Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-01-14

the property, real and personal. of the
Superior Consolidated Land Company,
valued 100000
The. 2-year-old child of Herman Witt
died at Sturgeon Bay from the effects
of scalding. While the mother was ont
hanging up clothes the little one pulled
the plug out of the patent washing ma
chine. The scalding water poured over
the head. face and chest of the child, who
was parboiled and died in awful agony.
Sheriff Johnson arrested man by the
name of Elengreen. who resided with
Mr.. Gronquist near Deer Lake, and took
him to Balsam Lake to be examined as
to his sanity, as later he proved to be
violently insane. He had one of his spells
late in the afternoon. He secured a small
piece of maple stove wood and cut his
throat from ear to ear and died a few
moments later
George Priest, formerly of Prairie du
Chen, met with terrible accident at
Ninton, Iowa He was brakeman on
the way freight on the main line of the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern
Railway and while at work in the yards
at Vinton slipped on the ice, falling UNI
utl Il biONiitS Ndts huitIi lleiSSSh pNSA RStAA
legs. practically seyering the left from
the body He was taken to Cedar Rap
ids, where both legs are to be ampu-
tated.
Charles Hockenbrock. son of Aid. John
| Hockenbrock of Chippewa Falls, who
suddenly disappeared from his home
eight years ago at the age ofs14 years,
returned to his home while the family
were seated at the supper table the other
night. He had been given up for dead,
no word having been received from him
since his departure For the past three
years he has been serving as a private
in Company II, Twenty-third United
States infantry, in the Philippine Islands.
Frank Rause is a man. OF that the
postal authorities and Milwaukee police
are satisfied. His golden hair is part
of the effects which he uses in his bust
ness" as Rause said himself. He still
maintains his innocence of the crime
charged against him and holds to his as
sertion that all he knew of the jewelry
or woman was that the latter hired him
to go TO the former. The postal authori
ties are at work trying to locate Rause,
OF Mrs Saunders while the game was
being worked at Randolph.
The GOODNESS of priest saved st.
James Roman Catholic Church in Keno
sha from destruction by fire end prevent
ed a panic while mass was being cele-
brated. The church was crowded When
the priest was ut the main altar the dec
orations in front of st. Joseph's altar
caught fire and began to burn. Many of
the congregation started on a run for the
door. but the priest signaled the choir to
continue the music, and he proceeded
with the mass, many of the people kneel-
ing at his example. A number of men
near the front of the church rushed into
the chancel and extinguished the flames.
The altar was badly damaged and the
large arch in front of it was destroyed.
The town of Franklin is under water
because of an artesian we'll on the farm
of l.. Busch. The season has been ain
unusually dry one and the residents were
praying for rain there Water was so
scarce that Busch started to drill an ar
tesain well and had bored down 237 feet
before any result was obtained. Then a
gusher spouted a column of water thirty
feet high and six inches thick, and it has
been running without cessation ever
since. The whole surrounding country
has become lake and all the farms in
the neighborhood are under water
The first steps to test the validity of
the ice tax law passed by the last Wis
consin Legislature were taken in Racine,
when Henry Rossmiler of Burlington,
superintendent of the Knickerbocker Ice
Company of Chicago. was arrested on
complaint of Chief of Police Fred Pts
ter on a charge of having cut a car load
of ice from Browns lake and shipped il
to the Hagel Ice Company of Chicago.
The ice companies claim that the law is
not constitutional. and the Governor of
the State and Attorney General claim
that it is constitutional The case will
be carried to the Supreme Court There
are shipped every winter ont OF the State
100000 tons of ice. and if a tax is
legal the treasury viii receive 100000
a year.
Erick Klung. who resides two and
half miles northeast of. 0sceola. killed
a large gray wolf within twenty rods of
his farmhouse There were two of them
togethe.. but Mr.. Klung was able to get
only oae Of them. Wolves seem TO be
lgite plentiful of late.
Word has been received of the mar
rage ~ Chicago of John f. Dafter to
Hats Z Prescott OF Marinette. The
groom vas recently divorced from his
wife. Mrs. Prescott is a wealthy young
widow. sehile the groom IS the son Of the
Rev. Edward Dafter, pastor OF the Epis-
-opal cnurch in Appleton.
Two woodehoppers. johnson and Me-
Cam. quarreled on French Island. near
La Crosse. and the former is alleged to
have struck and slashea Mccain with
a crosscut saw Mccain was literally
cut to pieces. The dispute is said 10
have arisen over girl Of whom both
were enamored.
Mrs. Elsie Gle Scott. 4 prominent La
Crosse club woman and miliicnairess.
daughter of the late AbHer Gle lumber
man. has been secretly granted a divorce
from Robert A. Scott. who also Is
wealthy and is popular in social. political
and frarernaI circles. The complaint al
lezes ineompatihility Of temperament
and cruel and inhuman treatment.
The A. ". Lawrence refrigerator aud
dock was destroyed by fire at Sturgeon
Bay. causing a less Of $4,000 The
blaze started IN the refrigerator build
ing. which was filled with valuable dry
hemlock. and from this communicated 10
a large warehouse.
Herman Schultz has discovered What
IS believed viii prove rich gold mine on
the farm Of John Schultz in GiImore's
Valley. The first assay showed 81 ner
ton az gold. s. OF silver aud quantity
Of copper. The find IS in the same spot
j.
months ago. Schultz Is organizing xfoek
company TO work the claim. Schultz il
3 resident Of Winona, MINI /