Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-01-07

The lumber yard Of the f. ~ Norton
Lumber Company at Oleson was partly
destroyed by FIRE.
Gust SelImer. while working in a
gravel pit few miles from Peshtige. had
both limbs broken. one in two places.
Robert Heiden. whose home is in Wat
ertown, was fatally injured in corn
shredder accident on the John Garland
farm in Lowville.
Near Grantsburg farmers are planning
TO raise peanuts and sweet potatoes on
their sand farms next season. Many OF
the farmers are also going into the An
CORA goat business.
The Methodist Church was BABY dam
aged by fire at MarShtield. TIE church
had been rebuilt and was to Save beeA
dedicated the next Sunday. The loss is
protected by Insurance.
Ross Miller of Appleton was seriously
scalded while he was taking bath ut
the Lawrence University gymnasium. He
accidentally turned the hot water shower
and his shoulders and arms were badly
burned.
Ned Frame. a young mechanic employ
ed by the Imperial Camera Company.
was sandbagged and robbed in tie Eighth
street park at La Crosse by Two men.
Seventeen dollars was secured by the
highwaymen
Fire was discovered in the general
store II L. Il. Franklin, Jr., at Eland
Junction. Prompt work by the local
bucket brigade soon had the fire under
control. The loss on the stock and biild-
ing will be $500.
Albert Gaertner an employee of the
Adam Kroner Hardware Company in La
Crosse, took from quart OF bulk oysters
two pearls, the largest of which is as big
as a pea and which is probably worth
$500. The other is smaller.
Two men cremated and another fright
fully burned about the lower part of
his body and the destruction of locomo-
tives and cars was the outcome of a
rear-end collision of two south-bound spe-
cial freight trains on the Northwestern
Railroad at Little Suamico.
In the extreme northern part of Bur
nett County the house of Guy Griffin
was destroyed by fire. He and his wife
walked barefooted across a lake on the
ice to the home of neighbor, where they
went for shelter They were dressed
only in their night clothes, everything
else being burned. They arrived at the
friends house in a frozen condition and
almost exhausted.
In the Circuit Court al Oshkosh a yer
dict of $500 was returned in favor OF
Charles Steinert against the Oshkosh
Electric Light and Power Company. The
suit was brought for $4,000 for dan-
ages alleged to have been sustained by
the plaintiff through taking hold of a
loose guywire of the defendant company,
which had become charged with cleo
tricity through dead wire" of the city,
which mad sagged across a feed wire Of
the Winnebago Traction Company.
Conductor Tierney and his crew on the
south bound fast freight on the Omaha,
had fierce fight with a gang of hoboes
at Wascott. The hoboes boarded the
train at Hawthorne and upon reaching
Wascott tn, conductor stopped to put the
tramps off. They resisted and at the
point of revolver made the conductor
give the signal to go ahead and haul
them to Spooner. Tierney wired ahead
to the officials and upon the arrival of the
train at Spooner had the entire gang ar
rested.
The people of Amberg will organize
a wolf hunt to get rid of a pack infest-
ing the region around that town, endan-
gering the lives Of the school children.
Len and Willie Randall, little sons of a
= no
other day. They were chased several
miles by the animals. They kept them
off with clubs until they reached home.
One of the boys was bitten. Wolves
throughout the northern woods are very
vicious this winter and frequently attack
human beings.
Another attempt at holdup in the
switch yards of the Chicago and North
western road at Appleton has occurred,
the victim being Frank Graf. Mr., Graf
was on his way home, and taking the
shortest route possible he crossed the
yards at Morrison street, when sudden
ly his assailant jumped out from between
some freight cars. striking him with a
huge club. The blow, which was direct
ed at his head, missed him, striking~AIr.
Graf on the shoulder and forearm, caus-
ing painful bruises. A lively fight be-
tween the Two, men ensued, Mr.. Graf
finally putting his assailant to rout.
In the Circuit Court at Oshkosh a YER
diet of $500 was awarded and paid to
C. w. Frederick of Fond du Lac for the
death of his 12-year-old son, B. o. Fred
erick. The verdict was against w. w.
Neff, captain of the steamer Evelyn. On
July %, 1900, the steamer was leased
by the Cotton Street Methodist Church
of Fond du Lac for a Sunday school eX-
cursion. In the evening the Frederick
boy walked off the side of the boat and
was drowned 1t was alleged that there
We're not proper guards and ratings about
the side of the boat.
The arrest of an Oshkosh runaway cou-
pie By a deserted husband ended a SEN
sational elopement in Joplin, Mo, and
the injured husband congratulated his
wife and the man on their successful
elopement Three weeks ago Mrs. John
Bublitz desera1d her husband, taking
with her their 4-year-old child and $4,000.
She was accompanied by g. X. kimbalL
They went to Chicago, Denver an1 Jop-
lin, where MupiitZ located them. He
swore out a warrant for the arrest of
his wife and Kimball, and vent to serve
it. His boy answered TIC summons, and
Bublitz took the child in his arms. Kim
ball was absent trying to buy a saloon
with Bublitz's money. When himball
returned Bublitz congratulated him.
Finally Kimball and Mrs. Bublitz re-
turned $1,000 of Bublitz's money and
Bublitz took his child and left.
The residence of Mrs James Cashell
was completely destroyed by ffe at RAJ
cine. Mrs Cashell was in Chicago at
the time, the house being left in charge
of her daughter. An oyerheated stove
was the cause The loss is $1,000 with
81 600 insurance
George Henze Of Watcrtown IS adliet-
ed with a peculiar ailment. lie is sub
ject to periodical spells of sickness, af-
ter which his skin peels off and his toe
and finger nails drop of. He is for
nler sheriff Of jefferson County and at
present a justice Of the peace. Doctors
are bafFied by the malady.