer of the Snl..h & Russell
! Hardware Company at Wauwatosa set
! the Menominjee river on fire. lie did it
| by filing a tank with gasoline to over
! flowing and when the fire under the boil
ers was started there was an explosion.
| The burning gasoline ran through an ex-
| haust pipe half block TO the river. There
| it made a blaze which lit Up the heay-
ems for miles around. 1t was all the fire
department could do to prevent the de-
struction of the suburb.
Prairie du Chen was visited by $50,
! 900 blaze late en- a recent night The
stables of the G. Holman Brewing Com
pany. on which the Insurance expired
only few days before, were destroyed.
! The loss to the brewing company is about
| $4,000 The carriage shops of Lesar
Bros were destroyed. loss $4,000. insur-
ance $1,000. The Dousman building. oc-
cupied by the Courier Publishing Com
pany. is almost wreck. Insurance of
| 81 900 was carried. The law offices of
! O. b. Thomas on the second floor We're
badly damaged. Most of the valuable
papers were saved. but the library suffer
| ed great damage The damage to the
! Courier Office amounts to $1,000.
As the result of a raid by deputy Unit
! cd States marshals on parties who have
been furnishing Poor Lo' with fire.
water on the Odanah reservation. near
| Ashland. eleven men. some of them In
dams and half-breeds, were arraigned
! before Judge Bum in the federal court
at Madison to answer the charge of yio-
! lating the United States law by carrying
| liquor on to an Indian reservation. All
had been indicted by the grand jury,
and all pleaded guilty to the charge.
| Many were accused of taking only pint
bottle of whisky on to the reservation,
but none got off with less than SO fine.
| The heaviest penalty fell on John Nc
| Carty. who runs saloon midway be-
| tween Ashland and the reservation. Sew
eral separate offenscs were charged
against him, and he paid a fine of 500 IN
settlement of all the cases.
George and Bernard Hopp. two boys
of Door County. were recently frightened
by what they claim to be a genuine wild
man. They were hauling wood at the
| time aud say that suddenly a strange
! looking being. covered with long shaggy
hair. appeared before them and they inn
mediately took to their heels. Others in
i that part of the country have seen the
strange being and Gottfried Hopp. father
| Of the boys. bears them out in their state
1 UlRUlSs II - tuVuEul AAdt INT man h'Ae
be some demented person who has been
wandering in the woods for long time.
The largest load of logs that has been
recorded during the winter was hauled
at Emmerson's camp near Chippewa
/ Falls. There were eiehty-two logs seal
! Ing IA 900 feet and a single team hauled
/ il to the landing one mile. on iced road.
The Secretary Of State has received
| from Attorney General Hicks his opinion
on the question of refunding the taxes
paid on inheritances, according to the
| Law which was drafted invalid by me
/ decision OF the Supreme Court. Mr..
Hicks says that the taxes cannot be re-
funded unless there * a special appro-
priation by the Legislature.
]. H. Van Dyke. Jr. viee-President Of
the Milwaukee Trust Company. assignee
of the Beaver Daw Worsted Company,
sold the plant. appraised al Sl3.4l1.24,
at auction. MeFctridge. Smith x Co.