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

for holding the Wisconsin Republican
convention July 10.
Walter Ingram dropped dead of heart
disease at BelOit. after a boxing match
with some friends. An inquest was held
The sixteenth annual reunion Of the
Nineteenth regiment. Wisconsin Volun-
teers. will be held in Sparta June 10
and IL.
The 19-year-old deaf and dumb son Of
John Loss of Spring Grove wandered
away from home. He was found at Lin
den. He was nearly starved to death
when found.
The Eagle Telephone Company has Sc
cured enough contracts to warrant the
building Of a telephone exchange at Pal
myra, and in a short time the system
viii be in use.
At Rhinelander the County Board has
sold to the Lincoln County Land Com
pany 1000 acres Of county lands at $1.O0
an acre. The county will sell about 1000
acres in July.
Edward Lang. who. it is charged, broke
into and robbed Thomas Osens general
store and postoffice in Wilson. win be
turned over to the United States author
tiles Dy Snerfn B@ai.
Prof Thomas Chamberlain. professor
of geology in the University of Chicago
and former president of the University
of Wisconsin. has been engaged to de-
liver the commencement address at Beloit
College
George Schauffele the 12-year-old son
of Peter SchaulfeIe of Kenosha, was ac-
cidentally shot and fatally injured by
hunters. The woods were searched for
the hunters, but the meu could not be
| found
Representatives of all the railway or
ders on that division of the Northwest
ern Railroad assembled at Ashland and
held a testimonial meeting for +. o.
Tarbox, the retiring assistant division
| superintendent.
The union lumber pliers of the Meaom-
inee river went out on a strike. They
demanded an increase of from S1.T5 -
81 a day, which was refused by the
millmen. who claim they can get plenty
of men for the lower figure.
Rosie Munter of Menasha was drowned
about mile off Wayerly beach. on Lake
| Winnebago. while boating. The boat
capszed, and while Peter Kelly, her es-
eort. was able to cling to the boat until
help arrived, the girl slipped away and
| persisted.
| John Dugan, who recently resigned
| from the La Crosse police force, fell from
ladder and crushed his skull, dying
later He was placing screens on sec
ond-story windows when he fell back
wards. striking his head on the cement
sidewalk.
| The geology class of Lawrence Univer-
sity discovered a remarkable specimen
| in Kaukauna limestone quarry. The
| find was very well preserved specimen
of the sephalopod, an animal of the mol
usk variety which has been extinct for
about a million years.
During a violent electrical storm a
planning mill belonging to Thompson u
Nichokoy, lumbermen and contractors Of
Blue Mounds, situated near the town of
Mt. Horeb, was struck by lightning and
totally destroyed. The buildings and con-
tents were valued at $1,000.
At Madison new industry is to be
started by the NJ. l. Johnson Company,
the incorporators of which are the sons
of the late John A. Johnson, former
president of the Fuller & Johnson Man
ufacturing Company. The new concern
will manufacture a gasoline engine.
Edward T. Mariner of Prairie du
Chen has started a shipment of 200 tons
of pearl button Shells to Hamburg, Ger
many, where they will be made up into
fancy buttons and trinkets. The ship
ment consists of negroheads, the whit
est and clearest of the fresh water shells
Judge Cleveland of the County Court
at Oshkosh refused the application of
Philip Gaffney, father of Attorney Chas.
Gaffney. who is charged with attempting
to kill DR.. Hansen, to have the son com
mitted to the Northern Hospital This
is taken to mean that Gaffney must stand
trail
According to a statement issued by the
State bank examiner the resources and
liabilities of the 304 State, private and
savings banks of Wisconsin when last
reported were $50, 734, 1851, an increase
of $6500,00O over those shown by The
preceding report of December, 1901 The
increase in deposits was more than So
100000. These banks do about AZ per
cent of the banking business of the
State.
south-bound train on the Northwest
ern road ran into rig containing three
young men returning from Peshtigo, at
the Hall avenue crossing in Marinette.
Walter Arseneau was caught by the pilot
and carried some distance with head and
arms dragging on the track. His skull
was fractured and he died His compan-
ions were not seriously injured.
Judge Dunwiddie of the Circuit Court
at GAINESVILLE has issued an order setting
aside the divorce granted TO Mrs. A. J.
Davis, or Mrs. Emma jenkins, as she
was formerly known, and the woman
may find herself facing the charge of big
amy. A year ago Mrs. jenkins was Civ
en- a divorce, but as the attorney and
court fees remained unpaid, the divorce
was not filed with the clerk Mrs. Jen-
kins has remarked in the meantime.
Rev. Charles Jungblud of Neillsville
was found guilty at Grand Rapids of as
sault without regard for human life while
his housekeeper was convicted of assault
and battery. TIE assault was committed
upon Marion Prious, a ward under the
supervision of the two. 1t was alleged
that the child was beaten until her body
was covered with bruises and cuts from
which she was bleeding when she escaped
from the priests home to the house of a
neighbor and told her story The priest
charged that the child was incorrigible
and refused to obey him.
There is chance of the largest l.eet
sugar factory ever erected in the West
being located in Kenosha. Letters have
been received from the Schubb Purchas-
ing Company of Chicago proposing 20 To-
cate a $7J0.O00 plant if the capitalists OF
Kenosha viii lend assistance.
w. C. Liller of Pennsylvania. national
adjutanf general OF the Spanish-Ameri- |
can war veterans. while on an official Wis |
it to Maj J. A. Nemitz of Oshkosh. de- |
partment commander. announced the |
dates Of Sept 10 TO Is for the third ma