Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-11

Clarence Passenger. boy living neal
Stcckbridge. was bitten by & horse The
animal tore large portion of flesh from
the lads cheek.
Moses Rockwell. a prominent farmer
- years old. living few miles north OF
Sparta. was found in his barnyard goreC
to death by bull
George OFT of knowles. an old settler
was run over by a passenger train al
Knowles. He was taken to Thetis. wher,
he died shortly after
While engaged in broil with fellow
workmen August Zarnoth, an employC
ut the limeworks near Hayton. had an
I eye knocked out By a blow.
Gen. Edward S. Bragg of Fond dr
Lac. sole surviving commander of the
old Iron Brigade celebrated his seventy
fifth birthday the other day.
Jacob Daniels. a prominent farmer Of
Brighton. and Henry Richter and Johr
Isenbert Of Burlington were each fined
$50 and costs for breaking the game
laws.
Edgar Thornbury and Miss Ellis
Kratehwill, two young La Crosse society
people, were secretly welded at Vino
ma. 1t was great surprise even to the
parents.
Richard .ssby. aged IS, son of Il. d
Asby. q Racine merchant, was accident
ally shot while duck hunting. He losi
several fingers and the left side OF hi:
face is badly torn.
The house and barn and all their con
tents belonging to George Cheffings, ST..
a farmer living one mile west of Hickory
postoffice, burned. causing loss of ST.
200, with no insurance
]. Madison has sued the La Crosse Gas
and Electric Company for $1,000 for in
juries alleged to have been sustained by
falling in hole near the gas plant. He
wheeled ashes for the company.
The Chiffon House, one of the Oldest
buildings in Chiffon or in the State, vii
soon be torn down TO give place to Q
modern structure that business men OF
that place propose to erect on the site.
Eugene Reible Of Farmersville. while
in Mayville had runaway at Furnace
bridge; the rig upset and hurled him snd
| his son out of the vehicle. Mr.. Reible
broke HIS leg and the boy was badly
bruised.
Alice Bortel, who is only IA years old
| was granted Il divorce from Arthur Bor-
| tel, and allowed to resume her maiden
name of Gallery. She lived at Eau Claire
and was secretly married to Bortel. He
| deserted her.
Mrs. Mary Fernette aged 81. and &
| ,Nin of i ~ ,f IL
| home of her son at st. Paul She is
mourned by a husband. eight children
126 grandchildren and thirty-eight great
grandchildren.
Cilius Brunnen. orc of the shipping
gang OF the Case Threshing Machn,
Company in Racine, was fatally injured
at the plant while loading machines or
fat cars. He was struck on the fore
head with the handle of a windlass and
his skull, from temple to temple, wa;
fractured.
Mrs. Catherine Titus of Coleman, the
mother of seven children has been com
mitted TO the asylum. Her mania tool
| the form Of desire to set the beds afirC
and she would have cremated all her chill
dren had it not been for neighbors, who
discovered the blaze and put it out be
| fore much damage was done.
Joseph, the 12-year-old son of John
Andres, a farmer living near Marshfeld
accidentally shot and killed his 9-year-old
sister Mary. He was carrying a double
barreled shotgun down the stairs anC
when at the bottom the gun discharged
blowing off the top Of his sisters head
! The girl was standing at the opposite side
of the room and was instantly killed
Abraham Thorne, a farmer residing
about seven miles north of Waukesha
made startling discovery while choppins
! down a dead tree on his property. Tht
tree was hollow oak and had been de
void of life for many years. After il
had been felled Mr. Thorne walked Il
the short stump which remained standing
and was Mortified to see a skeleton of q
little child enclosed by the wood. The
| body must have been laid in its hiding
place scores of years ago, and it is moi
unlikely that it was that of an Indiar
papoose placed in the hollow trunk of 9
tree to keep it from the ravages of wild
beasts. \ few glass beads are reported
to have been found near the crumbIng
bones.
Swapping like mad dog Ernest Olson
night marshal of the village of Kalesville
was committed to the Mendoza insane
asylum. crazed from the effects of a hu
| man bite. About two weeks ago Olsor
arrested Henry Brenker for being drunk
Brenker was fined the following morning
and Il few days later he was again arrest
| ed on the same charge. While on the
way TO the lookup Brenker bit Olson ii
| the hand. Nothing was thought of the
| injury until several days afterward wher
the wound began to swell. Olson was
| taken violently i'll and showed signs OF
insanity. The other night he sprang from
| his bed and ran into the street. terroriz
| ing the villagers. He presented a CHASTITY
appearance. foam trickling from his lips
| 1t required six men &c take him back =
| his home.
Eau Claire has received the agreement
of Andrew Carnegie to give $4,000 FOL
| a library, with the usual proyiso that IL
per cent of the amount donated be ap
propriated annually by the city, and thai
the city give a site.
BY way of 4 Lenten sacrifice. mum
/ ber of the young men of Brillion have
| bound themselves to a novel agreement
None of them are to shave until Easter
Monday. If the compact is violated, the
guilty one or enes will be compelled tC
pay the barber bills of all the rest for a
month.
| Fire did several hundred dollars wortf
OF damage in tie meat market Of Butt
mann Bros. ut Oshkosh The store oi
Rouse * Son and the house Of Henry
Buttmann were also damaged.
| Sidney 4. Sage. a former wealthy Ra-
cine citizen and politician. was attacked
and severely stabbed in the face head
and breast at Chicago by Michael Bern
/ his wifcs former husband. who was once
a well-kRowH railroad man. 1t IS said
that Bern called at the Sage fat to see
/ his daughter and row eHsued. in which
he cut Sage with his poeketknife. lie
made his escape.
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