Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-09-16


ton. Overstudy is assigned as the cause
OF death
A $4,000 addition is being built on to
the high school building in Sun Prairie
t. T. Blakely has been reelected princi-
pal for another year.
Tie boiler used with a wood-sawing
machine owned by James Davis blew up
at Hurley. Howard Paynter. who stood
near, was quite badly hurt.
A deposit of silver ore was found on
farm northeast of Prairie du Chen,
which promises to be big producer. Old
miners pronounced it as being rich.
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road has finished its new station. at RAJ
cine The structure is Of brick and stone,
the building proper being capacious and
well lighted.
Seven men came near being drowned in
the river at H6riicksvile. They were at
tempting to cross in a boat when the
craft capsizad. They chung to the boat
until rescued.
Mrs Ferdinand Schoen committed sui
eide at Mayville by cutting her throat
A few weeks ago she fell and broke her
leg, and this is supposed to have caused
her to end her life
Farmer Butner of Big Greek lost eight
head of cattle by poisoning. Some person
mixed arsenic with -four and salt and put
accustomed TO drink.
The village of Tigerton was visited by
burglars who, after gaining entrance to
the bank. succeeded in blowing open the
two outside doors of the safe. They got
no further, however.
George Kehr. an employee of August
Benz, a scavenger. who hauled away all
the cattle which died in the recent an
thrax outbreak al La Crosse, is perhaps
fatally i'll of the same disease.
Christian Papzke, 45 years old, while
showing a number of men how to operate
a road scraper was thrown over the ma
chine into an open sewer at Racine. He
sustained injuries from which he died.
Rev. II. P. Haylett of the First NJ. E.
Church at Racine, while delivering a SER
mon before large congregation, suddenly
collapsed, sinking into chair. Although
conscious, the pastor was completely ex-
hausted and suffering from nervous pros
tration.
Hunters returning from their first few
days experience shooting partridge in
Douglas County say partridges are not
nearly as numerous as they were lest
year, and that persons who have pictured
the woods as being full of the birds are
practical jokers.
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clam fisher on the Mississippi, some miles
below La Crosse. fell into the vat of
boiling water used to cook clans so that
they can be opened and pearls extracted.
He was so frightfuliy burned that it Is
thought that both arms will have to be
amputated.
j. W. Riley. aged about 80 years, who
had been employed in foundries in Ra-
cine for the past six months, was killed
at Corliss while attempting to board a
south-bound freight train on the Milwau-
kee road. His clothing was caught in the
brake beam of car and he was dragged
several hundred feet.
W. Gray of New Orleans was held up
in front of the Star restaurant at Elroy
by two tramps and relieved of $40. They
were caught after a short chase, nut the
money has not yet been recovered. The
men appealed to Gray for something to
eat and after he had fed them at a res
taurant they seized him and took his
money.
Arthur Robarge, secretary of the La
Crosse novelty wood works, who recently
married Miss Edna Nichols, president of
the Nichols Lumber Company, recently
risked his life to save that of Emily Pc
terson, Is years old. The girl was taken
with cramps while swimming in the Mis-
sissippi and was sinking when Robarge
reached her
A freight wreck directly in front of the
Wisconsin division depot of the North
western road at Kaukauna made kindling
wood of a Cincinnati. Columbus and St.
Louis fat car, clover huller and a
threshing machine. The fiat car was
caught in the center of heavy freight
train and jackknifed, throwing the ma
chimes into the ditch.
The city of Kenosha will make an eff
fort to make the city poorhouse self
sustaining institution, and steps have
been taken to purchase a large farm just
north of the city, on which the poor Will
be settled. There are at present forty
seven persons in the house. and it is the
plan of the committee to force these peo-
pie to furnish the labor to run the farm.
J. d. Johnson, while fishing on sand
bar opposite Lansing, saw an alligator
calmly summing himself on sandbar not
far away. The alligator was asleep and
Johnson crept up to the lazy denizen of
the South and attempted to dispatch him
with a club The alligator fought hard
and came near getting a hold on Johnson,
when a well-directed blow killed the ami
NAL
Little Archie Brown, aged 6 years, was
found lying on the railroad tracks in
Three Lakes, his foot being caught in the
cattle guards. He was found by a COM
panion, vino pulled him out just in time
to save him from being run over by fast
train, which was approaching. The young
lad stated after he had been rescued that
it had been his intention to have the train
run over him, as he was tired of life.
Mrs. Frances Blodgett, we'll known in
Racine and Kenosha. met with an acct
dent which will cripple her for life One
year ago she was thrown from buggy
and one of her limbs was fractured, caus-
ing her to walk with crutches. The other
night. while driving with two women
companions, the buggy was overturned
and all three were thrown to the ground
Mrs Blodgett's other limb was broken.
Her two companions escaped without in
jury.
Lawrence Parent, residing at Pine
lake. near Osceola. and four horses We're
killed during a severe electrical storm.
The young man was moving a threshing
machine to q neighboring farm, when be
was struck by bolt of lightning. Death
was almost instantaneous.
Because her husband deserted her. Mrs.
Jennie Frazer of Chicago turned detec-
tive and traced Frazer, who is a travelling
salesman. TO la Crosse. and declares
that he is still there in hiding. She has
seen people who knew him and who rec
ognized him. but IN every case he has
Immediately disappeared again.
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