Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-01-21

Chase as City Comptroller.
a. Z. Clifford. one of the best known
iumbermen of the Northwest, died sud
denly in the knight Hotel at Ashland. of
heart failure.
Miss Jennie Frock Of Milwaukee died
at the home of friends in Manitowoe. De
ceased was IS years of age and suffered
from consumption.
While working in the tie camp about
three miles from Brownsville Henry
Echie. aged 2G. of Elroy, was instantly
killed by a falling tree.
Fire destroyed several barns in Evans
vile belonging to \. 7. Bryan. Six
horses persisted and several tons of hay
and grain was burned. The loss is about
$500.
Burglars entered Browns dry goods
store at Desoto and. with the aid of two
wagons. carried off all the stock of yalue.
Manager D. j. Forbes estimates the loss
at $1,000
The little daughter OF William Baker Of
Sister Bay was fatally scalded A little
brother playfully pushed her. as she WIS
leaning over a tub filed with hot water.
and she fell in.
Silas Boardman. one of the oldest lum-
bermen of La Crosse died. aged ca years.
He was one of the first to enter into the
logging business. when the industry
opened on the Mississippi river.
The Hays Waterproof Dress Binding
Company has sold its patent rights to the
Hays Skirt Binding Company of New
York. The Oshkosh factory will be clos
ed. Sixty people will be thrown out OF
employment.
William Plinsky, aged, IS. died at his
| home in Manitowoc. Last April his 3
year-old child died ana two months later
his wife died. Eight minor children sur
viye their parents. four sons aud four
daughters, the Oldest being Il years of
age.
Lois Steele. aged 16 years committed
suicide .at the home of her sister in Chi
cago by drinking carbolic acid. Her par
4 ents live in Whitewater. Her mind had
been deranged by overwork in a State
street department. store during the holi-
days.
/ 1t is feared that Dan McAleese has met
with foul play. He left Leonards camp
to 20 to Ashland to attend his brothers
| funeral. Checks which We're issued 20
Dan McAleese before leaving camp were
cashed at Iron River, supposedly by
strangers
At West Superior the fire which has
been burning for a couple Of days in the
bins of the elevator of the Freeman mill
has been entirely extinguished The fire
originated from spontaneous combustion
| A. nd
there spread into the bin adjoining, so
that for time the elevator was seriously
threatened.
Mrs Frederick S. Newell. executriX of
the last will of the late Frederick S.
Newell, formerly president of the Balm
wagon works and one of the wealthiest
men of Kenosha, paid to the county
treasurer $7,026.S7 as the legacy tax on
the estate. This is 1 per cent of the
value of the property as returned by the
estate for taxation.
Two boys. smoking cigarettes in the
gasoline shed of the Leo \. Reil Grocery
Company at Racine. were the cause of
setting the place ahre and nearly caus-
ing most destructive blaze Barrels of
gasoline were thrown from the Shed into
the street by the fremen and for a block
the street was river of fire. The loss
was $500, fully insured
The heirs of the late Thomas NJ Avery,
Mrs. Margaret Avery MacCaughey of
Kenosha and Mrs. Frank Avery of Chi
cago, have consented to make new d.
vision of the estate ia order to prevent
court proceedings to break the will, as
threatened by Mrs. MacCaughey. Mrs.
MacCaughey will receive $4,000 more
from the estate of her grandfather,
bringing her portion up to S150,000, OF
one-half of the estate.
As the result of an accident two teams
and load of furniture belonging ia
Moses Mcdonald, well-to-do farmer re-
siding four miles south of La Crosse,
went TO the bottom of the Mississippi
river. Mcdonald struggled with the icy
waters for fifteen minutes. and was final
ly rescued from drowning He owes his
escape to the heroism of John Scheutten-
helm. an employe. While driving south
in the dark, both men llove into an air
hole.
Ward Wilson. an empioye Of the
George L. Wood Lumber Company at
Woodboro was badly burned by the ex-
plosion Of lamp in the steam log loader.
The lamp was being used to read by, and
Wilson lay in his bunk reading paper
when the lamp exploded and scattered
blazing oil ali over him. He rushed from
the loader and was met almost at the
door by a fellow workman. who forced
him back into the room and smothercd
| the flames in n blanket
Since New Years day the detective
force of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul road has beer looking for a person
who sent Master IA 1hanc J. G. Miller
in Milwaukee an Internal machine The
box was delivered to Mr.. Miller by one
of the express companies and appeared
to be a box of cigars. Remarking that
he would have to pass the weeds"
around, Mr.. Miller started to open the
box. \ scratching noise and the sitting
out of some powder alarmed him, and
investigation disclosed the fact that
enough Of n high explosive was in the
box TO have wrecked the shop No mo-
tive for the act is known.
4 La Crosse phlanthropist who re-
fuses to have his name made public has
offered to Donate 80 tire Board of Educa-
ton an amurnt necessary to establish a
manual training school. provided that the
city support 1t.
August PcAgsslorf. Madison Iaborer.
aged As. was found dead under his bed
with an empty bottle of vermia liquid
in his hand. lie had been abusive to his
| wife. il IS alleged. and she had a war
rant out FOR his arrest. 1t IS thought
that this was the cause OF his suicide
1 Jurors in Judge Patterns branch Of the
Superior Court in Chicago sitting in the
breach Of promise case of Lizzie Miller
against Henry ] Huening awarded the
/ plaintiff S1.500 damages. The plaintiff
was not present, having returned 10 her
home in Burlington when ihe case went