Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-09-02

Richard Wagner, Is years old. Of Rib
Lake. accidentally shot himself while out
hunting. He was alone when the acct
dent occurred.
Eddy Loomis. aged Il, of Fi6eld. while
hunting was shot through the head and
instantly killed by Frank Morrison, who
mistook his brown hat for game.
The State board of control has elected
James f. Conklin of Madison as warden
of the State prison at Waupun. The ap-
pointment is surprise. Conklin is a
Democrat.
Charles Dawson a Chicago expert at
pointing bricks, at work on the new city
hall at GAINESVILLE. fell from a scaffolding
fifty feet from the ground and was ia
tally injured
Clifton Froxel. 13 years old, drowned
in the Mississippi river near Charme.
The boy was left at home alone and went
TO the river to battle. His father found
the body on the beach.
Mrs. Anna Zacharius ran to the Racine
police Office the other night with her nose
half cut off, the result of being assaulted
by Peter johnson, who she charges struck
her with frying pan or tin dipper.
Mrs. Clayton d. Iuow took her 4-year-
old boy and left her home in Racine. She
left a note to her husband in which she
threatened to kill the child and herself
if followed. She has not since been seen.
In a communication just received from
the War Department. NJ. a. Butscher of
Boyd learns that his son. Charles ~,
private in Troop l., Third United States
cavalry, was drowned in Manila harbor
June 4.
Capitalists of Marshfeld are planning
to build railroad between Grand Rap
ids and Friendship a distance of thirty
two miles. This will be the first railroad
in Adams County. 1t will tap rich
farming country.
Alfred II. Prescott, a wealthy and
prominent merchant of Cambridge, COM
mitted suicide in a hotel room in Mali-
son by eating rat poison. Dependency
caused by illness was the cause. He
leaves widow and five children.
Despondent for seven years on account
of the death of his wife, Merritt Morse,
aged GA years and a well-known resident
of Racine, committed suicide at Mount
cemetery, lying PROSTATE upon his wife's
grave, with his hands upon the headstone.
Morse was found and an empty bottle,
which had contained carbolic acid, lay
near by.
Farmers about Kaukauna cannot be in
duced to say much about the big crops
being harvested there. They seem to
fear that such assertions will tend to
lower prices of their products. The facts
are that in that particular locality the
most amazing crops ever grown there are
either just coming to maturity or being
harvested.
Mrs. Lena Wesselboeft and children OF
Chicago were the victims of a runaway
accident at Menasha, which resulted in
death to one and severe injuries TO four
other perssls. Mrs. Wesselhoeft and
children arrived on a Wisconsin Central
train. They were met at the depot by
Miss Foreman, their relative, who started
to drive them home in a light buggy. The
party had gone but a short distance when
a team of mules driven by Henry Ober-
weiser and attached to heavy dray used
for hauling sand became frightened at
passing locomotive and ran away, crash
ing into the light vehicle in which were
the women nd children. The force of the
collision shattered into fragments the
light carriage and the sand wagon was
hurled on top of the occupants.
Nathan E. Manner, an old resident of
Racine County, has begun suit against
Edward +. Bailey, son of retired farm
err, to recover 81, 900 which the plaintiff
III Ii F1 s,,
PRODUCING Mr.. Bailey to Mrs. Calvin
Peck. a wealthy widow, whom Bailey
married. The complaint alleges that Mr..
Bailey, about May l, 1902, entered into
contract with the plaintiff whereby it
was agreed that the plaintiff would ar
range for him to call at his house, where
Mrs. Peck boarded; that the plaintiff was
to introduce Mr. Bailey and give him the
privilege of his home, and that Bailey
agreed to pay him $1,000. Mr.. Bailey
has since married Mrs. Peck. Mr.. and
Mrs. Bailey were seen at their home and
were considerably amused at the sum-
mons and complaint. They would not
talk for publication.
Judge Hastings of Green Bay has just
handed down a decision on one of the
fish cases which have become famous in
that section of the State. The decision
established the dividing line between this
State and Michigan in the waters off
Washington Island. According to the
decision this line lies midway between
the shores of the two States. In the trial
in Circuit Court the theory of the de-
PENDANTS was that the channel was the
dividing line and that the channel was
marked by the course of boats plying
along any certain course. The channel
as held by the plaintiff in the case was
line running midway between the shores
of the two States. In this the question
of islands came up and it was determined
that the island should be considered
part of the mainland so far as the deter
mining of the line was concerned, the
great flow of water determining which
channel should be the one considered. BY
this decision of the court the State of
Wisconsin off Washington Island is fixed
about four and half miles from shore.
BY this decision the nets of Mcdonald
Brothers. plaintiffs in the case, are cut
so that about one-third of them were in
Michigan waters at the time they were
seized and the remainder lie in Wiscon-
sin. The third in Michigan waters are
therefore lost, while damages for the
balance can be recovered. The defend
ans in the case were the men that helped
the game warden to destroy the nets.
Charles Kearns, a bricklayer employed
BY the William Adams Company Of Chi
cago and working on the Case pillow works
building at Racine, was killed by a switch
engine in the Northwestern yards.
Reinhold Oestrich, supposed TO have
been cremated in the house which burn
ed Aug. 10. has returned TO WATERFOWL
from La Crosse He said that he dis
covered the place on nre and was COM
PEELED TO jump through a window 10 es-
cape. Then he took a train for La
Crosse. he does not throw any light on
the mystery Of the bones found in the
ruins.
John Kukraw. aged - years. who was
employed AT the Manitowoc Malt Com
pany's plant. was seriously injured by
having his right foot torn of He wNs
AZ work on tie irst floor of the elevator