Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-03
All Over the State.

struck over the heart by q foul ball While
watching a game at Indian Hill and seri-
ously hurt
A. c. Wright, publisher of the Mil
waukee directory, estimates the popula-
ton of the city as 30S000, an increase
of 10000 in two years.
The firm of Smith & Smith, bankrupts
of Marinette, has declared / per cent
dividend. The claims aggregate $1,000
and the creditors will get $50.
Lille Messing, a Prairie du Chen girl
Is years of age, has BEEN missing. 1t is
feared she wandered into the woods and
was seized by an epileptic fit, to which
she is subject, and died.
The body of a man found floating in
Muskegon lake, near Muskngon, Mich,
has been identified as that of Joseph
Meyer of Manitowoc. The man was
about 30 years of age and was well dress
ed, though there was no money in his
pockets. There is some suspicion of foul
play, but more reasonable theory is that
he fell off the dock.
James l.. Gates of Milwaukee purchas-
ed all the cut-over lands in Chippewa,
Sawyer and Gates counties, which We're
owned by the Mcyer-Hauser syndicate.
Over 175,000 acres are included in the
transfer. The consideration was $780,
900.
Mrs Walter Moe aged 23 years, was
struck by bolt of lightning at her home
at Racine. She had gone out to get ket-
tie of water out of a barrel when the
bolt struck her right arm. piercing the
limb. Her clothes caught fire, but she
had presence of mind and escaped being
burned to death by jumping into the bar
rel filled with water.
James McMath, night engine dispatcher
for the Northwestern Railroad Company,
located at Amigo. disappeared last fall.
The other afternoon his badly decompos-
ed body was found floating in the Fox
river. McMath was fnancier of the An
tigo lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen, but left enough money
behind to pay all claims.
Sheriff Murphy of Marinette had a
hard struggle with George Butler. an in
sane man whom he was taking to Osh-
kosh. The latter. who is giant. over
powered the sheriff and carried him
through the coach, taking possession of
the car and putting all the occupants in
great fear until Green Bay was reached,
where he was handcuffed.
A union of transfers and one of jour
neymen tailors have been established in
Beloit Nearly every branch of labor in
the city has been unionized.
The work of launching the yachts Of
the Chicago and Milwaukee Yacht Club
squadrons. which have been in KenoSha
during the winter, has been started.
The mystery surrounding .he disappear
ance of Willie. the 1O-year-old son of
Mrs Mary Gokey of GAINESVILLE. who has
been missing since May II, was cleared
river by a delivery boy who saw the
body floating.
The will Of the late John Bradley will
be contested by his grandchildren. Hor-
ace and Nellie Bradley. on the ground
that undue influence was used. The -
tate is valued at $4,000. including valua-
bic farm land and property at Bangor.
A log measuring six feet eight inches
in diameter was landed in the Chippewa
Lumber and Boom Company's boom at
Chippewa Falls. River men say it IS the
Chippewa river. The log was cut on
The north fork OF the Flambeau in 1877
and since that time has been on the way
down river. its immense size preventing It
from floating only when the river VAS
high.
The city otficiags and in fact everyone
using electric lights in kaukauna. were
served with notices the other day of
qnite a material raise in price OF light
ing by the kankauaa Electric Light
Company. They win raise their price on
June L 3S Is per cent. This they claim
they have been provoked into doing by
the hardships forced upon them By the
recent decisioas Of the Supreme CeaTt
in the legal Salabhie between the CON-
pany aud the city which has just been
closed after seTeral years OF litigation
Mrs. Leonard Smith IS in a hospital at
Eau Claire in a critical condition. She
result Of a bullet wound in the abdomen.
She was accidentally shot By boy